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Trimble brings powerful collaboration directly into SketchUp
Newest version of SketchUp streamlines AEC workflows with new in-app collaboration, real-time visualization, new site context features, and more.
ALLPLAN 2026 — New ALLPLAN Model Viewer, AI, IFC4 and more…
ALLPLAN 2026 drives productivity, accuracy, and collaboration efficiency from Design to Build — adding new AI Assistant and BIMPLUS updates.
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.
Bluebeam Rebounds: The Comeback of Construction’s Original Digital Rebel
Once the undisputed leader of construction digitization, Bluebeam is charting a bold return to its former glory. Under CEO Usman Shuja and co-founder Don Jacob, the Pasadena-born software firm is refocusing on its core strength—PDF markup—while supercharging it with AI. From Firmus-AI’s “painkiller” review tech to Anthropic’s Claude-powered automation, Bluebeam is rebuilding for an era where 2D drawings and intelligent agents coexist.
Newforma heralds its Boston base with Bruins and TDGarden
Newforma joins forces with Boston Bruins and TD Garden — Reinforces its Boston roots as a leading global technology company from the region.
Twinmotion 2025.2 brings Parallax windows, Nanite and more
Twinmotion 2025.2 adds Parallax windows, Nanite virtualized geometry, and the Synchronized Twinmotion and DCC Viewports capabilities, and more.
D5 Render and Cesium Integration Unlocks City-Scale Storytelling
D5 Render and Cesium Integration Ups the Game in Cinematic Visualization at Large Scale for AEC Industry Storytelling.
AU25 Mainstage: AI Takes the Mic in Nashville
Autodesk AU 2025 hit all the right notes in Nashville this year, as the company handed the mic to artificial intelligence on the AEC industry’s biggest North American stage.
Newforma accelerates AI innovation and AWS expansion
Newforma leverages AWS technologies to accelerate AI innovations and speed up workflows for its global AEC/O customers.
Unbound2025: Bluebeam’s Conference Update Details
More news from Bluebeam Unbound 2025. Multiple integrations were shown in the keynotes, including exciting new AI technologies from Anthropic.
Bluebeam unveils AI-powered Bluebeam Max at Unbound 2025
Bluebeam unveils Anthropic Claude-based AI technology in new Bluebeam Max, plus Firmus-AI integrations that accelerate AEC workflows.
Bluebeam Expands Procore Partnership with New Integrations
Bluebeam to highlight new Procore integrations at global event in Washington, DC. The tech luminary speaker lineup includes Steve Wozniak.
Vectorworks Secures 7 Nominations at Hammers 2025
Vectorworks secures seven nominations for The Hammers 2025 awards — indexing the BIM solutions’ popularity and innovations in the UK AEC market.
AU25: What’s New in the Forma AECO Industry Cloud
Autodesk updates Forma at AU25 with a new unified full building lifecycle platform in the cloud and moves Autodesk Construction Cloud into Forma industry cloud.
AU25: Autodesk Introduces Forma Building Design
Autodesk expands AEC Forma vision with new Forma Building Design, a detailed building design solution in the cloud.
Graphisoft announces IGNITE Conference 2025 in Budapest
Graphisoft IGNITE Conference 2025 in Budapest to showcase leading-edge BIM technologies, feature keynotes, learning sessions, and collaboration for attendees.
Chaos promotes Iveta Cabajova to CEO
Chaos Announces CEO Transition: Iveta Cabajova promoted to CEO, Stephan Sieber to become Executive Chairman.
Vectorworks 2026 Now Available — Key New Features
Vectorworks 2026 is now available for download and use for subscribers and select customers. We highlight the new Depth Cueing and other key features for Vectorworks Architect 2026.
Vectorworks and DIALux launch BIM workflow for architectural lighting design
Vectorworks and DIALux form a partnership to streamline BIM collaboration and enhance lighting design workflows via IFC compatibility.
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.
ToolTalk: Giraffe Reimagines Urban Design and Development
Giraffe is an Australian-based BIM 2.0 software solution aimed at pre-design and early design phases for urban and building development.
