Posts by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Author at Architosh - Page 16 of 40
Autodesk Finalists for 2016 AEC Excellence Awards Competition—Announced!
Autodesk announces finalists for 2016 AEC Excellence Awards Competition.
Mac 3D/CAD News: Tekla, Fusion, Vectorworks at GreenBuild 2016 and More…
We have CAD/3D News Tidbits: Vectorworks 2017 at GREENBUILD 2016, Autodesk Fusion adds PLM, and Tekla has introduced major updates to their product line.
OrthoGraph Teams with CadLine Ltd for Building Survey and 3D Interior Design
Joint Venture between OrthoGraph and ARCHLine aims at solving key pain points in the AEC industry with measuring existing buildings on paper and manually repeating an error-prone process with paper-to-CAD translation. New collaboration streamlines specifically for work that interior architects and decorators must do.
Architects Head Back to School with LEARNVIRTUAL—Hybrid Learning Platform Focused on ArchiCAD In Practice
ARCHVISTA Announces LEARNVIRTUAL—Cutting Edge Learning Technology and Virtual In-Person Training at Affordable Pricing.
GRAPHISOFT to Host Webinar Touting BIMx and BIMx PRO Features
Ernesto Minnucci, Laureate of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Minnucci Associati, will showcase some of his firm’s recent projects. And GRAPHISOFT will give a ‘sneak-peek’ into new BIMx features coming out later this fall.
Phil Bernstein Steps Down From Role as Vice President at Autodesk
Architect and Yale professor has headed strategic relations at Autodesk for a decade and a half…will now become Autodesk Fellow.
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces English Version of New Vectorworks 2017 BIM Software Product Line
New annual release features robust new Resource Manager, stunning new performance speed-ups, virtual reality (VR) support, a suite of new irrigation tools, support for native Revit file format, and broad collection of BIM-centric enhancements.
Featured Video: The All New Vectorworks 2017
In this featured video, Architosh showcases all the new great features in the new Vectorworks 2017 product range, including some BIM interoperability capabilities including native Revit import.
ODA Accelerates BIM Interoperability With Native Revit File Support
The Open Design Alliance’s reverse engineered Revit file format support for its Teigha BIM API may soon change the BIM application landscape.
3D News: The Future Group Demos First Mixed Reality (MR) Based on Unreal Engine
Hyper-Realistic Feature Film-Quality Sets and Effects Integrating People and Objects In Real-Time,
New Patent-Pending Software With Origins In “The Matrix Trilogy” and more…
MAXON Ups Rendering Ante with Multi-Year Technical Collaboration Agreement with NVIDIA
New agreement brings NVIDIA’s scalable and physically-based rendering technologies to Cinema 4D users, including NVIDIA Iray for GPU rendering.
Mac 3D News: Chaos Group Launches Brand New Website
Chaos Group introduces brand new website with new section the Magazine, plus a new responsive design for various viewing and different computing devices and a whole lot more.
Apple Involvement in IoT/Connected Home Limited in Short Run, Says Analyst
Apple keeps touting HomeKit but don’t expect more of Apple in IoT until hardware improves with AppleTV or the company introduces new gear aimed at competing with devices like the Amazon Echo.
Apple Sep Event—Don’t Be Surprised by Big Mac Update Today
Apple may not be ignoring the Mac product line because it is too distracted with future products like the Apple Car. This large time gap may mean that Apple has big plans for dramatic Mac updates that adjust the Mac product line to better suit the needs of today’s customers.
Altair updates HyperWorks 14 CAE application to serve its Aerospace customers
Altair updates HyperWorks 14 to better support the Aerospace industry.
Music and BIM: Second BIM Brothers Music Video Out—’Faster than Ever’
Does it make sense for tech companies to produce highly engaging music videos touting the virtues of their products and services? You be the judge in this second edition music video produced for GRAPHISOFT as part of the original BIM Brothers music video series.
Mac 3D News: Allegorithmic Adds Design Industry First to Substance Designer 5.5
Material Definition Language (MDL) authoring is now possible and Linux support increases compatibility with VFX pipelines.
Arguably Ahead on Technology—GRAPHISOFT Aims For The Future of Practice
By partnering with the most dominant algorithmic design software company and creating a meta-data infrastructure with a flexible graphical super-system—to help visibly put that data to work—the Hungarian BIM software maker is positioning itself for the future.
Dassault’s Spatial’s New 2017 version of its 3D ACIS Modeling Kernel
We take a look at Dassault’s Spatial 2017 1.0 release—technology that powers many 3D and CAD applications in the Windows and Mac environments.
MAXON wins Computer Graphics World Magazine ‘Silver Edge Award’
Maxon’s Cinema 4D release 18 was selected as ‘Best of Show’ for Technology and Vision that promises to greatly impact the industry.
