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CorelCAD Ends—Users Pushed to Graebert ARES Commander

CorelCAD ends for its users but they are invited to move to the German ARES Commander, the best alternative to AutoCAD.

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Rhino 8—Goes After General Architectural Modeling Market

Rhino 8 adds new PushPull and other modeling features aimed at advancing typical architectural modeling workflows.

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Looking at Autodesk’s Workshop XR Technologies

Autodesk Workshop XR brings immersive technologies like VR, MR, and AR into Autodesk Construction Cloud for the AEC industry.

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Creative Destruction—How Snaptrude is Aiming to Disrupt the BIM Market

COVID taught us the value of time. Cloud-based Snaptrude leverages this value in shaking up the BIM industry via novel new capabilities.

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A Big Data Difference—Vectorworks Sets Itself Apart with Data

Excel live-linking was only “icing on the cake.” Vectorworks 2024 shines with differences in handling project and BIM data.

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Firm Profile: NG+P and the Evolution of Architectural Technology

Newman Garrison + Partners (NG+P) is an award-winning greater Los Angeles area BIM-forward multi-discipline design firm. They speak to us about the evolution of digital technology in architecture.

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Graphisoft: Archicad is ‘Scary Fast’ on New M3 Macs

Archicad is ‘Scary Fast,’ says the BIM innovator with a long history of its tech-forward Mac support.

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AMD and Nvidia Partner on New Workstations Tech

Next-gen AI workflows, advanced visualization and compute excel due to AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO CPU and Ada RTX GPUs.

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Nemetschek Group launches new SaaS Digital Twin platform—dTwin

Nemetsheck Group shakes up the AEC/O industry, launching the first horizontal open digital twin platform—dTwin.

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Chaos Talks anima with Architosh—Buying AXYZ design and Arch Viz Futures

Animation and the impact of advanced technologies like AI are just some of the exciting reasons why Chaos’ latest acquisition strengthens the industry leader.

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AATEG: Project BEAM Aims to Tackle Early Stage Cost Control in AEC

Project BEAM is the next AATEG open participation group. You’re invited to help solve the gaps in AEC/O project cost control and cost management.

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French-based Rayon for Architecture backed by Norman Foster

Rayon from Paris aims to address the gap between CAD and BIM in the AEC industry—new cloud-based tool with Foster backing.

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Newforma Announces ‘Newforma Konekt’—Cloud-based Future

Newforma shares the future of construction management technology—introduces Konekt SaaS cloud platform for AEC/O industry.

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Graphisoft announces Archicad 27 and more at Building Together Event

Archicad users gain new Design Options tool, and more, plus BIMcloud, BIMx, and DDScad updates boast innovations.

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Dr. Sarkar Talks Vectorworks 2024—A Most Modern BIM

Can desktop-era BIM leaders expand features and streamline the UX and workflows at the same time? Vectorworks 2024 may be the best evidence that such a thing is possible. More than that, continued industry firsts shape up to a most modern BIM app in Vectorworks 2024.

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Procore Intros New AI-Powered Copilot to Revolutionize Construction Workflows

Procore Copilot will leverage AI intelligently to assist construction professionals via streamlining platform processes and surfacing critical information.

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Prologis Invests in TestFit—Deploys AI Software

Global Logistics Real Estate Giant Leveraging AI in Design & Construction with TestFit.

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AATEG: Project BEAM Survey Seeks AEC Pros for Alpha-phase Study

Project BEAM is the next AATEG participation project. Come learn about Project BEAM for the BIM industry.

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SPEC Releases SPECapc for Maya 2024 Benchmark, Adds SPEC Workload Development Kit

SPEC Releases new SPECapc for Maya 2024 Benchmark for the creative industries to help measure workstation performance.

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Maxon Intros New Cinebench 2024 Benchmark App

Maxon Cinebench 2024 makes a leap forward in performance benchmarking for creatives, gamers, and hardware enthusiasts.

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Vectorworks 2024 Set to Impress with Impactful New Features

The upcoming version of Vectorworks, version 2024, will empower and focus users with comprehensive, streamlined workflows for architecture, landscape design, and the entertainment industries.

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Bentley Systems Announces Finalists for 2023 Infrastructure Awards

Bentley announces Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards finalists — spans global infrastructure projects.