ToshTalks 25-03: AIA25: Perspectives on Architosh BEST of SHOW winners
Architosh’s third ToshTalks episode dives deep into our AIA25 Boston Architosh BEST of SHOW winners. We discuss the winners, why they won and what is important about each tool.
Vectorworks 2026 coming with industry-leading features
Vectorworks 2026 promises more industry-leading features for BIM and CAD users across industry disciplines, including automations, customization, and more.
Inside Revizto: Global Dominance with Open BIM Coordination
We talk with Revizto founder and CEO Arman Gukasyan about Revizto’s journey from its beginnings to surging popularity around the globe. The award-winning cloud-based BIM coordination, collaboration, and issue manager application is built with Unity game engine technology and can uniquely federate the world’s largest BIM models, amongst many unique capabilities.
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 Update 2 for 3ds Max
Industry-leading Renderer adds AI tools, astronomically accurate night skies, and three-times faster cloud GPU rendering.
Nemetschek 2025-Q2 Results—Very Strong Revenue Growth
Nemetschek Group shines in Q2 2025 with very strong revenue growth of +30.5%, high profitability and revised upside to annual 2025 results.
Vectorworks Landmark 2025 Wins Green Industry Pros Magazine award
Vectorworks Landmark 2025 wins Editor’s Choice Award from Green Industry Pros magazine, noting how it helps folks work smarter, not harder.
Revizto + Resolve with Meta Quest VR boost Revizto workflows
Resolve brings Meta Quest VR workflows into Revizto for more comprehensive BIM collaboration. Issues in Revizto can be viewed within Resolve.
AIA25: Arcol Makes Big Splash at AIA National Boston
Arcol 1.0 made its debut at AIA25 Boston and was a popular stop on the show’s expo floor. We delve into the details for this BIM 2.0 in this article.
AIA25: Architosh 11th ‘BEST of SHOW’ honors for digital technologies at AIA25 Boston
The 2025 AIA National BEST of SHOW honors for the most interesting and compelling software and digital technologies at AIA25 Boston
Nemetschek Group partners with Iowa State on use of dTwin Technology
Nemetschek Group partners with Iowa State University on the utilization of dTwin software technology for school’s Iowa Innovative Housing Project
AIA25: Autodesk Forma advances with new ACC and Esri connections
Autodesk announces at AIA25 that Autodesk Forma forms new connections to Esri and Autodesk Construction Cloud
Architosh Xpresso-4X Arrived — Newsletter Moves to Quarterly
Architosh announces the delivery of issue No. 53 of its Xpresso newsletter, now coming four quarterly issues in a slightly new format: Xpresso-4x
AIA25: Vectorworks launches new AI Assistant
New AI Assistant (Preview) debuts for Vectorworks 2025 users, offering first salvo in context-aware AI learning for users.
AIA25: Bluebeam supercharges performance, new integrations
Bluebeam Revu 21.6 advances with new ARM chip support for Apple’s M-series Macs and Microsoft Surface computers, and more…
Bluebeam Unbound Conference Unveiled—Steve Wozniak Headlines
Steve Wozniak will headline Bluebeam Unbound 2025. The major user conference for Bluebeam users worldwide will offer exciting keynotes, hands-on sessions, expert-led talks, and more.
Chaos launches Envision: Immersive presentations for architects
Chaos Envision is now out of beta and available to AEC users worldwide. Solution delivers cinematic animations.
Maxon brings Hollywood-grade Rendering to Architecture Market
Maxon enters the ArchViz market, bringing Hollywood-grade rendering to Architecture built on Redshift and Cinema 4D technology.
ToshTalks 25-01: Vectorworks Futures with Ruby Siddiqui
Architosh launches first issue of ToshTalks with Vectorworks and its future as the focus. The video interview below is also hosted on a new Architosh YouTube channel.
Nemetschek Group Joins Forces with Google Cloud
Google and Nemetschek’s new partnership aims to position Nemetschek as an AI-first industry leader, drive market expansion and enhance sustainability.
