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.

Exactal CostX

Posted by - August 23, 2008
Moving from pencil and drawing board to CAD improved the productivity of designers overnight. However, with so much design information captured in digital form, even greater benefits are possible.
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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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