Revit: beyond architecture

Posted by - April 21, 2006
Autodesk has recently introduced dedicated versions of Revit for Structural and Building Services engineering to sit alongside the core building…

The smart revolution

Posted by - February 20, 2006
This month's Cambridge-based workshop and conference, held at the British Museum in London, demonstrated that the momentum behind the Smart…

Information aggregation

Posted by - February 20, 2006
Continuing his theme of mapping, James Cutler, CEO, eMapSite, looks at the use of bespoke web portals that allow multiple…

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…