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Creating design alternatives

Creating design alternatives

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Creating design alternatives

- [Instructor] The last subject I want to touch on in creating a run is the ability to create design alternative in Green Building Studio. You don't need to keep remodeling stuff in Revit and exporting it to GXml to come up with design options that affect energy settings. You can but you can also do it right here. The objective of this video is to rotate our building and change some of the settings and see the downstream effects and then compare them to the actual GBS architectural XML. Let's hop into Autodesk Green Building Studio. Go to My Projects, I'm going to go to my Run List, I'm going to grab my base run, I'm going to click on my GBS-ARCHITECTURAL.xml. Now notice that we have Energy and Carbon Results, I'm going to click on this cell and way down here we have Design Alternatives. I'd like to just grab Energy and Carbon Results. And our Design Alternatives is also right here but notice we have our base run, here' sour energy costs, lifecycle costs, if we scroll down through it,…

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