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AIA22: BEST of SHOW Profile—Spaces for Architects
Conceptual design and its key participants are undeserved in the overall AEC workflow. Most of today’s architectural software is focused on the later stages of construction documentation and the construction itself. Spaces is a powerful yet easy-to-use sketching application that runs on iPad and Apple Pencil, created specifically for architects and designers.
ToolTalk: Spaces 1.3 is a conceptual design tool for iPad for architects
Spaces is a new iOS app directed at the conceptual design phases of architecture, purpose-built for Apple’s powerful iPads and Apple Pencil.
AR Meets AI in Apple iPhone and iPad—magicplan 8 Enters New Dimension
Magicplan 8 enters the next stage of its evolution with new AR + AI — taking room scanning software into the third dimension.
GDC: Unity Technologies Launches Unity 2019.1 at Game DevCon
Unity 2019.1 includes more than 300 improvements including Lightweight Render Pipeline, Burst Compiler, and Shade Graph among others.
INSIDER: Marcus O’Brien of Autodesk—A Conversation About AutoCAD for Mac and Other Platforms
Autodesk says the platforms aren’t important anymore but getting users AutoCAD data in front of them anywhere, anytime, on any device is where the CAD giant intends to command its historic lead over rivals.
OrthoGraph 2.0 Arrives—Becomes Platform for BIM Model Management
OrthoGraph 2.0 goes beyond mobile app for building survey and BIM model creation—new solution is a full web platform for BIM model management with an integrated API for third-party extensions.
Trump May Soon Drive Up the Price of Your Next iPad or iPhone
President Trump is looking to place large tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods, particularly those in the technology and telecom sectors. This could mean rising prices for your favorite gadget—your next smartphone!
HOOPS Exchange 2018—Bolsters AutoCAD and iOS Support and Siemens Parasolid Integration
The world’s most used CAD platform, geometry modeling kernel, and the world’s most professionally utilized mobile operating system all got extended support in TechSoft 3D’s HOOPS Exchange 2018 update.
Vectorworks, Inc. Brings Apple’s ARKit to CAD/BIM Designers—Lastest Nomad App
Nomad’s ARKit update adds power to design services delivery for architects and related professionals on the Vectorworks platform. Now clients and designers alike can see full-scale 3D models in actual environments.
SightSpace Pro Mobile Embraces Apple’s ARKit—New 4.0 Version Released
Augmented reality (AR) is picking up steam in mobile AEC industry applications as Apple’s ARKit and Google’s AR technology comes on board.
Augmented Reality Rising—Unity Supports iOS 11 and Apple ARKit
Unity announces robust support for Apple’s ARKit and iOS 11—announces new IKEA Place as a stellar example of augmented reality example app.
OrthoGraph 1.8 Is Announced—New Measure During Sketch Tool
OrthoGraph adds new Measure by Sketch feature in latest OrthoGraph I system—a complete mobile app workflow aimed at the AEC industry.
OrthoGraph Updates OrthoGraph I to Version 1.7—New Features
OrthoGraph I is now at version 1.7—offers new support for STABILA LDMs plus other new features.
WWDC 2017: Autodesk Ready to Rock New Apple iOS 11 Workflow Features
Autodesk enthusiastically touts upcoming new iOS 11 based workflows for its mobile versions of AutoCAD and its popular SketchBook app.
OrthoGraph I Monthly Ticket—App Offered at 50 Percent Discount
OrthoGraph I is an award-winning mobile app that is purpose built for AEC pros who must measure existing buildings and translate that data to CAD and BIM.
Autodesk’s SketchBook 4.0 for iOS—Massive Update Taps Apple’s Powerful A-Series Processors
Autodesk taps Apple’s powerful mobile devices with new SketchBook 4.0—boasting new rendering engine, massive canvas and much more for visual artists across industries.
Hangar Targets Construction Industry with Drone Robotics Software Stack
Drones are taking to the skies over construction sites and Hangar has a new solution that is dramatically simple to operate.
CL3VER teams with The Mies van der Rohe Foundation—Explore Barcelona Pavilion via Internet
The Mies van der Rohe Foundation and CL3VER seal an agreement to offer virtual visits to the Mies van der Rohe pavilion in Barcelona, Spain.
OrthoGraph I Now At Version 1.5—New LDM Features and More
OrthoGraph I has just surprised us with a point-5 update. The new improvements include new support for more laser distance meters (LDMs) including from Bosch and several new features.
