Posts by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Author at Architosh - Page 12 of 40
Product In-Depth: A Focus on Workflow in ARCHICAD 21
ARCHICAD 21 has some truly astounding new tech inside but the Hungarian BIM leader says this release is all about the workflow.
Flying Through DEVELOP 3D LIVE 2017 Boston—The Event
A quick peek at what was going on in Boston this week—DEVELOP 3D LIVE Boston at Boston University.
Autodesk Launches Services Marketplace for AEC Industry
Do you need help with CAD, BIM or project collaboration services with Autodesk technologies? Autodesk now has you covered.
Vectorworks, Inc. Talks—Five Key Items in Version 2018 That May Surprise You
In this special feature Architosh talks to Vectorworks’ Execs about the technologies and histories behind Vectorworks 2018’s biggest new features.
ToolTalk: An Introduction to AutoQ3D for Mac—Fast and Easy CAD
As part of our TalkTalk series, in this post we walk the reader through a CAD tool on the Mac that is relatively new and worthy of attention—AutoQ3D for Mac.
ARES Kudo Cloud-Based CAD—Now Released and Growing
A full browser-based CAD system can operate in your browser to read, create, and annotate DWG drawings in the cloud.
Graebert Announces ARES Commander 2018—Native DWG CAD On Every Platform
ARES Commander 2018 is unveiled in Berlin, Germany, today at Annual Meeting event.
Nemetschek Group Acquires RISA—Leading Structural Software Engineering Provider
The Nemetschek Group has added another AEC software player from the United States to its roster—acquiring US leading structural engineering software RISA.
MAXON Unveils Cineware for Illustrator—Adds Rendering Engine to Adobe App
New plugin allows artists to integrate 3D content directly in Adobe Illustrator CC—and empower them further with Cineware editing functionality.
Graebert Releases SP3 for ARES Commander 2017—Supports DWG 2018 Format
Graebert updates ARES Commander 2017 to handle DWG 2018 file format—among other SP3 items—and makes news about ARES Kudo.
The Mac-Only Cheetah3D Gets Biggest Update Ever in Version 7
Five years in the making, the new Cheetah3D 7.0 is officially out. New Mac-only 3D software tool boasts new unbiased renderer and many new features.
Unity Collaborates with Autodesk—Strengthening Link with 3ds and Maya
Unity Technologies and Autodesk collaborate around FBX technology to streamline game development and asset creation using 3ds Max and Maya with Unity.
CL3VER Stuns—Bold New Platform for 3D and Interactivity
CL3VER has announced an all-new cloud-based rendering and collaboration platform for AEC professionals and product designers. New plugins bring desktop-based power and offer one-button publishing to CL3VER distributed projects.
Allegorithmic Releases Update to Substance Painter
Simple export to Project Felix enhances 3D material workflow for artists and graphic designers—plus five additional tools and updates now available.
GRAPHISOFT Webinar—Design Immersion: Sketch To Virtual Reality
Earn free AIA CES units in this GRAPHISOFT webinar while learning about how Virtual Reality is fundamentally changing how architects are communicating with their clients.
Digital Drawing Heaven?—First Reviews of reMarkable Tablet Seem Glorious
The new reMarkable tablet from Norway is making big waves now that it is shipping in volume. Is this the dream device architects and designers have been waiting for?
A 3D City Within Weeks—Agency9 of Sweden Can Deliver
Getting a high-quality 3D city model within weeks is no easy feat. But with the power of software and high-resolution satellite imagery, it’s now possible and delivered within CityPlanner software.
VDS: Day 2 Keynote and Gallery from Vectorworks Design Summit
Architosh shares Day 2 photos and info from the 2017 Vectorworks Design Summit which just took place in Baltimore earlier this month.
Augmented Reality Rising—Unity Supports iOS 11 and Apple ARKit
Unity announces robust support for Apple’s ARKit and iOS 11—announces new IKEA Place as a stellar example of augmented reality example app.
VDS: Day 1 Keynote—Highlights From The Talks
Architosh captures some key moments during the Day 1 Keynote at the 2017 Vectorworks Design Summit.
Autodesk Forge Fund Invests in ManufactOn—AEC Industry Startup
Autodesk has participated in a Series A funding round for ManufactOn—Boston based startup aims to simplify supply-chain management for AEC industry with a cloud-based platform.
