Autodesk Revit 2024 Has Arrived - Learn What's New

Revit 2024 has just been released today by Autodesk. Head over to AECbytes to read my eight annual What's New in Revit article!

Also, be sure to check out my 30-minute YouTube video showing many of these new features in action (more details below)!

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BIM After Dark. Live, Tonight - Featuring Lake|Flato!

This evening I will join Jeffrey Pinheiro on his super popular YouTube channel, BIM After Dark. Live again! Per his current series theme, we will be talking about aspects of residential design at Lake|Flato with an emphasis on design technology.

Be sure to scroll down and see a render of an incredible project we received permission from our client to show... both in Revit and Enscape:)

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Zero Tool Integration within Autodesk Insight

Did you know that Autodesk's early energy modeling workflow has an API-based connection to ARCHITECTURE 2030's Zero Tool to provide a convenient pEUI target? We use this workflow and resource on nearly every project at Lake|Flato.

I will highlight this valuable feature in today's post.

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New Enscape Blog Post: How to Use VR in Enscape for Project Presentations

I just updated -- or, totally rewrote -- my VR post over on the Enscape blog. It describes how we use VR at Lake|Flato to wirelessly deliver high-quality, full VR, Enscape experiences!

In today's BIM Chapters post, I share a few photos and a link to that post here.

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New Enscape Blog Post: Creating and Using Panoramas at Lake|Flato Architects

Check out my latest Ensacpe blog on using panoramas!

This includes a look at Yulio, a third-party tool used to link and view panoramas using an Oculus Quest 2.

Link to Enscape blog post:

Creating and Using Panoramas at Lake|Flato Architects

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Recap of Advancing Computational Building Design 2023 in Chicago

Last week I had the opportunity to attend and present at Advancing Computational Building Design 2023 in Chicago. This post offers a high-level overview of the event as well as the two sessions I participated in... one of which included two colleagues from Lake|Flato.

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Vote for this Revit Idea - Revit Element Reuse Workflow

I recently posted a Revit Idea in support of element reuse within Autodesk Revit. With all of the exciting things happening around deconstruction, material reuse, and the circular economy, it would be great if Revit offered some level of support for this design and documentation workflow.

Speaking on "happenings" in this space, the city of San Antonio, here in Texas, is making great strides in both policy and culture (see recent local happy hour photo at the end of this post:)). Link: San Antonio Reuse website.

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