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Bluebeam Releases New Revu v2016.5.2
Bluebeam Revu 2016.5.2 updates doesn’t just squash bugs—new update supports new Microsoft Surface Studio all-in-one computer. This one will make Apple Mac users in the AEC industry jealous!
Six Years Running—ArchiCAD Wins ‘BIM Product of the Year’ Again
GRAPHISOFT has again took top prize in the BIM Product of the Year category at The Hammers.
Trimble Announces New SketchUp 2017—New Graphics Pipeline 2.0
With this release, Trimble has turned its attention to accelerating and fine-tuning 3D graphics along with powerful updates to better modeling and drawings capability.
Bricsys Announces new BricsCAD V17—Advances BIM, Modeling and Sheet Metal CAD
Bricsys of Belgium announces new DWG-based BricsCAD V17 for MCAD, AEC and general CAD workflows. New update advances BIM, sheet metal design CAD and 3D modeling functionalities.
Graebert Annual Meeting 2016—Introducing ‘Trinity’ of CAD
Graebert and its partners continue to capitalize on the legacy of the DWG CAD file format. At this year’s Annual Meeting in Berlin, held two weeks ago, partners extolled the virtues of Graebert as both partner and technical resource, while the Berlin company announced even more expansive plans around its Trinity of CAD strategy.
Vectorworks Inc. Congratulates Build Earth Live Hyperloop BIM Competition Winners
BIM Unlimited, Hyper Poland, Future Architects, HyperNova, BIM Fusion, rLoop and Mobius receive awards.
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Third Annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship
Students in design fields can win up to $10,000 US dollars as part of the Vectorworks Design Scholarship, now in its third year.
BRICSYS 2016 Coming to Munich in One Week
Next week in Munich, Bricsys NV, will host its annual developers conference on everything BricsCAD including introducing its latest version 17 release. The native DWG competitor targets directions both similar and unique to its euro cousin Graebert as both compete to win market share from US giant Autodesk.
Dr. Sarkar Reveals Details Behind Development of New Vectorworks 2017 Software
Some of the biggest feature updates in Vectorworks 2017 are discussed in detail, and we learn how the company is thinking more “multi-generational” while still being intensely customer-driven to better position itself as a leading BIM competitor.
Open Design Alliance Announces Teigha BIM for Autodesk Revit
CAD Industry Consortium ODA Targets Autodesk’s BIM Dominance with New Teigha BIM API. Reverse-Engineered Technology Enables Competitors Access to Native Revit Files and Families.
Mac 3D/CAD News: Tekla, Fusion, Vectorworks at GreenBuild 2016 and More…
We have CAD/3D News Tidbits: Vectorworks 2017 at GREENBUILD 2016, Autodesk Fusion adds PLM, and Tekla has introduced major updates to their product line.
OrthoGraph Teams with CadLine Ltd for Building Survey and 3D Interior Design
Joint Venture between OrthoGraph and ARCHLine aims at solving key pain points in the AEC industry with measuring existing buildings on paper and manually repeating an error-prone process with paper-to-CAD translation. New collaboration streamlines specifically for work that interior architects and decorators must do.
GRAPHISOFT to Host Webinar Touting BIMx and BIMx PRO Features
Ernesto Minnucci, Laureate of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Minnucci Associati, will showcase some of his firm’s recent projects. And GRAPHISOFT will give a ‘sneak-peek’ into new BIMx features coming out later this fall.
Featured Video: The All New Vectorworks 2017
In this featured video, Architosh showcases all the new great features in the new Vectorworks 2017 product range, including some BIM interoperability capabilities including native Revit import.
Event News: Vectorworks and Scia sponsor Concrete BIM Workshop
Two Nemetschek Group BIM companies will host inaugural Concrete Buildings and BIM Workshop to advanced BIM in the concrete delivery process.
GRAPHISOFT’s BIMx Now Offers Full BIM Data Access Everywhere
Leading BIM software developer, Graphisoft, has introduced significant updates to its multi award-winning BIM presentation and communication app, BIMx. Latest update adds new features to both BIMx and BIMx PRO.
GRAPHISOFT announces that ArchiCAD 20 Global Rollout Has Begun
Graphisoft now shipping ArchiCAD 20 globally in the first 6 of 28 global regional versions.
Pre-Review: Evaluating Upcoming VR Technologies in Vectorworks 2017
In this Pre-Review of specialized web 3D and virtual reality kit, John Helm talks about this technology coming up in Vectorworks 2017 to be released this fall. Helm outlines the basics of the technology itself, gives example uses for various design professionals, and places it into the context of change confronting the industry and the continuation of the BIM transformation in AEC.
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.
Autodesk and Trimble Sign Interoperability Agreement—Customers Need Flexibility
Autodesk and Trimble sign interoperability agreement that covers both IFC and API and developer tools exchange.
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.
Inflection Point: Disruptions, Platforms and Growth with Rhino + Grasshopper (Part 1)
According to Gartner’s “Hype Cycle technology curve, algorithmic aided design within the building design industry—sometimes referred to as AAD—is nearing the “peak of inflated expectations,” where we see in the industry what is known as supplier proliferation. Indeed, quite suddenly in fact, McNeel & Associates has seen a ground swell in competition to their famous Rhino + Grasshopper product combo. An inflection point is coming, due to the rapid rise of something McNeel & Associates has become synonymous for, but so too is change. In this two part series we investigate the factors in this change and learn what may lie ahead.
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.
