Category: Learning

  • Forma Site Design sun hours analysis

    How to: analyze your first proposal

    In this article, you’ll learn how to run the sun hours analysis in Forma Site Design. The sun hours analysis provides a visual map of sun exposure. It shows how many hours of direct sunlight your site and building receive on specific dates. How to run Forma’s sun hours analysis Reading the results Useful tools…

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  • How to: add your first building to an existing site in Forma Site Design

    This is the second article in our Quick Start learning series. Read the first article – How to: create your first site in Forma Site Design. You can create a schematic model in Forma Site Design using as little as two tools: Basic building and Move. This guide summarizes the essential tools and features used…

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  • How to: create your first site in 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. Now that you have access to a Hub in Forma Site Design, watch the video and follow the steps below to enter your first site. Step 01: Create…

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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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  • A woman working on a 3d rendering of a building in a city.

    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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  • Beyond files: leveraging Dynamo for cross-app intelligence

    Autodesk Forma, 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. Executive summary AEC workflows still rely heavily on file exchange. Despite our best efforts we often lose data fidelity along the way. But what if instead of moving files,…

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  • How to start using AI for design storytelling

    Autodesk Forma, 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. Executive summaryThese are highlights from the 2024 Autodesk University Class hosted by Krzysztof Jedrzejewski (Principal Group Product Manager Autodesk Forma); Bill Allen (President, EvolveLAB); Ben Guler (Vice President, EvolveLAB). In…

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  • How to use generative design, AI, and 3D modeling for improved site planning 

    Autodesk Forma, 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. Autodesk Forma is bringing about a new era in site planning and design and our latest enhancement furthers that with Site Automation. Site Automation, formerly known as Explore, is…

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  • How to connect a Forma project to Rhino

    In the below video, we cover how to install the Rhino plugin, show you how to connect a Forma project with a Rhino file, and sync the changes between the software. You will learn how to select the layers, functions, and geometry that you want to sync and see how to check the area metrics…

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