Connecting

As a result, Vectorworks customers around the world will have the opportunity to connect with fellow industry leaders and design enthusiasts. They will also receive a first-hand look at what’s new in Vectorworks 2024.

Vectorworks Chief Technology Officer, Steve Johnson. Image: Vectorworks.

Vectorworks Chief Technology Officer, Steve Johnson explains the rationale behind these Design Days:

Features

Vectorworks is keen to demonstrate its product’s array of new and improved features. For example, the new Vectorworks 2024 offers its users an updated and modernized user interface. Consequently, this means Vectorworks is more efficient and easier to customize.

It also offers BIM (building information modelling) tools that cater to the specific needs of architects. Users will additionally find improved geometry for thresholds and sills, so they fit better with wall closures. Furthermore, customers see more options to control interior and exterior environmental conditions.

Consequently, gaps around doors and windows can be controlled for each side of the opening. Moreover, door handing has been standardized to allow for more detailed geometry. Additionally, materials can now be assigned to doors and windows, guaranteeing accuracy and consistency in visual representation and reporting.

Insights

In addition to exploring the technical details concerning the upcoming software release, attendees will gain valuable insights from customer success stories. They can also network with like-minded designers and the Vectorworks senior leadership team as they present the Future of Vectorworks roadmap.

Venues

The worldwide Design Day series begins October 2023 and continues through to March 2024 at the following locations:

• Design Day London – 3 October 2023
  Venue: 30 Euston Square, London, England.
  Industries: architecture, interiors, and landscapes.

• Design Day Los Angeles – 17 October 2023
  Venue: 2520 W Olive Avenue, Los Angeles, USA.
  Industries: entertainment.

• Design Day Vancouver – 25 October 2023
  Venue: 515 W Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada.
  Industries: architecture, interiors, and landscapes.

• Design Day New York City – 1 November 2023
  Venue: 536 La Guardia Place, New York City, USA.
  Industries: architecture, interiors, and landscapes.

• Design Day Brooklyn – 2 November 2023
  Venue 230 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
  Industries: entertainment.

• Design Day Sydney – 19 March 2024
  Venue: 12 – Micron, Barangaroo, Sydney, Australia.
  Industries: architecture, interiors, and landscapes.

Registration is free for all events. Moreover, prospective attendees can easily secure their places online right now. Please click here for more information.

About Vectorworks, Inc.

Vectorworks is an award-winning BIM and design software provider serving architecture, landscape architecture, and entertainment industries in 85 countries. Consequently, it now has more than 685,000 users who are creating, connecting, and influencing the next generation of design.

Vectorworks’ head office is in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in Australia, Canada, and the UK. Vectorworks dates back to 1985 and is now part of the Nemetschek Group.

• To learn more about Vectorworks, please click here.

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“With 2020 having been our best year ever, we have high aspirations and expectations for 2021 and beyond,” said Huw Roberts, Graphisoft CEO.

Building Together 2021

Concurrent with the announcement for Archicad 25 and other services and technologies for its users, Graphisoft announced the Building Together 2021 conference. The three-day online conference will be held from 14 – 16 September 2021.

Graphisoft Building Together 2021 takes place this coming September.

Building Together 2021 will feature the achievements and success stories from Graphisoft community users and reinforce the company’s global influence. A big goal is to not just share industry knowledge and expertise but to make them more universally available to the larger AEC community of AEC experts, researchers and academics, students and practitioners in architecture and engineering.

Key topics will include Diversity in Architecture, Rapid Rehousing, the Future of Cities, Cultural Heritage Preservation, and the Changing Role of Architects. Architects, experts, and students from around the world are all invited to attend and participate.

Registration

Interested readers can register now for this free three-day conference. More than 30 leading architects and experts from around the world will participate in the form of roundtables, keynotes, and short TedTalk-style presentations.

An agenda is shown on this page at the Building Together 2021 webpage. You can find more information and register here.

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FUTURES

FUTURES will look at various types of futures that unite and inspire humanity as well as strategies that solve real-world problems now, in the future and even ideas from past generations.

A rendering of Autodesk’s Co-Lab display at the FUTURES Exhibition coming to the Smithsonian’s Arts + Industries Building (AIB) this fall.

The exhibit will look at the future of travel, the future of burials, the future robots, and the future of design. Autodesk has co-developed an exhibit that enables a first-of-its-kind collaborative design experience, marrying collaborative human (occupant) participation with artificial intelligence (AI). The installation is called “Co-Lab” and will invite visitors to co-create their own city of the future.

Autodesk’s generative design technology will be featured in the exhibit in two ways. Firstly, the technology which taps the power of AI was used to create the interactive display design itself. Secondly, it will be used by visitors as they collaborate together along with AI to design a city block.

Autodesk says the installation incorporates Autodesk’s latest generative design technology. Visitors collaborate with each other along with AI to design a sustainable urban block. Each visitor will take on a different persona (from the developer, mayor, ecologist, etc.) and be motivated by specific goals and situational input factors. For example, inputs like availability of green space, distance from public services, and low carbon transportation, are just a few. Autodesk’s generative design technology today in its own applications provides accessibility to non-programmer user interfaces like simple sliders. In Co-Lab visitors can alter input levels (eg: the amount of green space) on situational factors and thereby explore the visualization of trade-offs necessary to achieve certain outcomes.

