Posts Tagged ‘infrastructure’
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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Thursday, August 25th, 2016
Patrick Smith, SVP of Marketing at Deltek and Brian LaMee, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Deltek spoke with AECCafe about Deltek’s acquisition of information management and collaboration software company Union Square.
 Landing Page: Intranet style entry point to the system providing business and project specific news & information (more…)
Tags: AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building design, CAD, collaboration, construction, Deltek, design, engineering, infrastructure
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Lately, more products have come on the market whose goal it is to make building information modeling (BIM) better. The cloud has really opened up the possibilities for this, allowing for easier and more seamless use of a large, often unwieldy building model.
 BIM Assure’s web-based model viewer makes it easy to find and fix data issues in building models. (more…)
Tags: AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
In early June, Topcon Positioning Group and Bentley Systems unveiled a new level of direct communication between Bentley’s design applications and Topcon’s mobile work force products found in the forthcoming release of its MAGNET 4.0. With direct communication from MAGNET Enterprise to Bentley’s ProjectWise, users of Topcon’s family of MAGNET and 3D-MC software solutions can now, while working in the field, access or receive i-models created by Bentley’s OpenRoads design modeling technology. To find out more about the agreement and how MAGNET works with Bentley applications, AECCafé Voice spoke with Dustin Parkman, Bentley’s vice president of product development.
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Tags: 3D, 3D cities, 3D printing, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, mobile, TopCon
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Monday, June 6th, 2016
At an industry session held at SPAR3D 2016 in April in The Woodlands, Texas, Lou Bush, Director of Survey, Bowman Consulting Group, and Steve Hutsell, Chief, Geospatial Section U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Seattle District, gave a talk entitled: “Integrated Data Capture, BIM, CIM, GIS and CAD – Owner and Industry Perspectives on Products, Processes and Policies for Informed Decision Making.”
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Tags: AEC, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, CIM, civil information modeling, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, GIS, infrastructure, laser scanning, lidar
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Saturday, May 21st, 2016
At the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2016 Convention this week held in Philadelphia, keynote addresses spanned the gamut from host and executive producer of NPR’s Fresh Air, Terry Gross’ interview with Julia Louis-Dreyfuss of the iconic TV sitcom Seinfeld and now the series VEEP to Israeli-born architect, designer and MIT professor Neri Oxman’s highly inspirational presentation on “material ecology.”
 Neri Oxman, architect and designer, MIT professor (more…)
Tags: 3D printing, AEC, AIA Convention 2016, American Institute of Architects, infrastructure, laser scanning, Mediated Matter, MIT Media Lab, Neri Oxman, point clouds
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
Celebrity keynoters Kevin Spacey, Neri Oxman, and Rem Koolhaas will be among the numerous highlights of the AIA Convention 2016 held in Philadelphia next week. Learn and keep up with the latest from leading experts on topics including resiliency, business management, ADA compliance, LEED, green building, design and health, and more. Register for an in-depth workshop or pack your schedule with challenging seminars. Nearly 800 exhibitors will also be on hand with the latest products and technologies in the industry. Philadelphia is always a treat to visit so attendees will find a lot to entertain them after the conference lights dim.
 The Philadelphia Museum Art crowns the city’s illuminated Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The culturally rich stretch is home to many parks, public works of art and museums, including Swann Memorial Fountain (pictured), the Barnes Foundation, the Rodin Museum, The Franklin Institute, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Sister Cities Park and many other attractions. (more…)
Tags: 3D cities, AEC, architecture, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Bentley Systems, BIM, building, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, laser scanning, point clouds, reality capture, Sefaira
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
Those I spoke to at SPAR3D 2016 last week were amazed at the progress the 3D laser scanning/reality capture products had made over just one year. Many people attended in order to find out if the technology would be right for their organization and what it would entail in terms of a learning curve, and of course, how much it would cost.
 SPAR 3D scanning mobile unit from Surphaser (more…)
Tags: 3D, 3D cities, AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, Bentley Systems, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, engineering, engineers, GIS, infrastructure, laser scanning, mobile, point clouds, reality capture, SketchUp, Trimble
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Thursday, April 14th, 2016
The four morning keynotes kicking off SPAR3D 2016 in The Woodlands, Texas, Tuesday morning included Eddie Paddock, Engineering/VR Technical Discipline lead, NASA Johnson Space Center, Greg Bentley, CEO Bentley Systems, Inc., David Smith, CTO, Wearality, and Curtis Chan, technical evangelist, Autodesk.
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Tags: AEC, architects, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, Cloud, collaboration, infrastructure, laser scanning, mobile, point clouds, reality capture
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