My first proposal @ Autodesk University 2009

Altiscad Optimizer®: Visual Exploration of Optimization in Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis

Submitted: April 28, 2009
Class Description:
This class will introduce advanced optimization techniques using Altiscad Optimizer and Robot Structural.

Now, you have the opportunity to look at every step of the transformation of a structure to the optimum shape from an engineering perspective. For the first time in the case of optimizing software, you will learn how to visually explore the optimization. This perspective will give you extended possibilities to understand the evolution of a structure. You will find the benefits of parametric modeling inside Robot Structural together with parametric optimization techniques.

Track: Architecture and Building Design, Structural Design and Engineering

Industry: Building

Expertise: All Levels

Type: 90-Minute Class

Key Learning: Understand how to describe an optimization problem, Develop a workflow strategy to solve an optimization problem using Autodesk Robot Structural and Altiscad Optimizer, Describe a structural model using a custom API parametric modeler module, Describe and optimize parametric structures, Visually explore intermediate solutions revealed by Altiscad Optimizer

Audience: All levels of users of Robot Structural Analysis: structural engineers, designers

LT Relevant: No

Primary Software: Revit Structure

Other Software:

Tags: optimization, parametric modeler, Robot Structural, structural design

Other Autodesk Events: Yes

For Continued Education: No

Autodesk University 2009 – I will be a speaker!

Mare bucurie mare! Mi-au fost acceptate propunerile de prezentări la Autodesk University! Voi prezenta Altiscad Optimizer şi Altiscad Intellishape.
Salutări anticipate din Las Vegas!

Structural Optimization

Have you ever dreamt of capturing the life of structures, the way in which they take the perfect shape? Have you ever thought about rediscovering, by means of particular technical procedures, the way in which were created Constantin Brancusi’s Infinite Column or other forms that we perceive as perfect?

The software we are now introducing is a challenge for you to take a look at the inner life of structures, at the tensions that animate them, through the perspective of the shape and harmony they generate. You can watch the making of the shape of structures, created by the tensions existing inside such structures.

initial                                                             final

For the first time in the case of optimizing software, we are proposing a visual exploration of optimization, a study on the evolution of a structure into the shape that best complies with the constraints imposed and with the goals defined by you. This perspective will give you extended possibilities to understand the evolution of a structure.

Now, you have the opportunity to look at every step of the transformation of a structure into the optimum shape from an engineering perspective.
In this way, Altiscad Optimizer captures much more of the mystery of this becoming, revealing intelligent structures.