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Autodesk intros new LIVE visualization environment—viewer for iOS platform
Autodesk announces new LIVE environment for Revit. The new 3D interactive environment offers real-time adjustments to environmental conditions such as time of day and year and other settings. The free LIVE viewer works on Apple’s popular iOS devices like iPad and Windows.
Mac CAD/3D Tidbits: Strata 3D, Onshape and Vectorworks news…
Mac CAD and 3D News: Today we have tidbit news items on Strata 3D, MCAD darling Onshape and Vectorworks energy modeling AIA learning session featuring Energos.
Vectorworks, Inc. Helps Recognize JOM Architects as 2016 Foundation Award First-Place Winner
JOM Architekten is the Foundation Award 2016 winner.
Vectorworks, Inc. Partners with Modelo for AEC Presentation and Collaboration Plugin
Vectorworks taps into upstart AEC industry real-time web-based collaboration tool Modelo.
Event News: Augmenting Landscape Architects’ Design Workflows with Information Modeling
New webinar on Information Modeling workflows using Vectorworks Landmark for landscape design professionals.
GRAPHISOFT announces that ArchiCAD 20 Global Rollout Has Begun
Graphisoft now shipping ArchiCAD 20 globally in the first 6 of 28 global regional versions.
Correcting Misconceptions—New Vectorworks CEO Says Company Will Tout Its BIM-ness
For years former Vectorworks CEO, Sean Flaherty spoke frankly—and rather accurately, when all the data points are collected—about the BIM Movement’s longer-than-expected full emergence. Now with BIM fully astride within the AEC world, the clock is ticking and Vectorworks’ new CEO means BIM-business.
GRAPHISOFT Plays Key Role in Budapest ‘CAADence in Architecture’ Conference
CAADence in Architecture Conference merges theory and practice in emerging information technology impacts on the world of architecture. The conference look at Building Information Modeling and Algorithmic-Aided Design (AAD) together from one viewpoint.
Vectorworks, Inc. announces CEU based webinar series
Vectorworks, Inc., a global BIM software developer has announced a series of new credit worthy webinars.
Ouellette Talks—Ambitious Routes Abound for Expanding openBIM Mission
Can the openBIM Movement accelerate? Can the IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) certification process expand to help that happen? Acknowledging that there are often many routes to success, these are some of the questions Jeffrey Ouellette, buildingSMART International’s new ISG Chair addresses in discussing how critical open standards are to the entire global building industry.
GRAPHISOFT announces winners of Inaugural ArchiCAD Student Design Competition
ArchiCAD Student Design Competition Winners Announced. Graphisoft North American partnered with Kitchen & Associates and AIA West Jersey.
Nemetschek Forms US Strategic Base—Learn What Comes Next
The Germany, Munich-based, Nemetschek Group is flourishing, driving the strongest growth in the AECO software industry after a string of brilliant software acquisitions. But all of this success has largely been driven without the benefit of a full-time, directed strategy group. Now the AECO software multinational—the smallest of the Big 4 global AECO software companies —is setting up a global strategy group in Washington, DC.
Perspectives on BEST of SHOW 2016: From Edge of Market to Maturing BIM, Framing a New Lens
Architosh presents its annual “perspectives” on BEST of SHOW honorees at AIA this year via a conversation. This year we focus on some new terms, a framing of tech against the Gartner Hype Cycle and against the backdrop of Neri Oxman’s standing ovation-earning keynote talk.
AIA 2016: Architosh awards 5th ‘BEST of SHOW’ honors for software and technology vendors at AIA Philly
Architosh announces its 2016 AIA National BEST of SHOW honors to best software and technologies shown at the national convention in Philadelphia two weeks ago.
AIA 2016: Information Technologies at this Year’s Convention – Part 1
We begin our AIA Expo show floor reports series with the largest companies showing their software wares to architects at this year’s 2016 AIA Convention.
