Imagine a future where anyone, anywhere can create amazing 3D media and entertainment experiences. We’re well on the way to making this future a reality, with innovative new techniques like volumetric video. That’s why we’re excited to be part of an $11 million investment in Arcturus volumetric video editing and streaming technology, along with Cloudtree Ventures and Epic Games.
With Arcturus, content creators can edit live-action 3D performances, and stream those files to any screen—including mobile devices and XR platforms—through the HoloSuite platform. This means that artists who spent hours creating digital humans can simply modify and capture real people and more quickly populate a scene with live-action performances. Going one step further, someone using Autodesk Maya can place volumetrically captured digital humans directly into virtual worlds to expedite their workflow.
Here an artist uses Maya to add a prop to the volumetric character, which can be baked and exported. This is made possible by the Maya plug-in for HoloSuite.
I’m passionate about nimble, efficient workflows. This is powerful in that it helps artists capture natural movement quickly so they can focus more time and energy on creating content vs. manually trying to simulate what humans already do better. Our collaboration will help make volumetric video more accessible to all artists, and lead to deeper interoperability between HoloSuite and Autodesk tools to accelerate content production.
Volumetric video contains nuanced human performance, just like film, with the added benefit that it is in full 3D. Interestingly, beyond its use in the media and entertainment industry, retailers like Anayi are setting a new standard for e-commerce by using volumetric video with shoppers. Using technology, Anayi has doubled engagement with customers online.
With continued need for engaging content fueled by emergence of the metaverse, demand for volumetric video will continue to grow to an estimated $21 billion by the end of the decade. Studios and content creators under pressure will welcome the cost and time savings high-end volumetric capture will bring. We’re thrilled to collaborate with Arcturus so creative teams can access next-gen technologies to innovate, and accelerate their projects.
See the announcement from Arcturus here. For more information on volumetric video technology, visit: https://arcturus.studio/.
Revit 2023.1 introduces Twinmotion for Revit, upgrades to MEP modeling tools, more analytical to physical model automation for structural analysis, and handy advancements for everyone, like the ability to edit revisions on multiple sheets, upgrades to the project browser and command functionality, and more!
Check the highlights:
For the full release notes, check out the What’s New section of the Revit Product Help.
Thinking about an upgrade? Recent releases of Revit are faster, user-friendlier, and chock-full of useful features. In Revit 2023 alone, the Revit Factory shipped:
New structural analysis workflows optimized for BIM
Electrical load analysis for early stage systems design
Data Exchanges for better interoperability and collaboration
Cloud Parameter service for more consistent BIM standards
A raft of fine-tuned enhancements for your documentation tasks
A fresh look and feel and an easier to use Dynamo
A boatload of performance enhancements that improve loading times, graphic performance, and more
Fast, intuitive, immersive visualization with Twinmotion for Revit.
As you may have heard at Autodesk University in September, we are collaborating with Epic Games to include access to Twinmotion with all Revit subscriptions. Whether you subscribe to the AEC Collection or standalone Revit, use Flex pricing or have an education license, you now have at your fingertips the real-time visualization power of Twinmotion for Revit.
Launch Twinmotion for Revit directly from the Revit ribbon in Revit 2023.1. Immerse yourself in the intuitive creator environment, and turn your design data into photo-realistic stills, scenes, and scenarios. Paint a more complete picture of how your design is working, and better weigh options, reach decisions, and take clients and stakeholders through signature experiences that can add shine and sophistication to your practice — not to mention help you win more work.
From project stills and animations, to VR experiences: Autodesk and Epic Games are helping bring together tools that showcase your creativity, illuminate your insights, and help you better connect digital and physical worlds.
To learn how to access Twinmotion for Revit, read the companion post by our friends at Epic Games, which includes links to a support article and FAQ. Read it here.
Want to see it in action? You can register for the Autodesk webinar BIM Fundamentals: Architectural Visualization in Autodesk Revit, with experts from Autodesk and Epic Games on hand to take your questions. Learn how effective visualization can improve the quality of your designs and help you grow your business.
Curious about the road ahead for Revit and Twinmotion? Join us for the Public Roadmap Ask Me Anything for Architecture, with special guests from Epic Games, and now hosted by our friends over at Autodesk Community Conversations. Register today!
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
New from BIM Electric Corp
Advanced Electrical Design for Revit offers a more complete BIM workflow for electrical engineers.
For years, electrical engineers have asked for a more complete BIM workflow for low voltage power distribution design.
Connected workspaces, including key line, riser, and single line workspaces, give practitioners access to essential tools of the trade, and Advanced Electrical Design for Revit expands on the scheduling, reporting, and analytic capabilities you already expect from Revit.
In the words of April Kain, Electrical Designer at Gresham Smith: “I am excited to be an early adopter of the advanced electrical software and [to] help shape this for future releases for my industry peers, while strengthening the relationship between Gresham Smith, Autodesk and Schneider Electric.”
