New SketchUp service offers insight into early stage design
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PreDesign helps assess how a site’s climate and environment might impact design
Inevidesk launches virtual desktop platform for AEC firms
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Designed to enable AEC firms to collaborate from anywhere - in the current Covid-19 world, and in the future
A Q&A with Andrew Anagnost
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As part of Autodesk University, CEO Andrew Anagnost held a virtual briefing with members of the press over Zoom
Spot in construction
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We explore the impact the quadruped robot is having on the construction site, from laser scanning to setting out
Autodesk University 2020
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From AI-based conceptual design and digital twins to the evolution of Construction Cloud and a new ‘open’ approach, there was plenty for AEC professionals to get their teeth into
Bricsys Digital Summit
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The latest developments in BricsCAD BIM as it builds on its superpower of automation by recognising patterns and shapes.
Can digital twins improve BIM workflows?
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As Bentley continues to bang the digital twins drum, it may be missing an opportunity to help optimise fragmented BIM workflows
Vectorworks 2021
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This year’s major update to the suite of solutions for BIM, landscaping and stage set design
Digital twins: the next frontier
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Keith Bentley, CTO of Bentley Systems, on why machine learning is so important to digital twins and why we’ve only just scratched the surface
Verifi3D - model checking in the cloud
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The new cloud-based tool from Xinaps for organising model data, and validating, checking and generating reports
Revisiting the golden age of beer
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The NavVis M6 indoor mobile mapping system plays a key role in an adventurous scanning project to help bring an old brewery back to life
Improving structural workflows
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We talk with Nemetschek about its drive towards integrated digital workflows with SCIA and BIMplus.
Dimension10 makes it easier for AEC teams to collaborate in VR
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New cloud-sharing feature automatically transfers files to participants prior to VR meeting
The road to digitisation
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Technology continues to play a transformative role within the fabrication business of UK steel framed building specialist Wareing Buildings
Designviz: Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad
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In the case of the new 172m high Central Bank of Iraq, the futuristic setting devised by creative studio Arqui9 only increases the drama of its curving form
Chaos Group brings real-time to V-Ray for SketchUp
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Full spectrum of visualisation, from real-time to photoreal rendering, now available in the popular push/pull modelling tool
Xinaps and BIMcollab integrate issue management and model checking
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BIMcollab-Verifi3D link means ‘all project stakeholders from the field to the office can participate in issue tracking and resolution.’
Kohn Pedersen Fox explores the Omniverse
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Greg Corke caught up with Cobus Bothma, director of applied research at KPF, to find out why he’s so excited by Nvidia’s new virtual collaboration platform.
Bricsys partner HOK helps drive development of BricsCAD BIM V21
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‘End-to-end’ BIM tool features several enhancements to reduce the time spent on ‘boring and repetitive tasks’
Empowering AutoCAD Users with Alternatives and Choice
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High-speed delivery
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Willmott Dixon deploys cloud-based document and information management solution to help deliver the National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure
BOXX pushes CAD performance with AMD Ryzen 5000 workstation
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With the new 'Zen 3' CPUs, AMD has finally taken Intel’s crown in single threaded performance, which is critical for CAD
Enscape adds custom assets, video textures and Vectorworks support
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New developments in Enscape 2.9 designed to increase realism in real-time rendering and VR tool
Epson launches low-cost portable 3-in-1 large format printers
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Compact, CAD-focused SureColor SC-T3100M & SC-T5100M offer print, copy and scan capabilities
Esri UK partners with Heliguy for AEC-focused drone solution
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Partnership designed to bring together GIS and survey teams, who have traditionally worked separately on drone-related projects
Nvidia launches Ampere-based Nvidia RTX A6000 GPU
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Professional GPU promises 2x performance increase over Quadro RTX 6000 for GPU rendering and other graphics workflows
Microdesk releases optimised fabrication database solution for Revit
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BIMrx Fabrication DBS features “comprehensive content’ and streamlined fabrication workflows
Nvidia teams up with AWS to stream VR from the cloud
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New service, which is based on Nvidia CloudXR, should make VR more accessible to a much wider audience
The future of Revit
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Autodesk’s recent admission that Revit has lacked development has left many architectural firms wondering what the future holds. We examine the tea leaves
Review: Fujitsu Celsius J5010
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If you’re after a quiet, well-built and compact workstation that also packs a punch then the Fujitsu Celsius 5010 ticks all the boxes