News: AECO
McNeel's Rhino Gains Flux for Rhino App—Flux Connector Support and More
Flux for Rhino App is Announced—New AEC Collaboration Moves Data and Models.
GRAPHISOFT Officially Ships ARCHICAD 21—Latest BIM Software For AEC Industry
ARCHICAD 21 begins to ship in International and German-language versions this week. Other language versions coming shortly.
International Panel of Judges Announced for 2017 AEC Excellence Awards Program
Autodesk announces 2017 AEC Excellence Awards program—calls for submissions across four BIM categories.
News: MCAD
Unveiled—Autodesk Generative Design Brings Power of Machine Intelligence to Manufacturing
The technology formerly known as Project Dreamcatcher is now unveiled as Autodesk Generative Design.
TurboCAD 2017 for Windows Offers Big Advances in Latest Release
The flagship TurboCAD Pro Platinum 2D/3D CAD solution from IMSI-Design offers new connections to the company’s popular iOS and Android apps, plus dozens of new features.
Autodesk Celebrating 35 Under 35 Young Designers—Part of AutoCAD Turning 35 Years-Old
To celebrate AutoCAD’s upcoming 35th birthday in December of 2017, Autodesk is noting the work of talented young design and technical professionals under 35 years-old.
News: CAID
Unveiled—Autodesk Generative Design Brings Power of Machine Intelligence to Manufacturing
The technology formerly known as Project Dreamcatcher is now unveiled as Autodesk Generative Design.
V-Ray 3 Arrives for McNeel's Rhino Modeler—Adds V-Ray Swarm and More
The new easy to use V-Ray 3.0 has arrived on the Rhino 3D modeler application, giving powerful photorealistic rendering workflows to users of one of the most popular modeler apps.
Event News—Kangaroo Physics Workshop by Daniel Piker
Come learn Kangaroo the simulation plugin for Rhino in lovely Barcelona, Spain, this May.
News: Visualization
Twinmotion 2018 Comes to Mac—Abvent Post Video and Webinar Explains
Finally, Apple’s Mac platform gets a leading-edge app in the hot new domain of “interactive-rendering” in the AEC market. The new Twinmotion 2018—with its all new Unreal Game Engine integration—supports macOS natively.
Prospect 1.4 by irisVR Now Launched—New Scale Model Mode and More
irisVR has recently been featured on Bloomberg News TV and the latest release of Prospect (1.4) offers new Scale Model Mode plus more…
Unity's 2017 Vision VR/AR Summit—In Pictures
A video gallery of the 2017 VR/AR Vision Summit hosted by Unity in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
News: Animation & VFX
Fluid Dynamics for Maya—Chaos Group Releases New Phoenix FD 3 Plugin
Smoke, fire, liquids and oceans simulations are all new possible directly inside Autodesk Maya. Chaos Group brings popular plugin Phoenix FD 3 to the top 3D package in the M&E industry.
SideFX's New Houdini 16—What's Hot In This 3D Software Package
SideFX’s Houdini 16 has massive new updates in features and capabilities. Architosh takes a look at some of the bigger ones in procedural oceans technology and its all new shader builder module.
Chaos Group's V-Ray Rendering Technology Wins 2017 Academy Award
Chaos Group founder Vladimir Koylazov, aka “Vlado”, will receive an Academy Award Plaque at the 2017 Academy Awards, recognizing V-Ray’s role in bringing realistic CGI to the big screen.
News: Apple
Boston's Chapter First to Launch Mobile App—AIA Guide to Boston Architecture
Boston is the first US city where the local AIA Chapter has produced a mobile app for their local architecture guide. This built this app for Apple’s iPhone.
WWDC 2017: Autodesk Ready to Rock New Apple iOS 11 Workflow Features
Autodesk enthusiastically touts upcoming new iOS 11 based workflows for its mobile versions of AutoCAD and its popular SketchBook app.
