Success Story
The products created by Reilly Architectural are not only innovative, they defy simple categorization. “A window might also serve as a door, or a door as a wall,” says Michael Reilly, president of Reilly Windows & Doors. “Our products also tend to be mechanically complex, such as a 15-foot window that drops into a basement or a curved unit that slides into a wall.” These unique window and door designs need to interface seamlessly with their intended homes. “We must be able to visualize how our products will function and then quickly make changes to the design if needed,” says Reilly. “Products must meet the exacting expectations of very creative architecture."
When you’re building one of the largest and finest residences in the United States, you expect every detail to be perfect, beautiful, and unique. That includes distinctive windows and doors that meet the home’s functional needs while enhancing its overall design. Known for its innovation and quality craftsmanship, Reilly Architectural designs, fabricates, and installs custom windows and doors that exceed the expectations of even the most exacting clients.
To create products that are at the leading edge of elegance and quality, Reilly Architectural relies on a Digital Prototyping workflow based on Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software to design, visualize, and simulate its products digitally. With Inventor software, the company can also repurpose manufacturing models of its products for architects who use Autodesk® Revit® Architecture building information modeling (BIM) software. For design reuse and data management, Reilly Windows & Doors utilizes Autodesk® Vault Manufacturing software.
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To help it visualize its designs more fully, automate time-consuming manual tasks, and satisfy its clients, Reilly Windows & Doors has moved beyond 3D to Digital Prototyping. Using Autodesk Inventor software, the company develops digital prototypes of its designs, assessing design options without relying on physical prototypes. What’s more, engineering and design occur simultaneously, which helps speed product development. “In Inventor, we can constrain our 3D models with motion to find out what’s going to work,” says Paul Osheske, a design engineer at Reilly Architectural “At the same time, we can continually modify them to get the precise look and feel the architect wants to achieve.”
In addition, designers can make changes quickly to the digital models, giving the company the flexibility it needs to polish designs. “In the past, we had to redo drawings and the manufacturing documentation when we made even a small change."
The ability to simulate motion and detect conflicts between parts of its digital prototypes recently helped Reilly Windows & Doors design innovative hardware for sliding walls. “Our client was looking for monumental doors that also acted as windows and external walls,” says Reilly. Realizing that no off-the-shelf hardware would be able to meet the design parameters and carry the weight of the units, Reilly Architectural designed custom rollers.
The result not only has enabled Reilly Architectural to extend its competitive lead with help from Autodesk software; it’s realizing other concrete benefits, too. Design reuse has cut down design time on some projects by as much as 90 percent, and the automatic generation of cut lists has drastically reduced the time and effort spent on error-prone manual processes. Reilly sums up Autodesk’s impact on the company this way: “We chose Autodesk software because we believed it helps support high quality, creativity, and innovation. With the help of Inventor and Vault Manufacturing software, we are delivering projects in the American tradition of fine woodcraft for the most exacting clients in the U.S.”
By delivering 3D models to architects, Reilly Architectural can help architects build richer architectural models, communicate more effectively with owners, and more accurately explore the project before finalizing the design.
“It’s a huge value, particularly because most architects can’t spend time creating realistic models of windows and doors. Fine American woodcraft lives on in the innovative products Reilly Windows & Doors builds using Autodesk software," says Michael John Iwanyczko, Director of Marketing at Reilly Windows & Doors.
“We’re offering them highly detailed 3D models that they can incorporate into their architectural designs—it’s another level of service that sets us apart.”
"The support from our Autodesk Authorized Reseller, Widom Associates, has been essential. They always attend to our technical needs, provide us with alternative solutions, and help us steer our Autodesk software implementation projects in the right direction."
- Christian Sampedro, Production Engineer Reilly Arcjitectural
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Brookhaven National Lab - Department Of Energy
The National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven) receives significant attention from scientists the world over. Thousands descend on the electron storage ring every year to use its X-rays, ultraviolet light, and infrared light to conduct research in biology, medicine, chemistry, environmental sciences, physics, and material science. To help push the boundaries of research even further, Brookhaven started construction on a new electron storage ring—NSLS-II—in 2009 and continues to 2023 developing new beam lines. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, NSLS-II will use magnets to force electrons to travel at nearly the speed of light around a circular storage ring, producing energy known as synchrotron radiation. Scientists will use this light energy in research on self-assembling structures, nanometer-scale material properties, material superconductivity, and materials for harvesting solar energy.
Gorillas in our Midst
The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States by area, comprising 265 acres (107 ha) of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx River. To create an exhibit with no bars:"The exhibit would be designed to give both the animals and the visitors the most natural experience possible by immersing people in to the gorillas' world," explains Susan Chin, assistant director for architecture at the nonprofit WCS. Transforming a section of the ultimate urban jungle into a lush, tropical paradise replete with a dozen waterfalls, several babbling brooks, miles of vines, mounds of sculpted rock, numerous rare plants and exotic flowers, and hundreds of unique animals-was a complicated un der taking. Taking charge of the project was the WCS Exhibition and Graphic Arts Department, which, in addition to its usual responsibilities of exhibit design and production for WCS venues, also created the conceptual design and master plan.
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