At Autodesk University, we shared steps we are taking to create an AEC industry cloud called Forma, which will connect the many types of data you use to design and construct our world.
This year we launched new public beta programs to gather your feedback as we advance that vision. Join any of the betas now available to AEC Collection and Autodesk Construction Cloud subscribers, and help us create the tools and connections that can support the growth of your business, and the quality of your design practice.
Data Exchange Connector for Revit [Beta]
Create, update, and manage exchanges directly from Revit with the Revit connector. Share subsets of your rich model data with stakeholders and bring in geometry data from other apps, like Rhino.
Data Exchange Connector for McNeel Rhino [Beta]
Keep conceptual design decisions in sync with detailed design development with the Rhino connector. Easily move and update geometry from Rhino to Revit and Inventor — or from Revit to Rhino.
Data Exchange Connector for Microsoft Power Automate [Beta]
Run automated cloud workflows that save you time by connecting specific subsets of your design data to an ecosystem of business and productivity apps.
Spacemaker “Send to Revit” Workflow [Beta]
‘Send to Revit” functionality in Spacemaker converts your Spacemaker proposal into a Revit model, including terrain, buildings, site setbacks, and buildable area. Learn more.
THE ROAD AHEAD
5 AEC software Public Roadmap AMAs coming January 2023.
Look out for 5 public roadmap Ask Me Anything sessions in January. Get your questions answered about new and upcoming features and functionality in Revit, Civil 3D, InfraWorks, and more. Autodesk AEC product and community managers will be on hand for the discussion. Register today!
Revit Forum. Have a question about Revit? Take it to the Revit Forum and let the community of Revit users help you sort it out.
Revit Ideas. Have an idea for making Revit better? Go to Revit Ideas to find, post, and vote for the things you want to see in new versions of Revit.
Revit Public Roadmap. See what’s new and what’s in the pipeline with the Revit Public Roadmap, updated with each major release of Revit.
Revit Preview Access. Want to see what’s coming in Revit? Sign up for Revit Preview access and give us feedback on new features in Revit before they are released.
Autodesk’s Revit software is a building information modeling (BIM) program for commercial buildings. The software is usually used by structural engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, designers, and contractors. A 3D model can be created, edited, and reviewed in incredible detail using Autodesk Revit.
Creating systems to automate boring, repetitive task is an important part of the job of a BIM manager. A large number of Revit plugins are available on the internet.
What do you mean by Plugins in Revit?
By improving Revit data organization and eliminating “double handling” of data, the plugin reduces the probability of manual errors, reduces on-site delays, and eliminates error-based rework.
BIM Tools by Sofistik
The plugin contains a number of tools, but the most useful one that you will find is called the Change Font. This is a very helpful tool that will surely save you a lot of time and effort.
By using this feature, you will be able to change the…
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The Autodesk Platform Services – formerly known as Forge – team is holding one last Accelerator before the holiday break. It’s going to be from December 5-9 in Dublin, Ireland. You can register until November 28.
As always these events are a fantastic way to kickstart any new project using APS (Forge) or to accelerate feature development of an existing one. It’s basically 5 free days of consulting from Autodesk – all you have to pay for are travel and accommodation.
I was already planning a last trip (of the year) to the UK for the following week, and so have decided to tag on a few days in Dublin beforehand: while not part of the APS team, I do have some experience working with a few different APS APIs, and can certainly give pointers to folks working on digital twin projects similar to Dasher.
Right now I expect to be there in person from December 7-9, although I’ll do my best to be available virtually for the beginning of the week, too.
The construction industry all around the world is facing labor shortages. The industry experienced a period of shrinkage in the last decade. Various reports warn that labor shortages are reaching crisis proportions and will continue into 2019. Over the past two decades, the construction industry has averaged just one percent productivity growth.
Approximately two out of three people will live in cities by 2050, as the global population is predicted to reach 9 billion. Throughout the history of human civilization, there has always been a high demand for construction and it is not in doubt that that demands will continue to grow.
It may be possible to achieve that goal by using both an onshore and offshore BIM model. By using the model, you will be able to increase productivity, reduce costs, improve collaboration, and gain access to expertise. For construction companies, this is the simplest way to succeed.
This Veterans Day marks my last as the global lead for the Autodesk Veterans Network (AVN) Employee Resource Group (ERG). And as this period comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on the great strides we’ve made within the AVN, as well as my personal path to working at Autodesk.
The AVN mission is to help make Autodesk the veterans’ employer of choice and create a culture where military veterans can thrive. We want more veterans to look at Autodesk as a top place to work, especially when transitioning from the military to civilian workforce. We recognize the transition can be difficult, even with strong support from assistance programs run by veterans’ groups.
Autodesk Veterans Network convened at the Global ERG Summit held at Autodesk University.
