ODS Studio
ODS Studio (formerly known as BlendME) is the flagship tool developed by ODS aimed at rapid design and analysis of commercial and residential building design. It brings together many already existing open-source tools to produce a platform for modelling and interaction of the results of many simulation methodologies.
ODS Studio is a highly customizable tool-set and user-interface that was designed specifically to bring advanced technical analysis to an earlier stage in the design process. It draws upon industry-standard and validated "engines" to carry out the calculations but wraps these tools in an interface which facilitates import,export and manipulation of multiple 3D formats including OBJ, 3DS, gbXML (Revit/ArchiCAD), and FBX (Autodesk's new platform-independent 3d data interchange format).
Current features include:
- Energy modelling (EnergyPlus)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (OpenFOAM)
- Daylight and Artificial Lighting Analysis (Radiance)
- Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
- User-customisation and extensibility
- gbXML Import
- 3D Import/Export in a range of formats
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