Defending design

Posted by - December 1, 2005
To help transform a 200 year-old gun tower into a weekend retreat, Piercy Conner architects and Price & Myers 3D…

Information, not data

Posted by - December 1, 2005
James Cutler, CEO, eMapSite, looks at how Web services have enabled a new breed of digital geographic data supplier to…

BIM and the Freedom Tower

Posted by - November 18, 2005
While the CAD firms have been talking about BIM, there have been few projects that deliver on the vision. Autodesk…

OpenGL in Windows Vista

Posted by - October 18, 2005
Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows Vista will feature DirectX at its heart. This could have major implications for OpenGL, the…

Laptops: Future proofed?

Posted by - October 18, 2005
As an engineer or designer what exactly do you need from a laptop? Rob Jamieson dispels some of the common…

The art of visualisation

Posted by - October 18, 2005
Visualisation One is one of the UK’s leading 3D architectural illustration and multimedia companies. Skilstream’s John Marchant talked to company…

Autodesk: keeping it Real

Posted by - August 24, 2005
Autodesk recently made its DWG libraries available in a new format for developers and customers, allowing the opening and saving…

Revit Structure

Posted by - August 24, 2005
The BIM concept will always remain a pipe dream, so long as the tools are unable to handle the thousands…

Barts and the London Hospitals

Posted by - June 6, 2005
HOK International chose to use Autodesk Architectural Desktop as their primary CAD tool for a project to replace two central…