Autodesk introduces Forma Building Design, a new design and analysis built specifically for the schematic design phase. This is an important first step in enabling better schematic design exploration, ...

Sun Hour Analysis in Forma Building Design. Photo/Supplied. April 8, Sydney Australia – Today, Autodesk introduces Forma Building Design, a new design and analysis built specifically for the schematic ...

Many architects still rely on tools built for later stages, making it harder to explore options quickly and confidently before committing to a direction. Forma Building Design is designed to remove ...

In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken created a miniature replica of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza out of balsa wood. Although he had intended to stop there, he realized he was hooked. “Then the ...

You can download and 3D print the little spaceman from Project Hail Mary, and it's inspiring, like the movie itself. James has been writing about technology for years ...

“Now, you walk around it and get an aerial view. Back then, you sat on a train or a tram, and you went around it,” Macken recalled. “And I just remember just going around it and thinking, ‘Wow, this ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...

MIT engineers are developing an AI model that can operate CAD software the same way a human designer does. The system takes a 2D sketch and turns it into a 3D model by clicking buttons and navigating ...

Upstate trucker Joe Macken’s TikTok-famous scale model of New York City will be displayed at the Museum of the City of New York this winter, Gothamist can exclusively report. “He Built This City: Joe ...

Autodesk's Forma Building Design aims to give architects and engineers level 200 and 300 design capabilities such as this daylight analysis while not replacing the detailed geometry in Revit but, ...

Autodesk is reshaping its AEC design software portfolio, introducing a new suite of Forma solutions, while making desktop products like Revit more deeply connected to the Forma industry cloud. At ...