Granta + Autodesk team up for green design and materials selection & interview with Sarah Krasley
Published 23 February 2011
Posted by Al Dean
Image courtesy of the Lego Group
This is something I’ve been meaning to post for quite a while and for some reason it got stuck in my drafts folder, which as I’m sure is the same for many of you, is a bottomless pit of stuff you need to finish.
It revolves around the news that Autodesk signed a strategic partnership with Granta Design, developers of a wide range of materials selection tools.
The announcement was made way back in 2010 but with the next major release cycle coming up, I’m hoping there’s going to be some concrete details coming up on where this is going. The essence is that the two organisations are co-developing software that will add new sustainable design capabilities to Autodesk’s tools - whether that’s Inventor, Alias isn’t too clear, but a sneaky peak recently posted on treehugger.com shows an Inventor integrated system that looks to take some of the experiences Autodesk made with its Project Krypton Labs project last year and add a great amount of detail. While there are a number of sustainability initiatives coming out from a range of vendors, potential of this one gets me really excited. First and foremost, the source of the data catalyst for that excitement.
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