Archive for August, 2015
Friday, August 28th, 2015
Rick Davis, Autodesk marketing manager, Design and Animation and Erin Emery, industry marketing manager for Building Design talked about the recent Autodesk announcement at the Game Developers Conference Europe of the new Stingray, a real-time engine that can be used to create high quality 3D games, or be applied in the AEC industry to make BIM-informed 3D visualizations in 3ds Max design software fully interactive in a real-time environment.
 The Stingray engine allows designers, owners and stakeholders to access and visualize a building model in real-time to fully understand the scale, feel and experience of the building before construction starts. (more…)
Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, BIM, building, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, infrastructure, virtual reality, visualization
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
Trimble SketchUp made a couple of announcements this summer: one being the SketchUp Mobile Viewer launch for both iOS and Android, an online presentation app, and the other the partnership between Trimble and Materialise to streamline 3D printing workflows by adding support for the STL file format in Trimble’s 3D Warehouse.
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Tags: 3D, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, construction, design, engineering, engineers, iPad, reality capture, SketchUp, Trimble
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Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Rand Worldwide recently announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has released Scan to BIM 2016, point cloud software that is compatible with Autodesk Revit 2016. IMAGINiT has also introduced two new, time-saving Utilities for Revit,and Dependent View Copy and Adjust Pipe.
 Scan to BIM 2016 for Revit 2016 (more…)
Tags: 3D, architects, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, point clouds, reality capture
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2015
When I think of where Trimble SketchUp has evolved to, from its days as a simple but celebrated sketching tool for designers, I’m amazed at its versatility and application to so many important aspects of the AEC marketplace.
 Trimble MEPdesigner V2 Cable tray with condulets and bendable conduit (more…)
Tags: 3D, AEC, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, construction, design, engineering, MEP, SketchUp, Trimble
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