Recently released upgrades for TurboSite Pro and TurboSite Plus, the award-winning apps for field reporting from IMSI/Design, now add video markup to BIM and PDF support. TurboSite Pro v2.5 shows BIM properties and displays 3D section cuts.
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Archive for February, 2014
TurboSite v2.5 upgrade adds video markup to PDF and BIM support
Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
The new HP LaserJet Pro MFP M476 for wireless printing from mobile devices
Monday, February 24th, 2014Brian Sahr, Future Product Marketing Manager, HP LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions, talked last week about the new release of the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M476 color laser device, delivering simple wireless printing from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, available this spring. The new MFP M476 addresses the following four key trends in the industry:
Sefaira’s performance based design platform now includes daylighting analysis
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014Sefaira today announced that its performance based design platform includes daylighting analysis in their Sefaira for SketchUp product. With the addition of daylighting, Sefaira combines two critical design metrics in the same tool.
EcoDesigner STAR from GRAPHISOFT for energy-efficient building design
Thursday, February 13th, 2014The challenge of getting energy evaluations into a building information model has been puzzling developers for a long time now. GRAPHISOFT has offered some energy evaluation capability in its flagship product ArchiCAD, but now the company has announced EcoDesigner STAR to serve highly energy-efficient building design by turning ArchiCAD BIM models into multiple thermal zone Building Energy Models (BEM).
BIM delivers tangible benefits for construction
Thursday, February 6th, 2014
The number of large scale construction projects that are implementing building information modeling for collaboration, integrated project delivery and lifecycle management is growing all the time.
Dell partners with Makerbot to deliver 3D printers and scanners
Monday, February 3rd, 2014Andy Rhodes, Executive Director, Dell Precision, talked about the new partnership with Makerbot to sell 3D printers and scanners.
photo credit Louis Seigal
