Posts by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Author at Architosh - Page 16 of 39
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.
In Brief: Highlights from AIA 2016 Philly
Architosh is at AIA Philly 2016 and we will have extensive show coverage and a big picture gallery series as well. If you couldn’t attend this year, you have a missed a good one. Record attendance, great speakers and tech…and let’s not forget Philly herself!
Inflection Point: Disruptions, Platforms and Growth with Rhino + Grasshopper (Part 1)
According to Gartner’s “Hype Cycle technology curve, algorithmic aided design within the building design industry—sometimes referred to as AAD—is nearing the “peak of inflated expectations,” where we see in the industry what is known as supplier proliferation. Indeed, quite suddenly in fact, McNeel & Associates has seen a ground swell in competition to their famous Rhino + Grasshopper product combo. An inflection point is coming, due to the rapid rise of something McNeel & Associates has become synonymous for, but so too is change. In this two part series we investigate the factors in this change and learn what may lie ahead.
Vectorworks Design Summit 2016—What Was Cool This Year
Architosh kicks off the first of a series of articles on what was shown and discussed at this year’s Vectorworks Design Summit.
New SCIA Engineer 16 announced—delivers 350+ updates structural engineering app
Scia has announced the new SCIA Engineer 16, IFC certified Open BIM structural modeling, analysis, design, code checking and reporting software for structural engineering workflows in AEC.
Thornton Tomasetti Launches Software Development Firm
In an industry first, global AEC engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti has spun out its R&D groups, including CORE studio, to form a privately-held software engineering firm advancing leading edge solutions for both the main company and the industry at large.
GRAPHISOFT’s Grasshopper-ArchiCAD Live Connection
The Rhino-Grasshopper-ArchiCAD Live Connection enables architects to use all three applications in bi-directions, working to bridge algorithmic design with a leading edge BIM application in ArchiCAD 20. This new connection was beta tested by over 1000 architects around the world. The Live Connection plugins enable Rhino to produce native GDL ArchiCAD elements, while Grasshopper can drive model elements in ArchiCAD algorithmically.
GRAPHISOFT announces new ArchiCAD 20—Fresh Look at BIM
ARCHICAD 20 reinforces the letter “I” in BIM with a number of important functional improvements while adding a brand new, flat-design graphical user interface, making it the most graphically modern BIM application on the market.
Design Summit: Vectorworks CEO Dr. Sarkar Reveals Technology Road Map
More than 600 key customers from 23 countries around the globe today got to see the future of Vectorworks at the CEO keynote at the Vectorworks Design Summit in Chicago.
More News of Twinmotion-Abvent Merger: Switching Heads of Development
Head of KA-RA at Twinmotion will lead new combined Abvent unit.
NAB: Autodesk acquires the Arnold Renderer and its development team
Autodesk announces its acquisition of Solid Angle, the makers of the Arnold Renderer, at NAB 2016 this week. This is the first major advanced renderer Autodesk owns in-house but the company has already committed to an “open renderer policy” and even third-party products will be robustly supported and that may become a new business segment for the company.
NAB: Nvidia Iray and Cinema 4D for Architecture—Live Event
This year at NAB the Nvidia Iray plugin for Cinema 4D is being showcased at the Maxon booth…a live presentation is available to view as well.
Twinmotion developer KA-RA has joined the Abvent Group
Twin motion developer joins France’s Abvent SA, the developers of the famed Artlantis series of rendering products for the AEC industry. The R&D teams and marketing teams will be integrated to drive synergies and prepare for future directions in the market.
The chip the new Mac Pro may have been waiting for is out and ready!
Intel’s new 14nm Xeon E5-v4 Xeon processors are out. While not the biggest update in recent memory, the new lithography process means less power to more cores and thus higher performance. This is a great time for Apple to update the Mac Pro. Perhaps the only time.
Phil Bernstein on the Changing Role of the 21st Century Architect—The Interview (Part 2)
In this interview Architosh learns more than just what Phil Bernstein thinks about educating 21st century architects in the context of advancing AEC digitization. He shares his vast knowledge of “practice” in the 20th century and how things have evolved to the point we face today. In this two-part series we cover the gamut from roles to society’s expectations of professionals, from contracts to architecture schools, from the importance of coding to where Revit’s brain may go.