Starts Tomorrow—Live Streaming Keynotes at Vectorworks Design Summit
If you can’t attend the 2017 Vectorworks Design Summit event happening this week in Baltimore, you can watch it live!
Chaos Group Brings GPU+CPU Hybrid Rendering to V-Ray 3.6 for Maya
New technology from Chaos Group breaks hardware barriers, ensuring fast, consistent rendering with support for Autodesk Maya 2018.
Key New Modeling Features for Architects—In New Vectorworks 2018
Vectorworks 2018 has several new major modeling enhancements. We run down the main points of each.
Vectorworks 2018 Announced—Plus New Rigging Analysis Module
Vectorworks 2018 is announced with a focus on BIM usability, design productivity gains, and new analysis technologies.
OrthoGraph 1.8 Is Announced—New Measure During Sketch Tool
OrthoGraph adds new Measure by Sketch feature in latest OrthoGraph I system—a complete mobile app workflow aimed at the AEC industry.
Autodesk Announces New Free Components to “AEC Collection”
Autodesk adds three new BIM-centric offerings to AEC Collection software.
Architecture Firm Accelerates BIM Process—Using Their Hands
It may sound counter intuitive that the power of hand drawing can possibly speed up a modern architectural BIM workflow. But to the delight of ESG Architecture and Design, it actually is.
BSD Aims to Bring Specs to BIM—With New Leaders And Capital Injection
Visionary thought leaders join the company and secure capital to advance products to pioneer the convergence of specification and BIM technologies. But the cloud, and hence mobile, will need to play a future role in success.
Multiple Drawing Views—Upcoming Vectorworks 2018 Gets Them And More
Watch this sneak-peak view of the upcoming Vectorworks 2018’s new support for Multiple Drawing Views and learn about a few other things too.
Featured Video: Vectorworks Architect 2017
In this featured video, Architosh showcases the key features in Vectorworks 2017 so that readers and users of this software can get excited about what comes next! Vectorworks 2018 is just around the corner.
A Unified Graphics Future—How The Khronos Group Intends To Get Us There (Part 2)
Neil Trevett, President of The Khronos Group, talks to Architosh in this two-part series about OpenGL and the future of graphics standards.
A Hot Economy—Autodesk and Industry Group Says Construction Force Shortages Abound
In the US construction market, there are deep shortages of qualified personnel to hire. Without policy changes made soon to boost construction worker education and training, technology automation may come to the rescue ultimately eliminating human jobs down the road.
Chaos Group Acquires Render Legion and Corona Renderer
Chaos Group acquires fast-moving Corona Renderer company out of Prague.
The ODA (Open Design Alliance) Releases Teigha BIM 4.3.1
Third-party developers can now export both 2D and 3D geometry to native Revit 2018 files with the latest Teigha BIM SDK from the ODA—expanding interoperability and capacity for CAD and BIM developers.
A Unified Graphics Future—How The Khronos Group Intends To Get Us There (Part 1)
Neil Trevett, President of The Khronos Group, talks to Architosh in this two-part series about OpenGL and the future of graphics standards.
Getting Real with 3D Materials—How Allegorithmic’s Technology is Leading
Allegorithmic had a key presence at SIGGRAPH 2017 this year at Los Angeles. The French software company is the worldwide leader in material (texture) creation for the gaming industry. But the company has a wider audience of users in mind.
Why Gensler Architects Have Embraced Allegorithmic’s Substance Software
Scott DeWoody of Gensler explains the firm’s adoption and use of Allegorithmic’s Substance software product line and how they work with it for all their digital material’s creation across their pipeline.
Creative App Learning Site ‘Pluralsight’—To Host Michelle Obama
The former First Lady will be speaking in a moderated conversation at Pluralsight LIVE in September.
Dodge Data & Analytics’ Sweets Reaches 100k Product Listing Milestone
100,000 products milestone reached in digital online and app-based Sweets product data for the AEC industry.
Vectorworks News: Mac CAD Leader Forms New Office in United Kingdom
Vectorworks says the UK region is expanding their users and acquires Design Software Solutions Limited to form new Vectorworks UK office.
Architizer Asks—Which is Best Laptop for Architects: Mac or PC?