Build Earth Live and Vectorworks Announce Dubai Future Foundation and Sponsorship of Hyperloop BIM Competition
Build Earth Live dates have changed to September 26 – 28, 2016. Winning teams in the Build Earth Live Hyperloop BIM Competition for Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority will be offered an opportunity to win work with the government on the future project delivery process.
Vectorworks Design Summit 2016—What Was Cool This Year
Architosh kicks off the first of a series of articles on what was shown and discussed at this year’s Vectorworks Design Summit.
New SCIA Engineer 16 announced—delivers 350+ updates structural engineering app
Scia has announced the new SCIA Engineer 16, IFC certified Open BIM structural modeling, analysis, design, code checking and reporting software for structural engineering workflows in AEC.
Thornton Tomasetti Launches Software Development Firm
In an industry first, global AEC engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti has spun out its R&D groups, including CORE studio, to form a privately-held software engineering firm advancing leading edge solutions for both the main company and the industry at large.
GRAPHISOFT announces new ArchiCAD 20—Fresh Look at BIM
ARCHICAD 20 reinforces the letter “I” in BIM with a number of important functional improvements while adding a brand new, flat-design graphical user interface, making it the most graphically modern BIM application on the market.
Design Summit: Vectorworks CEO Dr. Sarkar Reveals Technology Road Map
More than 600 key customers from 23 countries around the globe today got to see the future of Vectorworks at the CEO keynote at the Vectorworks Design Summit in Chicago.
Phil Bernstein on the Changing Role of the 21st Century Architect—The Interview (Part 2)
In this interview Architosh learns more than just what Phil Bernstein thinks about educating 21st century architects in the context of advancing AEC digitization. He shares his vast knowledge of “practice” in the 20th century and how things have evolved to the point we face today. In this two-part series we cover the gamut from roles to society’s expectations of professionals, from contracts to architecture schools, from the importance of coding to where Revit’s brain may go.
Illustrious Jury Awards Graphisoft BIMx Pro Architizer A+ Award
One of Apple’s most illustrious software developers has won yet again, another key industry award, sweeping the “Best of Best” Award for the 2016 Architizer A+ Awards in the Technology category.
Graphisoft partners with UK based 3D Point Cloud scanning company
Graphisoft UK partners with Murphy Surveys on Point Cloud Scanning for the UK and Irish AEC markets.
‘High Performance’: The Ultimate BIM Feature
In this special feature, Architosh takes a look at the nature of ‘performance’ both in the architecture firm and its value in the BIM transformation from 2D CAD to BIM workflows. What is the firm performance trade-off due to BIM? How have architects argued against performance? And how do we discuss and evaluate performance within software and BIM in today’s workflow? This feature illuminates this topic using one BIM developer’s software development work as a case study.
Jeffrey Ouellette of Vectorworks, Inc., named buildingSMART International’s Implementation Support Group Chair
The buildingSMART International chairmanship offers platform for advocation of open data buildings standards in the whole AEC industry via initiatives like OpenBIM and IFC.
2016 Vectorworks Design Summit Details Revealed: Speakers, CEU’s and Exhibitors
Vectorworks’ annual Design Summit conference kicks off later this spring in Chicago. Like last year the event will show attendees an exclusive preview of upcoming software technology for one of the world’s leading CAD and BIM developers. Early Bird discounts to the event are still in the offering.
BricsCAD v16.2 released from Bricsys—new UI and 3D modeling updates
Bricsys adds four important new feature updates in point-dot release for BricsCAD V16 (in version 16.2)—adding improved UI, Quad cursor additions, Dynamic UCS and Clip Display status useful in BIM.
COBie inventor says ARCHICAD is 100 Percent COBie-compliant
Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD BIM software has achieved 100 percent COBie Design Stage compliance, says Bill East, COBie inventor.
BIM News: MagiCloud—Europe’s largest online BIM library launches
Progman launches new MagicCloud online BIM library with over 1 million products in Revit MEP and Autodesk formats.