Phil Bernstein of Autodesk on the Changing Role of the 21st Century Architect—The Interview (Part 1)
In this interview Architosh learns more than just what Phil Bernstein thinks about educating 21st century architects in the context of advancing AEC digitization. He shares his vast knowledge of “practice” in the 20th century and how things have evolved to the point we face today. In this two-part series we cover the gamut from roles to society’s expectations of professionals, from contracts to architecture schools, from the importance of coding to where Revit’s brain may go.
Illustrious Jury Awards Graphisoft BIMx Pro Architizer A+ Award
One of Apple’s most illustrious software developers has won yet again, another key industry award, sweeping the “Best of Best” Award for the 2016 Architizer A+ Awards in the Technology category.
Mac 3D: PipeLineFX is now Cloud-Ready on Google Cloud Platform
A world-leader in render farm software for the media & entertainment (M&E), AEC industry and the games industry, PipelineFX has enabled its award-winning Qube! render farm software to work on the Google Cloud Platform.
Bluebeam Revu now out for Apple’s Mac Platform—Big win for Mac in AEC
Years in the making, Nemetschek Group subsidiary, Bluebeam Inc., has released a Mac native version of its building industry leading application Revu. A full fledged member of the Bluebeam family, the Mac version can fully participate in Bluebeam Studio workflows in the building industry.
German Nemetschek Group appoints Sean Flaherty Chief Strategy Officer
The now former CEO of Vectorworks, Inc., Sean Flaherty, has been appointed to the role of Chief Strategy Officer on the Nemetschek Group supervisory board, a position where he will drive group-wide future strategy for the resurgent AEC software company.
Dr. Biplab Sarkar named CEO of Vectorworks, Inc.
Vectorworks, Inc., announces new CEO in Dr. Biplab Sarkar, while Sean Flaherty takes up key full time position as Chief Strategy Officer for the entire Nemetschek Group.
Eva Franch i Gilabert named Vectorworks Design Summit Keynote Speaker
Vectorworks Inc. announces design keynote speaker for upcoming Design Summit, this year held in Chicago. New York architect Eva Franch i Gilabert will deliver a talk titled “Alternatives” on 27 April 2016.
Matterport enhances Immersive Spaces with First Generation Mattertag Content
Matterport users are now able to annotate points in 3D space for real estate, travel and hospitality, media and AEC markets.
Nemetschek Group posts impressive financial results
The Nemetschek Group continues record earnings and revenue results as company shares forecasts for fiscal 2016 with estimated EBITDA of nearly $100 million USD.
Graphisoft partners with UK based 3D Point Cloud scanning company
Graphisoft UK partners with Murphy Surveys on Point Cloud Scanning for the UK and Irish AEC markets.
Tidbits: PTC, Vectorworks, Trimble CAD and AEC news
CAD News: PTC sponsors leading tech startup event in Massachusetts aimed at finding great new tech in areas related to its MCAD base, including AR and IoT; plus Vectorworks and Asite headline next Build Earth Live, a project involving a Hyperloop; and finally we have news on Trimble Connect’s latest updates.
Featured Video: Vectorworks Design Summit—2016 Chicago
In this featured video, Architosh showcases the highlight aspects of the upcoming 2016 Vectorworks Design Summit taking place in Chicago, one of the architectural capitals of the world. Take a peak below…only takes a minute!
Maxon showcasing Cinema 4D at 2016 NAB Show in Las Vegas
Maxon will be showcasing Cinema 4D R17 at the NAB 2016 Show in Las Vegas next month.
‘High Performance’: The Ultimate BIM Feature
In this special feature, Architosh takes a look at the nature of ‘performance’ both in the architecture firm and its value in the BIM transformation from 2D CAD to BIM workflows. What is the firm performance trade-off due to BIM? How have architects argued against performance? And how do we discuss and evaluate performance within software and BIM in today’s workflow? This feature illuminates this topic using one BIM developer’s software development work as a case study.
Possible OS X Futures—Two Things We Learned This Week
A future where Apple controls its microarchitecture for iOS completely and where it doesn’t for OS X raises questions. Additionally, Apple’s iCloud ambitions speak to interesting answers in hosted app solutions that can address the “pro” market.
