University of Minnesota - Lighting Design Presentation

Yesterday I had the opportunity to present on lighting design at the University of Minnesota. Today's post will highlight my presentation where I discussed:

• Design Performance at Lake|Flato
• Workflow (electric lighting): Lighting design using Revit + Elumtools
• Workflow (daylighting): Access and glare using Rhino + Climate Studio

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Lake|Flato Sustainable Design Performance Technologist - Come Work with Us!

Come work with an award winning architecture practice that has won more AIA COTE Top Ten awards than any other firm in the US and has been a signatory of the AIA 2030 Commitment since the year the program started, a decade ago!

Are you passionate about high performance design? So are we!

Are you familiar with tolls used to study daylighting, energy use, embodied carbon, thermal bridging? So are we!

Are you considering making a move? We are looking to hire you:)

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Revit Performance Email and Support

Are you having performance issues in Revit? Autodesk has a special email you can use to share your findings and even the model. This is the topic of today's post...

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My New Enscape Blog post - The Essentiality of Real-Time Viz for BIM and AEC

I wrote a new blog* post for Enscape on the essentiality of real-time visualization for BIM and architecture. Today's post shares the link and a quote I included from one of the partners here at Lake|Flato! 

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Enscape and Chaos Merger Podcast on CG Garage

Today's post shares an interesting podcast with the leaders from Enscape and Chaos, talking about the new merger and opportunities. 

Enscape users not familiar with V-Ray and Chaos will want to start following this podcast, CG Garage, to track the larger visualization eco-system that is about to take the industry by storm!

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CTC Revit Family Processor - Powerful Content Management

Someone who works for a large manufacturer, who was just acquired by a larger manufacturer, ask me how they can update the company name parameter and URLs in thousands of Revit families. It occured to me that the tool I recommended, I had not written a specific post about (just referenced within other posts).

CTC Software makes a "Cadillac" tool that can be used to maintain large and complex Revit content collections. The tool is called Revit Family Processor. Today's post I will share the highlights of this tool and a little trip down memory lane with CTC and this tool.

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New Enscape Feature Portal - Features Under Consideration and In Development

Enscape has a new portal to track features that are either under consideration or in development. Learn more about that in today's post.

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