News: AECO
Autodesk Behind Bipartisan Industry Coalition to Promote Investment in US Infrastructure
Blueprint 2025 is a bipartisan coalition of 100 industry CEOs and public sector representatives—aimed at promoting infrastructure investment in the United States.
2017 Bluebeam eXtreme Conference—Will Be Biggest On Record
Bluebeam Inc. set to shatter record attendance at its 6th Bluebeam eXtreme Conference to be held in Los Angeles this coming August.
Autodesk Makes Investment in Boston-based Smartvid.io—Machine Learning Tech Startup in Construction Industry
Autodesk makes a strategic investment in Boston-based Smartvid.io—a machine learning based startup that makes intelligent use of industrial photography and videos in the construction industry.
News: MCAD
Boston-based Formlabs Gains Ex-Autodesk CEO Carl Bass as Director
Formlabs of Boston is a globally leading 3D printer manufacturer targeting designers and engineering professionals working with 3D digital content. The company has now gained ex-Autodesk CEO Carl Bass for its board.
ToolTalk—The New solidThinking Inspire 2017.2
Architosh discusses the latest solidThinking Inspire version 2017.2—with its innovative motion simulation tools among other improvements.
Bricsys of Belgium Updates BricsCAD v17 for Mac
Belgium’s Bricsys updates BricsCAD Mac to version 17.2.09—adds dozens of new improvements along with key fixes.
News: CAID
ToolTalk—The New solidThinking Inspire 2017.2
Architosh discusses the latest solidThinking Inspire version 2017.2—with its innovative motion simulation tools among other improvements.
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.
News: Visualization
Abvent Announces Twinmotion 2018 Global Release Date—31 July
Twinmotion 2018 will be globally available and announced at SIGGRAPH 2017.
New Report—How VR and AR Will Impact Business in 8 Ways
An engaging infographic by Skilled discusses the massive growth expected in both VR and AR impacted industries.
New Unity 2017.1 Game Engine—Now Available
World’s most popular game engine radically increases productivity and collaboration between artists, designers, and developers with powerful new visual tools.
News: Animation & VFX
E-on Software Announces Pre-Release of Carbon Scatter and CloudFactory Ozone 2017 Plugins
Bentley’s subsidiary E-on Software is releasing Carbon Scatter and CloudFactory Ozone plugins one last time in 2017 as they consolidate their product lines and focus on VUE and PlantFactory.
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.
News: Apple
AKVIS Releases New Image Editor—AliveColors for Mac and Windows
AKVIS releases all new AliveColors—new image editing software package for Mac and WIndows platforms.
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.
Industry Commentary and Analysis
Silicon Valley's Reaction to Trump Presidency Looks Within
Is Silicon Valley creating technologies that bring us together, or push as apart?
Apple's WebGPU Standard Proposal—Aiming at Common Access to Explicit Graphics
Apple’s Webkit team is proposing a new industry group to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the web—one that can develop a standard API that leverages modern GPU features.
Autodesk Updates AutoCAD for Mac—Touch Bar Support
Autodesk joins the club becoming second major CAD developer with Touch Bar support in latest point dot release of Autodesk AutoCAD 2017 for Mac product line. Other UX and customization improvements round out this mid-release free update which users will surely appreciate.
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- 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] 3 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
- May 18, 17 – SimTread Crowd Flow Simulation Software—Now At Version 2.5 [02:03 pm] 0 responses
- May 18, 17 – TurboCAD 2017 for Windows Offers Big Advances in Latest Release [05:44 am] 0 responses
