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Bentley Systems Adds Infrastructure Industry Experience to Digital Twin Consortium

This latest news underscores Bentley’s commitment to advancing open-source platform for digital twins.

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Talking to 2019 Autodesk Innovator of the Year—Amr Raafat of Windover Construction

Trained as an architect, Amr talks to us about Windover Construction’s award-winning project and the innovations at his company using VDC technologies like Hololens and drones.

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Layer App Launches New Project Templates for Faster Implementation

The app’s new variety of project templates and robust suite of team communication tools can be used during any phase of a building project

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CAD/BIM Development Moving Faster—The ODA Announces Monthly Releases

Open Design Alliance is a non-profit technology consortium of 1200 member companies, working together to develop solutions for complex engineering design problems.

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BIM News: Abvent Group Partners with BIM One, Author of BIM Track

Abvent partners with BIM One of North America to offer its BIM Track app to its EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region customers.

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Bentley’s COVID-19 Response—Free Bentley ProjectWise 365 Till September 30

Bentley’s 100 percent cloud-based SaaS solution ProjectWise 365 helps small to mid-sized AEC professionals collaborate from anywhere—particularly home during this global pandemic—and is now free of the subscription until 30 September 2020.

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AEC News: Nemetschek Brands’ Special Offerings During COVID-19

Nemetschek Group companies are helping their AEC customers around the globe with new and free solutions to cope with the current pandemic crisis.

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Autodesk Intros ‘Generative Design’ inside Revit 2021 Among Other Features

Autodesk adds computational design tools directly inside the new Revit 2021, along with the new capability to do slanted walls and much more.

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Autodesk BIM 360 Design Expands Global Collaboration Options with Europe Data Center

Autodesk expands reach with BIM 360 Design and new Europe Data Center. Addresses the needs of design professionals working from home and remote locations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GRAPHISOFT expands BIMcloud as a Service to Global Availability—Free 60 Day Emergency Access

ARCHICAD users working from home can use BIMcloud as a Service to effectively work together as an integrated team regardless of project size or location of team members.

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A Focus on AAD (algorithms-aided design) in Architecture

Our third annual architosh INSIDER Report—now delivered in the first quarter of the new year—takes a deep look at AAD (algorithms-aided design) in Architecture by talking to those involved in its key new developments.

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INSIDER: Introduction—A Focus on AAD (algorithms-aided design) in Architecture

The third edition of our annual INSIDER Report delivers another concentrated dose of feature articles on another key topic in the industry—AAD (algorithms-aided design) or otherwise known as “computational design.”

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INSIDER: Hypar Looks to Unlock AEC Industry Expertise via Computational Design Ecosystem

The AEC market isn’t just hamstrung by data silos, AEC industry expertise itself is missing its true market potential, both economically and socially on a global scale.

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INSIDER: Expanding a BIM Workflow Near You—McNeel’s New Open Source Rhino.Inside SDK

BIM tools have failed global design leaders in many areas—especially advanced modeling. Now Rhino and GH are coming “inside” to help solve long extent pain points in the AEC industry.

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INSIDER: Ladybug Tools Aim to Take Environmental Analysis to Wider Audience

Architosh talks with ‘Ladybug Tools’ co-founders Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari and Chris Mackey, about their young software company’s near future with computational design tools technology that aims to be more democratized soon.

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INSIDER: How JPW is using Bentley’s OpenBuildings Designer GenerativeComponents to Push the Edge of Practice with Technology

A mid-sized architectural practice in Australia has designed what will be the largest building in the country once finished. In the process, the firm advanced the use of computational design with BIM using Bentley’s OpenBuildings Designer GenerativeComponents (OBD-GC).

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Vectorworks 2020 SP3 Out—Gains Real-Time Enscape Rendering and More

Vectorworks Spotlight quality fixes, BIM enhancements and Enscape and NBS Chorus partnerships are but a few of the new benefits to Vectorworks 2020 users.

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ODA Publishes Open Cloud to Azure Marketplace

With this latest release, Open Cloud applications can now be quickly and conveniently deployed on Microsoft Azure.

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Nemetschek’s Viktor Várkonyi named “Executive of the Year” in Hungary

Division Officer Planning & Design Chief, Viktor Várkonyi, wins prestigious “Executive of the Year” in Hungary award for 2019.

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HOOPS Communicator 2020 Now Available for Mac

Engineers now have more powerful tools for web application development with Mac availability and improved support for the BIM collaboration format (BCF).

