Posts Tagged ‘design’
Friday, January 9th, 2015
At Autodesk University 2014 held in Las Vegas in December, Kevin Breslin Infrastructure Solutions Manager, IMAGINiT Technologies talked about new technologies that are being used by their consulting company and their clients this year. IMAGINiT is a provider of software, training, support and services to design and engineering companies and Autodesk Authorized Reseller and Autodesk Training Center.
 La Pata Gap Closure, Orange County, California. Image courtesy of Huitt-Zollars and Orange County Public Works (more…)
Tags: 3D cities, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, BIM, building, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, IMAGINiT Technologies, infrastructure
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Monday, December 22nd, 2014
Looking back on 2014, there were a number of important developments that rocked the AEC world. Here are our takes on what were the most telling announcements of the year:
 Autodesk Ember 3D Printer (more…)
Tags: 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, Bentley Systems, BIM, building, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, infrastructure, reality capture, Trimble
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
John Bacus, director of SketchUp product management at Trimble, discussed with AECCafe Voice the new SketchUp 2015.
 SketchUp Pro 2015’s Rotated Rectangle Tool draws rectangles that don’t have to be perpendicular or parallel to a default axis. 1. Do you see the IFC import as the most important addition to the new release, SketchUp 2015? And if so why?
IFC import has certainly captured the attention of many of our users in the construction industry, but SketchUp 2015 contains quite a few other important features as well. I like to think of SketchUp releases as offering a balance of new features, general improvements and core performance tuning. That said, with the addition of an IFC importer, SketchUp is now capable of participating in open building design and construction processes in some important new ways.
The IFC importer plays a key supporting role in a comprehensive new working style that we’ve been building into SketchUp for the last three releases— what I’ve been generally referring to as “information modeling.” The idea is that users should be able to work as quickly and efficiently with attributes and other non-graphical metadata on their models as they can with the model’s raw geometry. We want to extend the fast and loose sketching qualities of SketchUp beyond the ‘look’ of things and into their functional semantics.
 Importing an MEP reference model in SketchUp Pro using Trimble Connect (more…)
Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, building information modeling, CAD, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, Trimble
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Monday, December 8th, 2014
3D printing is not just about manufacturing anymore: it is destined to permeate the AEC industry as well.
In a press conference held at Autodesk University 2014, president and CEO Carl Bass and CTO Jeff Kowalksi introduced the company’s new 3D printer, Ember.
Autodesk Ember 3D Printer (more…)
Tags: 3D, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk University, Autodesk University 2013, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, laser scanning, reality capture
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalksi opened the Mainstage Keynotes for Autodesk University 2014 held in Las Vegas, Nevada this morning, with the statement, “Our creations are more dead than alive.”
 Jeff Kowalski, CTO, Autodesk (more…)
Tags: 3D, 3D cities, 3D printing, AEC, Apple, architects, architecture, Autodesk, Autodesk University, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, iPad, laser scanning, mobile, reality capture, Revit, SketchUp
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
At Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference in London in early November, Founder and CTO of Bentley Systems, Keith Bentley spoke on the topic of innovation.
 “The ideas that start out to be the greatest start as small ideas.” – Keith Bentley, Founder and CTO, Bentley Systems (more…)
Tags: AEC, architects, architecture, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, iPad, London, reality capture
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
In an interview with AECCafe Voice, John Bacus, director of SketchUp product management at Trimble, discussed the new features of Trimble Connect, that offers a new way for designers, builders, owners and operators to collaborate, share and view project information. It is based on GTeam, the collaboration platform developed by Gehry Technologies.
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Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, Bentley CONNECT, Bentley Systems, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, Gehry Technologies, infrastructure, SketchUp, Trimble Connect
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
Royal Farros, CEO IMSI/Design, talked with AECCafe Voice about the new version of TurboSite, version 4.
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Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building, building information modeling, CAD, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, GPS, IMSI/Design, infrastructure
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Thursday, October 30th, 2014
In a recent conversation with Jarrod Krug of Autodesk, he discussed the new BIM 360 Layout that has been added to the BIM 360 construction cloud platform.
 Autodesk BIM 360 Layout (more…)
Tags: AEC, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, BIM, building design, CAD, collaboration, construction, design, engineering
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Thursday, October 16th, 2014
Nemetschek AG Vectorworks CEO Sean Flaherty spoke with AECCafe Voice about the recent acquisition by Nemetschek of the PDF workflow solution company Bluebeam Software, Inc. Nemetschek will acquire 100% of Bluebeam Software. Headquartered in Pasadena, Calif. Bluebeam is a provider of PDF-based workflow solutions for digital processes and collaboration in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industry with more than 650,000 users worldwide. Over 74% of the top U.S. companies in the construction industry are Bluebeam customers. According to the company’s own calculations, the use of Bluebeam solutions increases productivity by 60%, reduces the costs of paper and distribution by up to 85%, and leads to a reduction of schedules of 40%. Bluebeam Software offers Bluebeam Revu, which provides PDF creation, markup, editing and collaboration, Bluebeam Vu, a free PDF viewer and Bluebeam for iPad, providing the functionality of Revu especially for mobile users, Bluebeam Q, automating the production of PDFs from original source files, and Bluebeam Studio Enterprise, a server-based solution for collaboration in a locally hosted environment.
 Bluebeam Vu AECCafe Voice: What PDF solution for collaboration was Nemetschek using previously?
Sean Flaherty: For years, Nemetschek Group products have produced high-quality PDF files so we have many customers already using PDF in their standard processes. Until the Bluebeam acquisition, we didn’t have a PDF-centric workflow solution.
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Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, Bluebeam Software, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, Nemetschek, Vectorworks
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