Category: Industry & Insights

  • Forma Site Design wins Architectural Record 2025 Architectural Products of the Year!

    We are proud to announce that Forma Site Design is a winner in the new software and technology category of the 2025 Architectural Record Best Architectural Products of the Year competition. Winners are selected by an independent jury of industry professionals and the Architectural Record team. The jury stated: “Forma Site Design is overhauling early-stage…

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  • Free course: Design performance and sustainability with Forma Site Design, Revit, and Insight

    Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. With the increasing complexity of projects today, meeting high sustainability requirements demands new skills from architects to evaluate and improve building performance. In parallel, new data-driven tools are…

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    Five tips for learning Forma Site Design

    Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases. Author:  Daniel (Onyema) Udeze, Educational Consultant at Global eTraining With the accelerating pace of technological change today, AEC firms don’t want to risk being left behind. The most…

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  • Introducing Forma Building Design: An easy-to-use detailed building design solution with automated design tools and integrated analyses 

    At Autodesk University 2025, we are thrilled to unveil Forma Building Design – a pioneering cloud-based solution set to transform the building design landscape. As part of the Forma industry cloud, Forma Building Design empowers project leaders, CAD, and BIM architects to create detailed building models with speed and precision.  We plan to release a…

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    Take your architecture student projects to the next level with Autodesk Forma

    Explore how Autodesk Forma, a free software for students, can save you time on projects while enhancing creativity and sustainability. It integrates smoothly with tools like Rhino, Veras, and Archistar.  Being an architecture student is a unique journey—filled with long hours, ambitious designs, and the endless pursuit of perfection. Having been in your shoes, I…

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  • Smarter Generative Design: Autodesk and Zoneomics Partner to Bring Zoning-Responsive Building Envelopes to Forma 

    We are excited to introduce a new game-changing addition to the Forma extension library! The “3D Envelope by Zoneomics” brings a whole new approach to incorporating zoning restrictions directly into the generative design process, significantly enhancing efficiency and accuracy. Currently available for cities in the US and Canada, this partnership empowers architects and planners to…

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  • Creating Sustainable Tropical Buildings Through Passive Design Strategies

    Designing for more extreme climates is a hot topic these days. Autodesk Forma offers a suite of analysis tools that allow designers to make better decisions and see how the environment impacts our designs. I wanted to know more about how to design in tropical climates, so I turned to someone who knows better than…

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  • Building Harmony: The journey behind Naviate Outdoor Area extension

    Frequent users of Forma might already be familiar with one of the newest additions to our third-party extensions: “The Outdoor Area Extension by Naviate“. This extension provides one of the most requested features of all time – especially from our Norwegian users: It helps the user design high-quality outdoor areas in a project – and…

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  • Lessons in designing sustainable happy homes

    As architects, engineers, and scientists, we are called to reimagine the future. The need to move to zero carbon, regenerative economy is undisputable, and climate change is descending upon us. We have been trained to imagine the future and build the imagined. But are we well equipped to design a future in which we will…

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  • Advancing AI in Autodesk’s AEC software

    At Autodesk, we’ve always recognized the transformative power of AI and have been investing in it for the past decade. Specifically for the AEC industry, our advancements in AI are continuously helping customers tackle challenges and harness new opportunities.  In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how AI is being integrated and advanced in…

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