Wondering what kind of building models you can make with Autodesk FormIt? Emmanuel Di Giacomo, Autodesk BIM Solutions Expert (of Revit Utopic City fame), shows you. Ranging from a small house, to an entire urban block, and even a French landmark (no, not that one) This video shows you the breadth of models that can be created right on your iPad with FormIt.
We have some exciting stuff coming soon…
Following David Light’s lead, I have shared the Villa (Carpa) Rotunda model that has been profiled on this blog and in our videos. To access the shared model in FormIt:
Share your results with us on Twitter with #FormIt or in the comments here.
The new version is here! We just got confirmation from Apple that new version of FormIt has been approved. The FormIt team has been working really hard and we are psyched to see what you will do with it. Share some images with us on Twitter and give us feedback on our GetSatisfaction site.
You can read about, and download, the new version from the Apple App Store. Here are two videos that highlight two of the big new features:
Here is a playlist of all the videos
(yes, still iPad only, folks. But we hear you Android people!)
A brand new MakerBot Replicator2 showed up at our office recently. Of course we started thinking about what we could print from FormIt. I started printing out pieces of the Villa Rotunda model that I posted back in March. But I wanted to print something useful – you know, something that solves a problem. I own an old Oyster acoustic guitar pickup, which I like very much. However, it suffers from a design flaw. The method for attaching the pickup to a guitar is this putty that dried up and fell off years ago. So I fired up FormIt, modeled a clip to hold the Oyster in place, brought it into Vasari, exported an STL file, sent it to the printer and (just about an hour later…yawn) I had my clip! 
Postscript: My colleagues in San Francisco have a fancy Objet and were able to print a proper model of Villa Rotunda:
Here is another teaser of what is to come in the next version of FormIt. Just some things we have been working on. What about you? What have you been up to with FormIt? Share your work in the comments or on Twitter @AutodeskVasari #FormIt
FormIt is under constant development here at the factory. As product owner, a lot of really cool screentshots and videos are crossing my desk. I could not resist sharing this one.
Caveats, of course. This is still under development and not in the released app.
