NEWS: AECOsim Building Designer to read native Revit RVT files Posted by Admin - December 2, 2016 Bentley currently testing the ODA’s Teigha BIM Kernel
Aligning real and virtual construction Posted by Randall Newton - September 16, 2016 From drone-gathered site data to augmented reality (AR), advanced technologies are bringing new perspectives on real-world environments and works in…
CAD’s next frontier Posted by Martyn Day - September 16, 2016 Martyn Day reports on the latest developments in computational and generative design and examines how Autodesk is ramping up development
NEWS: BIM tools to get direct access to Revit data Posted by Admin - September 14, 2016 New Open Design Alliance (ODA) toolkit will allow other BIM tools to read and write data in the Autodesk Revit…
NEWS: Autodesk and Trimble sign interoperability agreement Posted by Admin - June 14, 2016 Leading AEC software firms will share APIs and developer tools to help improve file compatibility.
Prized assets Posted by Admin - May 13, 2016 A closer look at the role of engineering software in the design of two winning projects from the 2015 Institution…
Visualisation’s great leap forward Posted by Randall Newton - April 4, 2016 The combination of hardware-accelerated rendering, new methods of processing visualisations as 3D models, and the arrival of real-time rendering open…
Model viewing, collaboration and checking Posted by Greg Corke - March 31, 2016 In the good old days, collaboration was a floppy disk with a DWG file on it. Things have come a…
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…