However, Autodesk Remote is just the start of the application of this technology. The main drawback is the reliance on the Internet and bandwidth, as it is essential to access both the data and authoring application. This would secure the design data, as the model information never actually leaves the building and aids offshoring or 24/7 project work. Using technologies like Autodesk Remote, it would be possible to host the data centrally and have teams log in remotely to licenses hosted on powerful centralised workstations. Virtualisation is something that many AEC firms are currently investigating as project teams work across the world on common Building Information Modelling (BIM) data sets. Autodesk has not rewritten Revit to run on an iPad, it is being manipulated by the compressed graphics over a streamed network. With the continuation of this article, which was based on my visit to Autodesk San Francisco HQ, I have subsequently attended Autodesk University where some of the products I had seen were released, updated or more information was made available There is a companion iPad version of Remote, still in development, which enables Inventor or Revit to be run from the workstation virtually on the iPad, with the Remote iPad version featuring optimised touch interface, dependent on the speed of the wi-fi connection.
Remote is installed on a target PC and enables Autodesk software installed on the main workstation to be run from a remote computer over a standard network.
Autodesk firmly believes that customers want, and would benefit greatly from, their data and applications being available everywhere.Īutodesk Remote is a standalone application for Autodesk subscription customers using Windows 7/8 (32-bit and 64-bit) and is compatible with all Autodesk products. For now there are fully featured mature Autodesk desktop products and relatively new cloud variants, deemed ‘360’, as well as some intermediate ‘virtual’ technologies, such as the recently launched Autodesk Remote. Every product the company has, or rather, is going to keep, is in transition to having a cloud-based equivalent. To demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of our method, we apply it to hundreds of models of varying complexity and provide our cross-platform reference implementation in the supplemental material.Out of all the software vendors in this industry, Autodesk is by far the most fixated on moving to the cloud. Since our algorithm avoids any global optimization, and its key steps scale linearly with input size, we are able to process extremely large meshes and point clouds, with sizes exceeding several hundred million elements.
Our full pipeline executes instantly (less than a second) on meshes with hundreds of thousands of faces, enabling new types of interactive workflows. The method is simple to implement and parallelize, and it can process a variety of input surface representations, such as point clouds, range scans and triangle meshes. Our algorithm produces meshes with high isotropy while naturally aligning and snapping edges to sharp features. We present a novel approach to remesh a surface into an isotropic triangular or quad-dominant mesh using a unified local smoothing operator that optimizes both the edge orientations and vertex positions in the output mesh.
Watch the demonstration video and download the free desktop app for Windows, OS X and Linux. 'Instant Field-Aligned Meshes is a SIGGRAPH paper on a method that will automatically retopologize complex meshes.