Should young architects go with a PC laptop or a Mac laptop? This is the question Architizer asks in their thoughtful comparison article.
e-on Software’s Release 3 of VUE 2016 and PlantFactory Now Available
E-on Software’s latest Release 3 for VUE 2016 and PlantFactory 2016 now available.
Vectorworks Design Summit Adds 7 New Speakers
Vectorworks announces 7 new speakers—industry leaders and Vectorworks innovative users who have valuable lessons to share with other design professionals.
GRAPHISOFT Wins ‘Gold Stevie Award’ for ARCHICAD 21 Marketing Campaign in 2017
Patent-pending Predictive Design technology is the star of BIM maker’s award-winning marketing campaign for 2017.
SIG: New V-Ray Benchmark—See How Fast Your GPU and CPU Setups Really Are
Chaos Group announces new benchmarking app to test GPU and CPU strength—new benchmark will join tools like Maxon’s Cinebench.
SIG: Dassault Systemes’ Spatial Corp Releases Updated Modeling Kernel
Spatial Corporation updates its modeling engine technology and SDKs to version 2018.1 — adding more capabilities for analysis and additive manufacturing, among other items.
SIG: New Twinmotion 2018 Powered by Unreal Engine—Now Ships
Abvent group is at SIGGRAPH this week and have announced the release of Twinmotion 2018 in seven languages for immediate release and upcoming webinars to learn more.
SIG: Luxion Releases KeyShot 7—Intros Real-Time VR Support
Luxion intros the new KeyShot 7 in Los Angeles this week at SIGGRAPH 2017. There are five major top new features including Studios.
SIG: New Massive Prime Version 9 Intros ‘Universal Plugin’—For All Major 3D Software
Massive meets demands from users with new Universal Plugin for all major 3D software in new Massive Prime v9. The company is demoing the new tech at SIGGRAPH.
SIG: The Khronos Group Releases Major Update to Graphics API—OpenGL 4.6 with SPIR-V Support
SPIR-V support added to OpenGL in version 4.6—update to industry standard graphics API specification will liberate shader-language development for content creators and 3D developers, among other updates.
SIG: MAXON unveils Cinema 4D Release 19—Powerful 3D Graphics Suite for Mac and Windows
On the of the 2017 SIGGRAPH show in Los Angeles, Germany’s Maxon Computer has announced the latest version of their flagship professional 3D software package—Cinema 4D R19.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Now Enables Streaming of Graphically Intensive Design and Engineering Applications
Amazon has launched new AppStream 2.0 streaming services for supporting GPU-powered virtual workstations for customers through web browsers on various modern devices and operating systems—eliminating the need for high-end PC workstations with intensive GPU and CPU hardware resources. This is an ideal solution for access to Windows-only engineering and design solutions from Mac environments.
Yulio Launches First ‘Audio Hotspot’ Technology to VR Market
Architects, interior designers, and retailers can provide their clients and customers rich VR immersive environments with audio hot spots with Yulio VR.
SIG: SIGGRAPH 2017 Shaping Up to be Big Show—Preview Talk
Why are VR and AR companies taking root in the LA area? What is the state of the union in portability with graphics APIs so that the most apps can be written to the most platforms? These are some of the core questions Architosh is asking as it heads into the exciting week ahead with SIGGRAPH 2017.
Boston User Group and CAD Reseller News—ArchiCAD and Twinmotion
Boston’s local CAD industry has a good ARCHICAD 21 focused User Group Meeting in July while July is also the summer of savings month by Cambridge’s CADGarage.
solidThinking Brings Generative Design to the Cloud
solidThinking Inc. wasn’t really dropping support for macOS in their latest Inspire release, they were merely gearing up for solidThinking Inspire Unlimited their full-featured cloud-based generative design platform.
Allegorithmic’s Substance Days Returns to Hollywood This July
A great 3D industry training and learning event takes place in Hollywood next week, a few days ahead of SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles.
Autodesk Behind Bipartisan Industry Coalition to Promote Investment in US Infrastructure
Blueprint 2025 is a bipartisan coalition of 100 industry CEOs and public sector representatives—aimed at promoting infrastructure investment in the United States.
E-on Software Announces Pre-Release of Carbon Scatter and CloudFactory Ozone 2017 Plugins
Bentley’s subsidiary E-on Software is releasing Carbon Scatter and CloudFactory Ozone plugins one last time in 2017 as they consolidate their product lines and focus on VUE and PlantFactory.