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NVIDIA’s New RTX Ada Generation GPUs for Workstations Pack Power

New NVIDIA Ada Generation RTX 5000, RTX 4500, and RTX 4000 offer accelerated AI and DCC workflows for professional users.

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Pixar, Apple, Adobe, Autodesk and NVIDIA Form Alliance for OpenUSD

The new Alliance for OpenUSD to foster the Universal Scene Description (USD) technology and drive critical adoption through related industries.

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SketchUp Launches AI-Powered Image Search for 3D Warehouse

SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse gains new AI-powered image search speeding up architect and designer workflows.

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Solibri Inside and Vectorworks—Advancing BIM for Users

Solibri Inside is more than just quality assurance for BIM models. It provides a way for architects to deliver better designs for their clients and, in the future, will lead to real-time QA feedback that can even keep architects from making mistakes.

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AIA23: Technology at AIA 23 SF on Day 2

BIM 2.0 era new software market entrants, plus visualization tools from Chaos – Enscape, plus practice management software from BQE and AIA Documents

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AIA23: Architosh 9th ‘BEST of SHOW’ honors for software technologies at AIA National San Francisco

Architosh announces its 2023 AIA National BEST of SHOW honors for the most interesting and compelling software and digital technologies at AIA23

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AIA23: Technology at AIA 23 SF on Day 1

BIM leaders, 3D leaders, and AI and AR technologies are in focus from our AIA23 SF.

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AIA23: Global Insights on Tech for Architects

BIM 2.0, AI (artificial intelligence), and talk of the Apple Vision Pro were highlighted points in multiple discussions with technology vendors at AIA23.

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Architosh at AIA San Francisco—What We Are Looking Forward To

Pre-show thoughts on AIA 2023 San Francisco. Thinking about innovation and BIM 2.0.

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Apple Intros Apple Silicon-based Mac Pro

Apple’s lovable Mac Pro enclosure is now married to Apple’s industry-leading Apple Silicon. But the new M2 Ultra-powered workstation isn’t for everyone.

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Enscape 3.5 boasts Digital People and Adjustable Assets for AEC

Enscape 3.5 for Windows offers numerous new capabilities, better image quality, new adjustable assets and more.

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Blue Ocean Sustainability intros Skema for BIM 2.0 Design Automation

Skema for BIM 2.0 design automation is new cloud-based next-generation software technology for architects and designers.

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Autodesk introduces Forma for next-generation building design in the cloud

Autodesk releases the first version of Autodesk Forma, the new AEC/O industry cloud, with Spacemaker’s innovative technologies powering AI capabilities.

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Amy Bunszel of Autodesk Talks to Architosh About Forma

We discuss in this feature other items about Autodesk Forma not mentioned in the official press release—such as interop, SketchUp export, Spacemaker customers, AI, NVIDIA Omniverse, and more.

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Choose Your Own Adventure—Vectorworks’ New Omniverse Connector Expands Future for Users

NVIDIA Omniverse is making waves in most industrial CAD industries, from manufacturing to AEC/O. Now Vectorworks has a new Omniverse Connector, marking an inflection point for next-generation collaboration, visualization, and simulation capabilities for users.

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New Voices: With Disrupt Symposium Founder Sara Kolata

This industry is complex, demanding, risky, and economically under-performative. Parts of education also mislead it. Sara Kolata has lived it and works on bringing positive change.

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Jumping Out In Front—How BOXX Workstations with AMD Processors Transformed Frantom Designs’ Creative Workflows

Frantom Designs has moved to BOXX workstations with AMD chips, and it has transformed their design workflows dramatically.

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Autodesk says new cloud-based AEC tool Forma coming in May

Autodesk Forma is on its way, says the US CAD giant. Spacemaker-based Forma industry cloud for AEC marks an inflection point for the company.

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AutoCAD 2024—Dania El Hassan Talks About AI, M-chip Support, and Meeting Customers Where They Are

CAD technology is still ‘leading-edge’ at Autodesk—latest OS-based technologies, AI, machine learning, and new Apple Silicon make AutoCAD anything but old-fashioned.

