BIM

Revit 2022 and beyond

Posted by Martyn Day - June 2, 2021

Autodesk attempts to placate customers who complained so publicly at the BIM tool’s lack of…

VR/MR

Arkio: collaborative design for architects in VR

Posted by AEC Magazine - June 1, 2021

We talked with Arkio about its brand new VR-centric collaborative design system

Construction

Getting more from on-site plant equipment

Posted by Andrew Johnson - May 20, 2021

BIM, 4D scheduling and machine learning is helping improve construction site equipment utilisation

Structural engineering

SCIA Engineer 21

Posted by AEC Magazine - May 10, 2021

A brand new UI for the Nemetschek-owned structural design and analysis software

Visualisation

3D graphics in Revit to be ‘radically improved’

Posted by Greg Corke - April 21, 2021

New One Graphics System (OGS) will boost viewport performance and add GPU ray tracing

Visualisation

AI generates 3D objects for viz from a single image

Posted by Greg Corke - April 16, 2021

Nvidia GANverse3D uses machine learning to generate fully textured realistic 3D meshes

Digital fabrication

Strucsoft – linking Revit to fabrication

Posted by Martyn Day - March 22, 2021

Strucsoft extends Revit’s capabilities to driving fabrication through timber/steel and more

Computational design

Testfit.io: optimised building modelling

Posted by Martyn Day - March 22, 2021

In CAD, the computer hardly aids the design, but Testfit.io has a different take on…

Simulation

MassMotion: pedestrian simulation during Covid-19

Posted by Martyn Day - March 18, 2021

With the ongoing pandemic, crowd / pedestrian simulation software has really come in to its…

Visualisation

Enscape 3.0 review

Posted by Greg Corke - March 4, 2021

The new release of the popular real time visualisation tool is 100% focused on usability