To learn more about Autodesk at the AIB this fall click here.

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Event News

GRAPHISOFT typically has its Key Client Conference every two years but this year as events worldwide have been postponed or canceled due to the pandemic, the famed BIM software maker is launching a virtual event taking place over two days in early July.

GRAPHISOFT’s 2020 event is titled “Building Together” a global digital event.

From 8 – 9 July 2020, “Building Together: Digital Event” will take place online and feature a line-up of engaging speakers from GRAPHISOFT’s own experts and executives to likely architects around the world using ARCHICAD, the company’s flagship BIM software.

2nd Tallest Building in the World

Those who attend this digital event will also hear why the architects who designed the world’s second tallest building chose ARCHICAD.

For those in the press, on 6 July 2020, there will be an exclusive online press briefing.

Free Registration

Due to this year’s pandemic, the fee for this year’s event has been entirely waived. As a digital event, there should be unlimited capacity so AEC professionals should sign-up now to attend. You can register here: https://buildingtogether.graphisoft.com

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RTC 2020

Somewhat unique to this conference, the event takes place simultaneously in two locations, Paris and New York, running from 6-7 April 2020.

Real-time technologies are advancing so quickly that industry has developed a new dual-city annual conference just for real-time technologies and their impacts on industries.

“Real-time technology is having a major impact on several industries, but there is a natural tendency for experts to remain within their own communities – that’s where the RealTime Conference comes in,” said Jean-Michel Blottière, former executive director of FMX and co-founder of the RealTime Conference. “Our goal is to bring together real-time experts, innovators, creatives, and decision-makers from these different communities to find unexpected connections and to help shape the industry for years to come.”

The RealTime Conference was founded by industry professionals from companies with a history of innovation — including Weta Digital, DreamWorks, THX, Dassault Systèmes, and TellTale Games to name a few — with the shared goal of uniting the real-time community across multiple industries.

RTC 2020 will feature big-name industry speakers, including some that Architosh speaks to regularly, including:

• Marc Petit — General Manager, Unreal Engine, Epic Games
• Sébastien Deguy — Vice President, 3D and Immersive, Adobe
• Asa Kalam — Executive Director at Walt Disney Imagineering
• Adam Chernick — Associate, Interactive Visualization, SHoP Architects
• and many others… (speakers page found here)

Key sponsoring companies and names that Architosh readers know well include: Intel, Epic Games, Adobe, Foundry, HP, Rewind, and others. Over 45 speakers from companies like Epic Games, Google, Facebook, Activision, Unity, and others will inform attendees.

“Real-time technology has a transformative quality, and in many ways, it is still in its infancy,” said Manny Francisco, CTO of the RealTime Conference. “Our goal is to create a forum where pioneers can exchange ideas with peers and help others plan the next two, three or even ten years of their business.”

Registration and Pricing

Tickets for both New York and Paris are on sale now, and include single day, full conference, VIP and student passes. Non-student attendees that purchase their tickets before January 31, 2020, will receive the “Super Early Bird” discount, granting 30% off of all packages. Starting on February 1, registrants will receive a 20% discount, which will remain in effect until February 28. Throughout March, registrants will receive a 10% discount.

Single-day passes offer access to all sessions – including keynotes, lectures, and workshops in either location, as well as the live, real-time transatlantic demos. Full conference passes grant access to all sessions on both days, along with “Meet the Experts” round-tables on topics like virtual production, volumetric capture, metaverse planning, business models and several others.

Limited numbers of VIP passes are available and feature access to private events, including an exclusive dinner for New York attendees and a cruise on the River Seine in Paris. VIP attendees will also be able to meet one-on-one with presenters in the private “Speakers’ Lounge” and continue the conversation.

Additional information, including links to register, can be found here.

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European International BIM Summit — Reference Point for Advanced BIM Users

The European BIM Summit is an international reference point for advanced BIM users meeting in Europe. The theme this year is on knowledge transfer of BIM experience from the well tested and BIM experienced Nordic countries.

GRAPHISOFT and SIMBIM will contribute to the content of this event in two main areas. OPEN BIM and the new GRAPHISOFT BIM Classes and certification process that has been implemented in Spain.

Finland the BIM Leader

Day one of the EBS19 will be focused on the application of BIM in the Nordic countries where BIM technology has advanced the furthest. Themes of talks will delve into topics like services and practice methodologies aimed at maintaining and managing the built heritage or the role fo the FM (facility manager).

The second and last day will be dedicated to discussing the future of BIM. International BIM experts will discuss collaborative workflows, new services and the growth in international start-ups, Blockchain, and more than 14 case studies about everything BIM will offer in the near future.

