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Autodesk Green Building Studio Needs Your Help

We are conducting 1.5 hour usability sessions in July over the phone in order to gather user feedback.

We are looking for Mechanical Engineers focusing on HVAC and Energy Analysts to participate. This is an opportunity to make a great impact on the user experience of Green Building Studio and we welcome your company’s participation.

If you participate you will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.

Please complete our quick survey to sign up.

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Autodesk Assists Customers Garner Stimulus Dollars

"Federal stimulus dollars are putting Americans back to work on the nation's highways, but companies behind the scenes are reaping rewards as well.

At Autodesk's Manchester, New Hampshire, office, engineers are hard at work on simulations for shovel ready projects, thanks to the money states now have for infrastructure improvements through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."

The complete article and an accompanying video are available for viewing here.

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Autodesk Navisworks 2010 - Incorrect Window Element Export

Users of Autodesk Navisworks 2010 may have noticed that window elements do not export correctly from Revit Architecture 2010 and Revit MEP 2010.

It appears that surfaces are exported without openings, windows display opaque and bounding boxes are also making their way across unforeseen. Additionally, three small boxes are created next to the wall - without ever being in the original drawing in the first place.

Root cause to all of this seems to be that non visible, yet present entities, are included.

The issue affects Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2010, Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010, Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2010 and Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2010.

The Autodesk Navisworks team has created a HotFix to address this particular problem. Users can download the HotFix here.

Please send us any comments, feedback or suggestions you may have.

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Autodesk Design Review 2010 - HotFix

Many users encountered this issue after the initial release of Autodesk Design Review 2010.

The application produced undesirable printing results, when printing to PDF. In most cases this included the default print settings of Autodesk Design Review 2010 and it caused large print spooling sizes, low-quality output and even printing errors.

We have now produced a HotFix for Autodesk Design Review 2010, which addresses these issues.

You can download the HotFix and the accompanying ReadMe here.

Please send us any feedback, comments or suggestions you may have.

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Autodesk Sustainable Design Survey

The Autodesk Simulation User Experience Team would appreciate your feedback on the relative importance of different types of energy analysis data during the early conceptual design phase of a project.  The survey should take less than ten minutes to complete.

Who Should Participate?

Architects, Designers, Energy Analysts, Mechanical Engineers focusing on HVAC, and those who are doing design work with a focus on sustainability. Please forward this survey to any colleagues in these roles who may be interested.

Survey link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PPR_2fCiIHq_2fueXqmnVoyUlw_3d_3d

Survey will be active: June 1 – 8, 2009
 
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Autodesk Simulation User Experience Team