Autodesk Building Design Suite

Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013

Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013 is the newest version of the software package of Autodesk intended for architects, builders, designers of the engineering systems and building constructions. In its structure users receive a set of the means helping to solve various working problems of design, visualization, engineering calculations, formations of documentation and construction. Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013 exists in three options: Standard, Premium and Ultimate. Autodesk Revit 2013 is added to upgraded versions of Premium and Ultimate options; in Premium – Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2013; in Ultimate – Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2013 and Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2013. Autodesk Revit 2013 is the new complex CAD available only as a part of Premium and Ultimate options and Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013, Autodesk Revit Structure 2013 and Autodesk Revit MEP 2013 including all opportunities. This single solution helps to support cross-disciplinary workflows.

2013

Autodesk Building Design Suite 2014

The Autodesk company submitted in the spring of 2013 2014 the version of the software package Autodesk Building Design Suite. It is the full range of the software integrating instruments of information modeling (BIM) and a CAD, created to help designers and builders to project, visualize and build more perfect buildings. The software package is issued in complete sets of Standard, Premium, Ultimate and allows architects, engineers and contractors to use all advantages of a portfolio of Autodesk to design using the technology of information modeling expanded with opportunities of "cloud" services.

Among the most important components of the software package Autodesk Building Design Suite:

• Autodesk ReCap. The product is available to all owners of 2014 of the version of Autodesk Building Design Suite and allows architects, engineers and contractors to create intellectual 3D models on the basis of the given laser scanning and photos. Instead of starting with a clean slate, any designer, the architect or the engineer can supplement, modify, check and document the project in the context of a real environment now;
• Autodesk Revit 2014. The solution based on technology of information modeling (BIM) integrates means for architectural design, design of heating, ventilation, the water and sewer systems (MEP) and also tools for design of building constructions. The Revit families offer the new version of 2014 enhanced capabilities for design, the analysis and preparation of documentation and optimize design processes and engineering;
• Autodesk Raster Design. The powerful tool for editing bitmap images and their conversion to vector. Helps architects, engineers and contractors to create evident construction plans;
• new Building Element Energy Analysis tool. It is included in Autodesk Revit 2014 and improves workflows for the analysis of energy efficiency of the models made in Revit;
• expansion of compatibility. The expanded compatibility of technologies opens opportunities for more effective collective work. Improvements concerned IFC, DWFTM, DWGTM/DXFTM and 3D-solid-state models.

Now the architects, engineers and contractors using the software package Building Design Suite have access to additional opportunities of Autodesk 360. It allows in any place and at any time quickly to project, visualize, model and exchange the ideas using reliable and actually unlimited "cloud" computing resources. Users of Autodesk Building Design Suite with the operating subscription have access to the following services (depending on the version the players of "cloud" services are changed):

• visualization. Architects, engineers and contractors can quickly create convincing, almost photorealistic visualization, without overloading the workstations and without involving special hardware. The cloud service is available to all users of Autodesk Building Design Suite having a subscription;
• Autodesk Green Building Studio. Designers, architects and engineers can optimize use of energy and minimize emissions of a carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, compare indicators of energy consumption and emissions between different versions of the project and to make reasoned decisions in the choice of a final version. Users can exchange more simply data between a different CAD and create effective and profitable ecologically rational projects. Service is available to all users of Autodesk Building Design Suite having a subscription;
• the analysis of energy efficiency for Autodesk Revit. Users can perform repeated iterations when developing the construction project, optimize energy costs and try to obtain carbon neutrality, using "cloud" resources. Service is available to all users of Autodesk Building Design Suite in versions of Premium and Ultimate having a subscription;
• the analysis of constructions for Autodesk Revit. Allows to carry out static analysis of constructions using "cloud" calculations. It is especially useful when the power of the desktop computer is not enough for the solution of resource-intensive computing tasks. Service is available to all users of Autodesk Building Design Suite in versions of Premium and Ultimate having a subscription;
• Autodesk InfraWorks 360. Optimizes interaction with the desktop version of Autodesk InfraWorks, allows on a centralized basis and it is safe to publish, store large models and to manage them, using "cloud" resources. Service is available to all users of Autodesk Building Design Suite in the version of Ultimate having a subscription;
• optimization for Autodesk Inventor. Testing several versions of the project, it is possible to make calculation out of a desktop system. It allows to create more perfect projects at smaller costs. Service is available to all users of Autodesk Building Design Suite in the version of Ultimate having a subscription.

