4 free Revit related applications you can try on Autodesk labs

by Edwin Prakoso 

 

If you want to extend your BIM applications, then you have a chance to add more of them for free. At least for limited time. There are 3 applications now available in Autodesk labs. Remember they are technology preview, so probably won’t available for free forever.

Project Storm

Project Storm is a cloud application for structural analysis. You can use it with Revit Structure.
I haven’t tried it because it’s not available for my country. But if you can try it, it’s worth to try.
You can analyze your model on the cloud, and continue working using your Revit. The result can be displayed and explored in Revit views.
To give it a try, download it here: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/revit_storm/

Project Spark

Project Spark is also not available in my country (yes, I know… poor me).
You can consider it as LT version of Revit, Revit with basic functionality. A teaser for you to implement BIM in your company.
There are many limitation, compared to Revit.
Read detailed review of Project Spark by David Light in his blog here.
If you want to try it, download it here: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/spark/

Project Vasari

Project Vasari has the conceptual modeling capability like in Revit. It also has integrated carbon and energy analysis.
We covered it before, now it has more capabilities like Ecotect wind tunnel analysis.
David Light have fun with it, creating Millennium Falcon and analyze it in Project Vasari.



You know Millennium Falcon, don’t you?

Project Neon

Have you tried Project Neon? We covered it before here. It’s a cloud rendering service. You can render your Revit (and AutoCAD) model online now, using Autodesk render farm. Then you can download the final result. It’s fast, free (at least for now) and you can use your valuable hardware and software while it renders your model.
If you’re interested to try torturing their servers, try it here: http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/neon/
It’s good to see how fast this industry is growing. In several years, we will be able to invest at minimum cost and have so many options. Even if we have to pay for the services above, it will be much more cheaper than how many it cost us now. Isn’t it?