Autodesk has really grabbed this opportunity and FormIt is now much more tightly integrated into a Revit BIM process, wasting little of the time spent creating early model geometry and being there to work on geometry throughout the process. And I’ve heard many BIM managers complain about architects coming back with edits in SketchUp, when the detail modelling is already well down the road in Revit. When a conceptual design is in SketchUp, the geometry really isn’t going to give seamless geometry in Revit. However, those with a Collection subscription get FormIt Pro included for free and access to Energy Analysis with the Insight 360 analysis engine.Ĭonceptual design should drive BIM. It’s part of the Architecture Engineering & Construction Collection, for a hefty annual subscription. It comes in three flavours: free, Pro, and FormIt Pro as web version. On the iPad, it works with the Apple Pencil as well as with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and Autodesk Graphic. It’s now available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and in the web browser, so pretty much anywhere, for around $25 a month. But having not reviewed FormIt since 2013, our first look at FormIt 2018 shows that it has evolved considerably, to offer a seriously impressive suite of tools.įormIt started life as an iPad application, but is now available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and in the web browserįormIt started life as an iPad application. What seemed like a daunting task has required perseverance on Autodesk’s behalf, in terms of maintaining development and investment – two things which the company has a history of withdrawing from products that prove slow to gain traction, in a ‘fail-fast forward’ style of product development.Īutodesk’s first foray into conceptual design, Architectural Studio, wasn’t given much of a chance. More than that, it would need to offer a plethora of capabilities to tempt architects away from the incumbent. For a commercial organisation such as Autodesk, while achieving equivalent technology seemed possible, the SketchUp business model meant that FormIt was always going to have to be a low-priced product, if not free. When Autodesk decided to take up arms against SketchUp, it was owned by Google and was free. I love drawing with the Apple Pencil and only need practice getting used to drawing on such a smooth surface to produce images that look like they were drawn in a sketchbook.To produce more realistic models, FormIt Pro comes with an extensive materials library Wow! I could spend the rest of my life exploring these pieces of software. ![]() I ended up purchasing Affinity Designer and the computer version of Autodesk Graphic on my Mac.Then I installed Adobe Illustrator Draw on my iPad, found it usable but could only move the drawing to the creative cloud Illustrator for desktop work (unless there is something about it I don’t understand).Both of those iPad apps let me transfer documents to my computer by way of iTunes file sharing.Compatibility has been a challenge for me in one form or another since I started using a personal computer in 1982 so I knew I could figure something out. My first challenge was compatibility so I could open the illustrations on my computer as well. I looked for two types of drawing programs (pixel-based and vector) and settled on Procreate for the pixel-based software, and Autodesk Graphic for the vector-based software. I use it in place of a TV, and I draw on it. I treated myself to an Apple iPad Pro and Apple pencil for my birthday. Therefore, I happily use Adobe CS6 (the last non-cloud version). That may be true for some customers, but that does not suit my needs nor the way I work, plus I don’t want to be tethered to Adobe’s cloud. They tout this as being a less expensive and more efficient method of keeping up with the upgrades and taking advantage of a variety of publishing services. Instead of charging for software and shipping a disc for installation, they offer a subscription plan where the customer pays a monthly fee to use cloud computing that ties the user to Adobe servers through an internet connection. ![]() Several years ago, Adobe Systems switched their software distribution to a creative cloud plan. I’ve used Adobe Illustrator since version 1.0 (over twenty years) but am crashing into the brick wall of my bias. I select art supplies, computers, hardware and software based upon how each assists me to achieve what I want to achieve. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want. All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in.
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