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Plants and trees have become an important, integral part of a project development. More and more architects populate now day their concepts with greenery and many urban planning regulations around the world now require certain representation. As you strive for increased realism in your designs, you aspire to heightened naturalism in your landscapes, to extend beyond the mere placement of static and always the same repeated images. But how could you get that? Trees are living entities: they grow, blossom, shed leaves, are always different and overall, they look natural! Due to its unrealistic nature and heavy file sizes, plant integration into 3D projects still remains a burning issue.

Imagine now that you could simulate the growth of each tree separately. Not a static 3D object that you would place in your scene as usual, but a tree instantly computed from a single seed containing, like nature, an expression of the genetic code of that tree. You could then generate a whole forest digitally, from that seed, with each tree uniquely different from its neighbors and as realistic as a natural tree. Are you dreaming? No, this technology now exists. It is free and available free for all AutoCAD users!

A revolution made by Bionatics in 3D plant simulation
Bionatics, a French based company, leads the 3D industry in plant modeling and simulation tools since the last 10 years. Those past three years, Bionatics has been collaborating with Autodesk to bring such a technology in the heart of the Autodesk products as such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya or Autodesk VIZ. Today, Bionatics extends its technological collaboration with Autodesk in making its EASYnat plant modeling solution compatible with the world�s best selling CAD software: AutoCAD. You are not dreaming, EASYnat is offered free to all AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD Civil 3D users.

The largest 3D plant library available for AutoCAD
EASYnat is a 2D and 3D plant modeler for use in the Architecture, Landscape, and Civil Engineering industries. It offers a quick and simple solution to easily integrate dynamic vegetation into your projects in either plan view or in 3D. The Bionatics� catalogue offers more than 400 plants which can be represented at any age or season. Once positioned in the 2D plan, the EASYnat plants can be automatically and realistically rendered in 3D. EASYnat is a procedural modeler which means that every tree generated will be different, just as in nature!

Making it easy for architects to integrate vegetation into their projects
Thanks to this newest integration into AutoCAD 2008, Bionatics aims to simplify the process of moving from a 2D plan to a realistic 3D rendering. EASYnat offers a full and smoothly integrated interface into AutoCAD 2008 with its use of � proxys � to allow insertion of rich and dense vegetation from 2D to 3D without the usual heavy file constraints that this would normally bring. The plants are represented in 2D in the plan views and the 3D plants are not converted into polygons until the realistic rendering process. EASYnat also offers full compatibility with Mental Ray and all the 2D and 3D display options now available with AutoCAD 2008.

"EASYnat is a revolutionary product that really expands the design visualization power of Autodesk products," says J. Gonzalez, Autodesk Product Line Manager.

Train yourself on EASYnat thanks to the Streaming Video Tutorials
Bionatics offers a step by step streaming video to get you started quickly with the EASYnat software. It teaches you how to generate beautiful realistic vegetation for your AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD Civil 3D scenes in just a few clicks. Go to www.easynat.com and choose Training Videos.

Availability of EASYnat for AutoCAD
EASYnat is available for free along with six plants for all AutoCAD 2008 users. It can be downloaded online from Bionatics website: www.easynat.com. Additional plant libraries may be purchased online through the Bionatics� website (EASYnat Shop), or through AutoCAD 2008 resellers. EASYnat also continues to be available for AutoCAD Architecture (formely ADT), AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk VIZ, and 3ds Max in the form of simple-to-use plug-ins.

Bionatics Contacts
Europe & Rest of the world:
Stephan Gourgout
Tel: +33 1 56 02 04 20 (Paris, France)

North America & Japan:
Greg Rozitis
Tel: +1 604 662 7592 (Vancouver, Canada)

E-mail: gourgout@bionatics.com
Website: www.bionatics.com

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