Posts by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Author at Architosh - Page 14 of 41
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.
Boston-based Formlabs Gains Ex-Autodesk CEO Carl Bass as Director
Formlabs of Boston is a globally leading 3D printer manufacturer targeting designers and engineering professionals working with 3D digital content. The company has now gained ex-Autodesk CEO Carl Bass for its board.
2017 Bluebeam eXtreme Conference—Will Be Biggest On Record
Bluebeam Inc. set to shatter record attendance at its 6th Bluebeam eXtreme Conference to be held in Los Angeles this coming August.
Architizer Source Marketplace Gains New Investors—Including BIG, Katera et al
New investors in Architizer Source include Bjarke Ingels (BIG) and Katerra. Online marketplace for AEC industry building materials gaining traction.
Autodesk Makes Investment in Boston-based Smartvid.io—Machine Learning Tech Startup in Construction Industry
Autodesk makes a strategic investment in Boston-based Smartvid.io—a machine learning based startup that makes intelligent use of industrial photography and videos in the construction industry.
New Report—How VR and AR Will Impact Business in 8 Ways
An engaging infographic by Skilled discusses the massive growth expected in both VR and AR impacted industries.
GRAPHISOFT North America Partners with Black Spectacles Online Learning Resource
Black Spectacles is well known for its architecture industry online learning courses. Now GRAPHISOFT has partnered with them to provide new ARCHICAD training for the North American market.
New Unity 2017.1 Game Engine—Now Available
World’s most popular game engine radically increases productivity and collaboration between artists, designers, and developers with powerful new visual tools.
First Human Eye-Resolution VR Solution—Unveiled From Stealth Startup Varjo
Groundbreaking VR technology set to shake-up the industry with 70 Mpix resolutions compared to current solutions from Oculus and others.
ToolTalk—The New solidThinking Inspire 2017.2
Architosh discusses the latest solidThinking Inspire version 2017.2—with its innovative motion simulation tools among other improvements.
KCC 2017: The Exhibitors in Kyoto—Innovation From Asia
We continue our Kyoto coverage of GRAPHISOFT’s Key Client Conference by looking at the many Asian software solutions being developed on the ARCHICAD platform or in support via IFC and Open BIM principles. We also look at something kind of special from HP.
Allegorithmic Integrates In-App Access Directly Into Substance Painter 2017.1
Allegorithmic integrates Substance Source directly into Substance Designer in latest point-dot release, increasing ease and use and workflow for 3D artists.
Chaos Group Introduces GPU+CPU Hybrid Rendering in V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max
Major update includes improved compositing output and support for 3ds Max 2018.
Unveiled—Autodesk Generative Design Brings Power of Machine Intelligence to Manufacturing
The technology formerly known as Project Dreamcatcher is now unveiled as Autodesk Generative Design.
Twinmotion 2018 Comes to Mac—Abvent Post Video and Webinar Explains
Finally, Apple’s Mac platform gets a leading-edge app in the hot new domain of “interactive-rendering” in the AEC market. The new Twinmotion 2018—with its all new Unreal Game Engine integration—supports macOS natively.
3Dconnexion and Vectorworks—The Next Power Couple?
Gaining full 3Dconnexion 3D mice support to Vectorworks 2017 gives its users a lot more power in the area of 3D model creation, editing and navigation.
McNeel’s Rhino Gains Flux for Rhino App—Flux Connector Support and More
Flux for Rhino App is Announced—New AEC Collaboration Moves Data and Models.
GRAPHISOFT Officially Ships ARCHICAD 21—Latest BIM Software For AEC Industry
ARCHICAD 21 begins to ship in International and German-language versions this week. Other language versions coming shortly.
SCIA Engineer 17 Released—Productivity Boost for Structural Engineers
The Nemetschek Group’s SCIA subsidiary has unveiled the new SCIA Engineer 17 for the structural engineering analysis and design software market.
Vectorworks Design Summit—Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture Headlines Keynotes
The Vectorworks Design Summit is coming in September and noted architect Brad Cloepfil, founding principal of Allied Works Architecture, is headlining the design keynote.
OrthoGraph Updates OrthoGraph I to Version 1.7—New Features
OrthoGraph I is now at version 1.7—offers new support for STABILA LDMs plus other new features.
WWDC 2017: Autodesk Ready to Rock New Apple iOS 11 Workflow Features
Autodesk enthusiastically touts upcoming new iOS 11 based workflows for its mobile versions of AutoCAD and its popular SketchBook app.
Breaking the Jobsian Quadrant: Why Apple Finally Made the iMac Pro
There were great reasons long ago for Jobs’ four-quadrant product matrix, but Apple’s users today demand a continuous and overlapping spectrum of compute options that span device thinking categories from “appliance” to “configurable tool.”