Latest editions of Vectorworks Essentials and Vectorworks Architect Tutorial Manuals Now Available
Expert trainer Jonathan Pickup’s latest manuals updated for use with Vectorworks 2016 design software.
Live Webinar: Introducing Twinmotion for ARCHICAD
Join host Graphisoft and Abvent on a special live webinar demonstrating Twinmotion and ArchiCAD for advanced yet simple visualizations for AEC.
Viewpoint: International Climate Change—Is it a Turning Point for World Architecture?
Will the AEC industry respond with the zest and positivity required to capitalize on a landmark agreement for climate change? What does the AIA (American Institute of Architects) say about the landmark agreement in the Paris Climate Conference?
Using the Future of Architecture to Save Its Past
Philip D. Allsopp has a counter-intuitive passion for saving architecture’s past by using the most state-of-the-art technologies available. And as part of this endeavor he is a leader in the emerging HBIM field—using BIM technology to address the heritage building industry.
Autodesk takes A360 Collaboration for Revit international—global launch
Autodesk announces global rollout of A360 Collaboration for Revit.
Review: Evaluating the case in Jonathan Reeves’ new book “Innovative Vectorworks BIM”
Why do so many architects think BIM (building information modeling) is just valuable for big architecture firms? In a new book this AEC myth gets a big reality check.
Open BIM Proponent Solibri Gets Acquired by Nemetschek Group
The Germany-based Nemetschek Group has acquired Helsinki-based Solibri, the market-leader in quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) in Building Information Modeling (BIM), the digital work method in the construction industry.
Former Autodesk and Siemens Executive Takes CEO Reigns at Nemetschek Scia
SCIA, a global leader in structural design software and member of the Nemetschek Group, has appointed Mrs. Hilde Sevens to their board of directors as chief executive officer, effective 1 December 2015.
John Bacus of Trimble says AR is Bigger than VR…and Discusses Importance of “Trimble Connect”
Chances are good that you aren’t aware that Trimble Navigation is as big as Autodesk. Or that the $2.5 billion a year company is starting to envision itself a bit like IBM for the AEC industry—a perfect partner to everyone—specializing in tying “tool chains” together in both software and hardware. In this feature interview we gain a glimpse of some of Trimble’s industry perspectives…on SketchUp, Connect and that new craze about VR.
AU2015 RECAP—Blurred Lines, Crossed Boundaries in the Era of Connection
Senior Associate Editor Pete Evans, AIA, recaps Autodesk University 2015 in all its many facets, and details many of the larger themes that were pervasive at the show this year. Chief among them were this blurring of lines disciplines, fields, tool chains and the boundaries between design, manufacture and product use. What we saw at AU 2015 was the emergence of a CAD company transforming into a company that will service industries far and wide across the full spectrum from initial concept to end-user and configuration and optimization based on performance and use data. It is a brave new world and Autodesk is at its leading edge.
BIM in Hong Kong—Global VDC and Graphisoft enter into Strategic Partnership
The strategic goal of the partnership is to bring their combined holistic full life cycle building management experience to the industry. Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD will be at the heart of the BIM partnership.
AU 2015: Autodesk declares ‘New World Order’ in Construction Document Management
Project Alexandria Technology Preview to become new commercial offering in early 2016 as Autodesk BIM 360 Docs—Features Apps just for Apple’s iOS Platform
ARCHICAD is ‘BIM Product of the Year’ in the UK Fifth Year in a Row
ARCHICAD 19 has won the prestigious “BIM Product of the Year” award at the tenth annual Construction Computing Magazine Awards in the United Kingdom. This is the fifth year in a row that ARCHICAD has been honored with the top BIM product award. In addition, GRAPHISOFT took home the award for “Company of the Year”.
Tidbits: SketchUp, V-ray and Autodesk University News
Mac and iOS CAD and 3D News: We have brief news items on SketchUp 2016 and V-Ray 2.0 support (a free update), plus news on Autodesk University 2015 running this week.
