Incorporate Autodesk Insight— a powerful building performance analysis software—into your design workflow. Learn how to use data to drive energy-efficient building projects.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Energy modeling goal
- Set up the user interface
- Insight: Behind the scenes
- Why Revit/Insight workflow
- Advantages
- Technique
- Our project
- Establish location, weather station, and orientation
- Create in-place masses
- Assign floors and adjust adjacent masses
- Generate energy model
- Create an insight
- Adjust the model to show connection
- Energy settings: 01 model submittal
- Review 01 model submittal
- Energy settings: View template
- Add building elements for an imprint
- Mirror object that will imprint
- Create 02 model submittal: Elements added
- Add shading, mass families, and roof: 03 submittal
- Use families to populate changes
- Add detail for apartment types: Interior mass walls
- Add detail for apartment types: Revit walls
- Benefit of a library of masses for reuse
- Overrides for schematic surfaces
- Building elements only (bounding) for a study
- Checklist: Best practice
- The generated mode: Review
- Create a scenario minus the PV contribution and with modified ranges
- Applied scenario
- Export options
- Setup for a lighting study: Rooms and floors needed
- Create a daylight autonomy study
- Create a LEED accreditation study: Pass/fail
- Customize the analysis results
- Analyze the PV panels for the year
- Analyze the PV panel output for winter months
- Reveal prime locations for surface mounted PV panels
- Setup for building elements with spaces
- Organic forms
- More mass form options
- Formit as a front end for massing
Taught by
Jim Cowan
