IES Consuting - Plug - in within revit architecture provides
direct link to software
IES is pleased to announce it has developed a free
plug-in to Autodesk’s Revit Architecture which provides
a direct link to its <Virtual Environment> software and
to the company’s new architect-orientated <VE> Toolkits.
The Toolkits are designed to allow architects to
undertake top-level building simulation analysis,
facilitating sustainable design at the click of a few
buttons. Being demonstrated for the first time at the
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo at Chicago,
IL (November 6-8, 2007), the plug-in is due to be
released at the end of November 2007.
This new development enables architects to investigate
the building’s performance at early stages in the design
process without any specialist simulation knowledge or
the need to re-input geometry data, and without leaving
the Revit environment. It allows the Revit Architecture
BIM model to be easily and quickly imported into IES’s
unique system of integrated building performance
analysis tools.
By clicking the IES toolbar in Revit Architecture, the
BIM model is transferred into IES <Virtual Environment>
software and a dialogue automatically opens. This
displays the imported model and provides an easy-to-use
method of assigning basic construction and room type
properties to the building and rooms as required.
Within Revit Architecture, the Toolkits provide four
analysis options: heating and cooling load calculations,
annual dynamic thermal simulation for energy
consumption, sun view animation for winter, summer and
midseason, and a daylighting assessment. The Toolkits
automatically run the chosen analysis through the IES
<Virtual Environment> suite of building performance
software and generate an html report of relevant
information quickly and easily.
Analysis of a building’s performance at the early
concept stages of the design process allows architects
to make informed decisions about orientation, layout,
form and construction. Furthermore, generating such high
quality building performance information at the early
stage of the design process makes it easier to design
sustainable, low-energy buildings.
This new facility complements the direct link which
already exists between Revit MEP 2008 and the IES
<Virtual Environment>, and the partnership between the
two companies. It enables Revit Architecture users
direct access to the new <VE> Toolkits or the full IES
<Virtual Environment> depending on their needs. This
specially developed link takes the form of a streamlined
gbXML file transfer to ensure a good transfer of
geometry between the two systems.
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