Breaking the Jobsian Quadrant: Why Apple Finally Made the iMac Pro
There were great reasons long ago for Jobs’ four-quadrant product matrix, but Apple’s users today demand a continuous and overlapping spectrum of compute options that span device thinking categories from “appliance” to “configurable tool.”
Industry Commentary and Analysis
Prospect 1.4 by irisVR Now Launched—New Scale Model Mode and More
irisVR has recently been featured on Bloomberg News TV and the latest release of Prospect (1.4) offers new Scale Model Mode plus more…
Will Apple Forego Intel?—Why AMD's New RYZEN Chips Look Smart for Future Macs
Apple’s Mac design philosophy change hasn’t been lost on the company’s pro users. AMD’s new RYZEN 7 CPUs look to promise more computing muscle per watt than Intel and offer a nicer philosophical fit for Apple. The 1700, in particular, is ideal for a future Mac Pro.
Silicon Valley's Reaction to Trump Presidency Looks Within
Is Silicon Valley creating technologies that bring us together, or push as apart?
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- Jun 23, 17 – Unveiled—Autodesk Generative Design Brings Power of Machine Intelligence to Manufacturing [08:34 am] 0 responses
- Jun 22, 17 – Twinmotion 2018 Comes to Mac—Abvent Post Video and Webinar Explains [07:12 am] 0 responses
- Jun 21, 17 – 3Dconnexion and Vectorworks—The Next Power Couple? [12:44 pm] 0 responses
- Jun 20, 17 – McNeel’s Rhino Gains Flux for Rhino App—Flux Connector Support and More [01:01 am] 0 responses
- Jun 19, 17 – Boston’s Chapter First to Launch Mobile App—AIA Guide to Boston Architecture [12:58 pm] 0 responses
- Jun 15, 17 – GRAPHISOFT Officially Ships ARCHICAD 21—Latest BIM Software For AEC Industry [07:43 am] 0 responses
- Jun 14, 17 – International Panel of Judges Announced for 2017 AEC Excellence Awards Program [02:25 pm] 0 responses
- Jun 13, 17 – SCIA Engineer 17 Released—Productivity Boost for Structural Engineers [09:14 pm] 0 responses
- Jun 12, 17 – Vectorworks Design Summit—Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture Headlines Keynotes [01:59 pm] 0 responses
- Jun 09, 17 – OrthoGraph Updates OrthoGraph I to Version 1.7—New Features [09:13 am] 1 response
- Jun 08, 17 – WWDC 2017: Autodesk Ready to Rock New Apple iOS 11 Workflow Features [07:53 am] 2 responses
- Jun 07, 17 – Breaking the Jobsian Quadrant: Why Apple Finally Made the iMac Pro [07:35 am] 2 responses
- Jun 05, 17 – Prospect 1.4 by irisVR Now Launched—New Scale Model Mode and More [06:34 am] 1 response
- Jun 05, 17 – New Courses at ThinkParametric—Next Generation Designer Skills [04:46 am] 0 responses
- Jun 02, 17 – KCC 2017: Varkonyi Outlines GRAPHISOFT Future—Offers Glimpse of Nemetschek Group Strategy [01:39 pm] 2 responses
- May 30, 17 – KCC 2017: Global Architects Convene in Kyoto for GRAPHISOFT Key Client Conference [03:08 am] 0 responses
- May 26, 17 – Autodesk Updates AutoCAD for Mac—Touch Bar Support [08:58 am] 0 responses
- May 24, 17 – Unity’s 2017 Vision VR/AR Summit—In Pictures [07:18 am] 2 responses
- May 22, 17 – OrthoGraph I Monthly Ticket—App Offered at 50 Percent Discount [07:33 am] 0 responses
- May 19, 17 – Autodesk’s SketchBook 4.0 for iOS—Massive Update Taps Apple’s Powerful A-Series Processors [08:09 am] 2 responses
