Point clouds at Bentley

Posted by - September 17, 2012
Bentley Systems is very serious about point clouds. In the last twelve months alone it acquired Pointools and added powerful…

Cymap 2013

Posted by - August 6, 2012
AEC Magazine takes a look at the latest Building Services application from CADline and finds one of the most focussed…

Setting the BIM standard

Posted by - August 2, 2012
Thinking about investing in Building Information Modelling (BIM)? Consider including a shared data standard, writes Nick Harris from UK technology…

Scan-to-BIM: a reality check

Posted by - July 20, 2012
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is mainly focused on newbuild projects, but refurbishment and renovation requires a different approach. Using 3D…

Autodesk BIM 360

Posted by - July 20, 2012
Autodesk is growing its cloud-services for the AEC industry and in its latest incarnation has additional collaboration capabilities for those…

ArchiCAD 16

Posted by - July 20, 2012
AEC Magazine looks at the new modelling enhancements, improved component database and drive towards open standards in Graphisoft’s popular Building…

AECOsim Building Designer

Posted by - May 30, 2012
Over the years, Bentley's building solutions have undergone a number of rebrandings; TriForma, Bentley Architecture and now AECOsim. However, the…

Autodesk 2013

Posted by - May 30, 2012
As reliable as the sunrise, Autodesk released the updates to its family of CAD and Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools…

BIM for principal contractors

Posted by - May 30, 2012
BIMproject is a brand new information management tool that uses BIM models to help manage and control procurement workflows all…

Designviz

Posted by - May 30, 2012
AEC magazine looks at two visualisation specialists that create designs from simple sketches and block models.