topic Re: Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix in Forma for Design Forum

Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix

kevin_fielding — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:46:30 GMT

Currently it only appears possible to visualise the units based on their area, which in some instances would be useful to differentiate between 1, 2 and 3 bed apartments, however it doesn't allow to differentiate from different types of ownership/tenure.

We often deliver projects with mix ownership for example social-housing and private rental. It's necessary to differential between the two in our analysis.

We need to ability to define different unit types so that they can be allocated to specific units. This will allow a more detailed analysis of mix to be undertaken and to be visualised. These may be things like

Private Rental 2 bed single aspect
Social-housing 3 bed dual aspect
Private Rental 3 bed duplex
Economy/Standard/Premium Student Apartment/Suite

I would expect this allocation to occur within the floor plan area, and the ability to save these to the library.

From a visualisation perspective, I want to be able to define the colours for these units so that they can be visualised in canvas and a schedule be exportable from the proposal.

When I export to Revit, I would expect these units types to be identifiable.

Adding these features would enable Forma to be utilised more intelligently for space planning from the outset of a project.

Re: Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix

arne.bjelland — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:40:56 GMT

Thanks again for your question!

We are currently working on enabling most of what you are describing and hopefully you will see that we will gradually will support this.

Would you be interested in having a zoom-meeting with our team working on this functionality where we could show you our current prototype? We would at least love feedback on what we are currently working on!

Regards.

Arne

Re: Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix

kevin_fielding — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:11:42 GMT

Definitely, please send me through some times and we'll see what we can manage.

Thanks

Re: Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix

arne.bjelland — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 13:12:43 GMT

Hi Kevin!

Sorry for the late response, but we really appreciate that you would like to give us additional feedback on area metrics.

Could you please try using the following link to see if any of the available times fit your calendar: https://email.o365.autodesk.com/owa/calendar/FormaTestingofconcept@autodesk.com/bookings/

Have a nice day!

Arne Bjelland

Re: Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix

kevin_fielding — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:06:14 GMT

Hi Arne,

I'm getting a Bad Request code for that link.

Re: Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix

Mark.Ackerley — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:35:18 GMT

Hi,

Just wondering if there has been any progress on this? Apologies if I missed it.

Kind regards,

Mark

Re: Visualising and scheduling apartment types / unit mix

kevin_fielding — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:39:04 GMT

Hi @arne.bjelland, has there been any progress with this? It's been 6 months since we spoke about potential improvements and nothing seems to have changed other than the ability to define a new unit type at top level.

Is this no longer an area of development?