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News: AECO

AIA26: Expo Show Floor Report 1 — Autodesk

Autodesk is the subject of our first AIA26 show report and we cover what we saw and focused on around Forma products at the show

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AIA26: AI and Automation Shine in San Diego—Some Highlights

Agentic AI and automation were front and center at AIA26 in San Diego this year. In this brief report, we bring you some highlights of what we saw.

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AIA26: Architosh 12th 'BEST of SHOW' honors for digital technologies at AIA San Diego

The 2026 AIA National BEST of SHOW honors for the most interesting and compelling software and digital technologies at AIA26

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AIA26: Graphisoft Advances Design Intelligence Strategy
AIA26: Kestrel Labs -- Native BIM Compliance Platform
Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona Get Veras AI Integration
More AEC/O Posts
Today's modern GPUs have a family of rival APIs that remove the code-level abstraction that makes OpenGL so easy to support across so many diverse operating systems and devices.
from Apple's WebGPU Standard Proposal—Aiming at Common Access to Explicit Graphics

News: Visualization

AIA26: Maxon's new Redshift for Revit and More

Redshift for Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft Archicad (beta) shown at AIA26 San Diego in Maxon booth. New software for architects and interior designers

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Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona Get Veras AI Integration

Chaos integrates Veras into Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona and introduces new credit-based hybrid-licensing system for AEC visualization

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SketchUp Adds Anthropic's Claude—AI-powered 3D modeling

Sketchup Connector for Claude adds trusted, intuitive AI enhanced 3D workflows to popular 3D modeler in AEC

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Cinema 4D Comes to iPad
Real-time rendering comes to V-Ray viewport in V-Ray 7
Maxon Enters AEC with Real-Time Rendering
More Visualization Posts

Industry Commentary and Analysis

Bluebeam acquires Firmus AI—accelerating drawing reviews

Bluebeam’s tuck-in acquisition of Firmus-AI brings intelligent AI-powered drawing reviews and risk mitigation to AEC pros.

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Apple Updates MacBook Pro—Intros 6-Core 8th Gen Intel Processors

Top line performance boosts using Intel’s Coffee Lake processors with up to 6 cores, plus iPad Pro and iMac Pro features aim this generation more firmly at Mac Professsionals.

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Autodesk Revit 2022 Now Available—More Open Solution for BIM

Revit 2022 is now available and offers the BIM market and its users more interoperability with other software systems and many improvements across a range of areas for multiple AEC disciplines.

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McNeel Ships New Rhino 6—Grasshopper Now Built-In
New ActiveDraft Cloud PDF Markup Tool for AEC
Chaos Group Doubling Down on Rendering Solutions for Maxon Cinema 4D
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News: CAID

AU25: All About Autodesk's AI Neural CAD Engines

Architosh discusses details of Autodesk’s new AI foundation models (neural CAD engines) with insights from interactions at AU25.

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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD Mac 15

TurboCAD Mac 15 product line features AI-powered TurboCAD Mac Copilot features to leverage AI technologies in AEC and MCAD CAD workflows.

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Luxion Releases KeyShot 11

KeyShot 11 is a pivotal release that expands Luxion’s continued advancements with users to solve their most pressing product development needs in the areas of material design, information management, motion, automation, and presentation.

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MultiPipe and new Apple Silicon Support in Rhino 7
Luxion Releases KeyShot 10.2
McNeel Ships New Rhino 6—Grasshopper Now Built-In
More CAID Posts
The skinny is this. The leading visual scripting modeling tools don't run natively on Mac OS X. This changes everything.
from Vectorworks Design Summit: What's Coming in Vectorworks 2016

News: MCAD

Graebert releases ARES 2027—big AI push and Forma integration

Graebert of Berlin delivers substantial updates to ARES 2027 product line with deep AI advancements and Autodesk Forma Cloud integrations.

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ProgeSOFT releases DWG-native iCADMac 2025

iCADMac 2025 from ProgeSOFT of Switzerland offers further competition to AutoCAD and other native DWG CAD applications with the latest macOS compatibility and optimization for ARM and Intel.

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Product Watch: BOXX APEXX S3 and S4 with Intel Core Ultra CPUs

BOXX Technologies is the first pro workstation maker to ship new workstations featuring Intel Core Ultra 7 and Ultra 9 processors.

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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD Mac 15
Autodesk 2024 State of Design & Make Report—AI a Highlight
Autodesk intros AutoCAD 2025—AI and Smart Blocks and More
More MCAD Posts

News: Animation & VFX

Cinema 4D Comes to iPad

Award-winning Cinema 4D 3D modeling and animation system coming to Apple iPad in late 2026 — enabling creativity on the go

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Maxon appoints Steve Forde to Chief Product Officer

Maxon appoints Steve Forde as Chief Product Officer (CPO), where he will lead Maxon’s global product group and drive innovation and deeper connections to artists’ needs.

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Chaos releases Vantage 3—real-time visualization platform

Chaos Vantage 3 boasts major new features in its biggest update in years, including Gaussian splat and USD file support, Night Sky system, AI tech, and a whole lot more.

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Maxon releases new Red Giant Update—Enhanced Unreal Support
SPEC Releases SPECapc for Maya 2024 Benchmark, Adds SPEC Workload Development Kit
Maxon Delivers Massive updates for Maxon One
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Editor's Picks

News: Apple

Apple and TSMC working in AI chip for data centers

Apple and TSMC have been secretly working together on AI chips for data centers for years. Apple aims to edge up Google and Microsoft in the AI arms race.

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Apple Intros Apple Silicon-based Mac Pro

Apple’s lovable Mac Pro enclosure is now married to Apple’s industry-leading Apple Silicon. But the new M2 Ultra-powered workstation isn’t for everyone.

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Gurman says Apple Reality One Headset will have iOS-like Interface

Apple’s Reality One VR/AR headset may be a game changer for the immersive industry with a digital crown feature that is said to be a key feature.

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Apple Intros new M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro
Apple Unveils new M2 Chip in New Macs
Qualcomm Aims to Take Chip Leadership with new ARM SoCs for Windows
More Apple Posts

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