Prospect 1.4 by irisVR Now Launched—New Scale Model Mode and More
irisVR has recently been featured on Bloomberg News TV and the latest release of Prospect (1.4) offers new Scale Model Mode plus more…
KCC 2017: Varkonyi Outlines GRAPHISOFT Future—Offers Glimpse of Nemetschek Group Strategy
Viktor Varkonyi, CEO of GRAPHISOFT, gave a thought-provoking introductory presentation in Kyoto, Japan, this week at the company’s Key Client Conference.
KCC 2017: Global Architects Convene in Kyoto for GRAPHISOFT Key Client Conference
Architosh is in Japan in Kyoto for the GRAPHISOFT 2017 Key Client Conference (KCC 2017) this week. We have a lot of reports coming up, plus a photo galleries from the event and trips around Kyoto.
Autodesk Updates AutoCAD for Mac—Touch Bar Support
Autodesk joins the club becoming second major CAD developer with Touch Bar support in latest point dot release of Autodesk AutoCAD 2017 for Mac product line. Other UX and customization improvements round out this mid-release free update which users will surely appreciate.
Unity’s 2017 Vision VR/AR Summit—In Pictures
A video gallery of the 2017 VR/AR Vision Summit hosted by Unity in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
Autodesk’s SketchBook 4.0 for iOS—Massive Update Taps Apple’s Powerful A-Series Processors
Autodesk taps Apple’s powerful mobile devices with new SketchBook 4.0—boasting new rendering engine, massive canvas and much more for visual artists across industries.
SimTread Crowd Flow Simulation Software—Now At Version 2.5
Software for crowd simulation from Japan that runs on the Vectorworks BIM/CAD platform has been updated—the new SimTread 2.5.
Marc Kushner Wants to Turn the Architect-to-Manufacturer Relationship on its Head
Society will win if architects start using their industry powers and Kushner’s new ArchitizerSource platform is just one pathway to getting there.
ARCHICAD 21 First CAD or BIM App with Apple Touch Bar Support
ARCHICAD’s incorporation of Apple’s Touch Bar support for its latest MacBook Pro will likely spur on a catch-up race with other major and minor CAD developers. We explain why.
Strata Intros VR17 Release—For Flagship Strata Design 3D CX Application
Strata’s introduction of VR17 update for its flagship legendary application, Strata 3D, signals the deepest push into virtual reality workflows yet.
Vectorworks Adds New Software Distributor in United Arab Emirates
Vectorworks, Inc., finds a natural partner in the United Arab Emirates—First Star Computer is a major AEC industry consultancy and reseller.
KeyShot Rendering and Animation Software Supports X-Rite’s Appearance Exchange Format
Luxion’s popular rendering software KeyShot gains new cutting edge digital material appearance system support from X-rite.
A Fall-Time Vectorworks Design Summit—Depth Is The Difference in 2017
Attendees may have been looking for deeper learning sessions, as new agenda pointedly shows changes to the conference formula.
Autodesk Explains Project Quantum—And Why It Matters in AEC
Not at all a Revit killer, Project Quantum is actually an all new platform for AEC transformation.
GRAPHISOFT introduces ARCHICAD 21—With New Patent-Pending Technology
With new patent-pending “Predictive Design” technologies, GRAPHISOFT delivers a bold new annual update to one of the market-leading BIM solutions for architects.
Hangar Targets Construction Industry with Drone Robotics Software Stack
Drones are taking to the skies over construction sites and Hangar has a new solution that is dramatically simple to operate.
AIA 2017: Vectorworks Inc. Touting Importance of Immersive Tech in Architecture
Vectorworks, Inc., will tout the importance of Immersive Technologies at AIA this week.
AIA 2017: Germany’s Nemetschek Group Brands Big at AIA Conference in Orlando
The Nemetschek Group presents a unified front at the 2017 AIA National Convention—for the first time.
Pre AIA News—Abvent to Showcase Complete 3D Visualization Portfolio
France’s Abvent will be in attendance at AIA National 2017 in Orland—full war chest of tools in hand.
Behind MIT’s New Advances in Computer-Aided Design for Manufacturing Summer Course
The world of manufacturing is changing and computer-aided design tools are growing in new directions. MIT’s new Professional Education course promises to give students a front-row seat and taste of the latest trends and technologies making these directions possible.
Nemetschek’s ALLPLAN Acquires BTG IT & Consulting—Bolsters BIM Infrastructure Leadership
Nemetschek’s ALLPLAN acquires BTG IT & Consulting GmbH as it positions Allplan Engineering for BIM-based Infrastructure market leadership.
