Features: Special

SIGGRAPH 2023: It Starts with AI—The Full Report
At this year’s SIGGRAPH 2023 computer graphics conference and exhibition—AI, USD, and digital twins play staring roles.

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.

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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Features: Interviews

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.

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.

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.
Features: Product In-Depth

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.

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.

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.
Features: Firm and Artist Profiles

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.

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.

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.
Features: Viewpoint

Viewpoint: BIM Technology for Construction Project Management
BIM has become a ubiquitous tool in the construction industry, for digital construction and project management,

Viewpoint: The Case for BIM in Precast Concrete Prefabricated Buildings
Precast concrete detailing tools used to model prefabricated buildings streamline the design and documentation process and aid construction.

Why Builders use BIM for Cost Savings
BIM technologies and BIM services are greatly benefitting the business of construction, and not just for large firms. Learn how exactly in this Viewpoint feature.
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Featured Video: Vectorworks Architect 2017
In this featured video, Architosh showcases the key features in Vectorworks 2017 so that readers and users of this software can get excited about what comes next! Vectorworks 2018 is just around the corner.

Featured Video: The New OrthoGraph I System
In this featured video Architosh showcases all the capabilities and uses of the all new OrthoGraph I mobile cloud-based app for Apple iOS and Google Android mobile devices, used in conjunction with laser distance meters like the Leica DISTO D2. Learn how to streamline field dimensioning and take data straight into BIM and CAD applications.

