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The ODA Releases Support for Apple Silicon Macs
The ODA ships SDKs for Apple Silicon Macs — offering CAD and 3D developers on the Mac platform smooth transition to next-gen Macs support.
Monograph introduces ‘Resource’ — streamlines project planning for AEC firms
Monograph is a cloud-based platform that streamlines project planning now with its new Resource features aimed at AE firms.
Bentley’s Now Public—YII20 Highlights and Re-Attacking the Architecture Market
This in-depth feature looks into Bentley’s new positions in the global infrastructure market, including a deeper look at the Architecture sector.
Viewpoint: Nemetschek Group — The Power of Paradigm Shifts
The Nemetschek Group says construction (AEC) industry needs paradigm shift—offers integrated design transformative technologies.
Chaos Group—Real-Time Rendering Comes to V-Ray 5 for SketchUp
V-Ray 5 for SketchUp, with its light-weight game engine V-Ray Vision, offers creatives real-time photorealistic rendering inside SketchUp.
Details on Autodesk’s Spacemaker Acquisition
Spacemaker is the big acquisition announced by Autodesk at AU 2020 this week. We discuss further details about Spacemaker and Autodesk’s intentions with it.
AU20: Autodesk—announces new AEC Cloud tools for design industry
Autodesk introduces the latest updates and features to its cloud offerings aimed at the design side of the AEC industry, discussed and shown at AU 2020
Product Review: Autodesk AutoCAD for Mac 2021
Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2021 this year gained big speed gains and a fully deployed AutoCAD Core Engine treatment for its iOS app version. In this review, we take a look at the Mac version for 2021 and go through its new features.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Macs with M1 Chip
Apple delivers M1 processor as first Apple Silicon for a new generation of ground-breaking, next-generation computers.
Lenovo Now Reseller of Varjo VR/MR Headsets
Lenovo and Varjo team up deepening their collaborations — with Lenovo becoming a Varjo reseller and offering more workstations with VR/MR support clarified.
From Mountain Top to Watering Hole — The Design Work of Rosan Bosch Studio
A world-leader in how design can affect behavior, especially in learning situations, shares details about their process, methods, and tools of the trade.
NVIDIA announces Omniverse Open Beta — global real-time collaboration
Nvidia Omniverse opens up to everyone in Open Beta program after a yearlong Early Access success with partners like Foster + Partners.
Synergy and Alignment — The APIs Democratizing Role
APIs can open more than just Revit—generating productivity gains by delivering a customizable flexible production system for AEC—and synergizing with larger ICT innovations.
The Pre-Revolt Factors — Why the Open Letter
The signs that a one-size-fits-all type of platform would never work for the AEC industry goes back decades.
What’s Beyond Revit — Anagnost on Autodesk AEC Futures
Autodesk’s CEO looks beyond the controversy and aims to foster confidence in its long-term vision for architects.
The Sensible Pathway to Open BIM — One German Firm’s Story
ARP ArchitektenPartnerschaft with Vectorworks has benefitted from a scalable pathway to BIM, from little BIM to Big BIM with Open BIM.
Maxon Receives $200,000 Epic MegaGrant by Epic Games
Maxon gains Epic MegaGrant to help fund ongoing improvements to the integration between Unreal Engine and Maxon’s award-winning 3D animation software, Cinema 4D.
Maxon Announces Cinema 4D Release 23
Cinema 4D R23 is Maxon’s flagship produce — offers enhancements to animation, character and UV workflows, and Magic Bullet Looks integration.
Bentley Moves Closer to Public Stock Offering
Bentley moves closer to public stock offering by filing Form S-1 with the SEC. The offering may be waiting on infrastructure bill passage.
Product Review: Trimble SketchUp Studio 2020
SketchUp Studio 2020 provides accessible energy and daylighting analysis tools and Architosh gets into the details in this review.
Bluebeam Revu 20 Launched—Streamlines Remote Project Collaboration
Revu 20 empowers real-time collaboration across project partners working worldwide, while offering new data server for Australia market.