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Enscape Introduces Version 2.7 of its Real-Time Rendering Software

New BIM-driven workflows and enhanced performance make Enscape the perfect complement to the building process.

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BIM News: ODA Releases new IFC Software Development Kit—2020u2

New support for 4×2 IFC-Bridge Extension included in the latest ODA update.

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Bentley Systems Issues Call for Nominations for ‘Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards Program’

Winners to be selected and announced at the Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

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BIM News: ODA Adds Limited Family Creation for BimRv 2020u2 SDK

New ODA SDK for BimRv 2020u2 adds limited Revit Family creation.

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INSIDER Xpresso #12—Subscribers First to Read In-Depth Report on McNeel’s “Rhino.Inside”

Our latest INSIDER Xpresso #12 newsletter features a key upcoming INSIDER Report on McNeel’s pivotal SDK technology ‘Rhino.Inside.’ Subscribers to the newsletter have gained early access to learn all about how Rhino and Grasshopper technology may find its way into every major CAD and BIM tool in the AEC market at some point in 2020.

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BricCAD BIM supports the BIMcollab issue management ecosystem

Bricsys collaborates with BIMcollab and announces integration between products yielding new BCF features and workflow capacity.

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Evento Anual de Graebert—Berlín se viste de gala para las grandes noticias de ARES Trinity

Graebert continúa impulsando la innovación en el formato de archivo CAD (.dwg), lo que entusiasma a los asistentes de este año con opciones de integración únicas en el mercado AEC BIM junto con fuertes avances en sus tecnologías para la nube con ARES Kudo.

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Brisbane’s Queen’s Wharf project wins prestigious buildingSMART International Award for Best Design

In an outstanding display of IFC collaboration and Open BIM teamwork, PDC (a division of DBM Vircon) has won first prize in the design category at the recent 2019 buildingSMART International Awards.  The award recognized PDC’s Digital Engineering team for its pioneering and innovative efforts on the $3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf project in Brisbane, Australia.

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Graebert Annual Event—Berlin Dresses Up for Big ARES Trinity News

Graebert continues to drive innovation into the (.dwg) CAD file format—exciting this year’s attendees with uniquely positioned options for integrations into the AEC BIM market along with strong advances in its cloud technologies with ARES Kudo.

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Solibri Connection for ARCHICAD 23 Released

Add-on delivers faster, automated code and constructability checking optimized for higher design quality for ARCHICAD users.

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Chaos Group Releases V-Ray Next for Revit

Photorealistic Renderer gains over 20 new features and improvements, bringing smart tech to the BIM world.

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scape Landschaftsarchitekten—BIM Lessons for Landscape Architects

The scape Landschaftsarchitekten office in Germany is one landscape architecture firm that is excelling at its use of BIM technology in their practice. The lessons, from both failures and successes, are critical to the firm’s success overall.

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AU19: Autodesk and Unity Tout New Unity Reflect at AU—Available Today!

Unity’s new Unity Reflect, announced at AU 2019 as imminent for release in December, has now arrived for purchase. The new live-synched, real-time immersive visualization tool supercharges AEC workflows for collaboration among project stakeholders.

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GRAPHISOFT wins top honors at Construction Computing Awards

GRAPHISOFT scoops up top BIM Product of the Year Award for the ninth year in a row while also winning Mobile Technology of the Year award.

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AU19: Autodesk University 2019—Gallery 1 and Introduction

Architosh kicks off our first of several Gallery articles from Autodesk University 2019 with a whole lot more to come soon!

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Nemetschek Group Closed Third Quarter (2019) with Record Earnings

Germany’s Nemetschek Group has closed the 2019 year third quarter with record earnings and an undiminished high rate of growth.

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Registration Opens for 2020 Vectorworks Design Summit

Vectorworks Design Summit is coming to the West Coast for the first time.

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BRICSYS 2019—Lift Creativity, Reduce, Complexity, Act as One

Bricsys continues to push on its leadership front in the area of Machine Learning and AI in BIM but the big news this year was on the new Rhino 3D + Grasshopper integration that benefits not just BIM workflows but MCAD workflows as well. Zaha Hadid Architects and HOK were global design innovators presenting at the conference as well.

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YII2019: Bentley Announces Acquisitions, New Joint Venture and Deeper Commitment to Digital Twins

Bentley announces key strategic acquisitions in Citylab, new iTwin Cloud Services, new updates and entirely new applications in its Open-branded tools and a new joint-venture.

