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Dear [customer first name],
Welcome to the first issue of AEC News, the newsletter designed for professionals in architecture, building engineering and construction.
In this issue we’d like to focus on the concept of sustainability and how it is permeating through the design and construction industries. We have details about the new 2008 Family of Products, the DWF community portal, online resources for implementing sustainable and green design including case studies, some useful tips & tricks as well as a review of a recently concluded event around the sustainable design theme in Singapore.
As always, if you would like to share your comments on how we can improve this newsletter, please send them to asean.marketing@mail.autodesk.com.
Happy Reading!
The AEC News Editorial Team
Community
DWF community online resource centre
Top organisations worldwide are harnessing the power of DWF™ technology to extend design information beyond the initial design teams. With extensive 2D and 3D design collaboration capabilities, DWF is the choice for critical design-related manufacturing, architecture, building, facilities, and infrastructure workflows. The DWF resource centre contains information on utilities, tools and Plug-Ins, blogs and discussions and user submitted tips and tricks.
Click here to enter the DWF world…
Buildings that breathe?
At first blush, Manhattan skyscrapers are about as far removed from nature as one can imagine. Sleek and shiny, clad in steel and glass, they are beautiful but sterile-lifeless without the buzz and colour of human activity.
Click here to read more of this article from our Sustainability Centre.
Focus on
Introducing the new 2008 Family of Products
Today, everyone is facing more risks, complexities and competitive pressures than ever before. That’s why you need the ability to innovate, visualise and simulate in the digital world before creating anything in the real one. In fact, you need to experience your next project before it’s real. Learn how our new 2008 industry-specific software helps you analyse the real-world performance of your designs. All before you build a thing.
The exciting new 2008 Family of Products include:
Test drive our new 2008 products with a 30 Day FREE trial
The new 2008 versions of AutoCAD, Revit Structure and AutoCAD Raster Design are available for a 30 day free trial. Order your FREE trial today and experience the difference for yourself.
Tips and Techniques
Tip 1: Showing solid fills for all cut objects in a building section
This handy tip was provided by David Baldacchino on the AUGI user forum.
Tip 2: Linking Excel speadsheets with Revit
This handy tip was provided by Kirk Bricker on the AUGI user forum.
Tip 3: Recreating a central file from backups
This handy tip was provided by the Revit Architecture services and support Team..
General News
Green Building and Sustainable Design: Singapore Government Leading the Pack
The Singapore government’s Building and Construction Authority is pushing ahead with its green building rating system to evaluate buildings for their environmental impact and performance. Wider adoption of the standard will see more new buildings in the city state having lower energy signatures and lower maintenance costs in the long run.
AutoCAD Architecture: New Features Webcast
Our live webcast offers architects, designers and drafters a greater understanding of the new features and tools included in AutoCAD® Architecture (formerly Autodesk Architectural Desktop). This purpose-built solution is simple to implement and use, which means immediate increases in productivity and accuracy. Discover how easily you can leverage visualisation to bring client presentations to life!
How BIM and Sustainable Design Work Together
Engineers, architects and designers are beginning to see sustainable design as a natural fit to BIM because of the possibility of inventorying data using measurable outcomes for lifecycle costs or building energy performance. There exists a natural fit for the two to go together and architectural firms around the world like HIP are already starting to put this into practice in recent projects.
Subscription News
NEW - Google Earth Plug-in (Available to Autodesk Subscription customers only)
Publish 3D building information models directly from Revit Architecture into Google Earth™ mapping service. Streamline the preliminary project planning process by sharing conceptual plans with your clients in real time. Connect everyone involved in your project from the planning stage through public approval.
Autodesk Vault download at Subscription Center
Autodesk Vault is an easy to use data management tool integrated with various Autodesk products. It helps design teams track work-in-progress designs and maintain version control in multi-user environments. It also helps workgroups organise and reuse design data by consolidating product information and reducing the need to re-create designs from scratch.
Autodesk Vault download is now available for the following Autodesk 2008 version products at the Subscription Centre.
- AutoCAD 2008
- AutoCAD Architecture 2008
- AutoCAD MEP 2008
For more information on the download, please visit the Subscription Centre today!!!
NEW e-Learning lessons on Subscription Centre
Autodesk Subscription e-Learning features self-paced lessons that are a quick and convenient way to learn Autodesk software. Each lesson takes 15 to 30 minutes to complete and includes hands-on exercises so you can practice what you’ve learned. Please note that e-Learning requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above.
New e-Learning lessons that went live on the Subscription Centre include:
Getting started with AutoCAD Architecture 2008: 4 lessons
- Using the Interface
- Adding and modifying walls
- Working with doors, windows and openings
- Creating details
To access these e-Learning tools, please visit the Subscription Centre www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin. Don’t have a login? Please email us at ap.subscriptions@autodesk.com for your login details.
Customer Success
At Record Speed: Designing A Chinese Wind Power Plant
In a brilliant display of implementing sustainable design engineering, the Mid-South Design & Research Institute (MSDI) of China used Autodesk® Civil 3D® to provide the civil engineering expertise for North United Power’s bid to build a 300MW wind power plant in Inner Mongolia in record time and within cost estimates. Read about how they managed to achieve this as well as other stories of green ideas realized at the Autodesk Sustainability Centre.
Recent Industry Events
BCA Academy – Autodesk Seminar : Leading Lights in the Realm of Sustainability – Strategies in Design and Construction 2007
Date: 25 June 2007
Venue: Meritus Mandarin Hotel, Singapore
Sustainability provides the building industry with the triple bottom line of profitability, social responsibility, and respect for the environment - helping firms cut costs and reduce their reliance on limited raw materials via eco-efficiency; creating new market opportunities with new and emerging expectations from customers; and improving corporate images and brand values.
This BCA Academy-Autodesk Seminar gave participants an insight into the best practices and experiences of companies that have benefited from sustainability, as well as showcased landmark Green projects that promise to change the cityscape, and the way we build buildings in time to come.
Also on hand were eminent speakers Philip Bernstein, VP Building Industry Strategy & Relations, Autodesk as well as Craig Price, Technical Director, Beca Gourp Ltd who spoke on Predicting the Outcome of Building Design through BIM and Adopting an Environmentally Sustainable Design Approach for Green Buildings respectively.
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