NXT BLD 2026: celebrating 10 years
Make a diary date for 13-14 May 2026 for the tenth edition of NXT BLD, incorporating NXT DEV
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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.
Panasonic launches $12.6k Lidar scanner
@mapper portable 3D scanner targets low-cost, rapid indoor mapping
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Autodesk invests £2M in construction material tracking firm
UK construction technology company Qflow provides real-time material tracking and management software
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Views from the AEC data lake
When transitioning away from proprietary files, some firms are seeking out cloud databases that promise genuine ownership of data
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A peek into Rayon’s AI future
We preview some of the promising new new AI tools for the “Figma of 2D CAD”
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EULAs: 28 days later
Last month’s cover story on the trend in EULA metastasis certainly invoked a wide range of responses.
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Graphisoft Ignite 2025
At the two-day Ignite conference, held in Graphisoft’s hometown of Budapest, company executives and customers shared the latest technology developments and showcased some impressive project work, writes Martyn Day
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Speckle: the open-source cloud data platform
The open-source data platform promises AEC users a chance to break free from proprietary lock-ins
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Driving AI design upstream
There may well come a time when AI will take a sketch or basic idea and design the entire building
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Contract killers: how EULAs are shifting power from users to shareholders
Most architects overlook software small print, but today’s EULAs are redefining ownership, data rights and AI use — shifting power from users to vendors
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