Why Attend

GRAPHISOFT will have three presenters at this conference. (see image). They include Milkós Szövényi-Lux, head of strategic relations at GRAPHISOFT, Rob Roef (BIM Captain), OPEN BIM program manager at GRAPHISOFT, and Ioanna Alsasua Pastrana, Senior BIM Consultant at SIMBIM in Spain and Andorra.

• April 10, 18:00 CET — Presenting BIM Standards Worldwide – Milkós Szövényi-Lux
• April 10, 18:00 CET — Presenting best BIM workflow practices through GRAPHISOFT BIM classes and certification, Ioanna Alsasua Pastrana
• April 11, 16:00 CET — Presenting Why Open BIM Works, Rob Roef

The summit starts with an initiative to support local professionals and students with free, pre-summit events such as BIM4Students and the BIM Experience event at CAATEEB headquarters. These open and free admission events will allow Spain’s professionals and managers to discover the latest developments in the market, including both products and services.

01 – GRAPHISOFT’S speakers at the upcoming EBS19 event happening in Barcelona, Spain.

To learn more read this post here at GRAPHISOFT.

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The Vectorworks Design Summit takes place at a different location every year. Typically these have been urban locations but the event in 2018 chose the desert of Arizona instead. And it was the farthest event towards the west coast as well.

Event Photos with Notes

I heard from Vectorworks staff that almost immediately after the Design Summit in 2017 a team selected a short list of potential locations for the 2018 conference. Narrowing down the list the small team flew out to each location to check out the facilities up close and evaluate the suitability for the conference.

The Location

The location for the 2018 Design Summit was breathtaking—the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass. How is that for a name? About 30 minutes from the Phoenix International Airport, Wild Horse Pass is secluded and tucked away into the Sonoran Desert and celebrates the Gila River Indian heritage and culture. The architecture of the hotel represented this with native-inspired forms and materials and beautiful ceiling murals celebrating native history.

01 – The front entrance to the hotel had beautiful log timber elements.

02 – The view from a typical Wild Horse Pass hotel room.

While not a masterwork of contemporary architecture reflecting a native past—that kind of work attendees would see at the Antoine Predock design keynote talk—the hotel had a lux southwest feel that quickly shifted attendees minds towards something new in learning about Vectorworks, networking with peers, and taking hands-on training classes.

Taking time off to attend software user conferences isn’t always easy but this particular type of location—and located deeper into the colder late Fall—makes for an ideal short family get-away. I met several attendees who brought their spouse or family along for an extended stay before or after the event. The hotel had fantastic pools, nature walks, horse riding, tennis, and two beautiful resort golf courses with excellent clubhouse lunch fair. Some attendees went architecture touring in nearby downtown Phoenix and to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West school.

Getting Larger

This year I was told that the show slightly exceeded its record attendee levels from recent shows, with more than 600 Vectorworks professional and student end-users, consultants and trainers in attendance.

03 – The Day 1 keynote was packed into a larger conference hall. Over 600 attendees this year came to educate themselves, gain AIA credits and more.

This year I was hoping to see more users from Asia at the event, being that it was a bit closer than an East Coast location. That was not the case, as I only saw a few attendees from Japan. In order to get those Japanese customers to come to the Design Summit, the event may have to be much closer, like Vancouver or Alaska. Why emphasize Japan?

03 – Dr. Biplab Sarkar, CEO of Vectorworks discussing the global market for Vectorworks users.

Take a look at the next image. During the keynote Vectorworks CEO, Dr. Biplab Sarkar put up a slide that showed their global markets. Asia has roughly 30% of their global users and most of them are in Japan. However, as learned in a post-keynote interview reported here, major-sized users are also in countries in south-east Asia. Asia has 10 percent more share of users than all of the Americas combined. After the United States, Germany is the next largest country market for Vectorworks users, followed by the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Third Parties at Design Summit

A typical Design Summit begins one day before the first day with an evening cocktail event for networking and strategizing with colleagues. This networking takes place in the long gallery circulation spaces directly in front of the major presentation halls. During the conference, these spaces are also where a small third-party exhibition space is held. Between major talks, folks can mingle and check out third-party applications, services, and hardware.

04 – Happy Hour event with third-party exhibitors presenting wares.

In the past, there have been a good dozen third-party companies setting up for the Design Summit, but this year the number was smaller, which was surprising given the attendance numbers at over 600. Canon, Bluebeam, and ALLPLAN, and Transoft’s AutoTURN were all present, with a few others.

Speaking of third-parties, this year’s keynote showed that Vectorworks continues to expand features in their solutions by tapping into third-party connected apps. This was also reiterated on in my interview with the executive team during the event and already reported here. During the technology keynote, Dr. Sarkar noted several key third-party integrations. For Vectorworks 2019, Transoft’s AutoTURN Online was a big one. The solution is a vehicle turning analysis solution that helps architects and planning professionals test parking lots and drives and delivery bays for workable layouts for real vehicle operations. Transoft is actually a major software company working across multiple transportation domains, including commercial aviation.

05 – Transoft’s AutoTURN is a simulation app that is integrated into Vectorworks 2019.

