Posts by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Author at Architosh - Page 37 of 40
Industry predicts more CAD coming to Mac OS X platform
NX 6 Mac talk on the Web sees change in the air for highend CAD — next generation wants to work on Mac — the best environment for design says Kenneth Wong of Desktop Engineering
EVGA Corp. brings new highend GPU to Mac
EVGA expands Mac Pro Graphics Card Options with new 1 GB GPU card with the fastest memory bandwidth yet available on the Mac platform.
Architosh Facebook Page created for reader/fans
Architosh takes further steps with social media integration with online magazine and creates official Facebook Fan Page for Architosh. This page joins Architosh’s earlier step this year with the creation of the official Architosh Twitter page.
solidThinking to host at CAAD Futures 2009 conference
solidThinking to host innovative and free workshop at CAAD Futures 2009 in Montreal, Canada. “Computational Inspiration and Exploration” participants will be given a free 3-month license of solidThinking software.
Siemens PLM Software releases NX for Mac
Siemens PLM Software’s NX is now available for Mac OS X and is fully native Mac OS X code-based. TeamCenter is also available, offering Mac-based engineers, designers and product design managers platform parity under Apple’s award-winning operating system.
Bonzai 3D is now released and available for download
auto-des-sys, Inc., announces immediate availability for Bonzai 3D, with easy to get download trial software.
Autodesk makes WWDC-timed announcement about Mac Products
Autodesk sends out Apple WWDC-timed press release stating commitment to Apple Mac Platform — Announces Strong Positive Reaction in Design Community to Autodesk Alias Design 2010 for Mac.
Electric Image Animation System 8.0 for Mac
EI Technology Group’s new Electric Image Animation System (EIAS v8) is now available for download for users to get started with using one of the world’s fastest rendering systems. The famous hollywood renderer and animation system was created back in the 1990’s to handle some of the most complex scenes in movie history.
Product Review: Live Interior 3D Pro
In this review Architosh looks at BeLight Software’s latest Live Interiors 3D version 2, an young new entrant into the prosumer-space for Macintosh interior design and layout software.
Finland’s Econia Business Park designed in ArchiCAD
Finland’s Biggest Ecological Business Park has been designed using Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD Building Information Modeling software application.
AIA: Talking to Viktor Varkonyi about EcoDesigner
Architosh talks to Viktor Varkonyi, CEO of Graphisoft, and Akos Pfemeter, Director of Global Marketing, at the AIA show about their new EcoDesigner energy analysis software for ArchiCAD.
AIA: Talking to Chris Yessios about Bonzai 3D
Chris Yessios spoke with me at AIA about the new Bonzai 3D and why it offers users differences and advantages to SketchUp, while still be compatible with Google’s popular modeler.
Modelur is new urban design modeling program for Mac/Win
Modelur is a new parametric modeling application add-on to SketchUp that addresses urban design. In contrast to traditional CAD tools, where the building is described by its width, length and height, Modelur uses parametric rules to derive design based on a combination of desired final parameters.
Tidbits: Vectorworks, Graphisoft MEP Modeler and more news
Mac CAD and 3D News: We have tidbits on Vectorworks news, Graphisoft’s users who love MEP Modeler and use it to coordinate complex projects, and the new Copper Project V4 Enterprise Edition.
Mac-based Swiss Architect Wins Prestigious Pritzker Prize
Swiss-based architect and 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Peter Zumthor – Practices Architecture using Vectorworks on the Mac.
AIA: Show Floor Galleries and Notes 3
Continued AIA National Convention and Exhibition floor show coverage. In this report we take a look at the Bentley booth and what they were showing at AIA.
AIA: Show Floor Galleries and Notes 2
The AIA National Convention and Exhibition was held this year in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Famous for hosting Macworld each January and the site of Steve Jobs’ famous keynotes, the AIA show easily filled all three halls at Moscone, something Macworld has never done in recent times.
AIA: Show Floor Galleries and Notes 1
The AIA National Convention and Exhibition was held this year in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Famous for hosting Macworld each January and the site of Steve Jobs’ famous keynotes, the AIA show easily filled all three halls at Moscone, something Macworld has never done in recent times.
Vectorworks user wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
Peter Zumthor, a Swiss-based Vectorworks using Architect has won the 2009 Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious award given in the field of architecture.
