What is a Fill-Type Garage?

Simply put? Fill a site with parking in an irregular fashion. TestFit handles three major scenarios with fill-type parking: The Podium Fill; The Donut; and The Donut + Wrap. Sounds pretty appetizing, right?

When we launched Residential Engine (TestFit's predecessor) we had never imagined that we would have made it this far. It started as a way to solve some technical problems for site planners then blossomed into the most powerful building configuratior software available on the market today.

 Add detail to 3D models, display geo-located shadows, input metes and bounds, and add custom colors to plans!

A good friend, Anthony Hauck, wrote an exhaustive explanation of what generative design is. I will stick with his definition of generative design (stand on the shoulders of giants, right?).

This is the most massive update to TestFit since launch a year ago! With 1.005 TestFit can handle parking configurations.

Why build generative design for parking garages? What do we build most in this world? Parking... What do we hate most in this world? Parking... How many stalls have you counted in the last 30 days? Too many.

TestFit was founded to design buildings in milliseconds--to help architects and developers solve real estate deals with ease. This idea, and our implementation of it, has enabled us to survive our first year as a startup. As we approach October 1st, the one year anniversary of releasing TestFit, we are taking a moment to look back over the past year on all that we have accomplished.

This is our proposal for the NMHC Innovation Challenge! Since we are deeply committed to multifamily innovation, we knew we had to submit. Here is the problem they set up:

This is a simple workflow to go from TestFit to Excel!

This update allows for TestFit geometry to be pushed into Dynamo and therefore Revit. InstaBIM