Deersoft was also mentioned at the Design Summit. The German software company based in Berlin makes a product that is called Braceworks, and a version of that software is a comprehensive “add-on” to Vectorworks Spotlight. It should be noted how important Spotlight is becoming to the Maryland-based subsidiary of the Nemetschek Group. The CAD market for the live events, film and theater industry is reportedly massive. And Vectorworks Spotlight according to ComputerWorks in Germany is the “undisputed standard.” It is the undisputed leader in just Germany? Perhaps. But Germany is the second largest enterprise software market in the world after the United States and it may likely be the second largest in the CAD verticals. Check out the video on Vectorworks Spotlight below (in German).

A few final comments about the 2018 Vectorworks Design Summit. In the image below it is important to point out that the AEC industry is now accounting for just over 50% of all revenues and users for Vectorworks. While initially, the Landmark product was the product that would drive new users, Spotlight has completely overtaken that industry segment. (see image 06).

06 – A slide from the keynote talk showing markets globally and across product disciplines.

It should be noted that this year at the conference there were more sessions and users (in attendance) focused on Spotlight than any year in the past, according to sources at the event. Vectorworks Spotlight growth is clearly a strong growth driver and it will continue to make this conference more multi-dimensional over time.

To learn more about the Vectorworks Design Summit you can visit the official website here. Our other recent reports on Vectorworks include this feature interview from the event. (see: Architosh, “Back Stage at the Design Summit—Vectorworks CEO Opens Up,” 4 Jan 2019).

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Architosh has written extensively about what is sometimes called the RGA (Rhino-Grasshopper-ARCHICAD) toolset and one of the latest explanations of how this technology really works to link Grasshopper, in particular, to a BIM workflow, is discussed in this feature here, (see, Architosh, “Product In-Depth: A Focus on Workflow in ARCHICAD 21,” 27 Oct 2017)

Event Details

The event takes place on 8 Mar 2018 and runs from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EDT). It is an in-depth course worth 3 AIA learning units and cost $450/person or $375/person for ARCHIPLUS members.

01 – GRAPHISOFT’s Rhino-Grasshopper-ARCHICAD connection is a bi-directional link between all three programs that brings algorithmic design deep into the BIM workflow.

The course description reads: “In this online course, you’ll learn how to use ARCHICAD’s Rhino-Grasshopper Toolset as well as the essential commands and how to translate a Grasshopper shape into an ARCHICAD model. Veteran ARCHICAD and grasshopper users can benefit from helpful tips and tricks that are not found in standard tutorials.”

The presenter is Leeswann Bolden, LEED Green Associate, Assoc. AIA, GRAPHISOFT BIM Consultant. She is an ARCHICAD expert and independent BIM consultant.

To sign-up go here.

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Event Details

The ARCHICAD BIM Manager course is a two-hour long online learning seminar worth 2 AIA LUs that will take the attendee into the world of the modern BIM manager role found in AEC industry offices, particularly the architectural firm.

At this event session, attendees will understand the role of the BIM Manager within an organization, learn the make the most of the software (ARCHICAD) they have by using default settings, learn how to transform an existing project server into an ARCHICAD database, and finally learn how to optimize the office workflow through BIM coordination techniques, including IFC, Solibri, BIMx PRO, and 3D printing.

01 – ARCHICAD BIM Manager training remote learning session coming end of this month.

Kyla Kuhnlein, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, GRAPHISOFT BIM Specialist, is the instructor for this event. The cost of the event is $250.USD per person ($175.USD for ARCHIPLUS Members using promo code SSAPROMO).

The course begins at 1:00 pm and ends at 3:00 pm EDT (Boston/New York). You can register by clicking here.

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Imaginary Worlds

The invite reads: “In entertainment, the lines between the physical and the digital worlds are increasingly blurring, thanks to today’s production technology. From robot-controlled cameras to performance and reality capture, these sophisticated tools are helping to create computer-generated imagery that, when coupled with live-action shots, transports audiences to fantastical places that often feel real.”

Attendees to Design Night will hear from Kevin Baillie, co-founder and VFX supervisor at Atomic Fiction, who’ll share a behind-the-scenes look into the visual effects of hit TV show “Stranger Things.”

01 – Design Night by Autodesk hosts “Imaginary Worlds”

Other activities will include making character masks, a soundtrack by DJ Chad Bays, and there will be food and drink for everyone to enjoy.

To join tickets are $20-25.USD and the event takes place at 6:00 – 10:00 PM at The Autodesk Gallery, 1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.

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Event Description

Join Stephen Schrader, PLA, ASLA, Associate landscape architect at Holocombe Norton Partners, Inc., as he demonstrates how to apply building information modeling (BIM) tools to the practices of landscape architecture and site information modeling.

Using real-world examples, Stephen will show how he employed BIM for site planning and project development through comprehensive, innovative, and intelligent workflows to make appropriate decisions throughout the creative process.

Event Registration Details

This Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System™ webinar course takes place on Thursday, 21 July 2016, at 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT. Continuing education credits: 1 LA CES HSW PHD.

Register now. 

01 – New webinar on Vectorworks Landmark.

