Features: Special
A Model 21st Century Architecture Practice: Discussions with CBT Architects' Nirva Fereshetian
In an era where artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and sustainable design converge, Fereshetian’s forward-thinking approach positions CBT Architects at the forefront of architectural practice’s post-pandemic age where constant and accelerating change is a non-trivial given.
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.
AU23: Autodesk University 'Design and Make' 2023—Our Report
Embracing the Digital Path Forward with AI. Architosh report digs into the major news coming out of AU 23 from Las Vegas with a forward focus.
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Features: Interviews
The Future of Immersive and Simulation — A Discussion with Peter Morrison of Bohemia Interactive Simulations
AI, XR (immersive headsets), advanced visualization, and terrain models are converging rapidly as the West prepares for its future security. The BAE Systems’ subsidiary talks to Architosh about its technology and where things are headed.
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.
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.
Features: Product In-Depth
Product In-Depth: ARES Kudo 2025—Takes Aim at AutoCAD LT
Architosh takes a deep dive into this year’s ARES Kudo from Graebert of Germany. The browser-based DWG CAD system moves up to features found in LT yet at a fraction of the price while offering key cloud-powered advantages.
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.
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.
Features: Firm and Artist Profiles
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.
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.
Features: Viewpoint
Why Real Content Matters for Workstation App Performance Benchmarking
SPEC performance benchmarks are deeply important to the CAD/CAM and 3D communities, helping enterprises evaluate workstations and professional apps.
How BIM streamlines productivity through entire design-production process
A wholesale look at what BIM technologies offer the AEC/O industry, streamlining both design and documentation processes and enhancing collaboration.
Viewpoint: BIM Technology for Construction Project Management
BIM has become a ubiquitous tool in the construction industry, for digital construction and project management,
Featured Video
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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- Mar 30, 20 – INSIDER: Introduction—A Focus on AAD (algorithms-aided design) in Architecture [09:20 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 30, 20 – INSIDER: Hypar Looks to Unlock AEC Industry Expertise via Computational Design Ecosystem [09:11 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 30, 20 – INSIDER: Expanding a BIM Workflow Near You—McNeel’s New Open Source Rhino.Inside SDK [09:10 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 30, 20 – INSIDER: Ladybug Tools Aim to Take Environmental Analysis to Wider Audience [08:51 pm] 1 response
- Mar 30, 20 – INSIDER: A Brief Tour of Select Grasshopper Add-Ons [08:50 pm] 4 responses
- Mar 23, 20 – INSIDER: How JPW is using Bentley’s OpenBuildings Designer GenerativeComponents to Push the Edge of Practice with Technology [08:59 pm] 0 responses
- Feb 07, 20 – A New Openness—How Vectorworks is Adapting to the World of Integrations [04:12 pm] 1 response
- Jan 23, 20 – Fireside Chat: Talking about emTech (Emerging Technologies) with Vectorworks [10:17 pm] 1 response
- Jan 22, 20 – Evento Anual de Graebert—Berlín se viste de gala para las grandes noticias de ARES Trinity [08:02 am] 0 responses
- Jan 13, 20 – Graebert Annual Event—Berlin Dresses Up for Big ARES Trinity News [08:37 am] 2 responses
- Jan 08, 20 – Viewpoint: Megacities—A Risk to the Masses? [09:13 pm] 0 responses
- Dec 11, 19 – Smart Cities Tech—How ADRF Addresses the Always Connected Challenge [07:23 am] 0 responses
- Dec 05, 19 – AU19: Autodesk University Evolves with ‘Better Starts Here’ [08:41 am] 0 responses
- Dec 03, 19 – scape Landschaftsarchitekten—BIM Lessons for Landscape Architects [06:41 am] 0 responses
- Nov 24, 19 – Bentley Systems Advances Digital Twins—Critical to Smart Infrastructure and Climate Change [08:11 pm] 1 response
- Oct 30, 19 – BRICSYS 2019—Lift Creativity, Reduce, Complexity, Act as One [02:02 pm] 0 responses
- Oct 09, 19 – Early Access: (emTech) section for INSIDER Xpresso—#08 [12:14 am] 0 responses
