Projeto Vasari de Autodesk - inspecção prévia da tecnologia
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Eu estou esforçando-me para conter meu excitamento, mas há uma tempestade um a vinda!!! Preste atenção para fora para o projeto Vasari como seu provável aparecer muito próximo em laboratórios de Autodesk no futuro. Cobrir isso, porque é uma tecnologia assim que ele da inspecção prévia estará livre usar-se em seu próprio risco.
Assim que é projeto Vasari?
Whilst seria provavelmente errado o chamar uma versão de Lite de Revit, não obstante, o projeto Vasari é um fácil de usar a aplicação autônoma construída na mesma tecnologia que a plataforma de Autodesk Revit. Vasari pode produzir modelos conceptuais usando a funcionalidade modelando geométrica e paramétrica. Seus projetos podem ser analisados usando características internas modelar e de análise da energia. Esta é a mesma funcionalidade baseada nuvem que foi adicionada recentemente a Revit 2011 como parte do bloco da vantagem da subscrição Q3.
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TENENTE de Revit?
Deixe-me agora pisar para trás 6 anos a 2004. Eu estava trabalhando para Excitech um Reseller de Autodesk aqui no Reino Unido. Tinham-me empregado como um coordenador de aplicações para promover, treinar e o ajudar vender Autodesk Revit. Revit 6 foi a versão atual, esta era bem antes que qualquer um em Autodesk pensou sobre a adição do ano + 1 ao produto. Promover Revit era um graft duro; whilst demonstrou realmente o poço e os povos amaram o que serra, ele apenas não poderia ver como caberia dentro de seus processos existentes. Arquitetos e desenhadores onde apenas nao pronto para BIM. Para ser honesto então ADT teve uma base distante mais forte do usuário. Eu recordo claramente falar com minha linha gerente, Bates de Tim, sobre como Autodesk pôde considerar empurrar Revit para fora para uma audiência mais larga. Uma das coisas que nós falamos era aproximadamente um Revit Lite, uma versão focalizada do produto para que os povos joguem, tornem-se e aprendam-se com. A realidade era um tiro longo total para trás então. Whilst Revit 6 teve se reunir, não era as ferramentas do fabricante do edifício; apareceram com Revit 7 e o ambiente que do conceito nós temos agora era justo uma cintilação no olho dos somebodies. Agora o ano é 2010. Uma versão de Lite de Revit é agora uma realidade, todos sejam ele uma versão focalizada para o arquiteto do projeto e o modelador da energia. Eu posso envisage quando o projeto Vasari aparece no Web site dos laboratórios de Autodesk, os downloads estou indo atravessar o telhado. As well as arquitetos, coordenadores e desenhadores, eu posso ver os estudantes, 3d que modela os entusiastas da tecnologia que querem toda começar uma cópia jogar com. End of
Translation Click to Translate text after this point O projeto Vasari tem uma pegada mais clara do que seu irmão grande de Revit assim que funcionará feliz em umas especs. ou em uma estação de trabalho padrão. I will certainly be downloading a copy for my Macbook to run under bootcamp.
So why the name Vasari?
Those guys over at Autodesk come up with some great names for their alpha and beta products! If you Google the word Vasari you get the Giorgio Vasari, an Italian painter, writer, historian and architect. Vasari was born in Arezzo, Tuscany. If you have ever been fortunate enough to visit Florence, Italy, the chances are you would have crossed the Vasari Corridor. ( the bridge in the image below)
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So what will Vasari allow you to do?
I have been fortunate enough to get me hands on a pre-release version and this is what I have discovered so far, I haven’t covered all the features, but this will give you a flavour…….
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Installation
The installation of Vasari is interesting as you are offered you two options. You have the ability to download a 400mb install exe file or you can opt for the new streaming feature. I decided to go for the light weight streaming feature as I was particularly interested to know how it worked. You start by downloading a very small lightweight installer application called Spoon. Spoon is a virtualization technology that packages an application and the applications pre-requisites into a single executable, allowing users to download and run a single file instead of downloading and running an installer. When the user runs the Spoon executable, the application is run in an isolated environment that has controlled access to the operating system. It’s a dream, no issues what so ever for me.
