Posts by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Author at Architosh - Page 38 of 40
Autodesk Talks to Architosh about the Mac
Architosh expands its notes from the Autodesk announcements at this month’s Macworld Expo and Conference.
MWSF: Notes on Smith Micro Software and Mac 3D
Architosh spoke with Smith Micro’s Steve Yatson, Senior Director Graphics Solutions at Macworld Expo about his company’s growing portfolio of 3D software for Mac and Windows.
MWSF: Notes and Photos on solidThinking
solidThinking had its first every Macworld Expo – showcased world-class industrial design software to Mac users from around the world.
Autodesk’s MotionBuilder important to Mac market
Rob Hoffmann, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment division said during a private meeting that MotionBuilder for the Mac still important to the company.
MWSF: Details on Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009
Architosh had a private press briefing with Autodesk at Macworld Expo – This article provides more details, background and photos of the new Mac native Autodesk Stitcher 2009.
Mac turns 25 Tomorrow! Share your thoughts with us
The Mac turns 25 on January 24, 2009. Please share with us your thoughts on why the Mac is great and how it has contributed to your life.
MWSF: Details on Autodesk Toxik 2009
Architosh had a private press briefing with Autodesk at Macworld Expo – This article provides more details, background and photos of the new Mac native Autodesk Toxik 2009.
MWSF: Details on Autodesk Mudbox 2009
Architosh had a private press briefing with Autodesk at Macworld Expo – This article provides more details, background and photos of the new Mac native Autodesk Mudbox 2009.
MWSF: Gallery Five
Architosh’s Macworld Conference and Expo 2009 San Francisco Photo Galleries Continue with This Series on Mac Design and CAD software.
MWSF: Gallery Four
Architosh’s Macworld Conference and Expo 2009 San Francisco Photo Galleries Continue with This Series on Mac and iPhone applications and hardware.
MWSF: Gallery Three
Architosh’s Macworld Conference and Expo 2009 San Francisco Photo Galleries Continue with This Series on Mac and iPhone applications.
MWSF: Gallery Two
Architosh’s Macworld Conference and Expo 2009 San Francisco Photo Galleries Continue with This Series on Apple’s iPhone Apps Area: 10,000 Apps and Counting!
MWSF: Gallery One
Architosh’s Macworld Conference and Expo 2009 San Francisco Photo Galleries Begin with This Series on Apple’s Booth Area.
MWSF: Macworld Expo SF – Summary Thoughts on the Show
Architosh’s Macworld Expo San Francisco 2009 Coverage – Our reports will include numerous photo galleries from the show floor plus activities and visits. Look for future reports to go indepth with Autodesk’s Mac announcements plus some extra features.
MWSF: Autodesk announces five new Mac products
Autodesk introduces five new native Mac OS X products for design and visualization serving creative markets.
MWSF: Autodesk Loves Apple – New Mac Ports Coming
Autodesk will make major announcements at Macworld Expo tomorrow that point to a more robust support of the Mac within their software portfolio.
MWSF: Upcoming new software highlights
Software highlights from next week’s Macworld Expo.
MWSF: solidThinking to introduce free software at Macworld
solidThinking to provide free software to industrial design, architecture and fine arts college and university students at Macworld Expo.
No Sun Sparc Workstations drove users to Mac Pros
Online Petition Looks to Former SGI/Sun UNIX Workstation Glory – Says Lost Users Went to the Mac.
MWSF: Macworld SF 2009 Preview for CAD/3D
Macworld Expo San Francisco – We take a look at this year’s participants serving the Mac CAD/3D and graphics professional market segments.
Product Review: Graphisoft ArchiCAD 12
In this product review Architosh looks at Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD 12, the industry’s leading BIM (building information modeling) solution used worldwide by architects and building AEC professionals.
Architosh Talks to solidThinking about the Mac and industrial design
In this interview, Architosh speaks with both Robert (Bob) Little and Alex Mazzardo about Altair’s decision to buy solidThinking and what it means for the company, how solidThinking will expand its footprint in the United States, and why solidThinking should be the preferred choice of industrial designers everywhere.
