Just a quick post to let you all know that I will be uploaing a starters guide to Project Vasari and Project Storm over the next few days. If you have not already experimented with them, I will be giving a simple tutorial to follow to get to grips with the programs. From what I have seen both programs are extremely user friendly, working in the Revit Architecture / Structure 2012 interfaces. Look forward to hearing some responses about how everyone else is getting on with Vasari and Storm, and to what practical uses they have been applied! Hope you all have a great day and report back tomorrow for more!

Hey guys, hope you've all had a great weekend. Today I finally got round to writing and uploaded a short beginners tutorial to using Autodesk's Project VasariV2.1. To view the tutorial click this text to be forwarded to the correct location.

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Source:

 http://labs.blogs.com/ http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/vasari/ 

I found this series of interesting tutorials on YouTube posted by Simon Gillis from Autodesk on the Sustainable Toolbox YouTube channel. The videos focus on using 123D Catch to capture an existing building and create a mass out of the scan. Following on from this, it will then be possible to peform energy analysis on the mass to provide a good estimate of current energy conditions of the building. As well as the possibility to simulate future changes.

If there is anyone out there following my blog that hasn't seen this series of Revit vidoes from Zach Kron who runs the Buildz blog concerning the 'Repeat and Divide' functions in Revit / Vasari - I would strongly recommend you visit his blog and follow his video tutorials which you can find below. These videos continue to show the boundaries of Revit being pushed. Usually when people say: "You can't do that in Revit" it's not true, there's almost always a work around!

Autodesk have jumped the gun in the conceptual modeling mobile device 'race', with the release of Autodesk FormIt. FormIt seems, at first glance like a cut down version of Vasari, where you are able to model basic geometry, set a location and run basic conceptual energy analysis on your mass directly from your iPad. The fun in this is that you get to feel like your actually modeling it with your hands rather than a mouse.

Does the BIM news ever end? New software, tools, addons left right and everywhere else. Very exciting times in the BIM / AEC industries. The latest news is the release of Vasari beta 2; main updates:

• Automatically sync files with Autodesk 360

Vasari is an excellent tool for design analysis and conceptually massing and energy testing. Although your results are not accurate enough to use for construction purposes, it is a great tool to compare different design options in order to see the affects of the mass or building in relation to the surrounding environment. If you are unsure how to set up vasari for energy analysis, you can view an older post here which will take you through the process step by step.