NEWS: Revizto gears up for 4.0 release Posted by Admin - May 11, 2016 Real time 3D visual collaboration tool consolidates applications and adds issue tracking for 2D PDFs
NEWS: Solus Ceramics equipped for BIM Posted by Admin - May 3, 2016 Commercial wall and floor tile supplier teams up with BIMobject to deliver data for 17 tile ranges
Visualisation’s great leap forward Posted by Randall Newton - April 4, 2016 The combination of hardware-accelerated rendering, new methods of processing visualisations as 3D models, and the arrival of real-time rendering open…
Model viewing, collaboration and checking Posted by Greg Corke - March 31, 2016 In the good old days, collaboration was a floppy disk with a DWG file on it. Things have come a…
Design analysis & optimisation Posted by Martyn Day - March 31, 2016 Formerly the preserve of specialists and engineers, software makers are bringing analysis tools to the conceptual phase of design as…
Forget BIM Posted by Nigel Davis - March 31, 2016 Our industry is changing at an ever increasing rate. Technology is playing a major role in this change, but the…
Conceptual design Posted by Martyn Day - March 31, 2016 Technical products for detailed design & documentation are well developed, and yet conceptual design products remain in the shadows. But…
NEWS: Vectorworks gets hooked up to 3D printing Posted by Admin - February 9, 2016 Plug-in from 3YOURMIND allows users to optimise Vectorworks files for 3D printing
NEWS: Trimble acquires Sefaira for performance analysis Posted by Admin - February 8, 2016 Trimble will get cloud-based analysis tools that link into SketchUp for early stage building design optimisation
What’s the big deal about BIM, anyway? Posted by John Bacus - December 10, 2015 BIM’s dirty little secret, and why complex and expensive BIM tools are still basically being used for drafting