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.

Oasys MassMotion

Posted by - July 25, 2011
The benefits of 3D modelling on large projects are numerous, especially from using analysis and simulation. Arup’s development arm Oasys has an exciting new application for simulating individual pedestrians up…
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Autodesk: keeping it Real

Posted by - August 24, 2005
Autodesk recently made its DWG libraries available in a new format for developers and customers, allowing the opening and saving of AutoCAD drawings without the presence of AutoCAD.
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Autodesk University Report

Posted by - February 21, 2005
In November Autodesk held its annual User event, Autodesk University. With many of its customers now on subscription, the company was more forthcoming about its future plans than usual.
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Graphisoft ArchiCAD 15 p1

Posted by - July 26, 2011
Building Information Modelling (BIM) developers have mainly been concerned with providing tools to complete new build projects. In these challenging economic times of make do and mend, features for renovation…
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CADline MapThat

Posted by - May 27, 2011
Most companies now have multiple databases for customers, sales and project information, but keeping track of relational data can be difficult. CADline has a new product to visualise multiple databases…
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Oasys Mail Manager

Posted by - May 27, 2011
Keeping track of valuable project email has become a problem for almost every architectural practice. Oasys has a low cost solution that is growing in popularity. Martyn Day reports.
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CityCAD 2.1

Posted by - May 27, 2011
Last year AEC Magazine looked at an innovative UK-developed modeller for urban design called CityCAD. With a new version out, Martyn Day went in for an upgrade.
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Twinmotion 2

Posted by - May 17, 2011
It has been a while since AEC has come across any impressive new rendering applications. This month Martyn Day thinks he has found an absolute corker from France.
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Autodesk’s 2012 line-up

Posted by - May 14, 2011
Autodesk has a multitude of products to offer the AEC industry. With the new 2012 range, the company has decided to create a number of product bundles, or suites. Martyn…
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AutoCAD WS untethered

Posted by - May 10, 2011
Autodesk’s iPad DWG tool is now in its second major iteration, featuring local drawing caching, AutoCAD drawing and mobile editing. Martyn Day reports.
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