Chaos launches Chaos Anima 6—First Traffic Simulation for ArchViz
Anima 6 adds traffic simulation to human simulation in the world’s leading crowd simulation software for ArchViz visualization professionals.
ARES and AutoCAD — Locked In Global Dual for DWG Supremacy
This article delves into the battle between ARES and AutoCAD for domination in DWG 2D CAD, especially across the AEC industry, looking at comparisons and trends.
What’s new in AutoCAD 2026
AutoCAD 2026 boasts new performance improvements, new AI assistance features, better insights, deeper integration with Autodesk Docs and more.
Revit 2026 marks 25 years of BIM innovation—What’s New
Autodesk introduces Revit 2026 with key new features and integrations from Recap Pro for point clouds to the new Accelerated Revit Graphics Engine and more.
BACTalks 2025—Autodesk’s VP Nicolas Mangon Keynotes
Autodesk Vice President Nicolas Mangon keynotes BACTalks 2025 today, discussing urban resilience, reconstruction, and Notre-Dame de Paris!
Motif Takes Aim at Established BIM Players with Innovation
Motif takes a new approach to BIM workflows with innovative new shared real-time collaboration with live sync to design tools like Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, and more.
ARES Kudo adds BIM Drawings Automation and AI—Challenges AutoCAD
This year, ARES Kudo gains powerful new automation features that leverage the power of the ARES Cloud to offload various workloads, such as file conversions, and to implement online DWG drawing automation from Revit and IFC BIM files. Kudo also gains A3, the new ARES AI agent, plus other new features.
Nemetschek Group Tops 1 Billion USD — Positive Momentum in 2025
The Nemetschek Group posts strong 2024 financial results and shares positive momentum news for 2025 and a rising dividend.
Vectorworks Open House Returns with Fresh New Format
Vectorworks Open House virtual global event happens next week for customers worldwide where they can see a keynote about upcoming features from the Public Roadmap and much more.
Graphisoft launches Archicad Studio subscription plan
Graphisoft launches new subscription plan for solo practitioners and small architecture teams called Archicad Studio.
New SketchUp 2025 gets more serious about visualization
SketchUp 2025 adds powerful new visualization and interoperability features as it ramps up attention and focus on AEC industry users.
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1
Epic releases Twinmotion 2025.1 update with cool new features for AEC visualization — including new orthographic mode real-time renderings.
Vectorworks’ CEO Dr. Biplab Sarkar Retiring — Jason Pletcher Named CEO
Dr. Biplab Sarkar, CEO of Vectorworks, set to retire in March as new incoming CEO Jason Pletcher set to take over the prominent BIM-CAD platform company.
Newforma announces Newforma Konekt File Server Connector
Newforma Konekt File Server Connector is designed to bridge on-premise and cloud file management for AEC industry professionals.
Ex-Autodesk CEO Launches Motif—Aims at Revit
Amar Hanspal, ex-co-CEO of Autodesk and Project Quantum champion launches Motif and aims to transform AEC/O industry in cloud era.
ToolTalk: Looking at Skema’s SketchUp Integration for Design
In our latest ToolTalk, we look at the Skema to SketchUp integration that transforms workflows, empowering machine learning for planning plus SketchUp for massing studies.
Nemetschek Begins 2025 Strong — Tech Trends and AI Assistant
Nemetschek Group shares its view on AEC/O tech trends for 2025, plus news on its latest AI Assistant technology shown in Munich this year.
Bluebeam Expands Into France
Global leader Bluebeam expands into France and names Charles Parissier as Bluebeam Country Manager for France.
ToolTalk: Looking at Dalux the world’s fastest BIM model viewer
Dalux from Europe is a comprehensive series of BIM solutions for the AEC industry and includes the world’s fastest BIM viewer.
Nemetschek Unveils AI Assistant for AEC Industry
Nemetschek Group intros AI Assistant technology for Allplan and Archicad at BAU 2025 delivering AI innovation for AEC industry.
