CAD

SketchUp gets viz and interoperability boost

Posted by AEC Magazine - February 26, 2025

New features include improved materials and environment lighting, plus better Revit and IFC workflows

Visualisation

Chaos acquires AI software firm EvolveLab

Posted by Greg Corke - February 19, 2025

Developer of V-Ray and Enscape will gain valuable AI visualisation technology, and new opportunities in…

Visualisation

Twinmotion 2025.1 adds realism to exterior scenes

Posted by AEC Magazine - February 19, 2025

Real-time viz software includes volumetric clouds, adds control over sky, sun and fog

AI

Artificial horizons: AI in AEC

Posted by Martyn Day - February 12, 2025

We ask Greg Schleusner, director of design technology at HOK for his thoughts on the…

Workstations

Workstations for arch viz

Posted by Greg Corke - February 9, 2025

We test GPUs and CPUs for arch viz - D5 Render, Twinmotion, Lumion, Chaos Enscape,…

Workstations

Nvidia RTX GPUs for Stable Diffusion

Posted by Greg Corke - February 9, 2025

For text-to-image AI, processing is often pushed to the cloud, but the GPU in your…

Visualisation

Nvidia DLSS 4 uses AI to boost frame rates in viz software

Posted by Greg Corke - January 7, 2025

Real time neural rendering technology evolves so that 15 out of every 16 pixels can…

Visualisation

D5 Render 2.9 launches for AEC viz

Posted by AEC Magazine - November 29, 2024

Latest release introduces advance terrain modelling, phasing animation and more

Visualisation

Chaos unveils Envision for architectural storytelling

Posted by Greg Corke - November 11, 2024

Animation tool can assemble scenes from multiple sources, including Enscape, V-Ray and Corona

AI

Trimble trumpets AI capabilities for AEC

Posted by AEC Magazine - November 12, 2024

AI tools accelerate visualisation, project management, takeoff and reality capture workflows