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.

Design analysis & optimisation

Posted by - March 31, 2016
Formerly the preserve of specialists and engineers, software makers are bringing analysis tools to the conceptual phase of design as well as moving traditionally compute-intensive analysis to the cloud for…
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Autodesk FormIT

Posted by - February 15, 2013
There are now many reasons to include tablet computers in your practice. Autodesk’s latest application is free and allows the capture of ideas wherever inspiration hits
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Newforma takes to the cloud

Posted by - November 14, 2012
It has been a year of good progress for Newforma. The specialist AEC developer has added customers such as Aedas, BDP and Foster and Partners to its customer list and…
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Conceptual design

Posted by - March 31, 2016
Technical products for detailed design & documentation are well developed, and yet conceptual design products remain in the shadows. But this is changing.
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Introducing Revit LT 2013

Posted by - September 17, 2012
When Project Spark was introduced to Autodesk Labs, it seemed only a matter of time before Autodesk launched an entry-level BIM modelling tool. This month Project Spark left the lab…
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Point clouds at Bentley

Posted by - September 17, 2012
Bentley Systems is very serious about point clouds. In the last twelve months alone it acquired Pointools and added powerful point cloud capabilities to Descartes and ProjectWise. It now regards…
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