Essential Learning
Learning new software quickly ensures you become efficient and productive. Vasari introduces an excellent series of quick start video tutorials. These are referred to as the Essential Skills Movies; there is a floating window with links to 6 simple movies which will kick start your Vasari experience. Follow these series of movies and you will be up and running in no time. Understanding form making is crucial so many of the articles and youtube videos contained within my blog as well as Zach’s Buildz blog will provide you with tips on using Vasari’s more complex parametric features.
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Interface and functionality
As already mentioned, Vasari offers you the same easy to use modeling functionality as you get in full blown Revit. When you first start Vasari you notice that the interface is slightly different compared with its Revit counterparts. Tool icons are a dark grey, the interface has a grey gradient background, nothing too unusual. But then it suddenly hits you, levels in 3d! In the project environment! Levels in 3d have been available in the concept mass family since the concept design environment (CDE) was introduced in Revit 2010, but they have not made their way to the project environment. This is great feature as this really allows you to really understand the 3d space.
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Navigating around the Vasari 3d space is via the now familiar Autodesk ViewCube and Steering wheel tool. Right mouse click and you get access to various zoom controls. Hold the middle mouse button down and the control key and you will fast zoom whereas holding the middle mouse button down and the shift key will rotate the camera view around the 3d space.
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I have spent hour and hours of my time using the concept massing tools in full Revit. My preferred method of creating forms has always been within the CDE, where you use a mass family to build forms. These families can then be loaded into the project environment. This workflow is still possible in Vasari. Even so, Vasari changes all that, as the project environment now seems far more connected with the family editing environment.
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Vasari offers you a limited number of family templates to build content; mass.rft, adaptive component.rft and Curtain Panel Pattern Based.rft are all available, which is more than enough for concept design form making. You are also able to pass your models to full Revit Architecture, Structure or MEP as Vasari uses the same .rvt and .rfa file format version. This also means you will also be able to start an .rvt or .rfa concept mass in full Revit and open it in Vasari. This opens up some potential interesting workflows.
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You can print from Vasari, but there are some limitations. For instance you can’t seem to place your designs on drawing sheets. You are able to import DWG, SAT, DXF, DGN and Skp files, you can also export to DWG, SAT, DXF and DGN.
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You can schedule with Vasari, but you are limited to scheduling Mass Floors. You can add additional predefined fields to you schedules, but you are not able to duplicate the schedule and create custom versions, not a big deal based on the defined target audience.
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Vasari also provides you with a number of pre-defined masses for you to drag and drop into your project from the project browser, but using the mass.rft template you can obviously build your own custom mass families. In the screen grab below, you can see some additional families created using Vasari’s massing template.
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This video will briefly show you some of Vasari’s modelling capabilities……
Now if you think Vasari can only model buildings, then you are wrong. :-)
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Conclusions
So what do I think of Vasari? I absolutely love it! I had heard through the grapevine that Autodesk where working on something special, a kind or LT version of Revit. There are some which will not get that excited, because if you use full Revit then you already have access to this functionality so Vasari may not offer anything new. But saying that, I have heard it said by many designers who either use Sketchup or Rhino, that full Revit is a far too heavy beast to work with. Without knocking their skills and abilities to design, they are often simple folk when it comes to technology. But to some extent they have a point, if all you want to do is design and analysis a concept, full Revit is like having a hammer to crack a nut! Project Vasari fills the gap very neatly.
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My personal view is that Vasari is a potential game changer! Whilst Sketchup is a great application, it has plenty of limitations when you are looking to use it within your BIM workflow. Vasari is a great tool for early concept work; it provides an easy to navigate UI, flexible parametric and geometric design tools, it’s so easy to learn and will fit happily into your BIM workflow. Finally, a word of warning, Vasari is a preview technology so you will get no official support on the Product, but you will be able to feedback information via Project Vasari’s Facebook page. Keep your eyes pealed on Autodesk labs as well as the AutodeskBuilding Youtube channels as release time frame is very soon. Finally when it does go live and you get a chance to play, be sure to smile whilst you use it, as it totally rocks! :-)
Posted by David Light at 6:18 PM 3 comments
Labels: concept modelling, Vasari
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Newforma as a Process and Information Model Tool
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If you use Newforma, be sure to read my good friend, Terry Nichols view on how Newforma could effectively become central to your BIM processes. This is a great article and you will learn a lot. It will certainly get you thinking.
http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2010/issue_57.html
Posted by David Light at 11:16 PM 0 comments
Labels: Newforma
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Project Vasari……. watch this space