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Autodesk Announces 2019 AEC Excellence Award Winners

2019 AEC Excellence Award winners demonstrate pioneering innovation in project delivery in AEC domains.

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Vectorworks Inc. Earns 12 Nominations in 2019 Construction Computing Awards

Voting poll closes November 1st for 14th Annual Construction Computing Awards where Vectorworks is up for 12 nominations.

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Vectorworks Announces New ‘Vectorworks University’ Training Platform

Vectorworks has delivered on a promised new centralized online educational platform for customers across all design disciplines—architecture, landscape design, and entertainment design chief among them.

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Dr. Biplab Sarkar Talks to Architosh About Vectorworks 2020

In this feature, we learn from Dr. Biplab Sarkar about some of the thinking behind many of the new features in Vectorworks 2020, just recently released, and where parts of the application may be going in the future.

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ODA DevCon ’19—Coming Full Circle in The AEC Industry

Pete Evans was in Milan to cover the ODA’s biggest ever developer conference and reports on the Open Design Alliance’s plans for software development kits that will transform the AEC industry through democratization of standards and open access to data.

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GRAPHISOFT delivers award-winning ARCHICAD 23

GRAPHISOFT today announces the global rollout of ARCHICAD 23—the industry’s leading BIM software solution for architects.

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Jonathan Reeves Highlights New Features in Vectorworks 2020

This new feature highlights architect Jonathan Reeves of the UK and his demonstration videos of the best new features in Vectorworks 2020.

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Professor Randy Deutsch—Discussing the Future of Architects: Convergence and Superusers (Part 2)

Author, architect, and professor Randy Deutsch talks to Architosh about his last two hit books delving into the transformative forces shaping change in AEC and the nature and characteristics of some of the architects responding to those forces he calls Superusers.

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Professor Randy Deutsch—Discussing the Future of Architects: Convergence and Superusers (Part 1)

Author, architect, and professor Randy Deutsch talks to Architosh about his last two hit books delving into the transformative forces shaping change in AEC and the nature and characteristics of some of the architects responding to those forces he calls Superusers.

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New Vectorworks 2020 Features Showcase Video by Jonathan Reeves

Jonathan Reeves, UK architect and expert Vectorworks user showcases new features in Vectorworks 2020 video.

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BIM News: buildingSMART and ODA Announce Strategic Partnership

The Open Design Alliance and buildingSMART International form strategic partnership on interoperability standards for BIM technologies.

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Vectorworks Inc. Introduces new Vectorworks 2020 Product Line-Up

Vectorworks 2020 has been released—big new data-design tools, performance improvements, and all-new animation system shine in the new version.

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International Road-Show—BricsCAD with AI Event at Boston Society of Architects

Bricsys will be showing its AI-infused BIM technology at the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) this coming September—DWG based architecture professionals encouraged by the company to come and learn about the future of DWG-based BIM technology.

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Autodesk’s Revit 2020.1 Release—Big New MEP Features

Autodesk has partnered with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), making Revit more integrated with EnergyPlus—the industry’s leading building energy systems simulation engine and OpenStudio SDK.

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Renga Software Announces Renga BIM System

Renga BIM System from Renga Software was announced this summer and offers a new alternative to BIM solutions.

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BIG BIM plus Open BIM with Vectorworks Architect

You likely associate Vectorworks—a CAD/BIM software with historically strong graphics capacity—with marquee designers like Daniel Libeskind and award-winning small firms. However, you might want to start updating your associations.

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Nemetschek Group Quarter 2 Earnings Out—Strong Dynamic Growth

The Nemetschek Group has posted strong second-quarter earnings with revenue up 21 percent and high operating margins of 29 percent. The Group is on target for the fiscal year.

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National Engineering Firm Becomes Far More Agile with VDI via GPU Workstations

Most large AEC firms with multiple locations seek out agility for their operations. Southland Industries in the United States accomplished this recently with VDI via GPU workstations from Workspot.

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GRAPHISOFT offers new #graphisoftLEARN Master Classes—exceptional learning for BIM professionals

New 2-day conference in Budapest, Hungary—#graphisoftLEARN Master Classes will offer BIM professionals exceptional learning opportunity.

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Open Design Alliance (ODA) to showcase BIM solutions in Milan

ODA DevCon 19 will be highlighting support for open and proprietary BIM formats.

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Perspectives on AIA ’19—Technology and Architecture and Toward the Collective

Architosh presents its annual “perspectives” on BEST of SHOW honorees at AIA in Las Vegas. This year the focus on AEC technologies advances in the framework of last year’s efforts, recognizing the continuity and the developments we saw and awarded around the themes of the conference: collaboration, openness, and inclusiveness…toward the collective.

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