Apple’s Threat to Epic Will Hurt Mac Pros in AEC
Apple can hurt Epic but in the process, they will hurt the Mac pro-market by cutting off access to iOS and macOS developer tools for Unreal Engine apps.
Nemetschek Group — Stable Revenue Growth in Q2 2020
Nemetschek Group revenue proves stable, positive with high margins during the first half of the pandemic year—company diversities aiding German AEC giant.
Autodesk Responds to Open Letter on Revit
Autodesk pens letter on Revit in response to British group—offers a detailed explanation of its development logic, promises a commitment to listening.
Generative Design in Revit Powers Speed for Stamhuis
Dynamo automation helps Stamhuis—a leading retailer in Europe—build customized, powerful, and efficient Revit workflows, improving BIM and project delivery.
BIM is Central to Vectorworks’ Growth Strategy—Upcoming Technologies Revealed
Vectorworks is treating its BIM/CAD platform like an “OS” for design while building out features for ever-sharper market advantages in specific industry verticals.
Enscape’s new 2.8 version—teams with BIM Track
Enscape 2.8 improves BIM industry collaboration via BIM Tracker partnership, plus several new visualization and collaboration improvements.
Epic Games Obtains Strategic Investment from Sony
Sony has made a sizeable investment in Epic and this will enable the advancement of Unreal Engine technology and the upcoming Unreal Engine 5.
Product Review: Twinmotion 2020
Architosh reviews Epic’s Twinmotion 2020, a leading real-time interactive photorealistic rendering application for AEC and design markets.
Unity Reflect adds Navisworks integration, BIM coordination
Unity announces Unity Reflect with Navisworks support, among other features.
Deltek launches 41st annual state of A&E report
Deltek’s state of A&E report helps architecture, engineering, and dual-discipline firms understand the AEC business environment including KPIs.
ODA releases Open IFC Viewer for Mac and Windows
OpenIfcViewer is to provide professional-grade visualization to facilitate the development and adoption of new IFC versions.
Bentley’s ProjectWise 365 Has Gone SaaS—Brings Broad Market and Platform Appeal to AECO Industry
The future of Bentley’s ProjectWise 365 looks bright—technical advances, standards adoption, and carry-over from traditional ProjectWise customers all suggest good things for Bentley.
The Future: Apple Moving to ARM-based Macs in 2021
Apple is poised to make the move to custom design processors for its Macs and will tap its elite experience in ARM-based chip design to empower Mac computers to go places it deems it cannot get to by sticking with Intel.
Building Together Digital Event—Features World’s 2nd Tallest Structure
We take a look into themes shown in the upcoming Graphisoft Building Together digital global event and tie-in some analysis and commentary from what we heard a year ago at Graphisoft’s last major event in the US.
Why Scaling from Little BIM to Big BIM Made Sense for Idle Architecture
A Melbourne-based practice is discovering that moving to Big BIM is enabling them to take on larger projects and better streamline their project delivery.
AEC News: Prof. Georg Nemetschek Establishes New Innovation Foundation
Prof. Georg Nemetschek establishes the Nemetschek Innovation Foundation in Munich, Germany, with the aim of supporting science and research in the industry with a focus on global industry leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) in construction.
CAD News: IMSI Design Releases New DesignCAD 2020—New SketchUp 2020 Support
New DesignCAD 2020 product line features new SketchUp 2020 and AutoCAD 2020 compatibility among several other important improvements.
Talking to 2019 Autodesk Innovator of the Year—Amr Raafat of Windover Construction
Trained as an architect, Amr talks to us about Windover Construction’s award-winning project and the innovations at his company using VDC technologies like Hololens and drones.
CAD/BIM Development Moving Faster—The ODA Announces Monthly Releases
Open Design Alliance is a non-profit technology consortium of 1200 member companies, working together to develop solutions for complex engineering design problems.
BIM News: Abvent Group Partners with BIM One, Author of BIM Track
Abvent partners with BIM One of North America to offer its BIM Track app to its EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region customers.
Autodesk Intros ‘Generative Design’ inside Revit 2021 Among Other Features
Autodesk adds computational design tools directly inside the new Revit 2021, along with the new capability to do slanted walls and much more.
