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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016
One of the exciting developments that came out of The Year in Infrastructure 2016 Conference was the growth of Bentley’s ContextCapture reality modeling offering over the past year. Introduced at the 2015 conference, and derived from the acquisition of Acute3D, ContextCapture is used to process digital photos from a variety of cameras including smartphone cameras, and aerial photography, including UAVs, to provide engineering-ready reality meshes.
 Winner Innovation in Reality Modeling: City of Helsinki – Helsinki 3D+
Helsinki, Finland. Image Courtesy of Bentley Systems (more…)
Tags: 3D cities, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, reality capture, visualization
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
The Autodesk University 2016 keynote kicked off this Tuesday morning at the Venetian Congress Center, Las Vegas, with some rousing state-of-the-art rock and roll, followed by an introduction by Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski.
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Tags: 3D, 3D cities, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, construction, design, infrastructure, laser scanning, point clouds, reality capture
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
AECCafe will be in attendance at Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM held in Santa Clara, California on Thursday, November 10th. This venue is focused on how to address industrial challenges and quickly realize the benefits of this business model.
According to company materials, by attending this year’s event, you will get the opportunity to:
- Learn from thought leaders on key issues impacting all businesses today – manufacturing in the future, the sharing economy, digital transformation, big data and the internet of everything
- Meet with senior executives from a range of industries to gain insight into how today’s leaders are driving their business to create captivating experiences for their end customers
- Discover Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and learn how the power of connecting people, ideas, solutions and data create a new framework for thinking that can help you innovate, develop new revenue streams and realize the future of the experience economy
Look forward to seeing many of you there! Editor, Susan Smith susan.smith@ibsystems.com and President, Sanjay Gangal sanjay.gangal@ibsystems.com
Tags: 3D, 3DExperience FORUM, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, construction, Dassault Systemes, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
It’s difficult not to be inspired when attending the Bentley Year In Infrastructure Conference, with so many talented professionals gathered to show off their infrastructure projects.
 Innovation in Building Winner: Morphosis – Hanking Center Tower. Image Courtesy of Bentley Systems (more…)
Tags: #YII2016, 3D, 3D cities, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, Bentley Systems, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, climate change, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, GIS, GPS, infrastructure, London, reality capture, visualization, Year In Infrastructure 2016
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
This year’s Bentley Year in Infrastructure Conference will be held at the Hilton Metropole in London, Monday, October 31st – November 4th.
 Phillip Island Penguin Viewing Platform, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, Tract Consultants, Pty, Ltd. (more…)
Tags: 3D, 3D cities, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, Bentley Systems, Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2016, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, design, engineers, mobile, reality capture, visualization
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Thursday, October 20th, 2016
In 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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Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, BIM, building design, building information modeling, construction, design, engineers, GIS, reality capture
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Thursday, September 29th, 2016
An 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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Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, Bentley Systems, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, mobile, reality capture
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2016
In 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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Tags: 3D, AEC, Archicad, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Bentley Systems, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, reality capture, Vectorworks 2017, visualization
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
This 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.
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Tags: 3D, AEC, Archicad, architects, architecture, BIM, BIMx, building design, building information modeling, CAD, climate change, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, mobile
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Amar Hanspal, senior vice president and Nicolas Fonta, senior product manager of Autodesk, spoke about yesterday’s launch of Autodesk LIVE, a new interactive visualization service which offers Revit AEC users the ability to transform their designs into fully-interactive 3D models, and draws viewers into the story of an architectural design much like a video game.
 A look into the Autodesk LIVE viewer on Windows showing a model that has been edited in Stingray and then loaded back into LIVE. (Graphic: Business Wire) (more…)
Tags: AEC, architects, architecture, Autodesk, Autodesk LIVE, Autodesk Revit, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, reality capture, visualization
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