The software package Autodesk Building Design Suite 2014 of the version is available in three complete sets: Standard, Premium, Ultimate. Autodesk Building Design Suite Standard 2014 — for designers, draftsmen and detalirovshchik who need the main tool kit for effective design, preparation of documentation and exchange of drawings in the DWG format. Enter the version: Autodesk AutoCAD 2014, Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture, Autodesk AutoCAD MEP, Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing, Autodesk Showcase, Autodesk Sketchbook Designer. New products of steel of Autodesk AutoCAD Raster Design 2014 and Autodesk ReCap 2014.

Autodesk Building Design Suite Premium 2014 — for architects and design engineers who need the optimized tool kit for design and construction of constructions with the help of technology of information modeling (BIM). The complete set includes all products of the version of Standard and also Autodesk Revit 2014, Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2014, and Autodesk Navisworks Simulate.

Autodesk Building Design Suite Ultimate 2014 — for architects, engineers and construction specialists for whom possibilities of BIM and an expanded set of tools are necessary for design and construction. The version includes all products and possibilities of "cloud" calculations from the version of Premium and also Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2014, Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2014, Autodesk InfraWorks 2104 (before Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler) and Autodesk Inventor 2014.

2014: Autodesk Building Design Suite

On March 31, 2014 Autodesk announced an exit of the updated release of Autodesk Building Design Suite within total updating of family of the software of CAD.

Autodesk Building Design Suite has the best integration with cloud services of BIM 360. Opportunities for work with data of laser scanning are improved. The release contains many improvements about which users asked: it and a possibility of representation of model in the form of sketches "sketchy lines", an opportunity to include images in lines of the specification, management of visibility of the hidden lines, the improved instruments of introduction and editing notes and many other things.

Properties

Observance of standards

• More effective work thanks to specialized tools
• Project development with high quality
• Workflows on the basis of a CAD and BIM

Convenient approval process of projects thanks to richness of visualization tools

• Visualization of projects for demonstration of the ideas
• Presentation tools for the best assessment of versions of the project
• Access to all necessary instruments of visualization

Adoption of more justified project decisions

• Design of more effective buildings thanks to energy consumption calculations
• Technological effectiveness assessment on the basis of 3D models
• Elimination of collisions prior to construction works

2015: Autodesk Building Design Suite left in version 2016

On May 27, 2015 the Autodesk company announced release of new versions 2016 of software packages for design.

Software packages have a broad set of compatible tools, uniform philosophy of user interaction.

Representation of Building Design Suite 2016, 2015

The software package Autodesk Building Design Suite, as well as others in this series 2016, incorporates AutoCAD 2016, ReCap and 3ds Max.

The main advantages of the version of AutoCAD 2016 - significant increase in speed of work, input of new commands, expansion of work with PDF and improvement of three-dimensional modeling.

The ReCap technology included in a software package makes capture of reality more available and simple by means of adding of the most widespread formats for laser scanning, "smart" tools for carrying out measurements, advanced summaries, synchronization opportunities.

3ds Max 2016 offers the new 3D tools - visualization - advanced templates and work with OpenSubdiv, enhanced capabilities of rendering and other innovations.

Scope of software products is considerably expanded for architects, engineers and designers thanks to more powerful cloud services, flexible opportunities of a subscription and a number of innovations:

Building Design Suite offers the improved performance and compatibility with instruments of visualization, check on a collision and detailing. Among the most interesting innovations of Revit Architecture 2016 there is an automatic adjustment of borders 3D - a type on the selected objects ("a choice frame") and browse mode of dependences in which it is possible to look conveniently at the hidden dependences in the project and to edit them. The cloud service of the power analysis of Solon, the Site Designer expansion is available to creation of situational schemes and improvement of the territory, the improved work with the PDF, DWG and IFC formats, the expanded API and other innovations.