Revit Technology Conference in Sydney

There is an upcoming Revit Technology Conference in Sydney in June. The schedule covers just about every conceivable functional aspect of Revit. It is similar to the Autodesk University however, a much closer venue and much cheaper.

SketchUp Web Exporter

A web exporter is in development by Google.

The video below demonstrates the web exporter plugin. How it works is by exporting a series of images; each pointed at the model from a different angle and Javascript is then, used to animate the images in a web browser to give the illusion of rotating in 3d.



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Creating Waterfalls Tutorial

Click here to view a new tutorial from 3DAllusions about using a particle system in 3ds max to create an animated waterfall.

Via CGArchitect post.

Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, and AutoCAD 2009

The very popular Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD has been updated for AutoCAD 2009 so that it now runs on three AutoCAD versions. There have also been a few updates by the developer Thomas Inzinga:

• Support for the new AutoCAD 2009 Geographic Location object
• Numerous bug fixes.

The Google Earth Extension is a great way to get your designs into Google Earth or reference Google Earth in AutoCAD.

AutoCAD 2009 Tutorial Videos Published on YouTube

There are 13 new AutoCAD 2009 video tutorials published on YouTube.

Below are the links:

1. AutoCAD 2009 Demo Introduction
2. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 2- Quick Access Toolbar
3. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 3 - Menu Browser
4. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - Part 4 - Ribbon
5. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 5 - Status Bar
6. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 6 - Quick Properties
7. AutoCAD 2009 - part 7 - QuickView layout
8. AutoCAD 2009 - part 8 - QuickView Drawings
9. AutoCAD 2009 - part 9 - ToolTips
10. AutoCAD 2009 - part 10 - Action Recorder
11. AutoCAD 2009 - part 11 - Working with Layers
12. AutoCAD 2009 - part 12 - ShowMotion
13. AutoCAD 2009 - part 13 - Navigation in 3D

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The new Google Earth has landed

The new Google Earth 4.3 (beta) for Windows and Mac has arrived with new features, including some ported over from other Google products.

New features

- One of the more exciting additions to Google Earth 4.3 is the capability to switch on day and night views.

- News that Street View, which you may remember from Google Maps, will be woven into the version update, complete with the familiar photo viewer.

- Speed is someting which is improved on. 3D buildings will render faster and Google Earth 4.3 accelerates the switch between Earth and Sky modes.

- Images will be getting time stamps for easily seeing when they were created. Since so many photo sources populate Google Earth, not every image will bear a born-on date, but those that do will add another layer of information.

- Finally, Google is updating the look of the application's navigational controls to make mouse and keyboard scrolling easier.

Making models with Google SketchUp is a good way to populate Google Earth, or to create your personal version of it. If you prefer to create your own 3D landscapes, Bryce is the freeware application to use. DAZ Studio, is another software that offers the same extensive range of modeling freedom.

Via Mashable and Webware

How to Embed Flash Panoramas in Blogger and WordPress

Test of embedding Flash based panoramas into Blogger Flash Panorama Player.

Click here for full details via Digital Urban post.

Download YouTube Videos as MP4

Click here for further infomation posted on Sizlopedia.

Sydney Airport's New 3D Interactive Tour

Produced in association with 3D specialist Ivolve Studios, the production features Captivaction's own Flythrough Interactive Tour (Fi Tour) technology. It's the largest Fi Tour ever built, consisting of 17 panoramas and 31 linking animations. In total it covers a massive 88,000 square metres of space - all 100% computer simulated.

Click here to view the airports's 3D interactive tour.

Post via CG Architect.

EnergyPlus Energy Simulation Software for SketchUp

The Energy Design Plugin is a free plugin for the Google SketchUp 3D drawing program. The plugin makes it easy to create and edit the building geometry in your EnergyPlus input files. The plugin also allows you to launch EnergyPlus simulations and view the results without leaving SketchUp.

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5 Incredible Design Proposals for 3D Urban Farms

Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet's population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and even animals are grown in ... skyscrapers? This somewhat strange concept has sparked an amazing series of designs leading closer and closer to what will soon be the first real built example - in Las Vegas, Nevada of all places.

