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Perform a wind analysis

Perform a wind analysis - Forma Tutorial

From the course: Learning Autodesk Forma

Perform a wind analysis

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to continue the analysis of our building design, and we're going to move on to a wind analysis. So that's the next button over right here. And this one's a little different in that, when you click the button, it immediately begins running the analysis. So there is both a rapid wind analysis and a detailed wind analysis. And if you scroll down here, you're going to see that there's a little note indicating as such. You can learn more by going to the Help file right here to learn more about the two different types of analyses. Now, let me scroll back up. And the selection area, let me zoom out so you can see it, is going to use a circular area, and it's based on whatever you have selected here. So currently my selection is the building site, and you could see that that circular area is focused on that selection. Now, if I add the zone in, it will recalculate, and you could see that that will actually have the effect of recentering that circle…

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