Trimble steps up

Posted by - July 17, 2013
The AEC design technology market has a handful of key software developers; Autodesk, Bentley and Nemetschek are the main volume…

Printing a digital twin

Posted by - March 31, 2016
Architects are taking advantage of readily available 3D CAD data and 3D printing architectural models with impressive results

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…

The rise of the robots

Posted by - December 8, 2015
Martyn Day evaluates the latest projects and technologies involved in deploying robots and 3D printing in construction

Faro Focus3D

Posted by - December 5, 2010
In the world of laser scanning there have been four certainties; laser scanners are big, heavy, complicated to use and…

From point cloud to BIM

Posted by - March 12, 2015
Survey software provider Kubit, recently acquired by Faro, goes back to basics with its analysis of the implications and ways…