Product Review: OrthoGraph I—Building Survey System for AEC Pros
Should AEC pros still use pen and paper and measuring tape to survey existing buildings in the field? Or should they go “digital” and streamline this tedious and time-consuming process. In this review, Architosh goes deep and provides a complete evaluation of the OrthoGraph I building survey app system—cloud driven and integrated with laser distance meters.
OrthoGraph Announces Winner of Fire Investigation Webinar Contest
California architect Peter Samarin wins free laser hardware and year’s subscription to OrthoGraph 1 system as part of webinar series contests—learns how survey building app works in conjunction with Leica Disto D2 device.
Webinar: Fire Investigation with Advanced Technology from OrthoGraph
Fire investigation professionals can learn now to make accurate floor plans, measure as you go, get instant calculations on damaged surfaces, add annotations or labels to documents to everything you need on site—all in one app!
Featured Video: The New OrthoGraph I System
In this featured video Architosh showcases all the capabilities and uses of the all new OrthoGraph I mobile cloud-based app for Apple iOS and Google Android mobile devices, used in conjunction with laser distance meters like the Leica DISTO D2. Learn how to streamline field dimensioning and take data straight into BIM and CAD applications.
OrthoGraph Announces Survey to 3D Render Webinar Winner
OrthoGraph’s webinars offer chance to win survey software system plus Leica laser distance meter.
iOS-First Floor Plan Survey Software, OrthoGraph I, Wins ‘Best New Version of the Year’ Award
OrthoGraph I garners new award from Best of Biz international awards program.
Trimble’s ProjectSight—Next-Gen Cloud-based iPad App for Construction Management
The proliferation of mobile apps in the building industry isn’t solving the interoperability issues from too many point apps. Trimble ProjectSight has been re-architected to address this challenge, connect to Trimble Connect, and handle natural messaging style communications.
OrthoGraph I introduced for both iOS and Android—building survey app offers free mode
All new OrthoGraph I application for iOS and Android aims to enable users to create complete building survey plans faster than ever, saving time on site and reducing errors associated with paper and pencil methods.
Graebert Announces ARES Touch for iOS
ARES® Touch is a professional application designed to read, create, modify or annotate technical drawings in the popular DWG format on iPad and iPhone, available from the iOS Store in Japan at the end of October and the rest of the world by the end of November.
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.
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.
iPad News: formZ Mobile Viewer announced for iPad and iPhone
Legendary Mac developer of formZ has announced its first mobile formZ branded app in the new formZ Mobile Viewer for Apple’s iOS platform.
London-based Urban Design Ltd, Releases ‘Archisketch’ 2.0 with Apple Pencil and Adobe Creative Cloud Support
Archisketch 2.0 Adds Apple Pencil and Adobe Creative Cloud Support.
Notes from Apple’s WWDC Keynote—Highlights and Thoughts
We run through the top moments in Apple’s 2016 WWDC Keynote, held yesterday. Get the fast skinny on the big announcements presented in the two hour event. And we have some comments about Apple and architects as well.
OrthoGraph for Android has arrived
OrthoGraph has released its professional building survey applications on Android platform.
Revolutionary Cloud-based CAD Launched—Onshape Goes Commercial
One of the most dramatically different CAD products in history has finally launched as a ‘commercial’ offering as Cambridge, based Onshape sets sail after 400,000 hours of beta tester usage.
The new Tableau 9.2—Your Data is Calling
If you have an addiction, satisfy it with Tableau Mobile for iPhone and check out favorite vizzes from anywhere.
Tablets Like iPad Benefit Architecture Practices, Yet Firms Slow to Provide Them
There appears to be a rift between architects who use tablet computers like the iPad in practice and their employers who make the decisions on what technology to provide their professional staff.
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.
Browser CAD Wars—Autodesk responds by launching Project Leopard
Autodesk has revealed its stealthy Project Leopard, bringing Fusion 360 to users “a la” Onshape—a company that perhaps will offer the software giant its biggest mCAD competition in the near future. While this development foretells of an emerging war between two CAD rivals, it means much more for industry directions in general.
Sweden’s Anoto buys digital pen maker Livescribe for $15 million
Livescribe will be fully integrated with the Swedish technology company that develops and licenses digital pens. The Livescribe brand and existing infrastructure will be maintained with a goal of invigorating both companies through the development and sale of new products.
Architosh launches new tablets in Architecture research survey
In our first tablets in Architectural practice research survey, we aim to study how tablet computers may impact the architectural process with a particular emphasis on design and pre-design phases. Of particular note, the new iPad Pro with Pencil ushers in the potential for revolutionary change.
