Martyn Day

Martyn Day is AEC Magazine’s co-founder and consulting editor and has been writing about design and the business of CAD for close to 30 years. Everyone knows Martyn. He’s always the one asking the CAD software company CEOs the difficult questions. And the one carrying 17 different tech devices in his backpack.

Capturing reality

Posted by - March 19, 2010
With a design process that is becoming increasingly 3D, tools are needed to capture existing structures and sites. Laser scanning and
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CAD’s next frontier

Posted by - September 16, 2016
Martyn Day reports on the latest developments in computational and generative design and examines how Autodesk is ramping up development
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Computational Design Symposium

Posted by - March 19, 2010
In the second part of his analysis of the Computational Design Symposium at Autodesk University, Martyn Day asks what the impact of computational design tools will be and when Autodesk
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Bringing Revit to life

Posted by - July 7, 2016
Last year Autodesk demonstrated a VR capability that could deliver immersive experiences from accurate Revit models. This demonstration has now become a reality
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SPAR 2010 Conference

Posted by - March 19, 2010
Laser scanning and point-cloud data will be widely used technologies in the coming years. Martyn Day visited Houston to attend the only dedicated conference to digitally capture the real world…
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ArchiCAD 11

Posted by - October 22, 2007
Many software firms claim to have invented BIM. When development work on a 2D/3D intelligent modelling system started in 1982, you might have the best claim to the title. By…
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BIM in the cloud

Posted by - May 27, 2014
While many firms wrestle with getting their BIM workgroup implementations working on desktops in an office, one company is aiming to revolutionise collaboration by moving the BIM data to the…
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