Conceptual design with Autodesk Forma
Welcome to an introduction on how Forma can be used in early-stage conceptual design projects. Explore what the Forma software is, whom it's most relevant for, and how it can help achieve client business outcomes such as improved design quality, reduction in overall design time, and winning more business.
Course overview
Welcome to an introduction on how Forma can be used in early-stage conceptual design projects. Explore what the Forma software is, whom it's most relevant for, and how it can help achieve client business outcomes such as improved design quality, reduction in overall design time, and winning more business.
After completing this content, you should be able to:
- Understand what Forma is and its relevance to your work.
- Conduct a massing study in Forma.
- Enhance an existing model in Forma.
- Discover learning resources for Forma.
Before you start
- Make sure you have access to a Forma Hub.
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
About the Authors
This content was created by Catharina Lundby and Robin Franke, Customer Success Managers (Forma) at Autodesk.
Course outline
Understand what Forma is and its relevance to your work
Gain a high-level overview of what Autodesk Forma is in the AEC industry cloud and what’s currently available in the first offering. It will highlight ideal user types for Forma as well as cover top customer case studies.
Module outline
Gain a high-level overview of what Autodesk Forma is in the AEC industry cloud and what’s currently available in the first offering. It will highlight ideal user types for Forma as well as cover top customer case studies.
This content takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:
- Understand the long-term vision for the AECO industry cloud.
- Understand the capabilities of Forma.
- Discover who can use Forma effectively.
- Get inspired by outcomes and customer stories.
Before you start
- Make sure you have access to a Forma Hub.
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
About the Authors
This content was created by Catharina Lundby and Robin Franke, Customer Success Managers (Forma) at Autodesk.
Conduct a massing study in Forma
Get a hands-on technical lesson where you will learn how to create a project and populate base layers, draw a model and gain insight into key project metrics, analyze sun hours and daylight potential, and compare results of different designs.
Module outline
Get a hands-on technical lesson where you will learn how to create a project and populate base layers, draw a model and gain insight into key project metrics, analyze sun hours and daylight potential, and compare results of different designs.
This content takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. The objectives:
- Introduction to the workflow.
- Project creation and layer editing.
- Understand the basics of design tooling.
- Perform analysis and visual comparison.
Before you start
- Make sure you have access to a Forma Hub.
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
About the Authors
This content was created by Catharina Lundby and Robin Franke, Customer Success Managers (Forma) at Autodesk.
Enhance an existing model in Forma
Gain a technical lesson where you will learn how to import an existing model into the Forma interface, analyze an imported model, import a reference image into the Forma interface, enhance a model with 3D sketch tooling, and send a proposal to Revit for further downstream design.
Module outline
Gain a technical lesson where you will learn how to import an existing model into the Forma interface, analyze an imported model, import a reference image into the Forma interface, enhance a model with 3D sketch tooling, and send a proposal to Revit for further downstream design.
This content takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. The objectives:
- Introduction to the workflow.
- Import an external model.
- Place an imported model in the canvas.
- Import an image file.
- Analyze an existing building.
- Edit a model in 3D Sketch.
- Compare analysis results.
- Send a model to Revit.
Before you start
- Make sure you have access to a Forma Hub.
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
About the Authors
This content was created by Catharina Lundby and Robin Franke, Customer Success Managers (Forma) at Autodesk.
Additional resources for Forma
Review where to find various learning resources that are available to help you unlock new workflows and functionality within Autodesk Forma.
Module outline
Review where to find various learning resources that are available to help you unlock new workflows and functionality within Autodesk Forma.
This content takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. You will:
- Discover learning resources for Forma.
Before you start
- Make sure you have access to a Forma Hub.
- If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support.
About the Authors
This content was created by Catharina Lundby and Robin Franke, Customer Success Managers (Forma) at Autodesk.
