Here on the Dynamo team, we have been working hard lately to bring together recent work in solar analysis, energy analysis, and optimization workflows in Dynamo. And we’ll get to show it off twice in the next two weeks, at ACADIA 2014 in Los Angeles, and at Facades+ in Dallas.
Our workshop in L.A. is officially sold out, but we were just told that we can fit a few more in.
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We have some seats left for our workshop in Dallas on the 31st.
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So what’s new?!
Solar Analysis for Dynamo
The Dynamo team at Autodesk is poised to introduce a library of solar analysis functionality, to be distributed with the Package Manager, using functionality that was previously only available in Ecotect or Vasari. Now in Dynamo—and in Revit via Dynamo—you will be able to analyze the insolation on surfaces in your model at a moment in time or averaged over specified periods.
Energy Analysis for Dynamo
Engineers and building energy specialists at Thornton Tomasetti have been building a library of tools for Dynamo for energy analysis. They recently announced their alpha release, and we will see the library of tools available soon via Dynamo’s Package Manager. TT’s Energy Analysis for Dynamo library allows users to:
- Create energy models from Revit masses, including automatic zoning
- Adjust settings for the entire model, by zone, or by surface
- Export a model to gbXML format
- Run an energy simulation with Green Building Studio
- Query the results
…all in Dynamo! And we’ll be exploring case studies in the workshops. We’re looking forward to sharing more in the next few weeks. If you’re headed to L.A. or Dallas, see you there!