Bricscad coming to Mac – smaller companies look to Apple
CAD blog reports that Bricscad coming to Mac in the next year or so, as Bricsys NV has re-written their code base for operating system portability.
The Mac’s 25th Anniversary: What Does Steve Have Planned?
What will Apple do for Apple’s 25th Macintosh Anniversary? In this article post we ponder three dreamy scenarios from the far-fetched and nostalgic to the ultra-powerful and completely impressive to the very likely…and very useful!
Commentary: Snow Leopard in Q2 2009
From the looks of comments made by an Nvidia rep in a discussion with AppleInsider today about CUDA versus OpenCL, it appears that Apple with its OpenCL-based Snow Leopard operating system will not be ready to release that OS until the second quarter (Q2) of 2009. From the AppleInsider report: “While the OpenCL spec is […]
MacFive: Dec 7: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For Dec 7 we see exploding market share growth for iPhone, a possible $99 Wal-Mart iPhone, Google’s fantastic new SketchUp 7, and issues with Snow Leopard.
Industrial Design on the Mac: solidThinking events
solidThinking leads the way this month with industrial design on the Mac. The company has scheduled a series of key and free Webinars introducing solidThinking to designers.
Google Talks to Architosh About SketchUp Pro 7
Architosh talks to John Bacus, Google’s SketchUp Product Manager, about the all new SketchUp 7 and SketchUp Pro 7 and Layout 2. Key points in the discussion include the new Dynamic Components technology and how to learn about it, discussion about OpenGL and multi-processing and multi-threading, and the value in understanding causality in interactive rendering versus determinate renders.
Graphisoft introduces free BIM Learning Studio
Graphisoft leads industry with new free Voice-Led Interactive BIM Training and Discovery Software Suite.
Economics for architects: 1 of 5 firms look to IT
Economic downturn hurting Architects across the US – but information technology and BIM in particular may be the biggest victims.
Apple working to trademark OpenCL
Apple seeks to trademark OpenCL as new industry standard for parallelization of software across both CPU and GPU hardware.
McNeel Explains Leopard and 64-bit Rhino for Mac Users
Marlin Prowell of Robert McNeel & Associates explains the purpose behind the Leopard requirements for the latest Wanatchee build for Rhino Mac beta
Commentary: Snow Leopard Endangers Vista
Forbes says Snow Leopard Endangers Windows Vista — Reader Chime In and Say Think Alternatives to Windows for the Sake of Your Business and Clients
Microsoft’s lack of OpenCL support unfortunate
According to a report on Macworld and Electronista, OpenCL has been defined as a standard in a record six months, with key contributions from Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Apple, and others. But one key tech giant is missing from adopting and supporting that standard and that is Microsoft.
Fixing GM and the Big Three: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
What would Steve Jobs do to save GM? And why isn’t the US government asking the man that totally turned around a company that literally everyone thought was dead and turned it into an American icon of global corporate success?
Google announces new SketchUp 7 and Layout 2
Google announces SketchUp 7 and LayOut 2 – Big Update includes new Dynamic Components and Live Linking of Model Data to LayOut 2
MacFive: Nov 16: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For November 16 we see that Obama can’t take his MacBook Pro and Blackberry to the White for security reasons (though he can use Apple’s everywhere he works — he just can’t keep one) and we see the iPhone reach number one handset in the United States for Quarter 3.
Parallels 4 – Offers More for Mac CAD/3D Users
Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac Opens Up More Windows and Linux CAD and 3D Applications to Mac Users
Killer SmartPhone Apps: ShopSavvy and Shazam
So NPR has a new program which I caught last evening on the drive home called All Tech Considered. It was a nice, short 5-minute program that was a delight to catch right before my normal financial day wrap-up program Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal. Anyway, what was cool about All Tech Considered was the discussion […]
MacFive: Nov 9: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For November 9 we look at everything from Plasmonic Lithography and Air Bearings to Apeer for the Mac to a new article by Roughly Drafted that expands the ideas of technology disruption, first brought to critical light by Clayton Christensen.
