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Dealing with Office Occupancy with a Dynamo Mega-Graph

My colleague, amazing developer, fellow blogger, and good friend Kean Walmsley published a timely and informative third article in a series on how to use Dynamo to evaluate safe office occupancy in the age of COVID virus. The latest in the series is Building a Mega-Graph. COVID Office Occupancy:…

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Learn About Revit Automation and Generative Design

There is a free Autodesk eBook now available on learning about how automation and generative design can empower you to meet new challenges and shape the built environment of the future. The Future is a Design Challenge eBook”Solving tomorrow’s challenges with automation and generative design “autode.sk/2W3H6f0 

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Generative Design in Revit – Have You Tried?

Learn how to use Generative Design to develop a restaurant layout. What is Generative Design ? Generative Design in Revit allows you to leverage Dynamo graphs to explore outcome-based solutions for your designs. You define criteria and constraints for the design problem. Then Generative Design uses this information…

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Revit 2020 – People Flow Toolkit

On Friday, Autodesk released the People Flow Toolkit, an add-in that helps you automate path of travel analysis with tools for social distancing. “The People Flow Toolkit extends Revit’s Path of Travel toolset to help you understand how people will move through your design. The People Flow Toolkit…

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AEC Hackathon Online v2 Join Me!

I hope you will again join the AEC Hackathon organized by an independent group of AEC technology and built environment superheroes.These events are normally held in person, but with the current COVID-19 they pivoted this summer with the first online version being a hit in light of all…

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Using Generative design in Revit to Evaluate Social Distancing

In this day faced with the COVID-19 virus, architects and building owners have had to re-evaluate social distance in the programming of their building spaces. With Revit‘s latest release 2021 you get generative design to help accomplish this challenging task efficiently and fast. Read more and see the…

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AEC Hackathon 7.0 Copenhagen

One of my favorite events filled with innovative thinking and ideas combined with collaborative fun and technology are the AEC Hackathons held around the world. The next big AEC Hackathon is being held next month in one of my favorite cities in the world, Copenhagen Denmark. ] Feb…

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Categories AutoCAD

Design Automation API Webinar Series – Register Now

Have you ever wanted to automate and process or create data or drawings using a cloud based API in an almost-headless configuration? Design Automation on Forge is most likely the answer to this need. There is still time to get hands on with the new Design Automation APIs.…

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Meet Project Discover for Dynamo

My colleague Kean Walmsley announced on his blog Through the Interface on the new Project Discover for Dynamo out of Autodesk Research and is ready to be tested. It is a tool that we used to perform generative design in the AEC design for our Autodesk Toronto office…

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