Capturing reality

Posted by - March 19, 2010
With a design process that is becoming increasingly 3D, tools are needed to capture existing structures and sites. Laser scanning…

Feature: Scan-to-BIM

Posted by - January 27, 2015
The ability to capture as-built conditions in 3D is finding many new application area beyond surveying. We evaluate the latest…

CAD’s next frontier

Posted by - September 16, 2016
Martyn Day reports on the latest developments in computational and generative design and examines how Autodesk is ramping up development

Tekla Structures 20

Posted by - October 1, 2014
Tekla Structures has always been about the creation of models to a fabrication level of detail but now engineers, fabricators…

SPAR 2010 Conference

Posted by - March 19, 2010
Laser scanning and point-cloud data will be widely used technologies in the coming years. Martyn Day visited Houston to attend…

ArchiCAD 11

Posted by - October 22, 2007
Many software firms claim to have invented BIM. When development work on a 2D/3D intelligent modelling system started in 1982,…

Autodesk 2015 AEC Products

Posted by - May 27, 2014
Autodesk moves closer to becoming a services business and takes a leap from a 30-year-old upgrade cycle to a subscription…

Prized assets

Posted by - May 13, 2016
A closer look at the role of engineering software in the design of two winning projects from the 2015 Institution…