MacFive: Nov 2: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For November 2 we look at Microsoft’s Windows 7, Apple Indicators that spook Redmond, 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard, MobileMe gets fixed right and IBM’s Mark Papermaster headline.
Commentary: Papermaster not to set foot in Cupertino
Apple looks set to grab one of IBM’s elite vice president-level managers – a 26 year IBM veteran with deep intellectual property history and direct knowledge of IBM chip design strategy. Yet IBM files suit to stop Papermaster from setting foot in Cupertino.
Apple In Love with Nvidia? Maybe…
Apple Hearts Nvidia? Maybe…Perhaps this is less about Apple helping to save games and more about Apple being classic Apple.
MacFive: Oct 26: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ for this week looks at the what we view as the top 5 most important stories breaking in the Macintosh or Apple news world. For October 26 we review Apple University, Apple’s new hard-hitting TV ads, Apple’s stellar financial results and $25 billion in cash, Apple and Proposition 8, and finally Linux is to Vista what American Idol is to Britney Spears.
Commentary: Apple now Rich – Should it Buy Autodesk?
Well…technically this is just a cash thing. But even by that measure that is an impressive feat for a company that was struggling for its very life just 11 years ago. With its recent record quarterly profits Apple now has more than $25.5 billion in cash, more than Microsoft.
Graphisoft Delivers MEP Modeler for ArchiCAD 12
Graphisoft introduces MEP Modeler for ArchiCAD 12 – Takes Popular BIM Tool to the Next Level with Great Integration of MEP for Architects
Note to Readers: A Guide to the New Architosh
We have launched a new version of Architosh and are very excited about its capabilities. This article will serve as a guide to readers as we continue to make a substantial transition from our old content production system to our new CMS (content management system) software system for publishing. This guide will help you find content.
Commentary: What CAD blogs do you read, why?
What CAD sites and blogs do you like to read, in addition to Architosh?
MacFive: Oct 19: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ for this week looks at the what we view as the top 5 most important stories breaking in the Macintosh or Apple news world. For October 19 we review Apple’s Cocoa-based Finder in Snow Leopard, the state of FireWire and the new MacBooks, a Greener Apple and Apple’s amazing market share gains
ICS offers Holiday ArchiCAD Payment Plan
Integrated CADD Services offers new ArchiCAD Payment Holiday Leasing Program – Addresses economic woes affecting US economy and the AEC industry
ArchiCAD Start Edition used – LEED Platinum Eco-Townhouses
Portland, Oregon-based architects win with ArchiCAD Start Edition
Autodesk announces 64-bit Revit Platform for BIM
Autodesk announces first 64-bit version of its Revit BIM Platform for the AEC industry – BIM tool still not available for Mac
LightWave 3d team wins 2008 Emmy
NewTek’s LightWave 3D helps special effects team for “Battlestar Galactica” win 2008 Emmy for Outstanding Special Effects for a Series
cmiVFX releases new training videos
cmiVFX | cmiStudios has released new HD-training videos for visual effects artists for ProjectionMan, BodyPaint 3D and Doodle
Pixologic announces ZBrush 3.12 for Mac OS X
Pixologic has announced the all new ZBrush 3.12 for Mac OS X – latest version takes full advantages of Leopard architecture on the Mac platform.
Tidbits: TurboCAD training and CubicVR
Mac CAD and 3D News Tidibits – New TurboCAD Training and CubicVR for Game Development
Apple Store Event: BIM and Architecture on the Mac
Come See Why the Mac is Back in the Building Industry – Apple Store Event on BIM (Building Information Modeling) and Architecture on the Mac – Features Graphisoft ArchiCAD and Solibri
LightWork Design announces new LightWorks 7.9
LightWorks 7.9 Announced This Week – New Features Offer More Photo-realism for Rendering Software
Can Sun save its Engineering Heritage Using the Mac?
Sun’s Virtualbox virtualization suite now supports Mac OS X – But the former engineering workstation giant could revive its legacy using Mac Pros and a tailored virtualization product for UNIX CAD and Engineering.