Juat wanted to post and let everyone know that more videos are on the way soon. I have been out of town and it has been a bit tricky to post new material.

For now here is a link to great architectural design blog, http://www.archdaily.com .  They feature great buildings from both large and small firms, and they almost always post drawing! I figure ArchDaily can be a good source for the challanges section of the forum.

More soon,

Dave

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So this question was posted on the forum:

Hi, I was perusing a popular Arch forum and came across this question:

“Hello. Now that revit 2009 is out. Is there any1 out there that knows if its possible to create data for shop drawings for the likes of Gherys’ Bilbao titanium skin facade?”

I thought it would be a cool challenge.

1. How would you go about doing something like this in Revit (If it is possible) as in true shop drawings for all those panels,scheduling them etc… Or is this something that can only be done in a customized environment or Generative Components type deal?

2. On the easier side can we see a modeling demo in Revit and also 3ds max.

So…… This has prompted a new section on the forum “Design Challenges”. There is already a bunch on conversation in the forum here so I won’t go to far into it here. But, the basic idea is post a “Challenge” and anyone and everyone can give it a try.  Hopefully people respond with models and the processes exaplianed for making the models  in 3ds Max, Rhino, Maya, Revit, Inventor, Digital Project, Generative Components, Grasshopper, Studio Tools, Modo, Z Brush, MuddBoxx, and on and on……. I hope that not just architects submit solution.  The goal is that we learn from other disciplines.

If your interested in chiming in, or posting a “‘Challenge” you can check out the forum here . Or…. just post comments on this post.

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Autodesk has officially placed them selves in the analysis market. They had already bought green building studio but now with the acquisition of an amazing program like Ecotect I think they will really start to contribute great things to the analysis market. First, Robert Aish and now Dr. Andrew J Marsh quite the all start line up.

Here is a link to the press releases on the square 1 website  http://www.squ1.com/node/2323

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Image Provided by Milan Dale & Micah Roufa

A few student and i were invited by James Vandezande to speak at this weeks NYC Revit User Group Meeting  .  We presented the work from the workshop and discussed a few different ways to use Revit.

Here is the PDF presentation we gave (it’s big 30mb) - you might want to right click and do “save link as”

You can follow the students work on the forum.  Here are links to the students that presented on Thursday:

Adam Mercier and Leonidas Trampoukis

Taihung Chen & Chingyi Chou

Milan Dale & Micah Roufa

Please credit the student and Columbiai University GSAPP if you post links or use any of the images.

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These are 2 of the 8 definitions posted by TAZ on the forum.   Here is an excerpt from what was posted:

“By way of example I tried to replicate with a NURBS surface the mathematically derived mesh generation script from the RhinoScript101 primer.  If you really want to have fun you can check the mesh from the script against the NURBS surface from the definition.  Obviously The NURBS geometry doesn’t handle sharp edges, creases, or singularities very well but if the resolution setting is high enough the approximation is pretty close.”

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