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Users and interested readers alike can review, learn and gain advice by following solidThinking Evolve expert Francesco Di Guiseppe for a 45 minutes introduction to Evolve.

MORE: solidThinking Evolve for Architectural Modeling – Part 1

Francesco will show participants how solidThinking Evolve’s PolyNURBS tools can be used to convert Inspire results into manufacturable solid geometries.

Webinar Details

In this webinar you will learn:

• How to import an Inspire optimization into Evolve
• An introduction to the Evolve user interface
• How to use Evolve’s polygonal modeling tools to recreate the part as a solid geometry
• How to use the Nurbify function in Evolve to convert polygons into solids
• How to export a solid geometry from Evolve

To register for the free webinar go here. To learn more about solidThinking Evolve and Inspire visit some of the articles below or go here.

01 – solidThinking Inspire is a leading CAID software tool that leverages unique Morphogensis technology to help reduce mass and weight in product design, making product development more environmentally sustainable.

MORE: Product Review: solidThinking Inspire 2014

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Conference 9-13 August 2015 / Exhibition 11-13 August 2015

In addition to SIGGRAPH’s leading-edge technical program, the conference’s installations provide close-up views of the latest in digital art, emerging technologies, and hands-on opportunities for creative collaboration.

The conference also hosts the international SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, showcasing works from the world’s most innovative and accomplished digital film and video creators. Juried and curated content includes outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts.

Programs & Events

Experience astounding images, and learn how they were created. Interact with tomorrow’s digital systems, and understand them. Meet the leading international innovators in computer graphics and interactive techniques, and share their knowledge.

ACM SIGGRAPH Award presentation

This award, presented during odd-numbered years, recognizes long-term creative impact on the field of computer graphics through a personal commitment over an extended period of time.

Announcement and tributes for this year’s recipients of five prestigious awards: the Steven Anson Coons Award, the Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the Significant New Researcher Award, the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award.

ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks

The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the computer graphics community through their research, teaching, service, or writing.

ACM Student Research Competition

SIGGRAPH 2015 hosts an ACM Student Research Competition, which takes place in two stages. In the first stage, a panel of distinguished judges views the SRC posters during the poster sessions and selects six semi-finalists. These semi-finalists present their work to SIGGRAPH 2015 attendees during the ACM SRC Final Presentation. At the end of the presentations, the judges announce the first-, second-, and third-place winners in the undergraduate and graduate categories. First-place undergraduate and graduate winners go on to the nationwide ACM Student Research Competition.

Art Gallery

The theme of the SIGGRAPH 2015 Art Gallery is Hybrid Craft, a showcase of craft techniques and values in contemporary digital design, such as digital technologies and hand-hewn craft, computer-aided design and manual tools, 3D printing and traditional carving, or digital signal-processing and traditional acoustic instruments. The gallery demonstrates a multi-directional exchange of knowledge between the new and the traditional, and visualizes techniques to protect and preserve traditional practices. The gallery emphasizes the importance of craft heritage in contemporary digital design, where beautiful and meaningful artifacts are produced by machine and craftsperson together, not by a machine or by a craftsperson alone.

A special issue of Leonardo, The Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology includes visual documentation of the works exhibited in the Art Gallery. Publication of this seventh special issue coincides with SIGGRAPH 2015.

Art Papers

SIGGRAPH 2015, in collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST, features not only artists and artwork, but also the processes and theoretical frameworks for making art and contextualizing its place in society. Art Papers:

• Explore the changing roles of artists and the methods of art-making in our increasingly networked and computationally mediated world.
• Present excellent ideas in accessible ways.
• Inform artistic disciplines, set standards, and stimulate future trends.

In addition to core topics related to digital arts and interactive techniques, Art Papers can also explore the theme of SIGGRAPH 2015’s juried Art Gallery: Hybrid Craft.

Registration Categories Room 153A-C, Tuesday – August 11, 9 am – 12:15 pm

Birds of a Feather

This includes informal presentations, discussions, and demonstrations for people who share interests, goals, technologies, environments, or backgrounds. Birds of a Feather events are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2015 attendees. They must be free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, and non-commercial in nature (topics specific to one commercial product or for-profit company are not allowed).

All Birds of a Feather requests are subject to a review and approval process. For those, who would like to present on a specific product or service can contact Exhibition Management to schedule an Exhibitor Tech Talk.

Computer Animation Festival

The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is the leading annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in the two programs of the Computer Animation Festival, Daytime Selects and the Electronic Theater. Selections include outstanding achievements in animated feature and short films, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, game excerpts, and much more!

Courses

The spectrum of Courses ranges from an introduction to the foundations of computer graphics and interactive techniques for those new to the field to advanced instruction on the most current techniques and topics. Topics covered may be subjects found in any SIGGRAPH program and may include methods of reapplying skills and processes from one area of computer graphics to another. Courses include core curricula taught by invited instructors as well as Courses selected from juried proposals.

For more info click on Registration Categories.

Dailies

Dailies celebrates excellence in computer graphics with an evening of presentations showcasing images and short animations of extraordinary power and beauty. It is a series of very short presentations by artists who tell the story behind the imagery they created. With less than two minutes for each presentation, Dailies is a very fast-paced and exciting event.

