Autodesk将其资金放在建筑的高效未来上2018-11-21 |工程新闻记录

Autodesk将其资金放在建设的高效未来

通过与VR技术提供商Unity合作，Autodesk旨在制作工作流程，例如将Revit 3D模型传递给Unity Viewer叠加，更快，更有用和用户友好。

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不vember 21, 2018

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在11月中旬在拉斯维加斯的软件供应商的年度会议上，虚拟现实，预制，制造，建筑信息建模和建设的融合更为关注Autodesk产品用户。

CEO Andrew Anagnost told the 11,000 attendees the company’s strategy is to concentrate on its construction products—including the BIM 360 cloud sharing platform and its design and modeling tool, Revit—and focus less on its media and entertainment lines, except for those products, such as the rendering and animation tools Maya and 3ds Max, that also serve design, construction, and on- and off-site construction manufacturing.

“建设不仅仅是我们的AEC机会，”Anagnost说：“这是增长最快的制造机会。”他预测，在10年内，建筑工作流程将更接近制造效率。

该公司的7月收购组装系统，帮助设计人员使用3D模型数据进行估算，并在节目中宣布的新伙伴关系与VR技术提供商Unity将Unity的沉浸式可视化引擎集成到Autodesk设计产品中，作为示例。“将有多种工具涉及制造和交付制造的建筑系统，”CTO Scott Borduin说。“我们希望数据流更加无缝和透明。”

The partnership between Autodesk and Unity is non-exclusive for both, but for Unity, it’s a chance to streamline data transfer for customers who already use Autodesk products. “We will be simplifying the workflow between our products, making them faster and easier to use and eliminating much of the manual work that is being done today,” says Tim McDonough, general manager for the industrial division at Unity.

Anagnost说,团结合作will save Autodesk from spending a decade developing a VR platform as robust and well-adopted as Unity’s. “In a world where Microsoft, Apple and Google are building X/R capabilities into their workflows, I’d rather spend $100 million on generative design than that,” Anagnost said. He added that with tools like Assemble, Autodesk is working with AEC users to digitize project data, pulling it out of 3D models in some cases and delivering it in a form that they, as well as subcontractors and owners, can use. Borduin noted that Autodesk is working to improve its application program interfaces to make data-supported workflows more productive.

建造had top billing at the event, with demonstrations and case studies such as the automation of curtainwall design and the panelization of construction. Structural engineer LERA+ showed how it uses Autodesk’s computational tools to create design iterations. Paric’s vice president of technology and innovation, Andy Leak, showed examples of how all Paric subcontractors use a 3D model as the “single source of truth” for project data. Autodesk hosted presentations from general contractors such as Mott McDonald and Paric to show what they have done with computational design, 4D scheduling and quantity take-off.

Anagnost noted that contractors with strong digital workflows will have the advantage of much better “bid fidelity,” than low-tech competition. “We want to help projects teams have what they need,” added Jim Lynch, vice president of the Autodesk building products group. “I really do believe in this convergence and that it’s coming. We … support those moving in the direction of automation and manufacturing in construction.”

由杰夫·奥德斯和Aileen Cho

新利18备用ENR中西部编辑和助理技术编辑杰夫·斯科德一直在写入16年的设计和施工创新。他是两次Jesse H. Neal奖获得者和多个ASBPE获奖者的技术覆盖范围。杰夫以前推出了建筑设计+建筑的建筑信息建模博客，并在CE新闻中写了一个地理信息系统专栏。他还撰写了关于材料价格，建筑采购和估算Metalminer.com。他住在芝加哥，摩天大楼的发源地，创新的步伐永远不会让他追逐一个故事。

Aileen Cho., ENR's senior transportation editor, is a native of Los Angeles and recovering New Yorker. She studied English and theater at Occidental College, where a reporter teaching the one existing journalism course encouraged her to apply for the LA Times Minority Editing Training Program. Her journalism training led to her first stories about transportation, working as a cub reporter with the Greenwich Time. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Many of her experiences with engineers and contractors have inspired material for her alternative theater productions way, way off Broadway. For ENR, Aileen has traveled the world, clambering over bridges in China, touring an airport in Abu Dhabi and descending into dark subway tunnels in New York City. She is a regular at transportation conferences, where she finds that airport and mass transit engineers really know how to have fun. Aileen is always eager to hop on another flight because there are so many interesting projects and people, and she gets tired of throwing her cats off her computer in her home office in Long Beach, California. She is a very conflicted Mets/Dodgers fan.