News: AECO
GRAPHISOFT announces release of ARCHICAD 23
The latest release of ARCHICAD sets new benchmarks for BIM software responsiveness, improves interoperability and enhances modeling and Grasshopper connectivity features, among dozens of improvements.
Bentley Systems OpenBuildings Station Designer Now Available
OpenBuildings Station Designer uniquely integrates multidisciplinary design and simulation for rail and transit stations.
Autodesk BIM 360 Now Includes Construction Cost Management
Autodesk intros powerful construction cost management module built into its BIM 360 platform.
News: MCAD
IMSI Design Releases New TurboCAD 2019
The latest version of IMSI Design’s popular TurboCAD line is now available, offering full compatibility with AutoCAD 2019 and over three dozen new changes and improvements including 2D architectural and MCAD related changes including those for 3D printing.
Autodesk Releases AutoCAD 2020—See What's New!
Autodesk releases new AutoCAD 2020—industry leading CAD software gains Microsoft and Box cloud integrations and numerous other features across its main desktop versions (macOS and Windows versions come with subscription) plus web version of AutoCAD and more.
HOOPS Communicator 2019 Adds WebAssembly Rendering and Support for BIM Collaboration Format
New WebAssembly core rendering leads to a drastic reduction in library size and performance with faster downloads and startup times.
News: CAID
McNeel Ships New Rhino 6—Grasshopper Now Built-In
The long-awaited Rhino 6 with integrated Grasshopper is now shipping worldwide. New flexible cloud licensing make using Rhino 6 wherever you are easy.
Luxion Announces KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS
Luxion advances KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS add-in software to accelerate product design and engineering workflows.
Altair IPO—Engineering Software Company Soars on Debut
While not ruling out using proceeds for acquisitions, Altair Engineering—parent company of solidThinking, Inc.—says successful IPO will allow it to pay off debt.
News: Visualization
Epic Acquires Twinmotion from Abvent—Joins Unreal Engine Suite of Technologies
Epic acquires Twinmotion and adds it to its Unreal Engine suite of technologies for professional markets.
The Wild Announces Speech to Text Annotation Tool for VR Design Reviews
Now The Wild boasts speech-to-text commenting tool for VR design reviews when you and your teammates or stakeholders are not aligned with time zones or busy schedules.
MAXON Acquires Redshift Rendering Technologies
In Maxon gaining Redshift, the Germany subsidiary of the Nemetschek Group also gains another important M&E (media & entertainment) asset by which the whole of the group can theoretically benefit.
News: Animation & VFX
Autodesk Unleashes New Autodesk 3ds Max 2020
New release of Autodesk 3ds Max 2020 packs a punch with improved content creation and design visualization toolset.
Animation News: How Cinesite and Substance Recreated a Legendary Medieval City for Liongate's 'Robin Hood'
Allegorithmic’s Substance Designer and Painter software were used extensively to create the town of Nottingham for Liongate’s ‘Robin Hood’ film, offering industry and consumers alike stunning visual continuity and portrayal of realism.
3D News: Unity to Kick Off GDC with March 18 Keynote
Audiences around the world will see everything they need to see to continue to create, operate, and monetize on the world’s most widely used real-time development platform.
Editor's Picks
News: Apple
GDC: Unity Technologies Launches Unity 2019.1 at Game DevCon
Unity 2019.1 includes more than 300 improvements including Lightweight Render Pipeline, Burst Compiler, and Shade Graph among others.
Canada's Corel Announces New CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 for Mac
Marking 30 years of innovation, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 extends its reach beyond Windows with an all-new, pro-powered suite for macOS and the new CorelDRAW web app.
WebGL 2.0—Why It's the Path to Stable Open Standards-based 3D Web Graphics
As WebGL 2.0 has emerged into a powerful technology built on the back of a very successful WebGL 1.0 now fully utilized across numerous professional CAD and 3D apps on the Web. This feature discusses this history and why WebGL 2.0 is such a crucial standard.
Industry Commentary and Analysis
McNeel Ships New Rhino 6—Grasshopper Now Built-In
The long-awaited Rhino 6 with integrated Grasshopper is now shipping worldwide. New flexible cloud licensing make using Rhino 6 wherever you are easy.
Famed Architect Antoine Predock to Keynote Vectorworks Design Summit 2018
Famed critical regionalist architect, Antoine Predock, will headline the design keynote the 2018 Vectorworks Design Summit.
More Relevant Than Ever—Autodesk Totally Committed to AutoCAD and The Mac
Autodesk has just released its most Mac-centric version of AutoCAD ever. And the company continues deep investment in its most famous product.
News Posts
- Mar 28, 19 – Autodesk Releases AutoCAD 2020—See What’s New! [07:55 am] 1 response
- Mar 26, 19 – GRAPHISOFT and SIMBIM Solutions to support European BIM Summit Next Month [02:04 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 25, 19 – Chaos Group Shows Off Future of GPU Rendering / Real-Time Ray-Tracing at GPU Technology Conference [07:33 am] 0 responses
- Mar 22, 19 – Rhino 6 for Mac with Grasshopper—WIP Now Available for Testing [10:26 am] 0 responses
- Mar 22, 19 – GDC: Autodesk Announces Arnold 5.3 GPU Beta for Rendering [07:23 am] 0 responses
- Mar 20, 19 – Vectorworks Gains New Lumion Live-Sync Rendering thru New VGS Technology [02:03 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 19, 19 – Khronos Group Announces OpenXR 0.90 Provision Spec for High-Performance Access to AR and VR Platforms [06:45 am] 0 responses
- Mar 18, 19 – HOOPS Communicator 2019 Adds WebAssembly Rendering and Support for BIM Collaboration Format [07:40 am] 0 responses
- Mar 15, 19 – The Wild 0.10 Allows Revit Users to Collaborate on Their Models in VR—Latest Beta Feature [02:21 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 14, 19 – Canada’s Corel Announces New CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 for Mac [10:51 am] 0 responses
- Mar 13, 19 – Chaos Group Announces V-Ray Next for Rhino (and Grasshopper!) [01:56 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 13, 19 – HOOPS Exchange 2019 Supports Autodesk Revit for AEC Workflows [08:13 am] 0 responses
- Mar 12, 19 – In Brief: Bentley Wins BIM Show Live 2019 Award—BIM Enabler/Consultant of the Year [09:45 pm] 1 response
- Mar 06, 19 – 3D News: Chaos Group Launches New Chaos Cloud Rendering Solution [11:08 am] 0 responses
- Mar 04, 19 – Vectorworks Earns Product Technology Recognition with Three More Awards [04:01 pm] 0 responses
- Mar 04, 19 – Exclusive: Bluebeam Dropping Mac Platform—Pushing Cloud Ecosystem Instead [09:55 am] 0 responses
- Feb 26, 19 – Bentley Goes Big with Microsoft Hololens 2—New Mixed Reality App for Infrastructure Projects [08:29 am] 0 responses
- Feb 23, 19 – Animation News: How Cinesite and Substance Recreated a Legendary Medieval City for Liongate’s ‘Robin Hood’ [04:28 pm] 0 responses
- Feb 22, 19 – MCAD News: Siemens Announces new NX Software—Now with AI and ML Technologies [08:06 am] 1 response
- Feb 21, 19 – Nemetschek Group Introduces ‘Spacewell’—Brand Encompasses Building Operations and Management Segment [09:48 am] 0 responses
