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.

Grand designs: digital cities

Posted by - September 14, 2009
There is a widespread industry move to adopt Building Information Modelling and intelligent 3D design. But, if the advantages are so clear, why stop with just the one building? Why…
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Bentley launches Be Employable

Posted by - April 26, 2009
In a generous move in these troubled times, Bentley Systems has unveiled an initiative to give unemployed AEC professionals access to the latest versions of MicroStation with online training, for…
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Embracing digital fabrication

Posted by - May 20, 2019
It has taken almost 20 years for the building industry to adopt 3D modelling and BIM processes in the design phase. By comparison, the move to the fabrication of buildings…
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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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