Don Davies, vice president of North American Sales and Application Engineering at DP Technology Corp., spoke with AECCafe Voice about DP Technology and their CAM/CAD system, which has been around for 36 years. AECCafe CEO Sanjay Gangal conducted a video interview at SolidWorks World with DP Technology’s Vytas Cijunelis, Midwest Operations Manager that is available below.
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DP Technology Eliminates the Need to Edit NC Code
Thursday, March 28th, 2019AECCafe Special Report: Digital Twin Technology Mirrors AEC Reality, Materializes the Intangible
Friday, March 22nd, 2019Digital Twins – are they taking the AEC technology world by storm? IDC recently noted that by 2020, 30% of global 2000 companies will be using data from Digital Twins to improve organizational productivity by as much as 25%.
According to the 2018 Gartner Hype Cycle, Digital Twin is a trend that is now approaching the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and is estimated to hit the “Plateau of Productivity” within 5 to 10 years. Image courtesy of Gartner, Inc.
ARCHIBUS Workplace Links Staff to Workspaces on Any Device
Thursday, March 14th, 2019Mark Gargarian, Marketing Department for ARCHIBUS, Inc. spoke to AECCafe Voice this week about the company’s latest release. ARCHIBUS Inc., the industry’s leading Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS), announced a groundbreaking update to its suite of solutions for the management of real estate, infrastructure, facilities and the workplace. The new version, V.24.1 includes the ARCHIBUS Workplace, a new product entirely, that connects staff to their work spaces from any device.
Unity 3D’s PiXYZ Plug-In Real Time 3D Tool Changes the Face of Workflow Models
Friday, March 8th, 2019Tim McDonough, general manager of Industries, for Unity3D spoke with AECCafe Voice about the PiXYZ plug in that can be now used to host AEC projects in Unity3D.
PiXYZ Plugin and PiXYZ Studio for Unity allows you to import IFC BIM files into Unity. The 2018.3 version of the PiXYZ products are now available and can import the geometry from Revit and all BIM 360 data.
Trimble’s Constructible Revolutionizes Building Construction Data
Thursday, February 28th, 2019In an interview with Jon Fingland, general manager of collaboration solutions at Trimble, we talked about the need for digitization and transformation in the construction industry.
Trimble’s answer to the challenges and transition to digitization is Constructible, a purpose-driven approach to building construction – a process that coordinates and optimizes the entire design, build, operate lifecycle. Constructible links the work of each construction stage and helps to implement that work within businesses.
The Shape of Possibility: SOLIDWORKS World 2019
Monday, February 18th, 2019The theme of SOLIDWORKS World 2019 held February 11-13 in Dallas, Texas, was “Where possibility takes form…”
Tracy B Wilson of SOLIDWORKS made the introductions at the General Session, beginning with Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO, SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systèmes.
COFES 2019 Charts the Future of Technology
Thursday, February 14th, 2019President of Tech-Clarity, Inc. and COFES conference co-chair and moderator, Jim Brown spoke about the COFES Conference, Congress of on the Future of Engineering, which is to be held in Silicon Valley this year April 7-April 10. While COFES has traditionally been held over a weekend, this year it will take place on business days.
AECCafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – Part 4
Friday, February 1st, 2019In Part 4 of our AECCafe Industry Predictions, certain trends are further supported by submissions – support for and increased use of more cloud-based technologies, mobile technologies, the movement toward more efficiency in the construction business,virtual reality and augmented reality, the further integration of GIS and CAD, and Digital Twins.
Image courtesy of CCCC Water Transportation Consultants, Ltd.
AECCafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – Part 3
Thursday, January 24th, 2019Welcome to the third installment of the AECCafe Industry Predictions for 2019. As we have had great response to our request for predictions, we continue to bring you industry predictions from leading companies in the AEC industry for the month of January. This installment features topics such as metadata, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud as reality, increasing data needs, construction and operation, digitalization, simulation, indoor mapping and much more.
Companies’ viewpoints represented here include Panzura, Vectorworks, PlanGrid, and SimScale – each from a different perspective of the AEC industry.
AECCafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – Part 2
Thursday, January 17th, 2019Welcome to the second installation of our series of AECCafe Industry Predictions for 2019. This week we have a number of submissions focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning implementations as primary technologies featured for 2019. The trend has already begun but definitely will be shaping the AEC industry in the year to come and beyond. As Tibor Szolnoki of GRAPHISOFT says, “Augmented Reality becomes common practice: in collaborative design processes, in job-site applications, and in consumer applications (like home-design solutions).”
