In an interview with Carl Sterner, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, Director of Product Marketing at Sefaira, he discussed Sefaira’s Direct Sunlight Analysis launched in September.
Sefaira sunlight heating and cooling
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Sefaira’s Direct Sunlight Analysis Complements Existing Daylighting Analysis
Thursday, October 8th, 2015ArcSite Converts Freehand Drawing into Perfect Geometry
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015ArcTuition has done something that architects and designers have been asking for since the inception of CAD – on a mobile device: it has combined integrated machine learning with freehand drawing.
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Rebranding and Vectorworks 2016
Wednesday, September 16th, 2015Vectorworks, Inc. formerly Nemetschek Vectorworks, announced this morning the rebranding of the company plus the release of Vectorworks 2016.
IMAGINiT Technologies Releases New Utilities
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015In an interview with Matt Mason, director of software development at IMAGINiT Technologies division of Rand Worldwide, we discussed the newly released IMAGINIT Utilities for Civil 3D 2016, IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client 2016 and IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Server 2016, all of which are now compatible with Autodesk 2016 products. There are two new tools in IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D: Pipe Grade and Multi-Part Swap. IMAGINiT is also introducing enhancements to IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client and IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Server as well as a new tool in IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Server, Vault Command Line.
IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D: Multi-Part Swap
Autodesk Stingray: Interactive Real-Time Game Engine for AEC
Friday, August 28th, 2015Rick 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.
Trimble SketchUp’s Mobile Viewer and Partnership between Trimble and Materialise
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.
IMAGINiT Technologies Scan to BIM 2016 and Utilities for Revit
Thursday, August 13th, 2015Rand 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
A Look at Ultra-Rugged and Rugged Tablets and Handhelds
Monday, July 27th, 2015Randy Denny, vice president of Sales for Xplore Technologies talked recently about the company’s big news: acquiring Motion Computing in April of 2015. Motion added to Xplore a broader portfolio of solutions in the “rugged category” of tablets.
Xplore Technologies recently acquired Motion Computng
“Now we’ll serve two markets of ultra-rugged devices,” said Denny, “and we have the dominant marketshare.” Denny added that their customers include utilities, construction, public safety and retail. 30% of their business requires some level of customization, such as in-vehicle docks and perhaps including special integration.
Award-winning Vectorworks Nomad Offers Video Game-like Navigation and More
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015Vectorworks Nomad received a “BEST OF SHOW” award in the Mobile category from Architosh Magazine’s Annual Awards at the American Institute of Architects Convention (AIA) 2015 held in Atlanta this year.
Vectorworks Nomad
The Next Desktop Printer: Holograms?
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015Mike Masters, chief marketing officer of Zebra Imaging, spoke about Zebra Imaging’s service of providing holograms for the architectural industry. Architects are looking for the interaction that is the easiest way for them to show things and manipulate them on the fly.