Event News: Nordic BIM Academy Launches in Copenhagen 2016
Worldclass BIM event set to take center stage in Copenhagen in November—Nordic BIM Academy Copenhagen 2016
Autodesk Releases Dynamo 1.1 Update for Computational Design
T-Splines technology gets added to Autodesk’s Dynamo computational design tool. More updates in 1.1 release…
Analysis: Kerris’ Critique and Failed Newton Make Valuable Apple AR Lessons
Stop deciphering what Apple may do in the VR or AR markets—former Apple exec Richard Kerris’ logical break-down of the VR-AR space just gave us a huge clue as to why the company is taking so long.
Mac 3D: New V-Ray Showreel 2016 Out—Stunning Imagery
Visually stunning show reel by Chaos Group is released for the year. Their 2016 show piece is quite fetching and you will notice films you probably didn’t think V-Ray was involved in.
High Growth Dynamics Continue for Nemetschek Group in 2016
Nemetschek Group continues to propel itself to record financials on the basis of sound if not brilliant US-based acquisitions.
BIM News: Nemetschek Acquires US-based Design Data—For Structural Steel Design Software
The Nemetschek Group has snatched up another American software company…this time Design Data the makers of the popular BIM-based SDS/2 software for steel design.
VRLA Summer Expo — Apple Essentially Missing in Action from VR Market
Where is Apple in the VR revolution? VRLA certainly didn’t provide any clues or evidence of why the largest technology company on earth is a no-show in the world of VR.
CAD/3D News Tidbits: Autodesk, ThinkParametric, solidThinking news
We have news tidbits from Autodesk, ThinkParametric online learning school and the upcoming solidThinking CONVERGE conference.
Grasshopper-ArchiCAD Workflow Competition Winners Announced
Graphisoft, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software maker for architects and designers has announced the winners of its Grasshopper-ArchiCAD Workflow Competition.
SIG: Learning about AMD’s Radeon Pro WX Graphics Card Debut
AMD released some exciting news at SIGGRAPH last week about new Radeon Pro WX graphics cards, aimed at democratizing high-end graphics workloads with lower prices and higher performance.
GRAPHISOFT’s BIMx Now Offers Full BIM Data Access Everywhere
Leading BIM software developer, Graphisoft, has introduced significant updates to its multi award-winning BIM presentation and communication app, BIMx. Latest update adds new features to both BIMx and BIMx PRO.
SIG: Apple Graphics News—MoltenVK brings Vulkan to Apple iOS and macOS
New MoltenVK can help developers take advantage of Apple’s Metal graphics framework while utilizing the open-industry standard Vulkan API. This means Apple’s developers on iOS or especially macOS are no longer left out of the benefits of utilizing the next-generation, high-performance graphics API.
SIG: Maxon Announces New CINEMA 4D Release 18 for Mac and Windows
Maxon announces new Cinema 4D R18 during SIGGRAPH week. You can now do non-destructive destructions using new technology, plus cool interactive knife tools for modeling and a whole lot more.
Autodesk intros new LIVE visualization environment—viewer for iOS platform
Autodesk announces new LIVE environment for Revit. The new 3D interactive environment offers real-time adjustments to environmental conditions such as time of day and year and other settings. The free LIVE viewer works on Apple’s popular iOS devices like iPad and Windows.
Graebert Shows ARES Touch for iOS and ARES Kudo Progress—More Flexibility Than Rivals
By providing native apps across all major operating systems—desktop or mobile—including the cloud via the modern browser, Onshape’s CAD partner, the Berlin-based Graebert, aims to give CAD users the world over the most flexible access to their DWG based data.
Event: Free webinar on Cloud Rendering with Maxwell Render
Sign up for this free webinar on Maxwell Rendering with Rendicity in the Cloud.
Inivis’s AC3D 3D 7.5 application: Adds new support for ‘Spherize’ plugin
AC3D 7.5 is the latest version of the popular Windows, Mac and Linux application and the new Spherize plugin and X-Plane plugin round out new capabilities.
Resist and Challenge the Inevitable: Eva Franch i Gilabert at Vectorworks Design Summit
In this special interview feature, Architosh talks to Eva Franch i Gilabert after her design keynote at the 2016 Vectorworks Design Summit held this spring in Chicago.
Curators of Spatial Computation—What Autodesk Project Fractal Says About Future Architects
In this special feature, Architosh discusses Autodesk’s Project Fractal presentation at AIA Philadelphia, placing it within the context of the growing AEC industry interest and development in computational design software. Algorithmic design tools are far from a passing fad; this article discusses why and how some of the work of the Generative Design Group at Autodesk is pushing the envelope in interesting directions.
Vectorworks, Inc. Partners with Modelo for AEC Presentation and Collaboration Plugin
Vectorworks taps into upstart AEC industry real-time web-based collaboration tool Modelo.
iPad News: formZ Mobile Viewer announced for iPad and iPhone
Legendary Mac developer of formZ has announced its first mobile formZ branded app in the new formZ Mobile Viewer for Apple’s iOS platform.
