Autodesk: keeping it Real Posted by Martyn Day - August 24, 2005 Autodesk recently made its DWG libraries available in a new format for developers and customers, allowing the opening and saving…
Acrobat 7 Professional Posted by Martyn Day - April 5, 2005 Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) has become an industry staple for the publishing and circulation of engineering information. Version 7…
Generative Components Posted by Martyn Day - January 19, 2005 Bentley’s long-term development of parametric modelling tools has finally reached the real world. The Smart Geometry Group continues to evangelise…
Autodesk Civils Posted by Greg Corke - October 21, 2004 This month saw Autodesk release the first version of its AutoCAD-based Civil 3D 2005. Facing established competition, it seems Autodesk…
Arcadis invests in AEC AI platform Nomic Posted by AEC Magazine - August 3, 2026 Strategic partnership follows six-month deployment across 12 countries
Dawn of the Judgement Stack Posted by Martyn Day - July 21, 2026 Why the future of AI in AEC could belong less to software vendors and more to practices and the knowledge…
Agentic BIM’s missing infrastructure Posted by Martyn Day - April 28, 2026 A Google research paper provides the framework for making agentic BIM work – but also exposes a yawning gap
The AI wake-up, and the death of software? Posted by Martyn Day - February 4, 2026 Investors are ahead of the AEC software industry — and AI is changing the rules.
Foundamental VC leads investment in CalcTree Posted by AEC Magazine - July 7, 2025 Engineering calculation management software designed to replace manual time-consuming and error-prone methods
From 2D to 3D and back Posted by Martyn Day - May 28, 2025 New technologies are emerging to transform 2D drawings into models, as well as generating drawings automatically from 3D model data