- Sep 30, 19 – Dr. Biplab Sarkar Talks to Architosh About Vectorworks 2020 [08:42 am] 0 responses
- Sep 27, 19 – Architecture in Perspective—An Interview with Keely Colcleugh of Kilograph [07:09 pm] 8 responses
- Sep 25, 19 – ODA DevCon ’19—Coming Full Circle in The AEC Industry [01:31 pm] 2 responses
- Sep 23, 19 – Jonathan Reeves Highlights New Features in Vectorworks 2020 [07:32 am] 0 responses
- Sep 17, 19 – Professor Randy Deutsch—Discussing the Future of Architects: Convergence and Superusers (Part 2) [08:40 am] 1 response
- Sep 16, 19 – Professor Randy Deutsch—Discussing the Future of Architects: Convergence and Superusers (Part 1) [07:08 am] 0 responses
- Aug 26, 19 – Early Access: (emTech) section for INSIDER Xpresso—#07 [08:32 am] 0 responses
- Aug 15, 19 – BIG BIM plus Open BIM with Vectorworks Architect [07:03 am] 0 responses
- Aug 07, 19 – Profile: Design Excellence—The Work of Vectorworks Scholarship Winners [01:39 pm] 1 response
- Aug 05, 19 – SIG: Siggraph 2019—Highlights from the Computer Graphics Show (Part 2) [07:28 pm] 0 responses
- Aug 04, 19 – SIG: Siggraph 2019—Highlights from the Computer Graphics Show (Part 1) [06:45 pm] 1 response
- Jul 30, 19 – Early Access: (emTech) section for INSIDER Expresso—#06 [07:55 am] 0 responses
- Jul 25, 19 – Viewpoint: Will Computer Programmes Replace Human Engineering Skill? [08:36 am] 0 responses
- Jul 23, 19 – National Engineering Firm Becomes Far More Agile with VDI via GPU Workstations [07:30 am] 0 responses
- Jul 19, 19 – Perspectives on AIA ’19—Technology and Architecture and Toward the Collective [07:23 am] 4 responses
- Jun 20, 19 – Master Builder 2.0—GRAPHISOFT Shapes Its Future Around Integration [10:12 pm] 2 responses
- May 29, 19 – Early Access: (emTech) section for INSIDER Xpresso—#04 [09:17 pm] 0 responses
- May 16, 19 – CIVIGNER is New Web-based Engineering Application for Civil and Geo [02:04 pm] 0 responses
- May 08, 19 – Finland’s Varjo is a Game-Changer—VR-1 with Bionic Display Can Transform Industries [10:22 am] 0 responses
- May 03, 19 – Early Access: (emTech) Section for INSIDER Xpresso newsletter—#03 [01:28 pm] 0 responses
- May 01, 19 – A Conversation with GRAPHISOFT’s New CEO—Huw Roberts [06:44 am] 6 responses
- Apr 29, 19 – Toward a Billion Euro Company—Patrik Heider Discusses Nemetschek’s New Formulation [08:34 am] 0 responses
- Apr 08, 19 – Real-Time or Your-Time—How Visual Vocal Can Change the AR/VR Landscape in AEC [08:01 am] 0 responses
- Mar 27, 19 – Early Access: (emTech) Section for INSIDER Xpresso newsletter—#02 [01:39 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 12, 19 – Pondering the Impact of AI (artificial intelligence) in AEC Industries—the Wide View [08:46 am] 0 responses
- Mar 04, 19 – Architosh Publishes INSIDER Xpresso #01 — newsletter looks at AI and Machine Learning in Architecture [05:51 pm] 1 response
- Feb 25, 19 – Architosh Turns 20—Learn What Comes Next [08:01 am] 0 responses
- Feb 04, 19 – A Dutch Company in Boston—Ultimaker’s 3D Printers are Transforming Design and Engineering [07:57 am] 0 responses
- Jan 06, 19 – The New Hypar Platform—Soon Offering the AEC Industry Scalable Computation [06:56 pm] 4 responses
- Jan 04, 19 – Back Stage at the Design Summit—Vectorworks CEO Opens Up [09:13 am] 0 responses
- Dec 30, 18 – INSIDER: A (.dwg) Renaissance—Neil Petersen of the ODA Explains Why [03:02 pm] 0 responses
- Dec 30, 18 – INSIDER: Bricsys 2018: CAD + Machine Learning Equals Intelligent Collaboration [03:02 pm] 1 response
- Dec 30, 18 – INSIDER: Marcus O’Brien of Autodesk—A Conversation About AutoCAD for Mac and Other Platforms [03:01 pm] 4 responses
- Dec 30, 18 – INSIDER: Graebert On Concentric Circles of (.dwg) Users—Why Its Cloud and Enterprise Updates Matter [03:00 pm] 3 responses
- Dec 30, 18 – INSIDER: How CorelCAD Continues to Grow—Unique Differentiation and Global Sales Channel [03:00 pm] 1 response
- Nov 26, 18 – Autodesk + Unity—Dave Rhodes of Unity Talks About New Partnership [10:31 pm] 0 responses
- Nov 26, 18 – Not Redundant But Important—Autodesk Paints A Better Future Under Automation [10:31 am] 0 responses
- Oct 29, 18 – Five Ways Bleeding Edge Innovation Is Working at Vectorworks [07:56 am] 0 responses
- Oct 23, 18 – Fireside Chat—The Details Behind Vectorworks 2019 [07:21 am] 0 responses
- Oct 09, 18 – INDEX 01: All Mac 3D Apps—Alphabetical Listing [08:14 am] 0 responses
- Oct 09, 18 – INDEX 02: 3D Apps: AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) [07:26 am] 0 responses
- Oct 09, 18 – INDEX 02: 3D Apps: CAID (Computer-aided Industrial Design) [07:21 am] 0 responses