Event News: Augmenting Landscape Architects’ Design Workflows with Information Modeling
New webinar on Information Modeling workflows using Vectorworks Landmark for landscape design professionals.
Chaos Group releases new V-RAY for MODO for Mac and Windows
Chaos Group continues its push in getting V-Ray into as many hands as possible as V-Ray for MODO is released for both Mac and Windows – based artists.
Cloud 3D rendering company Rendicity announces Apple Mac support
Mac users gain another professional 3D rendering in the cloud farm solution in Rendicity.
IrisVR releases Grasshopper Plugin for IrisVR Prospect VR Application
IrisVR startup announces IrisVR Prospect plugin for McNeel’s popular Grasshopper algorithmic design software. Now the power of VR and algorithmic design optionality meet.
Could Apple Release One Of These—External GPU Enclosure Anybody?
Apple loves sexy thin…as in your computer! But these systems come with a steep price in thermal enclosure design, and access to today’s leading GPUs necessary for the Virtual Reality revolution.
London-based Urban Design Ltd, Releases ‘Archisketch’ 2.0 with Apple Pencil and Adobe Creative Cloud Support
Archisketch 2.0 Adds Apple Pencil and Adobe Creative Cloud Support.
Correcting Misconceptions—New Vectorworks CEO Says Company Will Tout Its BIM-ness
For years former Vectorworks CEO, Sean Flaherty spoke frankly—and rather accurately, when all the data points are collected—about the BIM Movement’s longer-than-expected full emergence. Now with BIM fully astride within the AEC world, the clock is ticking and Vectorworks’ new CEO means BIM-business.
Picture Gallery: Vectorworks Design Summit 2016 with Notes
We begin our wrap up of Design Summit timed features and stories with this Gallery of images from Chicago 2016.
GRAPHISOFT Plays Key Role in Budapest ‘CAADence in Architecture’ Conference
CAADence in Architecture Conference merges theory and practice in emerging information technology impacts on the world of architecture. The conference look at Building Information Modeling and Algorithmic-Aided Design (AAD) together from one viewpoint.
If Jobs Failed Twice, Why Would Ive & Team Succeed? RIP new Mac Pro
Steve Jobs famously failed with his iconic NeXTcube computer. And then 10 years later, back at Apple, he failed again with ice-motif Power Mac G4 Cube. Both machines were inspiring and innovative on many levels, so it comes as no surprise—really—that Apple’s Jony Ive, who designed the latter machine also, wouldn’t take a shot one more time.
Ouellette Talks—Ambitious Routes Abound for Expanding openBIM Mission
Can the openBIM Movement accelerate? Can the IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) certification process expand to help that happen? Acknowledging that there are often many routes to success, these are some of the questions Jeffrey Ouellette, buildingSMART International’s new ISG Chair addresses in discussing how critical open standards are to the entire global building industry.
GRAPHISOFT announces winners of Inaugural ArchiCAD Student Design Competition
ArchiCAD Student Design Competition Winners Announced. Graphisoft North American partnered with Kitchen & Associates and AIA West Jersey.
Notes from Apple’s WWDC Keynote—Highlights and Thoughts
We run through the top moments in Apple’s 2016 WWDC Keynote, held yesterday. Get the fast skinny on the big announcements presented in the two hour event. And we have some comments about Apple and architects as well.
Autodesk and Trimble Sign Interoperability Agreement—Customers Need Flexibility
Autodesk and Trimble sign interoperability agreement that covers both IFC and API and developer tools exchange.
AIA 2016: Information Technologies at this Year’s Convention – Part 3
We dive into our final section on the show floor coverage of software and technologies at the 2016 AIA Convention in Philly. Part 4 will cover talks, sessions and things of interest like the Autodesk Apple Event held during the show at an Apple Store.
Nemetschek Forms US Strategic Base—Learn What Comes Next
The Germany, Munich-based, Nemetschek Group is flourishing, driving the strongest growth in the AECO software industry after a string of brilliant software acquisitions. But all of this success has largely been driven without the benefit of a full-time, directed strategy group. Now the AECO software multinational—the smallest of the Big 4 global AECO software companies —is setting up a global strategy group in Washington, DC.
AIA 2016: Information Technologies at this Year’s Convention – Part 2
We dive deeper in our Part 2 coverage of software and technologies at the 2016 AIA Convention in Philly. These four companies exhibited together and these four companies have interesting innovations in the pipe and/or ready now.
AIA 2016: AIA and Autodesk announce new feature to automate 2030 Commitment reporting data
Autodesk and AIA team on new automatic reporting system via new design tool features and the new Design Data Exchange system (DDx).
AIA 2016: Information Technologies at this Year’s Convention – Part 1
We begin our AIA Expo show floor reports series with the largest companies showing their software wares to architects at this year’s 2016 AIA Convention.