Emerging Technologies

Play with the latest interactive and graphics technologies before they transform the way we live and work. Emerging Technologies presents demonstrations of research from several fields, including displays, input devices, collaborative environments, and robotics.

Exhibition

Get up-close and hands-on with the newest hardware systems, software tools, and creative services from hundreds of companies. Explore the products, systems, techniques, ideas, and inspiration that are creating the next three generations of computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Exhibits Fast Forward

A preview of the products and announcements that companies are planning for SIGGRAPH 2015 in a fast-paced, entertaining session before the Exhibition opens.

International Center

At SIGGRAPH 2015, the International Center offers bilingual tours of conference programs, informal translation services, and space for meetings, talks, and demonstrations. Throughout the year, the International Resources program facilitates worldwide collaboration in the SIGGRAPH community, provides an English Review Service to help submitters whose first language is not English, and encourages participation in all conference venues, activities, and events.

For more info click on Registration Categories.

Job Fair

The Job Fair is absolutely the best place at SIGGRAPH 2015 for employers to meet with thousands of job seekers from around the globe! Job Fair Exhibitors will be posting their jobs on the CreativeHeads.net and ACM SIGGRAPH job boards one month prior to the conference. For the Job Fair Directory please click here.

Panels

Panels are moderated discussions on important topics, with expert panelists chosen by the organizers to provide a wide range of perspectives. Panels have long been an important part of the annual SIGGRAPH conference because they provide a forum for the community to share experiences, opinions, insights, speculation, disagreement, controversy, and audience interaction with the leading experts in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

For more info click on Registration Categories.

Posters

Posters are a convenient method for presenting in-progress research, student projects, and late-breaking work. Poster topics range from applications of computer graphics to in-depth research in specific areas. New this year, SIGGRAPH posters will be presented on video monitors in an electronic format only. Poster authors meet and discuss their work with attendees during Poster Presentations.

Production Sessions

As part of the Computer Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH 2015 hosts Production Sessions, where the world’s most elite and talented computer graphic experts and creative geniuses explain their processes and techniques for creating compelling content. Following each presentation, attendees ask questions about the challenges and issues associated with complex productions.

For more info click on Registration Categories.

Real-Time Live!

An interactive extravaganza that celebrates the real-time achievements of evil geniuses, mad scientists, and creative computer gods! Real-Time Live! shows off the latest trends and techniques for pushing the boundaries of interactive visuals. As part of the Computer Animation Festival, an international jury selects submissions from a diverse array of industries to create a fast-paced, 90-minute show of cutting-edge, aesthetically stimulating real-time work, and maybe a battle between mind-controlled robot monkeys with laser eyes and autonomous penguin drones with shrink-ray bowties.

Studio

The world is becoming more malleable by the day, with new tools, applications, and methods to create, craft, build, and share. At SIGGRAPH 2015, the Studio focuses on disruptive practices in the world of content creation. Along with a renewed emphasis on technology, it presents projects from alternative fields that utilize and build new foundations in computer graphics – particularly those that extend beyond traditional screens and into the physical world – including themed entertainment, location-based installations, projection mapping, and advancements in augmented and virtual reality.

Talks

Talks highlight the latest developments before publication, present ideas that are still in progress, or showcase how computer graphics and interactive techniques are actually implemented and used, in graphics production or other fields. Talks take you behind the scenes and into the minds of SIGGRAPH 2015 creators in all areas of computer graphics and interactive techniques, including art, design, animation, visual effects, interactivity, research, and engineering.

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Technical Papers

The SIGGRAPH Technical Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Technical Papers are published as a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics.

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Technical Papers Fast Forward

An entertaining, illuminating summary of SIGGRAPH 2015 Technical Papers in an exciting two-hour session! The author(s) of each paper are allowed a little less than a minute to wow the crowd with their results and entice attendees to hear their complete paper presentation later in the week.

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London Bridge, the fourth busiest station in the country, is undergoing a major £6bn transformation while its 50 million passengers continue to pass through its ticket barriers each year.

Between 2011 and 2018 more platforms are being added to accommodate more trains and a huge concourse is being built that will unify the station for the first time and enable passengers to access all platforms from one place. The new track configuration means trains will be able to go to more destinations, including connecting to Crossrail at Farringdon.

In this webinar they will consider aspects of how BIM is being used at London Bridge including

• The potential of BIM technology on major infrastructure projects
• The specific BIM tools used and the level of detail in modeling
• How the project was broken down by the team
• How multidiscipline design data was shared
• Challenges that arose and lessons learnt
• Issues arising from ProjectWise for projects common data environment, such as gaining supplier engagement and training

This webinar is CPD accredited, so you’ll also be able to gain study points.

Register for free

After registering, please look out for the calendar, invite and share icons so you and your colleagues don’t miss out!

