DraftSight 2025
MCAD tool Solidworks once had issues working with DWG files, so it licensed a DWG clone and made it free. This product then became DraftSight
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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.
Pricing, licensing and business models
Martyn Day explores the rapid evolution in the way AEC software companies charge for licences and shepherd their users to boost revenue
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Geo whiz: Bentley acquires Cesium
We explore the surprise deal that promises to bring the worlds of digital twins and geospatial closer together
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Snaptrude advances
The cloud-based BIM 2.0 software fleshes out its features in pursuit of victory over the current desktop BIM tools
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Graphisoft’s future with Daniel Csillag
In the shift from BIM to BIM 2.0, big changes are underway at Graphisoft.
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Activist investor pursues Autodesk
For the second time in ten years, Autodesk is dealing with an activist investor problem. Will Starboard Value get its way, and if it does, what might be the knock-on…
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Graphisoft in the AI era
How does the developer of Archicad plan to put AI to work on behalf of its customers?
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Autodesk Content Catalog
Autodesk has integrated Unifi’s solution for managing and accessing design content into its cloud stack
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Connecting architecture to fabrication
How three firms — SHoP Architects, WSP and Bouygues — have bridged one of the AEC industry’s biggest divides
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EvolveLab: bringing AI to architecture
The latest AI tools from EvolveLab, including one for BIM-based AI image generation and an AI assistant to automate drawings
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