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.

BIM: what your government wants

Posted by - January 28, 2012
The message is out: Building Information Modelling (BIM) will be mandated on all UK government building projects by 2016. AEC Magazine reports on what that means for the construction industry.
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Autodesk University 2011

Posted by - January 30, 2012
Late 2011, Las Vegas; time for the annual migration of Autodesk fans to attend the CAD industry’s biggest conference. AEC Magazine looks at how the company’s technology has raised the…
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The trouble with BIM

Posted by - October 1, 2011
With the UK Government now mandating the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) on its future projects, the AEC industry is facing sweeping changes in long established processes and collaboration…
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The future of 3D PDF

Posted by - July 25, 2011
PDF is used widely in the design community as a common way to share 2D drawings and documents. While support for 3D was added in 2005, last year, Adobe appeared…
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Autodesk BIM Conference report

Posted by - December 5, 2010
The adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems in the UK has been fairly slow. Attendees to Autodesk's BIM conference this Autumn would have heard first hand that the government…
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CAD in the cloud

Posted by - September 25, 2010
Without the design and engineering community really asking for it, we appear to be on the cusp of a major change in the way we gain access and use computer…
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AU

Posted by - January 25, 2010
One of the highlights of Autodesk University is always the Exhibition Hall, where purveyors of add-ons for Autodesk products and complementary software and hardware showcase their goods.
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