The Autodesk Building Design Suite software portfolio combines building information modeling (BIM) and CAD tools to help in design, simulation, visualisation and building.
Enhancements include new reality capture tools, allowing architects, engineers and contractors to create intelligent 3D data from laser scans and captured photos.
“As the construction market is scheduled to grow to US$12 trillion by 2020, design and construction professionals need the best tools to design and build the world’s most complex buildings,” said Lisa Campbell, vice president, industry strategy marketing for AEC and ENI, Autodesk. “This past year, Autodesk bridged the gap between design and construction by providing our customers with a comprehensive portfolio that included the desktop software they were familiar with along with new cloud services and mobile applications that provided anywhere, anytime access to project information. Building Design Suite 2014 will help further streamline the design and construction process by extending design intent through to construction with the use of intelligent model based design from the earliest stages. This will allow our customers to more efficiently deliver projects on time and on budget.”
The software also includes new raster editing and raster-to-vector conversion tools designed to help architects, engineers and contractors increase the visual information on a building plan.
Autodesk InfraWorks 2014 - formerly Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler – is part of the suite and is aimed at putting building projects into the context of the broader site, to help architects and urban planners to gain faster stakeholder buy-in.
Other updates include Autodesk Revit 2014 enhancements in design, analysis and documentation capabilities to improve workflows. Collaboration is improved with features including greater interoperability between AutoCAD and Revit, which makes it easier for firms making the transition to BIM.
There are also new tools in Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate, making it easier to bring quantities from an aggregated model into a project.
As part of the Building Design Suite, architects, engineers and contractors now have access to some Autodesk 360 capabilities, which allow them to share ideas anywhere in the cloud. Services include faster near-photorealistic visualisations, tools for optimised energy efficiency and cloud-based static structural analysis capabilities to remove intensive computational tasks from the desktop.
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