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.

Green buildings with Ecotect

Posted by - February 8, 2008
There is a lot of talk about green building design and many architects are coming up against design-related criteria of Part L. With building performance becoming key, Martyn Day evaluates…
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Who owns DWG?

Posted by - November 30, 2007
With rumours that Autodesk has been making plans to patent the use of the term DWG, Martyn Day looks at the reasons behind this move and the potential impact on…
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AutoVue 19.2

Posted by - October 22, 2007
With so many free file viewers available, you would have thought that the CAD file View and Markup market has become a tough place to do business in. Martyn Day…
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Plant extracts

Posted by - October 22, 2007
This month Autodesk launched its first in-house developed P&ID (pipe and instrumentation diagram) application for AutoCAD. Martyn Day looks at the company
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Acrobat 8 Professional

Posted by - October 6, 2006
Adobe has updated its PDF creation range of products and free viewers. It seems Adobe is not just interested in documents anymore but also real-time business meetings, says Martyn Day.
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MicroStation V8 XM

Posted by - August 23, 2006
While MicroStation was almost totally re-architected in the V8 release, with Bentley adding considerable new functionality and a powerful new file format, the graphics engine had yet to be replaced…
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AutoCAD 2007 and LT 2007

Posted by - June 28, 2006
The latest version of AutoCAD, the classic 2D CAD tool from Autodesk, finally brings 3D to the masses. The question is, do the masses really want that kind of functionality?…
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Populating Google Earth

Posted by - April 21, 2006
Google Earth gives its users access to hi-res satellite images of the entire planet. Add to this the ability to integrate 3D CAD building designs and you’ve got a pretty…
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