This year’s Bentley Year in Infrastructure Conference will be held at the Hilton Metropole in London, Monday, October 31st – November 4th.
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Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2016 Coming to London Next Week
Thursday, October 27th, 2016SmartBetterCities Just Released New CloudCities Version
Thursday, October 20th, 2016In its first version, SmartBetterCities’ released CloudCities virtual reality tool, that can be imported from CityEngine, SketchUp and GoogleEarth. CloudCities is an online platform for hosting, sharing and visualizing smart 3D city models. The models are based on OpenStreetMap, are lightweight and used mostly by mobile users, with an easy drag-and-drop workflow. It was used in a development review at Harvard University urban campus in Kindle Square, where building sensors and monitoring were integrated into visualization.
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Sefaira Announces Design Guidance for Architecture 2030’s 2030 Palette at Greenbuild 2016
Thursday, October 13th, 2016Sefaira, a Trimble Company, and Architecture 2030 announced Design Guidance at Greenbuild 2016, taking place in Los Angeles October 5-7, a new functionality in Sefaira Architecture. Design Guidance uses real-time analysis results in Sefaira Architecture to deliver customized guidance on how to improve a building’s performance, and points the designer to relevant passive design strategies collated in Architecture 2030’s 2030 Palette.
Sefaira’s Design Guidance for 2030 Palette
In the following interview, both Edward Mazria, founder and CEO Architecture 2030 and Kerger Truesdell, product manager, Sefaira respond to questions about the announcement and future of Design Guidance and 2030 Palette.
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Newforma’s Connector Initiative to Handle Volume Data Between Platforms
Thursday, October 6th, 2016AECCafé spoke with Jim Forester, co-founder and vice president of business development, Newforma on Newforma’s recently announced Connector initiative to expand access to project information.
The Autodesk Subscription Program Meets Bentley’s Autodesk License Upgrade Program
Thursday, September 29th, 2016An ongoing topic in the AEC industry for over a year now has been the issue of Autodesk’s moving its customer base to a subscription only program. While Autodesk has given customers a lot of time to make this transition, nevertheless, the Autodesk Subscription Program means the end of the perpetual license program. The Autodesk Subscription Program is heralded by the company as the best thing for customers of Autodesk products and they have the recent earnings to prove it. In Q1 of this year, they were up 132,000 to 2.71 million.
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Vectorworks 2017 Sports Innovative New Features for Collaboration, Immersive Environments and Much More
Wednesday, September 21st, 2016In a recent interview with Dr. Biplap Sarkar, CEO of Vectorworks, we discussed the latest features of Vectorworks 2017, which was released September 14th.
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Augmented Reality that You Wear
Thursday, September 1st, 2016David Smith, CTO, Wearality, a 3D pioneer of VR, AR, and other technologies, spoke at the SPAR 3D Conference in Houston earlier this year, about how his company is dedicated to delivering and creating AR products for consumers and business.
Watch for Vectorworks new 2017 version coming in September
Thursday, August 18th, 2016Biplap Sarkar, CEO of Vectorworks, spoke at the spring AIA 2016 Convention about the upcoming features for the new version of Vectorworks coming out in September.
Graphisoft’s Free and Paid BIMx Updates Brings BIM Project Information to Many
Monday, August 8th, 2016This year seems to be the year of opening up the information stored in BIM models to those who are not BIM professionals. There are many on the jobsite who need to make use of valuable information stored in BIM, but who need only limited access to it.
Focus on the “I” in BIM with Invicara’s BIM Assure
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016Lately, more products have come on the market whose goal it is to make building information modeling (BIM) better. The cloud has really opened up the possibilities for this, allowing for easier and more seamless use of a large, often unwieldy building model.
BIM Assure’s web-based model viewer makes it easy to find and fix data issues in building models.
