Bentley Systems - GenerativeComponents
In conjunction with the Future Wood / 3 Frontiers CDRN Symposium, Bentley Systems Incorporated is pleased to announce a no-cost GenerativeComponents workshop at ACADIA 2007 on Tuesday, October 2 & Wednesday, October 3.
The workshop will run all day on both days, and is open to a highly select group of attendees based upon submission and acceptance of a statement of interest, as outlined below. Seats are limited.
The MicroStation GenerativeComponents Extension is highly regarded and unique parametric and associative design software with application both to conventional architectural design as well as to more geometrically unconventional architectural forms. This workshop will introduce designers, researchers, and faculty to the underlying concepts of parametric design and their application to a variety of design issues.
The advantage of GenerativeComponents is that it enables the designer to set up fairly complex design models using any combination of geometric relations, algebraic expressions, logical dependencies and scripting techniques to capture the essential "design intent". These models can then be used to explore variations and thereby test a range of alternatives which would not be possible if each variation had to be 'modeled by hand' with a conventional 'non-parametric' CAD application.
GenerativeComponents has some facilities under the heading 'Fabrication Planning' that can prepare geometry for digital modeling making, including laser cutting and stereolithography.
Prospective attendees should be familiar with 3D modeling using curves, surfaces and solids. GenerativeComponents is both an application for designers with no programming experience (who want to design by establishing associativity between geometric elements) and for designers who are actively interested in exploring the overlap between conventional design and 'programmatic' design (using scripting techniques).
It is not a pre-requisite that attendees have programming skills, but it is important that attendees can think logically and apply this approach to relatively complex geometric constructions and systems involving logical dependencies. It is not a prerequisite that attendees have prior MicroStation experience.
Prospective attendees should submit a one page statement of their interest in parametric design, describing either a recent project which used parametric techniques or describing a reasonably small, self-contained design problem which is inherently parametric in nature and some aspect of the possible approach they propose to adopt. Include one image of a prior design, if possible. Please forward this statement to: , with a subject line of ACADIA 2007 Workshop.
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Participants at this workshop will be provided with an evaluation copy of the MicroStation GenerativeComponents Extension which includes online documentation and example files.