For you that have been asking me about SketchUp vs FormIt I hope this helps in some of the questions you’ve been asking, especially watch the videos on the key differences.įor me, it is more about the bigger picture when using FormIt early energy analysis, solar radiation, shadow analysis, automatic gross/target/floor/site area, levels, solid modeling, integration with Revit, importing SketchUp entourage, and more. Added the ability to reset toolbars to their default configurations.Īutodesk put some time and effort in this last release and it shows.Added a Refresh button to the Content Library panel.Added the ability to filter/search for items in the Materials, Layers, and Content Library panels.Added the ability to enter dimensions without hitting the Tab key.
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Added an alert when your graphics card drivers are out of date or incompatible with FormIt.Lastly, a few other additional features that were added that are really nice: New Sun Editor, similar to Revit, you can also toggle the Sun Editor from the Sun + Shadows menu (or use shortcut DR), which provides a graphical display of the sun’s location in space. You can select any combination of Edges, Faces, Solids, Meshes, or Groups, and access Non-Uniform Scale using shortcut NU or from the Context Menu. Really nice addition is a Non-Uniform Scale tool to stretch objects in 1, 2, or 3 dimensions. They also added support for standalone vertices, and added Vertices to the Selection Filter menu along with the ability to use Tab to pre-select edge loops on 3D shapes.įor presentation purposes the ability to customize scene brightness and contrast, as well as sky and background colors have been enhanced.Īdded the ability to adjust the position, rotation, and scale of Materials painted on faces. They also added Meshes to the Selection Filter menu.īelow is a great video on the Selection Filter tool, a lot smarter than some of the other early design tools that I’ve seen, wink, wink. Now these type if Objects can be converted to Meshes and back, with no data loss. In the past if you had a lot of these in your model things would start to get slow. Meshes is great for improving performance of high-polygon entourage like furniture, trees, people, and signage, as well as complex DWG files. To run Dynamo graphs in FormIt, a “BakeToFormIt” node needs to be attached to output geometry nodes in the graph.Ī new geometry type was added called Meshes. Currently Dynamo is included with FormIt as a local application, enabling graph authoring and execution inside FormIt using local Dynamo files. Lots of new tools and a lot of redoing of the backbone of FormIt to work with Autodesk latest technologies BIM 360, Dynamo, JavaScript Plugin, Meshes, Bing Maps, Energy Analysis, and improved performance in large files.Ī new FormIt + Dynamo experience was added and will be updated further in coming releases so it is more transparent. Are you a innovator/early adopter that is looking at Autodesk FormIt? If not, you should take a renewed look at Autodesk FormIt, it went silent for a while but Autodesk recently released Version 17, yes that is correct, 17 releases so far…
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