Category: Product
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Start your pre-design site analysis with Forma Site Design’s sun hours analysis
When you’re doing a site analysis in architecture and urban planning for pre-design and conceptual design, understanding sun exposure and solar gain is a must – it’s a core principle of passive design. In the early phase of design, architects face the challenge of balancing density with environmental performance and living qualities. Forma Site Design…
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My Top Five Favorite Features of Forma Site Design in 2025
In 2025, Forma Site Design introduced targeted improvements across modeling, analysis, interoperability, and collaboration. Development focused on strengthening and stabilizing existing workflows, with emphasis on reliability, user control, and continuity between early site studies and downstream design tools. The features below are the ones I consistently relied on this year because they directly reduced friction…
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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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Inside Forma Building Design: How architects’ feedback shapes better products
As Principal Product Manager for Autodesk Forma Building Design, which will soon be launched, a big part of my work involves testing what we build with the people who will rely on it every day. Getting user feedback gives us clear input on the direction we should take in the development of the product. The whole team is involved, from the software engineers to UX designers, so they can engage with users…
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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’s a major part of any architecture site analysis. It shows how many hours of direct sunlight your site and building receive on specific dates. How to…
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Five ways Forma Site Design helps architects beat early phase deadlines
The early stage of a project sets the foundation for success—but it’s also when tight deadlines and budgets hit hardest. Architects need to quickly understand site conditions, test multiple concepts, and keep teams aligned—all while time, resources are limited. They face the pressure to deliver clear direction quickly, often with limited resources, incomplete data, and too…
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Accelerating site design to BIM with Forma, Finch, and Revit
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. This blog post is adapted from the Autodesk University 2025 session: From Site Planning to BIM with AI: Accelerating Early-Stage Design with Finch and Forma Site Design. Watch it here.Read…
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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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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 for schematic design that’s 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…
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Terrain editing made easy with Forma Site Design
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 pleased to introduce the new Terrain Pad tool, now available under the Landscaping tool in Forma Site Design. This enhancement brings terrain editing closer to your…
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