Bentley News: Public Stock Listing and Other News for Infrastructure Software Giant
Bentley may be going public soon and the company acquires UK AEC industry CDE leader GroupBC with its market-leading BS 1192 compliant SaaS tools used in construction.
INSIDER: Hypar Looks to Unlock AEC Industry Expertise via Computational Design Ecosystem
The AEC market isn’t just hamstrung by data silos, AEC industry expertise itself is missing its true market potential, both economically and socially on a global scale.
INSIDER: Expanding a BIM Workflow Near You—McNeel’s New Open Source Rhino.Inside SDK
BIM tools have failed global design leaders in many areas—especially advanced modeling. Now Rhino and GH are coming “inside” to help solve long extent pain points in the AEC industry.
INSIDER: Ladybug Tools Aim to Take Environmental Analysis to Wider Audience
Architosh talks with ‘Ladybug Tools’ co-founders Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari and Chris Mackey, about their young software company’s near future with computational design tools technology that aims to be more democratized soon.
INSIDER: A Brief Tour of Select Grasshopper Add-Ons
We look at 35 Grasshopper plugins that add additional capabilities and superpowers to the number one AAD tool in the market used in AEC. Importantly, there are quite a few GH plugins working for the Mac version of Rhino + Grasshopper—a growing reality that is good for the market.
Autodesk Announces AutoCAD 2021—Includes Free Extended Access to Cloud Tools
New AutoCAD 2021 boasts excellent new features that will streamline the work of AutoCAD users on desktop, web, and mobile, integrating with Google Drive and AutoCAD Web App, plus lots more.
INSIDER: How JPW is using Bentley’s OpenBuildings Designer GenerativeComponents to Push the Edge of Practice with Technology
A mid-sized architectural practice in Australia has designed what will be the largest building in the country once finished. In the process, the firm advanced the use of computational design with BIM using Bentley’s OpenBuildings Designer GenerativeComponents (OBD-GC).
HOOPS Communicator 2020 Now Available for Mac
Engineers now have more powerful tools for web application development with Mac availability and improved support for the BIM collaboration format (BCF).
Enscape Introduces Version 2.7 of its Real-Time Rendering Software
New BIM-driven workflows and enhanced performance make Enscape the perfect complement to the building process.
A New Openness—How Vectorworks is Adapting to the World of Integrations
A software application famous for its all-inclusive capabilities is learning how to gain new powers for its users by connecting to others.
AAD software company TestFit Raises $2M for new breed of AEC software
TestFit secures $2M in seed funding round. The market for generative design software to explode, doubling to $275M by 2023.
Fireside Chat: Talking about emTech (Emerging Technologies) with Vectorworks
What the Advanced Technology Group at Vectorworks is working on can excite the senses—especially for Vectorworks users!
BricCAD BIM supports the BIMcollab issue management ecosystem
Bricsys collaborates with BIMcollab and announces integration between products yielding new BCF features and workflow capacity.
Evento Anual de Graebert—Berlín se viste de gala para las grandes noticias de ARES Trinity
Graebert continúa impulsando la innovación en el formato de archivo CAD (.dwg), lo que entusiasma a los asistentes de este año con opciones de integración únicas en el mercado AEC BIM junto con fuertes avances en sus tecnologías para la nube con ARES Kudo.
XTAL Professional VR Headset—As Shown at CES
New VR headset features unbeatable 8K resolution and unique VirtualLink capable implementation.
Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.2—Graphics API Takes Off
Vulkan 1.2 integrates 23 proven extensions into the core Vulkan API—propels low-level graphics API standard further and with very wide industry adoption and support.
Graebert Annual Event—Berlin Dresses Up for Big ARES Trinity News
Graebert continues to drive innovation into the (.dwg) CAD file format—exciting this year’s attendees with uniquely positioned options for integrations into the AEC BIM market along with strong advances in its cloud technologies with ARES Kudo.
The Nemetschek Group Strengthens Market Position in Media & Entertainment
Nemetschek Group strengthens its market position in the growing Media & Entertainment software division.