In-Depth: Looking at FUZE with iPhone Collaboration
Callwave’s FUZE Meeting with its iPhone application takes online project collaboration to new levels of capability in high-definition video and in mobility for team members. This Product In-Depth goes into the details behind FUZE.
AIA: Architosh Coverage Highlights
Architosh’s show highlights on the San Francisco AIA National Convention.
AIA: formZ makers announce Bonzai 3D release
auto-des-sys, Inc. is preparing to take a bite out of Google’s SketchUp market share as it launches version 1.0 for its new Bonzai 3D.
AIA: Graphisoft announces new EcoDesigner
BIM leader and pioneer Graphisoft of Budapest, Hungary, has announced an innovative energy analysis software tool — EcoDesigner is a new module for its popular ArchiCAD BIM
ParaCloud GEM arrives on the Mac
Generative Design Comes to the Mac with new ParaCloud GEM 2.0 for Mac. New product works on Intel-only Mac computers and can work with Google SketchUp, Maya, Blender, Rhino OS X and more.
Autodesk Mudbox now available for Mac
Autodesk announces Autodesk Mudbox 2009 for Mac – New Character 3D Creation Tool Shipping to Mac Customers.
Apple FQ2 Conference Call Notes
Apple Shatters Expectations in Down-Turn Economy — Turns out Best Non-Holiday Quarter in Company’s History
Commentary: Oracle buys Sun, Good for Apple
Oracle buying Sun is probably better for Apple than IBM buying Sun…seriously! For starters Oracle and Apple are good partners, bolstered by a BFF relationship in Ellison and Jobs that goes back decades. Secondly, Sun and Apple have nice supplemental technologies, support and sales, and other avenues of ideal collaboration–including Sun’s Virtualbox and getting Solaris on the Mac Pro.
Side Effects Software intros Houdini 10
Side Effects Software of Toronto Unleashes Houdini 10 with new Motion FX and HQueue software.
Mac Pros get new workstation GPU option
Nvidia delivers latest Quadro FX 4800 advanced workstation GPU to the Mac market at NAB event.
Architectural Billings Post Slight Gain
Latest American Institute of Architects’ ABI results for February point to improvement in architectural sector. Could the floor in this down economy be under our feet at this moment?
ICS offering new Cadimage Tools for ArchiCAD 12
Integrated CADD Systems introduces New Zealand’s Cadimage Tools for ArchiCAD 12.
Autodesk puts out new survey on Mac version of AutoCAD
Autodesk seems more interested than ever in gauging interest in Mac users about a native version of AutoCAD.
Intel does ‘Global Launch’ of Nehalem chips
Intel goes Global to Talk Up New Nehalem Xeon 5500 Series Processors — Same Chips Shipped in Mac Exclusive a Month Ago.
Commentary: Snow Leopard may make June
A major developer is aiming their Snow Leopard dependent release for the June time-frame, suggesting strongly that Apple may have the next OS X operating system on store shelves as early as a day after the Apple WWDC keynote.
solidThinking Connects with Design Community at IDSA
solidThinking is making a big presence across the United States this spring by sponsoring Regional Division conferences for the IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America). The company will be hosting a booth and demonstrating its world-class industrial design software – one of the only products in its class that runs natively on the Mac.
Mac Universal CAD program BoA gets minor updates
French-based BoA for Intel has been updated with minor new features and a round of bug fixing.
No more Cadalyst in print and should we cry about it?
Roopinder Tara seems content on expressing his hope for Cadalyst magazine and its future in print — in one form or another. I’m not so sure I agree. If it was my company that bought the venerable CAD publication I’d be thinking differently about whether or not print even matters at this point. Print certainly […]
MacFive: Mar 22: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For Mar 22 we see Apple introducing iPhone OS 3.0 with over 1000 new API’s and many aimed at corporate America; Our second and third story all pertain to the iPhone and the value in writing software for it. Our 4th story is about the future of 3D CSS-based transforms on the desktop and why Apple is or is not holding back this work….and finally we talk about our new architosh Readers Group at LinkedIn.
Google sponsors Aqsis RenderMan coding project
Fancy coding as a summer job this year? The Aqsis Team are looking for computer graphics students to participate in this year’s Summer of Code initiative, which is sponsored by Google.
solidThinking adds Javelin Tech. to Growing Roster of VARs
First Canadian VAR partnership positions solidThinking for further International Expansion – solidThinking Continues to Grow Roster of Partners.