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Industry Voices: ‘Attacking Technology as a Design Problem,’ with Evan Troxel, AIA

Architects take the friction out of the way their clients live and work, yet they still need to remove industry-specific friction from their own practices. The TRXL Podcast is aiming to help fix that.

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AutoCAD for Mac 2024—New Release Boast Native M-Chip Support

M-Series chip support is now available in AutoCAD for Mac 2024, including AutoCAD for Mac LT 2024—with dramatic speed up, plus new collaboration features.

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Welcome AutoCAD 2024—Update Boost Productivity, Adds Machine Learning Features

AutoCAD 2024 builds accelerated workflows by tapping the power of machine learning while meeting users’ unique workflow needs with more flexible and productive new and improved features.

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NVIDIA, ASML, TSMC and Synopsys—Set Up Next-Gen Chip Manufacturing

Semiconductor leaders embrace NVIDIA breakthrough in computational lithography as the industry drives toward limits of physics.

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NVIDIA Expands Omniverse Ecosystem and Core Technologies

NVIDIA Omniverse expands in multiple directions from the larger ecosystem of connectors to Omniverse Cloud and deepening Omniverse partnerships.

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Vectorworks News: Reduce CO2 Emissions on Projects

Carbon emissions from building amount to nearly 40% of all global CO2. Architects can learn how to reduce embodied carbon and operation carbon from two practitioners.

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Nemetschek Group Invests in World-First Carbon Hub App Preoptima

Preoptima is the latest startup to receive investment funds from Germany’s Nemetschek Group. Company has developed world-first carbon hub for AEC/O

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SketchUp now gains new Revit Importer

SketchUp unveils native interoperability with new Revit Importer for Studio, plus cool new modeling tools for SketchUp for Desktop

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Nemetschek Group Achieves Record 2022 Revenue—Preliminary Figures

The Nemetschek Group has achieved its revenue and profitability (EBITDA margin) targets for 2022, based on preliminary accounting across its companies.

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ARES Trinity — A Review of the Industry Leading DWG CAD Software

We have taken a deep dive into the native DWG CAD ecosystem from Germany, and Architosh finds much to admire in this industry leader.

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BOXX Upgrades APEXX W4 Workstation with New Intel Xeon W-3400 Processor

First-to-Market APEXX W4 boasts latest Intel Xeon W-3400 56-core Processor for demanding workflows in AEC, DCC, and manufacturing.

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ARES Kudo Delivers Multiple Benefits for University CAD Instruction

When a university computer lab was on lockdown during the pandemic, an instructor was forced to change technology so students could continue their CAD studies. What wasn’t expected was the discovery of how cloud-based CAD could transform the educational process leading to faster learning and streamlined teaching.

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BOXX Updates APEXX E3 workstation with 13th Gen Intel Core Processors

This latest Intel workstation from BOXX Technologies delivers Intel Core Gen-13 processors in the APEXX E3 entry-level model.

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Flexible Modern Workflows with AutoCAD Web and Mobile

Accelerating modern workflow processes today requires the agility and connectivity that only cloud-connected applications can deliver. AutoCAD on the web and on mobile is at the heart of these case studies, precisely showing such acceleration.

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Solibri Inside—Nemetschek Group Advances Quality Assurance in BIM

Innovative Solibri Inside technology solution brings seamless, integrated BIM model checking directly to native BIM authoring solutions Allplan, Archicad, and Vectorworks.

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Gurman says Apple Reality One Headset will have iOS-like Interface

Apple’s Reality One VR/AR headset may be a game changer for the immersive industry with a digital crown feature that is said to be a key feature.

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Stantec gains faster multitasking AEC workflows with AMD Radeon PRO GPUs.

Rendering workflows have always pushed computer hardware to the limit and still do. And they can altogether tie up a computer during render time. Stantec has gotten beyond this limit thanks to AMD Radeon PRO GPUs.

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First Principles and Vectorworks BIM Shine at UK-based Studio Partington

A less ideological approach to utilizing BIM marries well with this UK architecture practice’s organic path to expertise in sustainable design leadership in architecture, policy, and research.

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BIM News: Vectorworks Intros New Cloud and Mobile Features Built on Apple Technology

New features in Vectorworks Cloud Services and Nomad mobile app leverage new advanced Apple technologies for reality capture, more…

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