Bluebeam Revu now out for Apple’s Mac Platform—Big win for Mac in AEC
Years in the making, Nemetschek Group subsidiary, Bluebeam Inc., has released a Mac native version of its building industry leading application Revu. A full fledged member of the Bluebeam family, the Mac version can fully participate in Bluebeam Studio workflows in the building industry.
Nemetschek Group posts impressive financial results
The Nemetschek Group continues record earnings and revenue results as company shares forecasts for fiscal 2016 with estimated EBITDA of nearly $100 million USD.
GRAPHISOFT sponsors inaugural ArchiCAD Student Design Competition
Undergraduate and graduate architecture students are invited to enter an exciting competition co-aligned with the AIA National Convention in Philadelphia in May 2016.
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.
CAD News: Germany’s Graebert Celebrates 4 Years and Double-Digit Growth in India
Germany’s Graebert celebrates 4 years of success in India as it expands its customer footprint at a rapid rate and quadruples its programming and management staff at its Indian headquarters.
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.
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.
Trimble Acquires Sefaira—Building Performance Design Software Maker
Trimble acquires London and New York based Sefaira, new buy adds leading building performance software tools to Trimble’s growing war-chest.
Abvent launches Render[in] 3 plugin for SketchUp
The developer of famed Artlantis Studio and Render have now launched a public beta of Render[in] for SketchUp. The rendering software plugin works entirely within SketchUp.
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.
Chief Architect has announced new version—Chief Architect X8
Top residential builder design software is now at version X8 and being shown at the International Builders’ show in Las Vegas. Chief Architect X8 runs on Mac and Windows.
Trimble Connect gets updates for SketchUp 2016 and more
Trimble has updated its Trimble Connect AEC cloud-based collaboration platform with new modern user interface touches and new format support.
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.
3D News: CL3VER Releases new CL3VER 3.3 for PC, Mac and iOS
Innovative cloud-based mobile and web application for visualization in AEC and manufacturing industries just got serious about loss of Internet connection, supplying the market with new, native desktop and iOS apps.
Product Review: Graebert ARES Commander 2016 for Mac
Does Germany’s Graebert have what it takes to challenge mighty Autodesk’s market leading AutoCAD in global 2/3D CAD? In this in-depth product review, Architosh reviews the Mac version of ARES Commander 2016, introducing readers to the company’s history and product orientation philosophy in the process.
Autodesk takes A360 Collaboration for Revit international—global launch
Autodesk announces global rollout of A360 Collaboration for Revit.
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.
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.
OrthoGraph for Android has arrived
OrthoGraph has released its professional building survey applications on Android platform.
Vectorworks, Inc. launches Spanish and Portuguese versions of its 2016 line of 2D/3D CAD/BIM Authoring Design Software
The new release is part of a worldwide rollout, the Spanish and Portuguese versions join additional language releases that took place over the past few months in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Norwegian.
CL3VER unveils pro VR Authoring solution for AEC at Autodesk University 2015
CL3VER 3.3 will be presented in Las Vegas at Autodesk University 2015. At the event, CL3VER and partners ArchVision, Chaos Group and irisVR will also showcase a streamlined architectural visualization pipeline in a dedicated section of the show floor.
GRAPHISOFT Hosts Live Online Webinar: Energizing Heritage Conservation with ARCHICAD Point Clouds and BIM
The live, online webinar on December 8, 2015 is about a revolutionary use of ARCHICAD to support an important preservation project.
Apple’s Virtual Reality story portends poorly for Mac OS X Pros—at least in the short term
While Apple may in fact have exciting virtual reality (VR) plans of its own, the Oculus Rift termination of OS X is going to sting Apple’s Mac professional customers at a time when in some industries, like AEC, the growth of the Mac is booming. Sadly, it affects developers who are creating key and exciting tools that cut across both platforms…and they are creating these tools on Mac hardware.
ASCON Releases of Renga Architecture 2.1
This latest update, which comes less than two months after the latest release of Renga Architecture, allows users to open projects and create new ones with an added feature of printing drafts. However, files cannot be saved.
Benno Schmitz Wins Richard Diehl Award as part of 2015 Vectorworks Design Scholarship Program
Vectorworks, Inc. bestows an additional 15 scholarships to architecture, landscape and entertainment design students to help them reach their educational and professional goals.
Apple’s Enterprise Strategy: Japan’s largest AEC companies going ‘all iPad’
Coming out of news from last week’s Graebert Annual Event in Berlin, a major CAD company in Germany with massive global reach via its partners, Architosh learned that Japan’s largest AEC firms—true enterprise behemoths—are standardizing around Apple iOS, particularly for its tablets in AEC applications…applications that include CAD such as ARES Touch. As a result, Graebert has announced support of iOS.
Graebert intros new ARES Commander 2016 CAD system for Mac, Windows and Linux
The latest version of ARES Commander 2016 has been introduced by Graebert of Berlin, Germany. Architosh is there at the Graebert Annual Event in Berlin and will have more information to follow as new and other announcements follow.
iOS developer Orthograph sees success at InterGeo conference
This year, OrthoGraph appeared as an exhibitor at InterGeo trade fair as the only mobile building survey software solution provider and the company is proud to announce its success at the event.
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.
AppTalk: New ArcSite for iOS aims to reboot mobile CAD
New ArcSite is a brand new iOS mobile CAD app for the Apple iPad. It is the first such mobile CAD tool, on any mobile platform, to feature ‘real-time’ shape recognition while you draw, quickly turning non-straight lines into straight ones, wobbly squares into perfect squares and so forth.
OrthoGraph ramps up cooperation with Graphisoft Italy
OrthoGraph’s Ltd., has come to an agreement with Graphisoft Italy and became an official OrthoGraph distributor.