Graebert Annual Meeting—ARES Breaks Down Walls in CAD
Architosh is pleased to present our feature special report on Graebert’s Annual Meeting in Berlin held two weeks ago. The German CAD company specializes in serving the global CAD community via its highly valued ARES native DWG-file based 2/3D CAD technology, a complete solution which OEMs can license, modify and rebrand as their own. The company has a growing array of top-tier partners—both industry stalwarts and emerging starlets—like Onshape.
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.
Autodesk introduces new Autodesk® Graphic
Autodesk Graphic, formerly known as iDraw*, is a powerful feature-packed vector drawing and illustration application available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Graphic was designed from the beginning to have a beautiful, clean and easy-to-use interface with tools to create everything from detailed technical illustrations to beautiful works of art. Create intricate designs quickly and easily on your Mac, and continue working on the go using either the iPad or iPhone versions. Develop resolution- independent illustrations that can be pasted directly into documents, presentations or used together with other Autodesk 3D design software.
Berlin CAD Event: Graebert announces first ‘full-featured’ DWG-based CAD software for Apple iPad and iPhone
A preliminary version of ARES Touch for iOS revealed at the Graebert Annual Meeting. It’s expected to hit the market in 2016 and be as powerful as ARES Touch for Android, which is currently the most featured CAD solution for DWG editing on tablets and smartphones.
Tidbits: AIA Compensations Report, Augmented & Virtual Reality App and Twinmotion 2015 Webinar Invitation
Today’s news tidbits looks at: what perks and incentives firms are offering to attract and retain top talents, checks out Augmented Reality plug-ins designed for smartphones or tablets, and finds out what Twinmotion 2015’s webinar has to offer.
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.
In-Brief: Autodesk talks to Architosh about iPad Pro and AutoCAD 360
Autodesk got prime time feature coverage during Apple’s Special Event this past week as AutoCAD 360 was shown on the new iPad Pro. We have the details.
iPad Pro is fantastic! But it will be for naught if Apple forgets its Pro tools for Mac
Though the iPad Pro packs desktop power, Apple needs to think smartly about the inter-relatedness of software systems across mobile and desktop.
OrthoGraph ramps up cooperation with Graphisoft Italy
OrthoGraph’s Ltd., has come to an agreement with Graphisoft Italy and became an official OrthoGraph distributor.
Paper by 53’s ‘Pencil’ lets creatives think with their hands
Pencil by FiftyThree is the most natural and expressive way to be creative and be expressive from every angle from fine details to broad strokes.
PhatWare releases WritePad Pro 3.0
WritePad Pro 3.0 is a major update to the advanced word processing, note-taking and universal handwriting recognition app.
Qbikal Software introduces Verba 3D free app for iOS
First of a kind app for adding stunning 3D texts to photos from their camera roll and share it on any social media platform, making it great tool for personal and business use to get photos stand out with eye catching messaging.
Viewpoint: Handling BIM on an iPad: OrthoGraph Begins the Process
In this Viewpoint feature, Hungarian software developer, Lazlo Toth, describes how architects and other AECO professionals can utilize apps on modern tablet hardware like Apple’s iPad within a BIM workflow, accelerating processes that typically happen on paper on clipboards, such as field survey work.
Sensopia announces MagicPlan 5.0 availability for iOS
With MagicPlan creating a comprehensive floor plan of an indoor space can be accomplished in minutes. The floor plan contains a rich set of data, including all measurements, shapes and objects. This set of data is the foundation for the new estimator.
PunchPRO for iPad has added new features to its app
PunchPRO made several improvement to their app after closely monitoring their users’ feedback.
Top iPad app OrthoGraph is now at version 10.3
The latest version comes with enhanced documentation of stairs and allows users to snap two rooms together.
Bricolage Node-based Compositor for iOS named to SIGGRAPH 2015 ‘Appy Hour’
Bricolage, the node-based compositor for iOS, has been selected for the SIGGRAPH Appy Hour showcase of innovative mobile apps. Bricolage takes full advantage of the powerful graphics hardware in your iPad or iPhone to process HD video in real time. Node-based compositing used to require a powerful desktop computer, now Bricolage puts it in the palm of your hand. The annual ACM/SIGGRAPH conference is the world’s premiere event for computer graphics.
Visidraft gets limelight in Architect Magazine
Visidraft, an augmented reality software for iOS devices, has gained some limelight in the pages of Architect Magazine.
Hue Lights v1.7 Offers Advanced Weather Simulator for Philips Hue
Experience realistic storms with customized controls for lightning strikes, rain density, bird songs, wind speed, sleep timer, brightness and sky color.