This webinar will include the following expert speakers:

• Jakub Wachocki
  BIM Consultant,
  Bentley Systems
• John Dorman
  Engineering Data Specialist (ProjectWise),
  Thameslink Programme,
  Network Rail
• Andrew Owens
  Signal Sighting CAD Engineer,
  Network Rail
• Chair: Tom Lane
  Group Technical Editor,
  Building

If you have any queries or issues, please contact webinarsupport@ubm.com and one of our technical staff will get back to you.

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It will look at the lives and legacy of two Art Nouveau masters, Victor Horta and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. While distinctly different in their responses to the Art and Crafts movement, both men made important contributions that are universally acknowledged.

Victor Horta: The Original “Steam Punk”

Belgian architect and designer Victor Horta is widely acknowledged as a leading figure in the Art Nouveau style that dominated late 19th century Europe. His fluid and organic interpretations of rigid technology bending to the will of the artist’s hand left a subtle but distinctive mark on an entire generation of international architects who came later, including Frank Lloyd Wright.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Unflinching Foe of Artifice

Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh had a profound influence on European design as the Art Nouveau movement struggled to hold its ground against the overwhelming power of mass production and the strict demands of economic expediency. The popular acceptance of “Japonism” fostered a new worldview imported from Asia and provided Mackintosh with the perfect tools to balance economy, elegance, utility, and form.

Learning Objectives

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the reasons why the Art Nouveau movement flourished in response to the Industrial Revolution.

• Explain the significance of Victor Horta and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the Art Nouveau movement and how their philosophies influenced future designers.

• Recognize the distinctive characteristics of the Art Nouveau style and identify other practitioners from the era.

• Differentiate between the Art Nouveau style and the larger Arts and Crafts movement.

“Four Japanese Architects You Should Know” airs July 9th at 2:00 (ET)  The webinar is being presented by Steve Alden, AIA, Architect at Nemetschek Vectorworks.

These four architects – Tadao Ando, Kenzo Tange, Toyo Ito and Shigeru Ban – share a common cultural heritage that views the built environment through a distinctly different lens.

Their vision places high value on emotion, experience, introspection, and harmony. It will also take a close look at several projects from each of these acknowledged masters. Discover how the long history of this island nation has shaped the philosophy and creative output of each of these architects and learn how their personal journeys unfold in, sometimes, unexpected ways.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the history of Japan and how the past influences the decisions made by these acclaimed designers.

• Recognize the effect of long-established Japanese traditions on contemporary site planning and architectural design.

• Explain the philosophical and stylistic differences among these architects.

• Evaluate how these four inspirational Japanese designers influence the work of architects from around the world

To register for this webinar click on http://www3.vectorworks.net/FourJapaneseArchitects.

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“We’re excited about this year’s theme, Stepping Back to See the Big Picture. Stepping back to take a broader view is something most do, but only every now and then. COFES has been one of those points on the calendar dedicated to that broad-perspective thinking. But once a year is not enough,” explains Brad Holtz, Cyon Research president and CEO. “Because engineers and software professionals spend the majority of their time getting things done, tightly focused on execution of tasks and plans, their decisions are often made in the narrow context of what is directly in front of them. This year, we are challenging attendees to bring that broader view into their daily decisions. It’s about the bigger picture winning over expediency.”

COFES 2015 Highlights and COFES iOS App

David Brin, futurist, scientist, inventor and author, is the keynote speaker on Friday’s keynote. His keynote will take a look five years down the road. According to Brin, responsible companies and chief engineers must focus on the five year RIO (return on investment).

On Saturday, the keynote will be by Bo Burlingham, an editor at large for Inc. Magazine and a renowned commentator on the nature of business. In his keynote, Burlingham will be discussing key points from his latest book, “Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top.”

This year’s COFES will also feature findings of a once-in-a-lifetime simulation summit:
The Analysis, Simulation, and Systems Engineering Software Summit (ASSESS), held at the Santa Fe Institute in January 2015. At that summit, seven key issues related to the future of simulation rose to the top, after a discussion that started with 104 issues brought to the table. These seven issues will be presented today, April 16 at COFES.

Also starting today is the seventh annual Design and Sustainability (DaS) Symposium, a unique gathering of leaders within the COFES community who represent diverse industry sectors with strategic interest in software. The goal of the DaS Symposium is to bring sustainability to the forefront of the conversation among software developers and to look for opportunities and issues that may be best served by the industry as a whole, rather than by individual players within the industry. Leaders of the DaS symposium hope to inspire, raise awareness, build relationships and seek sustainable synergies. The bulk of the DaS Symposium will take place on Thursday, April 16, from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM PDT, followed by discussions as part of the general COFES program.

There is a free COFES Player iOS app which readers can get from the Apple App store. To read the full agenda for COFES this year visit this link.

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HOT and COLD

The exhibition demonstrates how BIG’s design solutions exist in, and are shaped by, the hottest and the coldest parts of planet Earth. Featuring 20 of the studio’s latest projects, the exhibit provides a glimpse into how the firm works with intense creativity and innovation while developing concepts for new buildings. Architectural innovation is at the core of the firm’s work and in this particular case how building’s can respond to their environments. 

HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation exhibition opens on January 24, 2015 and remains on view through August 30, 2015.

