Are you a innovator/early adopter that is looking at Autodesk FormIt? If not, you should take a renewed look at Autodesk FormIt, it went silent for a while but Autodesk recently released Version 17, yes that is correct, 17 releases so far…
Lots of new tools and a lot of redoing of the backbone of FormIt to work with Autodesk latest technologies; BIM 360, Dynamo, JavaScript Plugin, Meshes, Bing Maps, Energy Analysis, and improved performance in large files.
A new FormIt + Dynamo experience was added and will be updated further in coming releases so it is more transparent. Currently Dynamo is included with FormIt as a local application, enabling graph authoring and execution inside FormIt using local Dynamo files. To run Dynamo graphs in FormIt, a “BakeToFormIt” node needs to be attached to output geometry nodes in the graph.
A new geometry type was added called Meshes. Meshes is great for improving performance of high-polygon entourage like furniture, trees, people,…