Category: Learning

  • How to: send your Forma Site Design proposal to Revit

    Watch this video to learn how to easily move from early-stage design in Forma Site Design to more detailed modeling in Revit. Step 1: Install the Forma Add-in for Revit Step 2: Prepare and send the proposal from Forma Site Design Step 3: Load the proposal in Revit Step 4: Review informational dialogs Step 5:…

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  • How to use Forma Board with Autodesk Docs to capture design intent from the get-go

    Tl;dr: Early-stage architectural design is rarely short on ideas, inspiration, requirements, regulations, references, or stakeholders. What often lacks is shared clarity.  At the start of a project, information arrives from many directions: site constraints, early massing models, environmental metrics, reference imagery, screenshots, notes from meetings, and informal assumptions. By the end of the day your browser probably looks like mine: 5 windows,…

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  • How to: present your Forma Site Design findings in Forma Board

    Create a new board for your site Add a new frame Add widgets from Site Design Edit widgets Sun hours analysis widget Add external images Share the board Annotate your board Present the board You now have a collaborative online whiteboard that brings together data, visuals, and insights in a clear, shareable design narrative.

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  • 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

    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 a new project Step 02: Create a new site Step 03: Define your site’s geolocation Step 04: Order contextual data Step 05: Draw your site limit Now…

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

    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 empowering architects to integrate performance-driven design to optimize sustainability strategies from day one. Whether you’re a practicing architect or architecture student, the time is now to learn…

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

    Five tips for learning Forma Site Design

    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 effective approach for helping teams adapt to disruptive technologies is to provide training in sync with these changes. Data shows that firms with a proactive approach to…

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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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