Discover What’s New in Autodesk: Stay Ahead with Microsol Resources
Are you curious about the latest Autodesk features and how they can enhance your workflow? Wondering how Building Information Modeling (BIM) can drive efficiency and innovation in your projects?
At Microsol Resources, we make it easy for you to stay up to date with the latest advancements through our annual What’s New with Autodesk webinar series. These sessions dive deep into the newest features across Autodesk’s suite of tools—including AutoCAD, Revit, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Civil 3D, 3ds Max, and more—so you can maximize productivity, improve collaboration, and integrate cutting-edge BIM workflows seamlessly.
Why Tune In?
With every new release, Autodesk introduces powerful enhancements designed to optimize workflows, boost efficiency, and enhance project collaboration. Our webinars go beyond just listing new features—we focus on practical applications, expert insights, and real-world tips to help you get the most out of the latest software updates.
Key Takeaways from Our Webinar Series
Time-Saving Enhancements — Work faster and smarter with new automation tools and performance improvements.
Improved Collaboration — Explore features that streamline teamwork across disciplines, from architects to engineers and contractors.
Advanced BIM Integration —See how the latest tools support seamless data sharing and coordination in complex projects.
Watch Our Past Webinar Series
Missed a session? Explore our archive of What’s New with Autodeskwebinar series and see how Autodesk has evolved over the years:
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Chaos Vantage is an essential tool for Archviz artists and VFX professionals, offering real-time ray tracing capabilities that revolutionize the way 3D scenes are visualized. With Vantage, you can navigate complex scenes with ease, making it possible to explore and refine your work in an interactive environment.
Its seamless integration with popular 3D modeling software ensures that your renders are not only stunningly realistic but also achieved with unprecedented speed and efficiency. Whether you’re working on architectural visualizations or high-end visual effects, Chaos Vantage provides the power and flexibility needed to bring your creative vision to life with remarkable accuracy and detail.
Use Chaos Vantage as an Archviz artist
1. Explore & present unlimited design variations.
Switch between design options, material schemes, and lighting configurations to compare, explain, and explore all the possibilities you have for your design or its presentation.
2. See every aspect of your scene as you model.
A real-time companion view, unaffected by scene size, that gives you a highly realistic perspective of your scene as you adjust materials, lighting, and geometry.
3. Render incredibly fast
Produce high-quality renderings and animations in record time at a quality level that makes approval easy — including all the render elements needed for post-production.
Use Chaos Vantage as a VFX professional
1. Playblasts at exceptional quality
Playblasts that convey the actual materials and lighting of your production for far more meaningful review and approval.
2. Previz with full-size scenes, that can be reused in production
Ray tracing in real-time without scene simplification or baking, using the same materials and lighting as your production team.
3. Real-time reference
A real-time ray-traced view that closely matches your production rendering results as you finalize your scene. Also perfect for over-the-shoulder discussions while making decisions.
If you would like to purchase Chaos Vantage, please contact us at chaos@microsolresources.com.
If you are not sure about upgrading your licenses, you can request a free 30-day trial, to get an overview of its new features and functionality. You can test it out with your team and find out how this product will improve your workflow.
In a world where climate change is one of the most significant challenges, the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry stands at the frontier of change for sustainable development. With buildings responsible for a significant percentage of global carbon emissions, integrating performance analysis seamlessly into the architectural design process is valuable.
Contextualizing our sustainability challenge
Buildings are more than the sum of their parts; their creation, operation, and eventual dismantling are pivotal moments where choices are made that can either further intensify our carbon footprint or lead us toward a more sustainable future.
The statistics are substantial: buildings account for a staggering 39% of the global energy-related carbon emissions. Digging deeper, 28% of these emissions arise from day-to-day operational activities, predominantly the energy used for heating, cooling, and powering the built environment, while the remaining 11% originates from materials and construction processes. Decarbonizing the building sector became a necessity.
Decarbonizing the built environment
The idea is to democratize access to building performance and analytics technology. The Enscape Impact add-on was recently released, a tool designed to transform how architects evaluate their creations’ sustainability early in the design process.
Developed in partnership with global tech company IES, the tool integrates IES energy modeling capabilities. It’s enhanced with energy efficiency information, simulated energy use, and carbon emissions indicators to guide your early design decisions.
Enscape Impact is more than just the latest addition to architectural visualization tools. It’s an innovative approach to visualizing building performance that eliminates the disconnect between energy modeling and design creativity, putting the power of sustainable design in the hands of architects.
Adding a layer of analysis to your design workflow
Immediate, intuitive, and integrated
Enscape Impact offers a fast and intuitive modality for assessing a design’s environmental impact. Architects can now make empirical evaluations of their buildings’ efficiency with minimal interruptions to their design flow. What used to be a separate phase, often detached from real-time design iterations, is seamlessly woven into the architectural process.
Accessible data-driven design decisions
Education is at the heart of democratizing access to technology. With Enscape Impact, even those unfamiliar with energy modeling and performance analysis can engage meaningfully with sustainable design. Educational tooltips will guide users through the analytical process, making the learning curve as gentle as it is informative.
Effortless and reliable
Effortless does not mean inaccurate; on the contrary, the insights provided by Enscape Impact are powered by the APACHE engine, developed by global climate tech company IES. Over the last 30 years, they have built a solid reputation as the leading global innovator in integrated performance-based building analysis and are now home to the largest building physics analytics team in the world.
Widely regarded as the best whole-building energy simulation engine in the world, the powerful APACHE engine performs dynamic thermal simulations to provide detailed insights into a building’s performance.
The Enscape Impact interface is designed to provide architects and designers with clear, visual representations of the energy use within their designs, from peak loads and total carbon emission to more complex data sets. This intuitive representation is an invaluable asset that architects can use to communicate the sustainability status of their designs to clients and stakeholders.
Bridging a new gap
Workflow companion for sustainability
Tightly integrated with all supported Enscape host applications (Revit, SketchUp, Vectorworks, Archicad, and Rhino), Enscape Impact is designed as a workflow companion to the Enscape core product, ready to contribute to the creative synergy between energy performance and aesthetic design.
Rapid analysis supports quick exploration and evaluation and nurtures the iterative process at the heart of great architectural work. The beta version is currently available on Windows only, but a version for macOS is in the works.
More efficient and effective collaboration
Enscape Impact is not only for architects and designers but also serves the AEC community at large. BIM managers and engineers benefit from more efficient and effective collaboration. They can engage with architects earlier in the design process, shaping solutions that are not only aesthetically pleasing but fully aligned with the project’s sustainability goals.
An accessible and affordable solution
For those considering integrating Enscape Impact into their workflow, Enscape offers a cost-effective solution with robust modeling accuracy and affordable licensing models. The tool’s minimal hardware requirements make it accessible, avoiding the need for high-spec equipment.
The importance of prioritizing performance
In an increasingly eco-conscious market, green architecture isn’t just ethical—it’s also a competitive advantage. The building performance component allows architects to set a new standard in the industry, creating spaces that don’t just stand out for their aesthetics but are also appreciated for their minimal environmental impact and reaching sustainability standards.
The decisions made in the early stages of a project have long-lasting consequences. Use Enscape Impact to your advantage: prioritize building performance, design smarter, and build better.
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