New courses on Autodesk Simulation for AEC Applications

These courses can help you confidently get started with Simulation CFD today. After learning the fundamentals, dive into common AEC applications like datacenters and HVAC design. This new series of online courses is based on this new publication: Intro to Simulation CFD for AEC Applications, which is freely available without logging in.

The series of online courses includes quizzes to tests and track your knowledge, and requires registration. The 6 new courses, available now, are:

1. Simulation CFD Fundamentals 1: Simulation Process, Geometry, and Materials
2. Simulation CFD Fundamentals 2: Boundary Conditions and Meshing
3. Simulation CFD Fundamentals 3: Solving and Results Interpretation
4. Simulation CFD Applied: Characterizing AEC Components
5. Simulation CFD Applied: Datacenters
6. Simulation CFD Applied: HVAC Layout

To learn more about each of the courses, click here, and scroll down the page a bit to find all Sim CFD courses.

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Top Revit 2015 Enhancements

1. Username:

 Now, in Revit 2015 username will be the signed in identity. If you use the worksharing on Revit 2015 models and you are logged into the Autodesk 360 Cloud Services then the Username will be the Autodesk ID.

2.Sketchy lines: 

 The new Sketchy Lines feature in Revit 2015 is to apply a hand-sketched graphic style to the current view, or define the settings in a view template to apply the style to multiple views.

3. Anti-aliasing:

In earlier version of revit, anti-aliasing could be turned on and off only by using the Options Bar. Now in Revit 2015, you can choose this by views. As a result, it gives a better overall performance.

4. Sketchy Lines

Revit 2015 now has an extra sketchy line feature. In Revit 2015, each model view have this feature enabled. This can be enabled in the Graphic Display Options dialog box (see image below).

                                                    

In the Graphic Display Optons dialog box, there is a sketchy lines section. In the Graphic Display Options dialog, there is a Sketchy Lines section (see image below). The sketchy lines look better if you also turn on anti-aliasing.

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BIM (Building Information Modeling) - Key Advantage

BIM (Building Information Modeling ) is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle. Typically it uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and construction. The process produces the Building Information Model (also abbreviated BIM), which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and quantities and properties of building components.

PCS embraces BIM as a core best practice for ensuring the very highest return on investment for its clients over the entire lifetime of a facility, continuing to pay dividends long after the last milestone in design and construction phases have been completed.

BIM offers several key benefits:

Improved visualization

Improved productivity due to easy retrieval of information

Increased coordination of construction documents

Embedding and linking of vital information such as vendors for specific materials, location of details and quantities required for estimation and tendering

Increased speed of delivery

Reduced costs

Contact us today to discuss how PCS employs BIM as a key piece of our integrated strategy to manage your construction project with unmatched efficiency.

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The Advance Use of Autodesk 360

Autodesk® 360 is all about liberating the design process. You’re probably already using Autodesk 360 for storage, but what’s coming is about much more than storage. The next generation of Autodesk 360 acts as a project hub that puts all your contacts, data, and design activities in one place. You control who accesses your data, where it lives (in the cloud or on your servers), and how people can retrieve it. Invite whoever you want to share project activities with, and use intuitive search tools to find exactly what you—and any not-so-organized teammates—need, even on huge projects. Integrated social tools make it easy to brainstorm ideas as they arise. And mobile compatibility keeps your whole team connected to your projects wherever they are.

Maybe the most liberating aspect: Autodesk 360 puts projects at the center of your workflow, helping break down the wall between people with design and engineering tools and those without. Your whole team can use it to view design files, stay on top of project activities, and connect design processes to related tasks and communications. So you spend more time on the work you love, with fewer constraints.

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BE MORE EFFICIENT WITH BIM FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that enables accurate, accessible, and actionable insight for better-informed decisions across the project lifecycle. The Autodesk® Infrastructure Design Suite provides comprehensive, industry-leading solutions for both CAD and BIM workflows in one flexible, cost-effective package—giving civil engineers the tools they need to accelerate design work, collaborate anytime from anywhere, and communicate in new ways.

Autodesk's comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading software for infrastructure projects includes breakthrough 3D modeling and visualization technology found in Autodesk® InfraWorks software and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software for detailed design work, as well as Autodesk® Navisworks®, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design, and AutoCAD® Map 3D.

Autodesk's BIM solution for infrastructure can help you:

• Minimize errors and omissions, no matter when and how the design changes
• Find and reduce costly design conflicts before construction begins
• Improve team collaboration and project data management
• Win work and build stakeholder approval using powerful visualizations

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Design Options in Revit 2014

What is Design Option?

As a designer, you need to come up with multiple design ideas, so that you can select the best option that suits the functional, aesthetical, and economical requirement of your project. Therefore, you need to develop and evaluate several design options and then execute the best possible design option for your project.

Advantage of Design Options?

The Design Options helps you speed up your project by providing you the options to create and develop several alternatives of a single model. For example, you can use the Design Options tool to develop three options of a Kitchen for a residential layout, featuring different materials and space utilization.

How to Apply Design Opitons?

In Autodesk Revit 2014, you can  create different design options by using the Design Options tool. You can invoke this tool from the 

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What Is Meant by Parametric?

About Parametrism

The term parametric refers to the relationships among all elements of the model that enable the coordination and change management that Revit provides. These relationships are created either automatically by the software or by you as you work.

In mathematics and mechanical CAD, the numbers or characteristics that define these kinds of relationships are called parameters; hence, the operation of the software is parametric. This capability delivers the fundamental coordination and productivity benefits of Revit: change anything at any time anywhere in the project, and Revit coordinates that change through the entire project.

The following are examples of these element relationships:

• The outside of a door frame is a fixed dimension on the hinge side from a perpendicular partition. If you move the partition, the door retains this relationship to the partition.
• The edge of a floor or roof is related to the exterior wall such that when the exterior wall is moved, the floor or roof remains connected. In this case, the parameter is one of association or connection.
• Windows or pilasters are spaced equally across a given elevation. If the length of the elevation is changed, the relationship of equal spacing is maintained. In this case, the parameter is not a number but a proportional characteristic.


Rebar is spaced equally across a given element. If the length of the element is changed, the relationship of equal spacing is maintained. In this case, the parameter is not a number but a proportional characteristic.

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