SCRUG May - BIM & VR at Taylor Design

Colleagues,

On Thursday, May 31st the SCRUG will meet at Taylor Design in Irvine.

Taylor Design is a strategy-based design firm with practices in Architectural Design, Interior Design and Design Strategy. Their markets include healthcare design, education, science & technology, and senior living. Taylor was an early advocate of 3D modeling for architecture, and continues to be a technology leader.

Long-time SCRUG member Steve Bennett will take a quick dive into the Kaiser Permanente Ventura Medical Office project to review a few key benefits of producing the project using Revit - including a plugin they’ve been using to produce Furniture Specification Reports. This will be followed by a quick glimpse into VR 101, how easy it is to get going with VR, and why your teams should be using it to inform their design process. Taylor will have their HTC Vive set up for viewing a design model in VR.

In addition, U.S. CAD Technology Consultant Troy Gates will present “Dive into your Model Data with Dynamo” and “What’s New in Dynamo 2.0”

Using some sample recipes, Troy will be showing how to get to the data that is in your model in Dynamo. The recipes will show how to collect, organize, and view data about your model. Also, Troy will give a quick update on what’s new in the recently released Dynamo 2.0.

RSVP for this event at scrug.anyvite.com

Our thanks to Taylor for hosting the event and to our sponsors Kelar Pacific, Microdesk & U.S. CAD.

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