As an enlisted veteran myself, I’m inspired to work with the AVN to address these challenges because of my own experience transitioning from military to civilian work. Serving with the U.S. Navy, I was stationed in the electrical division of the nuclear-powered fast attack submarine USS SALT LAKE CITY (SSN-716).
My job was to operate and maintain the electrical equipment on the ship, from the steam turbine driven generators in the nuclear power plant all the way to the ice cream machine in the galley. Working in a nuclear power plant takes specialized training, and many civilian power plants recruit directly from the enlisted operator ranks to immediately start working in similar roles following active service.
But what if you want to try something different?
I was honored to serve aboard a ship and did my job well, but a continued focus on nuclear power wasn’t what I had envisioned for my life. The challenge for active dutymilitary transitioning from service is the risk of being pigeonholed to do the same work as a civilian.
My job was to operate and maintain the electrical equipment on the ship.
When I went to a job fair hosted by the Transition Assistance Program at Naval Submarine Base Point Loma, every single hiring manager and recruiter there was from a power plant. I wanted a change but didn’t know where to go, so I ended up working in a local electronics store.
After a year of working in retail, a mutual friend showed me a job opportunity in banking that required a college degree. I had not yet gone to college, so was skeptical, but decided to apply anyway.
I was called to come in for an interview and was excited at the opportunity. When I arrived and sat down across from the recruiter, the first thing she told me was that I wouldn’t be hired because I didn’t have a degree. She explained that since I was a military veteran, she would take the time to talk to me about the role so I could come back and apply when I finished college.
Meet Michelle Rasmussen, the incoming global lead for the AVN
In that moment, I made a split-second decision to do my best to convince her to give me a shot and move me forward in the process.
We talked – ok, I mostly talked – for 30 minutes and I gave the pitch of a lifetime, advocating for my own experience, aptitude, and proven ability to learn quickly and deliver value. At the end of that interview, she said she would accept my years of military service in lieu of the degree and advance me to the next round.
In the end, I got the job.
I worked in banking for five years, used my G.I. Bill to get my undergraduate degree, met a recruiter at a marketing agency through a mutual colleague at the bank, and worked at that agency for three years in sales.
In that role, I met the manager who would eventually hire me in the trials marketing team here at Autodesk. After more than eleven years, I’ve worked in marketing for our online store, led product marketing for a drawing app, and partnered with our sales teams in North America to lead AEC account-based marketing. In my current role, I’m the global head of marketing for Innovyze, a recently acquired company at the forefront of technology in the water industry.
I’ve held many roles during my more than 11 years at Autodesk. While leading marketing for a drawing app, this meant hanging out with monsters at Autodesk University.
I think back, often, to the way I felt when I was standing in a room full of power plant recruiters. All I knew then was I didn’t want to work in power plants, but there was no other option through military transition. That is where companies like Autodesk and our AVN can step in and make a difference.
The recruiter who accepted my military service in lieu of a college degree changed the course of my life forever. Now,I’m working every day to make sure Autodesk recruiters and hiring managers see the opportunity to do the same for others who served.
For military service members looking to learn how to make a successful transition, I recommend Vets in Tech and Hire Heroes.
Head here to learn more about careers at Autodesk.
Piled wall systems can be challenging to model in Revit, especially when the project stage goes beyond a concept into detailed design. This tutorial will focus on the use of Revit to manually model and add the sequencing data to the piled walls.
Of course, much of this process can be automated with Dynamo which may be a topic for a future tutorial but, for now, lets focus on the process of creating families and piled walls. The below image shows a typical output in a plan with pile construction sequencing and the hidden detail with a capping beam as well as the 3D model.
This tutorial will focus on two primary parts:
Revit family creation
The actual development of the Revit family and types to support the modelling and detailing.
Creation of the Secant Piled wall model
The modelling of the piled wall system and the attribution of relevant data.
Revit Family Creation
Although the UK content library includes a series of pile caps and single piles,…
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Architects, Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects… Whether you are in the same firm or not, I bet you struggle with figuring out how to collaborate successfully in Revit. Who owns the walls? Linking, copying monitoring, one model!? So many questions, so many options! Am I doing it right? Is this the best way to handle room finish plans?!
On this episode of BIM After Dark Live I am happy to have Aaron Maller (of Parallax Team) return to the show to pick apart this very topic and talk about what he has feels are the best practices when it comes to Autodesk Revit and the integration between architects, interior designers, and landscape architects.
So sit back, relax, and let’s geek out!
Links Mentioned: Join the BIM After Dark Community – https://community.bimafterdark.com Links vs Groups – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKW1tdyZ8lk Revit 2023 Review – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV3vvw3Eovs Tuning up Your Revit Template – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTRq00ElIKQ Filters in Revit – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKemTj6o-ds Parallax Team – https://www.parallaxteam.com/ ForeGround – https://www.parallaxteam.com/product/foreground-for-revit/ Follow Aaron on Twitter – https://twitter.com/Twiceroadsfool
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