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Learn about powerful and time-saving tricks to make your 3D Sketch sessions efficient and enjoyable with our comprehensive guide. 
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We are excited to announce the release of the initial set of terrain editing capabilities in Forma! With this update, you can now easily flatten the terrain in specific areas and apply grading around the designated footprints.  
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Welcome to our Community Gallery, a virtual space where the Autodesk Forma community gathers to share awe-inspiring images of cities and building designs. 
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We're happy to share that Forma now supports import of reference images and placing them into the terrain, which was often requested by our customers.   With this feature available, you can use an image or existing sketch as an underlying layer to continue designing on top of it in Forma.
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The detailed noise analysis provides results on the ground, facades, and roofs for a simulated noise situation from roads.
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We have integrated with the new service of Dataforsyningen in Denmark which means they now come with official heights. Until now we would estimate the heights ourselves, which is less accurate.
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Hello, We are thrilled to announce that we are celebrating the Forma Launch worldwide with our community. We would be delighted if you could join us in the nearest city to you at the following locations: Oslo, London, San Francisco, Paris
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This guide shows how to create a Forma project, add contextual data and populate your proposal and scenario layers.   
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This guide will teach you how you can quickly draw design options on a site in order to run a massing study.
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This guide explains the difference between proposals, proposal layers, scenarios and scenario layers, and how to work with these in a Forma project.  
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This guide shows how you can improve facade allocation for better daylight early in the design phase for a more sustainable project.
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4K screen capture is available in all analysis UIs
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- improved discoverability by adding a separate Compare button to the left panel - improved navigation by grouping analysis results by proposal - open more windows from right-click menu (split vertically or split horizontally)
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We have enabled adding multiple dates to run the sun analysis on, and easily toggling between these different dates in the sun analysis UI.
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Hello! See this 20 min demo of Next Gen projects.  Learn how to create a project and prepare the site, design new proposals and run analyses on the design.    See the timestamps in the link above for easier access to the parts you are most interested in.    Enjoy!
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How to module an A-frame/ gable / double / 2 waters roof 1.Create 3D sketch. 2. Draw a polygon on top of the area you want to design the roof. 3. Select the surface and extrude it if you want the lowest attic floor to have some "vertical facade" before it tilts. 4. Draw the roof ridge with the line tool and move the line up 😀
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Revit Next Gen Add-In Size of update @medium-updates Time of release 9:30 AM EST 10 March 2023 Why? Release first new version of Revit Next Gen Add-in since the 6th of February Short description Support for current Revit Preview Release. Support for new Revit Preview Release features TopoSolid and Dark Mode/Light Mode option. Support for scenarios when loading from Spacemaker and updating Spacemaker with Revit changes. Restored option from classic to merge walls vertically. Levels are now always separate per-building. Support for export restrictions due to third party data licensing requirements.
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