Posts Tagged ‘3D’
Friday, October 30th, 2015
Upcoming this week in London at the Hilton Metropole is The Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, showcasing the latest product announcements from Bentley Systems, as well as the 2015 Be Inspired Awards, awarded for excellence in various areas of Architecture, Engineering and Construction Excellence. Winners are chosen from a group of finalists, who have submitted their projects for consideration.
After jurors have deliberated during the week to come up with the winners in each category, the Awards Dinner is the crowning event of the conference. Below are three project summaries of finalist entries from the following AEC categories: Innovation in Construction and Innovation in Structures.
We wish the finalists the best of luck in the competition, and hope to see many of you there. #YII2015
 Zhiyue Youcheng Square
Installation Company of the First Construction Engineering Limited Company of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau (South China) – (Foshan, Guangdong Province, China) (more…)
Tags: 3D, 3D cities, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, Bentley Systems, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, reality capture, YII2015
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Matt Mason, director of software development with IMAGINiT Technologies, of Rand Worldwide, answered some questions for AECCafe Voice about the release of the new version of IMAGINiT Clarity, Clarity 2016.1. The new release includes new features in IMAGINiT Clarity, IMAGINiT Clarity Connect, IMAGINiT Clarity Connect LT and the newly released IMAGINiT Clarity Owner Data Portal (ODP), designed to aid AEC firms in capturing information from BIM models and to facilitate the transition from construction to building operations.
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Tags: 3D, ARCHIBUS, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, Cloud, construction, design, engineers, facilities management, IMSI/Design, reality capture
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
About a month ago I attended a press briefing on the new Autodesk Revit 2016 R2, a release that builds on product performance and makes Revit perform faster. The release looks at how to empower architects and engineers to embed design intent in their model by building smarter tools. It has a lot of professional productivity enhancements, and product managers believe it’s their best Revit yet.
 Revit 2016 R2 updates room, space, HVAC zone, duct, and pipe color fills using multiple CPUs. Image courtesy of Autodesk. (more…)
Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, BIM, building, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, reality capture
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Thursday, October 15th, 2015
Evan Casey, National Director of Business Development at ARC Document Solutions, document solutions provider for the construction industry. spoke this week with AECCafe Voice about SKYSITE 2.0, the next generation of its cloud-based application for construction communication. The latest version of SKYSITE adds new features such as Request-for-Information (RFI) administration, photo management and punch lists to its capabilities in managing and distributing construction documents and information.
 Document Content Lifecycle (more…)
Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, Autodesk, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, collaboration, construction, engineering, infrastructure
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Thursday, October 8th, 2015
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 (more…)
Tags: 3D, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building, building information modeling, CAD, design, engineering, point clouds, reality capture, Revit, Sefaira
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Jeff Wood – vice president, WW Product Management, Workstation and Thin Client Business HP and Josh Peterson- director, WW Product Management, Workstation and Thin Client Business , HP met with the press in a virtual press briefing prior to the announcement of the new HP Z240 Tower and Z240 SFF Workstations with next generation Intel processors and HP Z Turbo Drive options, raising the bar for entry-level workstations, while providing the reliability of a workstation at the price point of a desktop PC.
 HP Z240 SFF Workstation and HP Z240 Tower Workstation (more…)
Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, design, engineering, Geospatial, HP, HP Z Turbo, HP Z240 SFF, HP Z240 Tower, Intel Xeon, Linux, reality capture, Susan Smith, Windows 10, workstations
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2015
Vectorworks, Inc. formerly Nemetschek Vectorworks, announced this morning the rebranding of the company plus the release of Vectorworks 2016.
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Tags: 3D, 3D cities, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, BIM, building, building information modeling, CAD, collaboration, design, engineering, infrastructure, mobile, point clouds, reality capture, Vectorworks 2016
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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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