Insight 360 Plugin Update

The insight team at Autodesk snuck in one more update before the holidays last year. 

If you are having problems with solar analysis and that all too familiar "solar analysis has expired..." message then you can access the latest update HERE. 

You will now notice, when you click on the lighting tool, the drop down for 'New' no longer displays. Instead, the lighting icon is now a single button that will open a dialog to start a new analysis. 

In the 'Lighting Analysis in the Cloud' dialog, the bottom left will indicate a version number. As of today, it should say v3.0.0.0.

Stephanie Egger who writes blogs at Insight 360 has written two posts that go through step by step using the new tools. Visit http://blogs.autodesk.com/insight360/ to read the latest. 

Insight 360 - Known Glitch with 2017.1 Update

**Updated 17/12/2016
In October the Insight 360 team at Autodesk wrote a post about the recent 2017.1 Revit update. (Read the blog post HERE). As part of the update, the Insight 360 panel received an update in its appearance, upgrading to the 'Energy Optimization' panel, as well as a few other changes to streamline the tool set. 

The update means that if you have Revit 2017.1, you no longer need to install the Insight 360 plugin separately. 

Image Courtesy Autodesk

Unfortunately, when I upgraded to Revit 2017.1, my Insight 360 panel did not update... <Insert sad face>

After some back and forth at the Autodesk forums and a few others chiming in and reporting the same issue Autodesk took a look at the problem. So far they have drawn a link between the Microsoft Windows Region & Language settings (no I am not kidding) and the failed panel update.

Reports from the Autodesk forum boys/girls suggest that if you have U.K. language settings set on your PC when installing 2017.1, you may experience problems. 

If you need a quick fix, the solution is to uninstall Revit 2017, change Windows language settings to U.S. and reinstall Revit 2017 and 2017.1 update. 

I will post an update when a hotfix is released.

**I spoke a moment too soon. Woke up this morning with a message saying a hotfix has been released yesterday. I have installed the hotfix and it has fixed the issue for me, so I now see the new energy optimization panel, great! 
This is a link to the hotfix on the Autodesk Knowledge Network.