ArchiCAD behind innovative ‘Net Zero’ building in Maine
Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD drives innovative BrightBuilt Barn project by Kaplan Thompson Architects. “Net-Zero” design thrives in coastal Maine.
MacFive: Mar 15: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For Mar 15 we see exploding applications for the iPhone and iPod touch (now at 25,000), continued Enterprise Mac Adoption, an upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS update event, speculation about a new Apple touch-based netbook device and more…
Architosh has new Reader Group at LinkedIn – Join Up!
Architosh forms “architosh Readers Group” on social media professional site LinkedIn. New group aimed at developing networking resource for its constituents.
Abvent’s new Artlantis 2.1 – Faster Radiosity Renderer
Abvent releases new Artlantis 2.1 – built for speed with three areas of performance improvements.
VirtualBox 2.1.4 – Preps Windows CAD for Mac
Sun’s VirtualBox joins Parallels and VMware’s efforts to bring support for OpenGL-based CAD and hardware virtualization to the Mac.
AMD advances OpenGL – new extension binds
The power of Uber-Parallel Processing: New AMD WGL_AMD_GPU_association extension further advances multi-GPU system performance in workstations. Advances OpenGL.
Welcome to MADCAD.com v3.0! – New Features
MADCAD.com now at version 3.0 offers powerful filter-based search of over 7000 building codes and standards for the design and construction industry professional. Works online with both Mac and PC and even can be accessible via Apple’s iPhone via the Safari web browser.
Siemens PLM introduces new Parasolid v21 modeling kernel
Next Parasolid geometry modeling kernel, version 21, will power key CAD/PLM applications on the Mac.
New open-source BIMserver: New paradigm and works on Mac
BIMserver could neutralize the playing field among current market contenders and dramatically affect deployment of applications based on operating systems within AEC.
Autodesk making Alias line of products for Mac OS X
DEVELOP3D blog reports of Autodesk taking Alias toolset to Mac OS X platform — Credible report based on recent Autodesk comments made to Architosh in interview.
Siemens PLM Software offers NX 6 for Mac
Siemens PLM Software announces NX 6 for Mac – Customer Testing to Begin.
Product Review: Nemetschek Vectorworks Architect 2009
In this product review Architosh looks at Nemetschek North America’s Vectorworks Architect 2009, a 2D/3D CAD architectural CAD and BIM (building information modeling) solution used worldwide — and the number one CAD program on the Mac platform.
Apple BIM Survey Closing – Participate Now
Last call to participate in Architosh’s 2008 BIM Survey Report. The report survey will be closing in two weeks – participants will obtain both a free report on the findings of the BIM survey and be entered into a drawing to win a free Apple iPod touch.
Thus far over 400 architects and architecture firms have participated, including notable large international and US-based practices.
AutoDesSys, Inc. releases Bonzai 3D public beta
FormZ creator, AutoDesSys, has released a free public beta of their long-awaited SketchUp competitor in easy-to-use, explicit modeling – complete with NURBS curves and surfaces and Smart 3D drawing.
solidThinking attending SolidWorks WORLD 2009
solidThinking to be a hot ticket item at SolidWorks WORLD 2009 – as product development and manufacturing pipelines add world-class cross-platform product styling software application to the mix.
Tidbit: Intel and Dreamworks team up on Super Bowl 3D
Dreamworks and Intel team up on Super Bowl 3D.
CityEngine for Mac: New 3D program for cities
Procedural Inc. of Switzerland creates CityEngine for Mac, Windows and Linux – Unique specialized software helps generate complex urban models in 1/10 the time of traditional software. CityEngine features world’s first Shape Grammar implementation.
MWSF: Final Notes and the Miscellaneous
In our last Notes report on Macworld Expo we cover some nifty iPhone applications, a great new app called ModelBaker for iPhone development, and a business enterprise or small-business software tool for mixed platform (Mac/Win) studios and groups.
In the Wake of AIA San Francisco
The AIA’s National Convention was held this year in San Francisco. The event had boat-loads of news and key announcements. We summarize some items here, pointing the path we will take with our indepth coverage of the event.