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.
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- Aug 23, 23 – Viewpoint: The Case for BIM in Precast Concrete Prefabricated Buildings [07:45 am] 0 responses
- Aug 20, 23 – SIGGRAPH 2023: It Starts with AI—The Full Report [09:18 am] 0 responses
- Jul 20, 23 – Solibri Inside and Vectorworks—Advancing BIM for Users [01:55 pm] 0 responses
- May 09, 23 – Why Builders use BIM for Cost Savings [08:30 am] 0 responses
- May 08, 23 – Amy Bunszel of Autodesk Talks to Architosh About Forma [01:00 am] 0 responses
- Apr 27, 23 – Choose Your Own Adventure—Vectorworks’ New Omniverse Connector Expands Future for Users [01:07 pm] 0 responses
- Apr 24, 23 – Viewpoint: How BIM offers better efficiency during design and construction phases [01:36 pm] 0 responses
- Apr 21, 23 – New Voices: With Disrupt Symposium Founder Sara Kolata [01:00 pm] 0 responses
- Apr 13, 23 – Jumping Out In Front—How BOXX Workstations with AMD Processors Transformed Frantom Designs’ Creative Workflows [09:30 am] 0 responses
- Apr 05, 23 – AutoCAD 2024—Dania El Hassan Talks About AI, M-chip Support, and Meeting Customers Where They Are [10:00 am] 0 responses
- Apr 03, 23 – Industry Voices: ‘Attacking Technology as a Design Problem,’ with Evan Troxel, AIA [09:45 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 02, 23 – ARES Trinity — A Review of the Industry Leading DWG CAD Software [09:53 pm] 0 responses
- Feb 16, 23 – ARES Kudo Delivers Multiple Benefits for University CAD Instruction [07:54 pm] 0 responses
- Feb 06, 23 – Flexible Modern Workflows with AutoCAD Web and Mobile [08:50 am] 0 responses
- Jan 23, 23 – Stantec gains faster multitasking AEC workflows with AMD Radeon PRO GPUs. [11:36 am] 0 responses
- Jan 19, 23 – First Principles and Vectorworks BIM Shine at UK-based Studio Partington [09:23 am] 0 responses
- Jan 16, 23 – Benefitting from Reality Capture Digital Twins using 360-degree Cameras [01:01 am] 0 responses
- Jan 04, 23 – A&E Optimism—Where it Comes From and How to Maintain It [10:29 pm] 0 responses
- Dec 08, 22 – Apple’s Leading-Edge Plus PC Hardware Ecosystem Deployed on Vectorworks Cloud Services [02:03 pm] 0 responses
- Dec 06, 22 – Autodesk Cloud-based Platforms and AI/ML Aim to Help Solve the Biggest Problems We Face [09:27 pm] 0 responses
- Nov 17, 22 – Tect—A Promising Platform Can Provide Key Gains for Architects and Manufacturers Alike [08:10 pm] 0 responses
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- Oct 20, 22 – The Revit Open Letter Through the Lens of QWERTY-Nomics [05:17 am] 0 responses
- Oct 06, 22 – Deep Insights about Vectorworks 2023 — Execs Talk to Architosh [03:11 pm] 0 responses
- Sep 27, 22 – Autodesk Begins New Era for Future of Architecture [07:00 am] 0 responses
- Sep 12, 22 – The New AutoCAD Web—Streamlined Collaboration for CAD Professionals [12:35 pm] 2 responses
- Aug 25, 22 – Slowing the Climate Crisis—Habit Studio Firm Profile [09:12 am] 0 responses
- Jul 18, 22 – Why Good UX Design Matters in the BIM Software Industry [08:19 pm] 0 responses
- Jul 11, 22 – The Roberts Interview—Ahead of the Graphisoft 2022 Release Event [08:26 am] 0 responses
- Jun 28, 22 – The Glimpse Group — CEO Talks to Architosh About AR/VR [12:30 pm] 0 responses
- May 26, 22 – Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 — AI, Upskilling Users and Performance [12:00 pm] 0 responses
- May 03, 22 – The Gift That Keeps On Giving—Vectorworks Talks Apple Silicon [03:20 pm] 1 response
- May 03, 22 – Product In-Depth: Ricoh THETA X for the AEC Industry [08:04 am] 0 responses
- Apr 22, 22 – Fireside Chat: Bricsys CEO Rahul Kejriwal Talks About BricsCAD to Architosh [09:23 am] 0 responses
- Apr 13, 22 – How generative design can change the process of product development [08:30 am] 0 responses
- Apr 07, 22 – Inspiring the Next Generation—Young People in Engineering [08:39 am] 0 responses
- Apr 06, 22 – GKV — Diversification and Adaptability with Vectorworks [07:38 pm] 0 responses
- Apr 04, 22 – Omniverse In-Depth with Richard Kerris, VP NVIDIA [01:15 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 23, 22 – Viewpoint: Challenges of BIM Implementation from an Architect’s Perspective [09:11 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 22, 22 – Is ARES the neXt AutoCAD? [01:00 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 18, 22 – Tech Soft 3D Advances CAD Technologies — New Accelerations [06:05 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 08, 22 – Japanese AEC Giant Selects Graebert ARES CAD Technologies — Learn Why [01:12 am] 0 responses
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- Jan 21, 22 – Chip Technology, Geopolitics, and the CAD Industry [01:40 pm] 0 responses
- Jan 20, 22 – Vectorworks Partner Network Boast Innovative, Popular Expansions [02:58 pm] 0 responses
- Jan 10, 22 – Clarity for Revit Workflows Brings New Space Planning to Automation Software Suite [07:47 am] 0 responses
- Dec 30, 21 – In-depth with Trimble SketchUp’s PreDesign Technologies [07:05 pm] 0 responses
- Dec 07, 21 – Marquee Firms and Innovators—Altair’s AEC Market Technology Offerings [08:13 am] 0 responses
- Dec 03, 21 – CorelDRAW Technical Suite 2021—Powerful Technical Illustration Connected to Industrial CAD [07:06 am] 0 responses
- Nov 29, 21 – NVIDIA Execs Talk Omniverse and RTX with Architosh [03:15 pm] 0 responses
- Nov 20, 21 – NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang Dazzles with Key Announcements and New Tools for Omniverse [07:11 pm] 0 responses
- Nov 19, 21 – Autodesk and Closing the AECOM Feedback Loop—Why It Matters [07:49 am] 0 responses
- Nov 15, 21 – AMD’s Viewport Boost Feature—3D and BIM Acceleration Technology [12:00 pm] 1 response
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- Oct 22, 21 – The ARM Wars: Vectorworks 2022 is the First BIM on ARM—the M1 Interview [08:15 am] 0 responses
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- Sep 09, 21 – The Evolving Immersive Experience (VR/AR/XR) [01:31 am] 0 responses
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