Integrated Modeling Helps Your Students Shine
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AFSF High School Design Competition is Underway!
Annual Architectural Design Competition for SF High School Students
The Architectural Foundation of San Francisco’s Forty-Fourth Annual High School Design Competition is an exciting competition where high school students put their design skills, creativity, spatial and analytical thinking, and craftsmanship to the test. With the guidance of instructors, high school students design a building and communicate their design solutions through drawings and models. All high school students in both public and private schools in the greater San Francisco Bay Area are encouraged to participate. As a new component to this year’s competition, high school students from across the world will also be able to submit their designs in a special Autodesk Revit-only category.
Learn more about the competition
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Rise to the DesignByMany Bus Shelter Challenge!
Enter Now to Showcase Your Creativity and Win Great Prizes
The challenge is to design a modular bus shelter for an urban pedestrian street. The goal is to provide an architectural solution that is functional, feasible, repeatable, and elegant. The bus shelter must protect people from the elements (rain, sun), while providing ample security, circulation and seating. The designer is free to choose a location, but the documentation should clearly explain the chosen location and how the design responds to its immediate context. The bus shelter must include a signage element for orientation and advertisement.
The purpose of these challenges is to build a resource that is community driven, that the community can pull from, and that the community can expand upon. Special attention will be given to those submissions that creatively use the tools in their design.
Continue reading to learn more about the challenge and how YOU can participate...
Importing Revit 2013 gbXML into Ecotect Analysis 2011
When you import gbXML files from Revit 2013 into Ecotect Analysis, you may receive the following error message:
This error is being presented because the gbXML export file that Revit 2013 produces is not encoded in a format Ecotect recognizes (and for some reason triggers this somewhat misleading IFC error message).
Unlike earlier versions, Revit 2013 exports gbXML files in the UTF-16 format, whereas Ecotect expects UTF-8.
The simplest way to fix this problem is to open the gbXML file in Windows Notepad and Save As to create a new file, changing the format (in the Encoding pull-down menu) to UTF-8.
The gbXML should then import without problem.
Modeling Greywater Systems in Revit MEP
Techniques for Modeling Greywater Systems and Tracking LEED Points
Revit MEP makes it easy to model greywater systems as part of your strategy for improving sustainable design and LEED certification. You can get started by following the steps outlined in this video tutorial posted by AutodeskMEPTechs.
NYC Revit User Group Posts Excellent Presentation on Clash Detection Case Study
Getting to Zero with Revit and Navisworks
The NYC Revit User Group has posted a fantastic video showcasing a presentation on Getting to “Zero” with Revit and NavisWorks – a clash detection case study based on a Yale School of Business project.