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Charlie Rose - RENZO PIANO

Architect Renzo Piano talking to Charlie Rose:

Building on the green agenda: Sir Norman Foster on TED.com

Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically pollution-free." He shares projects from throughout his career, from the pioneering roof-gardened Willis Building (1975) to the London Gherkin (2004). He also comments on two upcoming megaprojects: a pipe to bring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, and Beijing airport's brand-new and groundbreaking Terminal 3, which becomes fully operational this week, March 26.

the future in dubai - dubai architecture: new buildings in the united arab emirates

Checkout this post by CGArchitect on facts about Dubai and its upcoming architecture.

Charlie Rose - FRANK GEHRY

Frank Gehry talking to Charlie Rose about his work..

The Most Beautiful Stairs or a Dizzying Experience?

This beautiful merging of art and architecture is a 9 meter-high walk-double spiral of steel in the entrance of the KPMG ( a global accounting firm ) office building in Munich, Germany. A really amazing piece of architecture designed by Olafur Eliasson





Via freshome

Eiffel Tower's Massive New Observation Deck to be Made of Kevlar Webbing

The Eiffel Tower is possibly getting a new extension. Builders will be attaching a temporary, carbon Kevlar observation deck. French architecture firm Serero will help Paris celebrate the 120th birthday of the tower by more than doubling the floor space at its top. The observation deck will simply be bolted in place.







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To view the Eiffel Tower Process click here. This includes collection of images - both the construction drawings for the tower, and photos of it being erected in 1889.

Autodesk University - Screencasts

Click here to watch screen casts of the Autodesk Unversity 2007 conference in Las Vegas. It's just like attending AU, only you can stop it to take a break!! You can watch it again and again. Download the class handouts and watch the screen cast! I recommend checking out the site. You will have to register first to view the screen casts.

There are over 500 hours of training available to watch with over 1000 classes!!

Modelling using the Greeble plugin in 3dsMAX

Great tutorial by Digital Urban on constructing a cityscape and a skyscraper using a plugin called Greeble.

According to wikipedia: A greeble is a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest to a surface or object, particularly in movie special effects. They serve no real purpose other than to add complexity to the object, and cause the flow of the eye over the surface of the object to be interrupted, usually giving the impression of increased size. It is essentially the small detailed technical part of a larger object. The detail can be made from geometric primitives, including cylinders, cubes, and rectangles, combined to create intricate, but meaningless, surface detail. Greebles are commonly found on models or drawings of fictional spacecraft in science fiction.

Stunning Futuristic Design for Madrid Civil Court Unveiled

Bold, brave, often controversial - her ambitious experiments in form always seem to stir discourse and debate. Hadid’s design for the new civil courts building in Madrid is no exception. Planned as part of the new Campus de la Justicia at Valdebebas in Madrid, the Civil Court is expected to become a focal point in the city.
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ADrive Adds Interactivity to Free File Storage

ADrive, a file storage provides 50GB of free data storage for its users, and is hoping to further entice users. ADrive is hoping to provide a few peripheral features that enable users to better interact with the files stored through it, as well as offering a solution for collaborative file-sharing processes.

Further info visit post on Mashable

Using Blogging as a Research Tool

Check out this great post on Stress Free on using blogging as a research tool. It shows how to get started and other various web 2.0 services which could be useful for research purposes.

View Google Sky Through Your Web Browser!

Google unveiled a browser version of its Google Sky application for people who don't want to download the Google Earth software. The browser version allows you to zoom in and out and pan around the celestial bodies, search for planets and galaxies and view the sky!

Forget Powerpoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps

Click here to view 13 online presentation Applications which Mashable has gathered.

Wonderful Tensegrity Structures

Tensegrity structures are visually stunning and their combination with computer enhanced structures is creating renewed interest for architectural applications. Buckminster Fuller coined the term tensegrity when he saw sculptures by Kenneth Snelson and realized that rigid component geodesics were a special case of perfectly balanced compression...

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