Two topics coming up for February timeframe on AECCafe Voice:
Collaboration platforms and the Cloud
Reality Capture
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Call for Participants: February Topics – Collaboration and Reality Capture
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016Contribute Ideas to AECCafe’s Trends/Predictions article
Monday, December 14th, 2015Greetings, Readers!
The first week of January AECCafe Voice will publish a Trends/Predictions article, looking forward toward what might be the big trends for the new year, as well as the next five years.
From the Exhibit Floor at AIA in Atlanta
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015The American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention held in Atlanta two weeks ago, was the setting for a number of AEC vendors to announce new products and services.
Special Coverage: Envisioning 3D Cities of the Future
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015First published in GISCafe Voice:
Cities worldwide are charged with the same challenge: that of creating or retrofitting sustainable, intelligent infrastructure. Cities need the best in design, geospatial, visualization and analytical tools to realize a viable and intelligent city design. 3D City design is architectural design times thousands, plus it must have the ability to be interwoven with other surrounding infrastructure and foster an urban conversation.
Autodesk’s Revit R2 and Site Designer Extension released
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014Autodesk’s Anthony Hauck, senior product line manager, joined me on a call this week to discuss the new Autodesk Revit 2015 R2 release.
The Revit R2 release is available now to Maintenance Subscription and Desktop Subscription customers only at this time.
Site Designer enables architects, designers and planners to shape the terrain for building sites and communicate design intent with civil engineers.
AIA 2014: The Story from the Exhibit Floor
Thursday, July 10th, 2014The Exhibit Floor tells a part of the story of any architectural conference. At the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Conference in Chicago two weeks ago, you walk in, and the first booths you see contain windows, doors, facades, all necessary features of a built environment. Toward the back are the software vendors, which provide the design and conceptual tools to make the building a reality.
Graphisoft’s new Archicad 18 release
Thursday, June 5th, 2014A couple of weeks ago I spoke with Akos Pfemeter of Graphisoft about the new Archicad 18 release. The product Archicad is 30 years old this year, which Pfemeter points out means that “BIM” is 30 years old now, since Graphisoft was the first company to create building information modeling.
EcoDesigner STAR from GRAPHISOFT for energy-efficient building design
Thursday, February 13th, 2014The challenge of getting energy evaluations into a building information model has been puzzling developers for a long time now. GRAPHISOFT has offered some energy evaluation capability in its flagship product ArchiCAD, but now the company has announced EcoDesigner STAR to serve highly energy-efficient building design by turning ArchiCAD BIM models into multiple thermal zone Building Energy Models (BEM).
GRAPHISOFT’s new BIMx Docs Available
Friday, December 13th, 2013The next generation of a new app from GRAPHISOFT called BIMx is now available in the Apple App Store. The brand new “BIMx Docs” function pack included in the new version provides access to full BIM projects containing the 2D documentation as well as the 3D model. The app’s advanced “Hyper-model” technology allows users to check out BIM projects on their touch screen devices anywhere. People who don’t have BIM training can also use it. This is a tool that can really bring BIM to the construction side of AEC.
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Archicad 17 Addresses the Details in BIM Models
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013Akos Pfemeter, Director of Graphisoft Global Marketing, talked about the upcoming release of Archicad 17 in June – a major upgrade for Archicad.
