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by: Erik Lewis
Inside Track
AUTODESK RESEARCH: PROJECT HELIX Project Helix at Autodesk Research URL: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/3dsmax_ pointcloud/ From Autodesk // Labs: “Bring your visualizations into context with Project Helix, a powerful technology prototype enabling display and rendering of 3D laser scanning/LiDAR data sets with Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. With the 3ds Max Point Cloud Tools you can more quickly import as-built site references to help evaluate and visualize your designs in context of their surrounding elements.” Overview video available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv5vrnNGBko AUTODESK RESEARCH: BIM FAMILY TOOLKIT BIM Family Toolkit at Autodesk Research URL: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/bim_family_toolkit/ The Overview reads: “The BIM Family Toolkit Technology Preview allows building product manufacturers the ability to easily export Inventor configuration … directly to Revit families… reducing the amount of time it takes to create BIM Ready Models.” Overview videos available at http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/bim_family_toolkit/
Inventor to Revit
NEWFORMA: NEWFORMA PROJECT CENTER 8 ADD-IN FOR AUTODESK REVIT Newforma Add-In for Autodesk Revit URL: http:// www.newforma.com/Project-Center/Newforma-Revitadd-in.aspx
AUGIWorld brings you recent developments in Autodesk and related software items 6
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Newforma Project Center 8
Overview: “The Newforma® Add-in for Autodesk® Revit® allows you to get more out of an investment in BIM by bringing project information management (PIM) capabilities into the Autodesk Revit suite of building information modeling (BIM) applications.” Animated Demonstrations at: http://www.newforma.com/ProjectCenter/Newforma-Revit-add-in.aspx Until next issue! If you’d have some news to share with us for future issues please let us know. Likewise if you are a user of a featured product or news item and would like to write a review, we want to know.
March 2011