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
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?
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
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
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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NBS launches cloud-based collaborative specification platform
NBS expands its range of industry tools, launching a specification tool called Chorus, which aims to get teams working together
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Acrobat 8 Professional
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
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
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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