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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.
Vectorworks Inc. Congratulates Build Earth Live Hyperloop BIM Competition Winners
BIM Unlimited, Hyper Poland, Future Architects, HyperNova, BIM Fusion, rLoop and Mobius receive awards.
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.
BIMobject launches new BIMsupply—A Cloud-Based Supply Solution for AEC Industry
BIMobject launches all new BIMsupply, a cloud-based supply solution for Building Product Manufacturers that links the tender-quote-order process to the BIM model.
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.
Autodesk Finalists for 2016 AEC Excellence Awards Competition—Announced!
Autodesk announces finalists for 2016 AEC Excellence Awards Competition.
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.
Architects Head Back to School with LEARNVIRTUAL—Hybrid Learning Platform Focused on ArchiCAD In Practice
ARCHVISTA Announces LEARNVIRTUAL—Cutting Edge Learning Technology and Virtual In-Person Training at Affordable Pricing.
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.
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces English Version of New Vectorworks 2017 BIM Software Product Line
New annual release features robust new Resource Manager, stunning new performance speed-ups, virtual reality (VR) support, a suite of new irrigation tools, support for native Revit file format, and broad collection of BIM-centric enhancements.
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.
CAD/3D News Tidbits: Autodesk, ThinkParametric, solidThinking news
We have news tidbits from Autodesk, ThinkParametric online learning school and the upcoming solidThinking CONVERGE conference.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
Dr. Biplab Sarkar named CEO of Vectorworks, Inc.
Vectorworks, Inc., announces new CEO in Dr. Biplab Sarkar, while Sean Flaherty takes up key full time position as Chief Strategy Officer for the entire Nemetschek Group.
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.
Featured Video: Vectorworks Design Summit—2016 Chicago
In this featured video, Architosh showcases the highlight aspects of the upcoming 2016 Vectorworks Design Summit taking place in Chicago, one of the architectural capitals of the world. Take a peak below…only takes a minute!
‘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.
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.
ILEXSOFT of Italy releases HighDesign 2016 for Mac—Full Featured 2D CAD
New OS X only CAD system delivers new 64-bit performance and many new enhancements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Autodesk takes A360 Collaboration for Revit international—global launch
Autodesk announces global rollout of A360 Collaboration for Revit.
Viewpoint: It’s the Simple Stuff That Matters
Buildings are complex things but the tools that all stakeholders will engage in will succeed best when they are simpler. There’s no monopoly of good ideas around the construction site so why should digital tools AECO users employ remain complex when evidence shows that simpler digital tools are easier to share?
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.
Autodesk and Frame just put Revit on the Mac, Officially
As hinted at back when Architosh first spoke to Frame’s founder, Autodesk has officially backed certified versions of Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD for the Frame Cloud
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
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.
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.
Introducing BIMmotion for Twinmotion—Abvent launches Twinmotion 2016
Twinmotion 2016 is a visualization and 3D immersion software that allows architects and designers to instantly create digital models of their 3D projects, adding life-like effects in real-time.
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 announces Hybrid CAD + GIS solution created in partnership with Esri
ARES Map brings together the intelligence of Esri’s world-class GIS contents with Graebert’s powerful, full-featured DWG-based CAD platform.
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.
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.
