Archive for December, 2014
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014
Dear Readers,
Over the holiday season, the last 2014 daily AECCafe newsletter will go out on December 23rd and the last AECCafe weekly on December 21. All of our Daily newsletters and Weeklies will not be published between
December 24 – January 4th and will resume on January 5th.
Wishing you and your families the happiest of holidays and a prosperous New Year!
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Monday, December 22nd, 2014
Looking back on 2014, there were a number of important developments that rocked the AEC world. Here are our takes on what were the most telling announcements of the year:
Autodesk Ember 3D Printer
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
John Bacus, director of SketchUp product management at Trimble, discussed with AECCafe Voice the new SketchUp 2015.
SketchUp Pro 2015’s Rotated Rectangle Tool draws rectangles that don’t have to be perpendicular or parallel to a default axis.
1. Do you see the IFC import as the most important addition to the new release, SketchUp 2015? And if so why?
IFC import has certainly captured the attention of many of our users in the construction industry, but SketchUp 2015 contains quite a few other important features as well. I like to think of SketchUp releases as offering a balance of new features, general improvements and core performance tuning. That said, with the addition of an IFC importer, SketchUp is now capable of participating in open building design and construction processes in some important new ways.
The IFC importer plays a key supporting role in a comprehensive new working style that we’ve been building into SketchUp for the last three releases— what I’ve been generally referring to as “information modeling.” The idea is that users should be able to work as quickly and efficiently with attributes and other non-graphical metadata on their models as they can with the model’s raw geometry. We want to extend the fast and loose sketching qualities of SketchUp beyond the ‘look’ of things and into their functional semantics.
Importing an MEP reference model in SketchUp Pro using Trimble Connect
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Monday, December 8th, 2014
3D printing is not just about manufacturing anymore: it is destined to permeate the AEC industry as well.
In a press conference held at Autodesk University 2014, president and CEO Carl Bass and CTO Jeff Kowalksi introduced the company’s new 3D printer, Ember.
Autodesk Ember 3D Printer
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalksi opened the Mainstage Keynotes for Autodesk University 2014 held in Las Vegas, Nevada this morning, with the statement, “Our creations are more dead than alive.”
Jeff Kowalski, CTO, Autodesk
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