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Vasari 2.5

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So I was waiting to post about Vasri 2.5 until it was officially released, well that happened today.  For those of you who haven’t downloaded Vasari yet or know what it is I highly suggest you do it.  Vasari is based on Revit and allows users to create masses, adaptive components and curtain panel by patterns.  But that is just the beginning users can also do early analysis on the masses including: wind analysis, solar radiation plus energy and carbon analysis.  All of which are extremely helpful in the early conceptual design of a project.  Once the final decisions are made the Vasari file can simply be brought into Revit and developed further.  Release 2.5 adds Editable perspective views, Improved automatic zoning for energy models and New extrude face tool. 

Download and read the information here

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Vasari/enu/TP25/Help/0000-New_in_P0

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Vasari/enu/TP25

or visit http://projectvasari.com/ for discussion forums and other items.

Stucture Generator

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I thought it would be fun to create a simple radio tower for Revit Radio and in doing this I figured the Structure Generator preview from Autodesk Labs would be a good tool to try out.  The Structure Generator is a preview tool for both Revit Architecture and Structure that allows structural components to be generated in a project from conceptual masses.  Here is the official quote from Labs…

“Project Structure Generator for Autodesk® Revit® Structure and Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software is a free* technology preview that provides a connection between massing models and objects created during conceptual design and structural elements such as beams, column, walls, plates. With Project Structure Generator, structural engineers and architects, from the earliest stages, can very quickly create and visualize a physical and analytical model of a structure based on the massing model.”

 It was a bit rough of a go around just jumping into the program but once the help file it brought up it helps describe the processes to get this tool to work.  I first started off with a tall box and ran the tool using all the default settings.   I always like to start a tool with the default setting to see how well it works before I start breaking it. This was not that successful, Dezi asked why I was modeling a paper bag?

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Revit Database Link

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For those of you out there who have been using the Revit Data Base Link from the subscription site will be happy to know they have posted a new version for Revit 2012. Please log on to YOUR subscription site and download the new version.

The new release is intended to address the following issues:
  1. The following error when attempting to export:    Error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. 
  2. A blank RoomFromToAssociations table caused by project phasing.