I wanted to let everybody know that Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), our Business Partner in delivering Heating and Cooling Load Analysis inside of Revit MEP, has released VE-Ware, a FREE analysis tool to all users of Revit 2008 and 2009 products.
What is VE-Ware you say? Well their website has a much better explanation than I can provide, but I'll give it a try.
Most of you already know about IES' flagship application for Building Performance Analysis, the Virtual Environment (<VE>). For those of you who don't, it is a model-based analysis platform that leverages one model to carry our different types of Building Performance Analysis.
The <VE> is a fully featured, very capable analysis environment. With that capability comes a significant amount of information that must be authored in a model to carry out analysis, and users must learn how to enter that information. The folks at IES recognized that there was an opportunity to streamline the <VE> analysis workflow for early-stage design, and they delivered what they called Toolkits. Toolkits are tools that leverage a Revit BIM to carry out different types of Building Performance Analysis. They released last year a plug-in for Revit that facilitates the model transfer and analysis.
Well, VE-Ware is a FREE (you read that right) tool that allows users to become familiar with the Toolkit workflow, while delivering valuable analsys related to the Energy Usage and Carbon Emissions related to the operation of a building designed in the Revit environment. Cool stuff, I know.
I highly recommend that those of you interested in Sustainable Design and its integration with BIM tools, go the to IES website and download VE-Ware. While you're at it, check out the White Paper on model preparation in Revit. That should help to provide you all with a good baseline on the concepts involved. I know it's from last year, we're updating it for this year at the moment.
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Kyle, Has Autodesk released the best practicec White Paper for Revit MEP 2009?
Thanks
Posted by: Robert Vogt | July 19, 2008 at 04:02 PM
Hi Kyle, How's things.
I'm having trouble finding that 'White Paper on model preparation in Revit' that you mentioned above. Where can we download this from.
Cheers,
Brendan
Posted by: Bren | August 19, 2008 at 09:33 PM
Brendan,
You get it on the Subscription Center. My video shows how to get there. Is there a specific question that you have?
Kyle
Posted by: MEP Administrator | August 20, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Kyle-
I have installed the latest IES version 5.9 but my RMEP is still trying to access the demo version of IES 5.8 not the latest unlocked version. I've unistalled that old version but RMEP is still trying to access it. Any way to redirect RMEP to the right version of IES 5.9? Thanks.
Ted
Posted by: Ted | September 18, 2008 at 01:25 PM