Well, looks like I was beat to the punch. I did intend to write up this workflow as described in my previous post and I should have had that one near complete, when I noticed THIS on the HOK Green BIM blog. This is a great primer on how to understand the concepts of moving from Revit Architecture to IES for analysis.
There’s plenty of other wonderful topics covered on this sustainable design dedicated site:
Here’s a very interesting video showing firms competing to envision what cramped cities may look like in 100 years. Hurray, flying cars at last! I wonder what will be powering everything though.
As part of the History Channel’s Future Cities Competition, here’s a sneak peak at the participants in San Francisco.
Video: Bay Area architecture firms compete for most realistic and sustainable vision – CNET News.com
It makes one wonder how we quantify all the claims of sustainability in design. I’ll explore a new toolkit by IES, released for Revit Architecture in a later post that may help.
If you’ve loaded up Revit and were looking for the help-based tutorials and the associated training files to go along with them, never fear. Go to the menu bar and click Help > Tutorials, and there will be a link that takes you directly to the content downloads. The instructions are simple to download and replace your current help file, and choose Imperial or Metric content for the training files.
Where do I find the archive of Webcasts, presented by Autodesk?
Resource Centers to the rescue.
If you’d seen some of the web tutorials presented by Autodesk, but have lost the various URLs, this site that collects them all: www.autodesk.com/get2bim. Choose your discipline and click the “Learn More” button. You’ll have access to the full archive of all webcasts, and links to sign up for any upcoming events. This is a great way to find out about new versions of the Revit applications, and is full of time-saving tips and tricks.
