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by: Stephen Stafford
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The latest Autodesk AEC related information! FEATURED ITEM - AUTODESK LABS Labs URL: http://labs.autodesk.com/ There are three recent additions: Application Trials, Solar Radiation Technology Preview & Autodesk SektchBook Mobile for the iPhone and iPod touch. This is Item OnePosted on September 18, 2009 Blog Post title: Try autoCAD, Inventor, and Revit without installing them Blog URL: http://labs.blogs.com/ its_alive_in_the_lab/2009/09/try-autocad-inventor-andrevit-without-installing-them.html Labs URL: http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/trials/ What does it do? Run trial versions of each without installing by connecting to their remote server. You do need to install a small application and you must be WITHIN 1,000 miles of San Francisco to participate at this time. Solar Radiation Technology Preview Posted on August 4, 2009 Blog Post Title: Update Solar Radiation Technology Preview Now Available Blog URL: http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/2009/08/updated-solar-radiation-technology-preview-now-available. html Labs URL: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ecotect/ What does it do? Quoted from the Lab’s overview: “Use the Solar Radiation Technology Preview to analyze the effects of solar radiation on various surfaces of your conceptual building model. Using the Solar Radiation Technology Preview during the conceptual design stage of your project can help you make fundamental design decisions about building shape, orientation, and surfaces early on, when changes are least expensive. The technology preview uses the geometry of conceptual massing elements from Revit and calculates the amount of solar radiation hitting the surfaces of the massing shapes, based on location and weather data.”
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