Posts Tagged ‘building information modeling’
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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Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
Autodesk’s mid-year release of InfraWorks 360 was discussed along with the latest release of Civil3D in a recent webinar. In this article we focused on InfraWorks 360.
Eric Chappell, Community Evangelist, Infraworks 360, noted that the latest version was released September 2. The release is divided into three areas:
 The highly intuitive graphical interface of the Traffic Simulation module makes it clear when roads have exceeded capacity requirements and make it easy to identify where changes need to be made. (more…)
Tags: AEC, architects, architecture, Autodesk, Autodesk InfraWorks 360 Pro, Autodesk Revit, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, collaboration, engineering, Revit, traffic simulation
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
In 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 (more…)
Tags: AEC, architects, architecture, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Bentley Systems, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Civil 3D, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, IMAGINiT Technologies, Revit
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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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Wednesday, August 5th, 2015
When I think of where Trimble SketchUp has evolved to, from its days as a simple but celebrated sketching tool for designers, I’m amazed at its versatility and application to so many important aspects of the AEC marketplace.
 Trimble MEPdesigner V2 Cable tray with condulets and bendable conduit (more…)
Tags: 3D, AEC, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, construction, design, engineering, MEP, SketchUp, Trimble
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Monday, July 27th, 2015
Randy 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.
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Tags: AEC, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, construction, design, engineering, Handheld USA, iPad, laser scanning, mobile, Xplore Technologies
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Vectorworks 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.
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Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, design, mobile, mobile app, Vectorworks Nomad 3.0
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