“We are honored to contribute to the exhibition of one of our most successful client’s signature designs at the National Building Museum,” said Viktor Varkonyi, CEO of GRAPHISOFT. “It’s a testimony to how significant their design philosophy and work has become in the United States and beyond.”

About BIG

BIG is a Copenhagen and New York-based group of architects, designers, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research, and development. With an international team of more than 200 people led by eight Partners, BIG works on projects across a broad spectrum of industries and in more than 20 countries worldwide. BIG looks at how urban environments can increase the quality of life, designing cities and buildings as double ecosystems that are both ecologically and economically profitable. www.big.dk

About The National Building Museum 

The National Building Museum is America’s leading cultural institution dedicated to advancing the quality of the built environment by educating people about its impact on their lives. Through its exhibitions, educational programs, online content, and publications, the Museum has become a vital forum for the exchange of ideas and information about the world we build for ourselves. Visit www.nbm.org

About GRAPHISOFT

GRAPHISOFT® ignited the BIM revolution in 1984 with ArchiCAD®, the industry-first BIM software for architects. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as its revolutionary BIMcloud®, the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment, EcoDesigner™, the world’s first fully BIM-integrated “GREEN” design solution and BIMx®, the world’s leading mobile app for BIM visualization. GRAPHISOFT has been a part of the Nemetschek Group since its acquisition in 2007.  Visit archicad.com to see the most important milestones in ArchiCAD’s 30-year history.

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BIMcloud was awarded a Silver Stevie Award in the Best New Product of the Year: Software and Cloud Application/Service category, in the 11th Annual International Business Awards. And BIMx Docs was awarded by this publication for BEST of SHOW at the AIA National show in the mobile category.

Seminar Topics

• how designers can seamlessly collaborate with other members of the team—including engineers, consultants, et cetera, using ArchiCAD’s award-winning Teamwork solution;
• how BIMcloud hosts shared Teamwork projects—securely and safely—while also managing the various user roles and activities
• how team members using BIMx Docs with Hyper-model capabilities on mobile devices are now an integral part of Teamwork
• how team members using mobile devices can seamlessly collaborate with other team members, and provide valuable design feedback regardless of location, using various devices

Seminar Details

The event takes place on 30 October 2014.

For Australia and Asia (English) the event takes place at 4:00pm – 5:00 pm AEDT (Sydney). Please register here for more details.

For Europe, Middle-East and Africa (English) the event takes place at 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm BST (London). Please register here for more details.

For the Americas (English) the event takes place at 9:00 am – 10:00 am (PDT) Los Angeles. Please register here for more details. 

01 – GRAPHISOFT wins 2014 Silver Stevie Award for the International Business Awards for BIMcloud

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The callout for the event reads, “Whether they are competing for work, creating the vision, or collaborating with consultants, firms are winning everyday with performance-based design. Our panel of experts will present examples of the benefits of performance-based design and discuss how this approach is impacting different roles throughout their firms.”

Event Details

We believe this event is mostly centered on firms using the Sefaira plugin technology for early-stage analytics in the area of energy design via SketchUp or Revit integration. The discussion will center on:

• Understand how performance-based design can help you win more business
• Explore how performance-based design can help you deliver better outcomes on your projects by enhancing collaboration across the project team
• Discover when and how to employ performance-based design to support enhanced project design and delivery
• Learn now to integrate performance into design decisions on real projects

The event will host a live Q&A session with the panel after the panel members have made presentations to address questions:

Panels include:

• Ara Massey — Sustainable Designer Manager, SlaterPaull | Hord Coplan Macht
• Ilana Judah — Director of Sustainability – FXFowle
• Duane Carter – Director of Sustainability and Building Performance — Solomon Cordwell Buenz
• Christine Reinders – Mechanical Engineer — CannonDesign

Registration Details

The event takes place 15 October 2014 — 9 AM PDT | 12 PM EDT | 4 PM GMT | 5 PM BST |  Click here to register.

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The plan is for the designers to produce unspecified architectural projects based on a set of 25 issues—”Best Practices, Trojan Horses, Magical States, and Little Americas,” among them—one for each week of the exhibition. The organizers devised the list while creating a large repository of documents, models and material samples representing some 1,000 projects realized abroad by 200 American architecture firms over the course of the last 100 years. The archive will serve as raw material for the designers’ work.

01 – US Pavilion at Venice Biennale features architectural office space with HP T520 ePrinter and HP Z workstations.

Designers will be able to use the HP Z420 workstations and HP ZBook Mobile Workstations powered by AMD FirePro professional graphics to design their projects. They will also be able to print to the HP DesignJet T520 ePrinter and display printed material at the exhibit.

The pavilion was presented to the press on the 4th and 5th of June. An opening dinner, which took place at InParadiso included a three course meal inspired by the repository and designed by two of the OfficeUS architects who run the architecture practice Cooking Section.  For the dinner, the architects designed specialty table cloths printed on the HP Designjet T520 ePrinter that highlighted the stories that inspired the dishes.

For more information on HP Z Workstations for AEC visit www.hp.com/go/aec

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