OrthoGraph Building Survey System for Android Coming
OrthoGraph Survey System, which already runs on Apple’s popular iOS platform, will now support Android starting in early November.
GRAPHISOFT Brazil Client MCA Architecture is ‘Grande Prêmio de Arquitetura Corporativa’ Grand Prize Winner
The Grande Prêmio de Arquitetura Corporativa is the largest and most creative architecture prize in Latin America; it is the only prize that rewards the end customer along with the architectural firm, thus recognizing those who invest in quality architecture.
IMAGINiT Technologies Presents and Exhibits at Autodesk University 2015
IMAGINIT experts to deliver 10 classes at Autodesk University and showcase the latest versions of Scan to BIM and the Clarity Family of products at booth #319
Product Review: Vectorworks Architect 2016
In this product review we take a look at the big ticket items new in Vectorworks and Vectorworks Architect 2016. Introduced this fall but previewed at the Vectorworks Design Summit in Philadelphia last spring, this is arguably the largest update in the product’s history, with the introduction of not one but two major sub-program feature categories—in integrated energy modeling in Energos and in a rival technology to McNeel’s Grasshopper in Marionette.
Hungary’s A4 Studio wins World Architecture Community Award using ARCHICAD
Hungary’s A4 Studio has won the World Architecture Community’s Award for its design of the Casablanca Market in Morocco.
Multiplatform BricsCAD version 16 now available
BricsCAD V16 comes with enhanced architectural BIM design, 3D modeling and usability, and detailed 2D drafting–works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Transitional Shelters in Syria Designed Using ArchiCAD
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched a test project for temporary shelters made from bags filled with earth in Syria.
GRAPHISOFT to share insights into OPEN BIM at RTC Europe 2015
Graphisoft will be attending the RTC Europe 2015 event in Budapest later this month, discussing Open BIM.
2016 Vectorworks Design Summit to be held in Chicago
Professionals and students across the AEC landscape are invited to join a global community of visionaries with keynote presentations by Vectorworks executives and industry leaders at the 2016 Vectorworks Design Summit in Chicago on April 25-27, 2016 to give an inside look into Vectorworks software’s future development cycle and networking opportunities.
Featured Video: Vectorworks 2016—An Introduction
In this featured video, Architosh showcases the latest Vectorworks 2016 product highlights, including its industry-first Marionette technology, the first such algorithmic visual scripting environment included in a leading BIM application, plus nearly a dozen top key new features and nearly 100 improvements. Vectorworks 2016 looks to be one of the top software updates the AECO industry over the next year.
VIMtrek forms an exclusive alliance with Unity Technologies to become sole distributor of Unity software to the AEC Industry
Unity Technologies chose specialist VIMtrek Group as its exclusive distributor for the AEC industries…while Unity Technologies will continue to focus on the video gaming industry.
Bentley Systems acquires 3D nature software maker e-on Software
In a bit of a surprise but in a logical move, Bentley Systems has acquired 3D software maker e-on software of France, the makers of the popular VUE line of 3D natural scenery generating tools, plus PlantFactory and its new-ish and quite strong LumenRT for design professionals like architects and engineers.
Scripting the Future—Vectorworks CEO Talks Marionette, Design Summit and Future Direction
In this interview Vectorworks Inc. CEO Sean Flaherty discusses his software company’s latest developments—including a new “brand name”, an exciting annual conference in the US and the latest Vectorworks release’s signature feature
GRAPHISOFT introduces Rhino-Grasshopper-ArchiCAD Connection
Graphisoft has introduced a public beta version of its Rhino-Grasshopper-ArchiCAD connection, an industry first bi-directional and real-time connection between all three programs.
Imagine what training could do for your Vectorworks-based Designs
Sign up for a virtual or in-person Core Concepts training and then boost your knowledge by taking one of Vectorworks intermediate courses.
OrthoGraph ramps up cooperation with Graphisoft Italy
OrthoGraph’s Ltd., has come to an agreement with Graphisoft Italy and became an official OrthoGraph distributor.
