Design analysis & optimisation Posted by Martyn Day - March 31, 2016 Formerly the preserve of specialists and engineers, software makers are bringing analysis tools to the conceptual phase of design as…
The new world of rapid site design Posted by Randall Newton - March 31, 2016 From laser scanners and drones to the cloud and ‘optioneering’ it has never been easier to capture exisiting site conditions…
Modelling the future Posted by Admin - February 4, 2016 Bridgeway Consulting created a 3D model of London’s Liverpool Street Station that combined laser scan data and 29,000 legacy drawings…
Laser scanning vs image based modelling Posted by Peter Folwell - December 9, 2015 As digital photogrammetric techniques advance at pace, the ability to use them as standalone technologies increases
Bentley merges design with reality Posted by Greg Corke - December 7, 2015 From reality capture with drones to augmented reality, Bentley Systems is embracing the real world to excite the next generation…
Reality Modelling, ContextCapture and the Pope Posted by Admin - December 7, 2015 A technology that can create mm accurate ‘reality meshes’ from photographs looks set to give laser scanning some serious competition
NEWS: Faro boosts laser scanning software Posted by Admin - September 16, 2015 Point cloud specialist releases version 16.5 of its Revit- and AutoCAD-based PointSense and VirtuSurv software
Banking on BIM – recreating Sir John Soane’s Bank of England Posted by Martyn Day - July 31, 2015 Modelling a Neo-classical building in Revit is no mean feat, made all the more challenging by making it a crowdsourced…
REVIEW: BIMobject unleashed Posted by Martyn Day - July 27, 2015 BIMobject has developed a new suite of tools to open up its content management system and ease intelligent component creation.…