Autodesk’s AI assistant could radically change how buildings are designed and built

The useful part

The 3D model behind almost every building project today is as powerful as it is confusing. Take that same model and toss it into the variously trained hands of engineers, consultants, and contractors and things can quickly go awry. Autodesk, the software company behind some of the most-used modeling tools of the architecture, engineering, and construction industries, understands this problem because, in many ways, it helped cause it.

How it works

• The precision of digital modeling brings every tiny detail to bear, which is great for building complex architecture, but not so great for the person having to search through thousands of square feet of...
• That's also why Autodesk is trying to bring the digital building model into a new, less complicated, era.
• Its new tool, Autodesk Assistant, uses AI to simplify the process of creating and using a 3D building model.
• The core idea behind the tool is to make it easier for the many varied players in the building space to share and interface with the models they so heavily rely upon.
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Example or evidence

• Just announced at the company's annual Autodesk University convention, Autodesk Assistant uses the power of AI to automate more of the process of making building models and streamline the ways they're used...