Huw Roberts, Bentley's Global Marketing Driector, talks a lot of sense about BIM, IFCs and GC to Martyn Day in AEC Magazine.
by Martyn Day, 11th of December 2006
The goal is to create a freeform roof following a spatially curving path in the landscape using only 4 top level control points. The example demonstrates how robust hierarchical parametric modeling can give an easily manipulated model, with complex geometric features downstream.
18th of August 2006
The goal is to create a freeform roof that might be used to cover a courtyard, in which there is a tree. The roof must adapt to the position of the tree. At the moment we don't exactly know where the tree will be placed. We need to be able to move the tree, and observe the changing roof form.
3rd of July 2006
Make sure you have gone through lessons 1-7 for a good back ground first.
27th of February 2006
This month’s Cambridge-based workshop and conference, held at the British Museum in London, demonstrated that the momentum behind the Smart Geometry group continues to grow.....
by Martyn Day, 21st of February 2006
Sounds difficult!
Starts easy! Please note that you may need the latest version of Excel on your machine to be able to save the metrics into a file...
20th of February 2006
Read this review of the SmartGeometryConference from Building Design magazine.
Note: this link is to bdonline.co.uk which requires free registration.
by David Littlefield, 17th of February 2006
Use the Lesson 7 Law Curves to get up to step 5...
13th of February 2006
A Law Curve is a Feature, which has a level of control over its properties, represented in a Law Curve Frame or graph...
13th of February 2006