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Apple’s Threat to Epic Will Hurt Mac Pros in AEC
Apple can hurt Epic but in the process, they will hurt the Mac pro-market by cutting off access to iOS and macOS developer tools for Unreal Engine apps.
Nemetschek Group — Stable Revenue Growth in Q2 2020
Nemetschek Group revenue proves stable, positive with high margins during the first half of the pandemic year—company diversities aiding German AEC giant.
Autodesk Responds to Open Letter on Revit
Autodesk pens letter on Revit in response to British group—offers a detailed explanation of its development logic, promises a commitment to listening.
Generative Design in Revit Powers Speed for Stamhuis
Dynamo automation helps Stamhuis—a leading retailer in Europe—build customized, powerful, and efficient Revit workflows, improving BIM and project delivery.
BIM is Central to Vectorworks’ Growth Strategy—Upcoming Technologies Revealed
Vectorworks is treating its BIM/CAD platform like an “OS” for design while building out features for ever-sharper market advantages in specific industry verticals.
Enscape’s new 2.8 version—teams with BIM Track
Enscape 2.8 improves BIM industry collaboration via BIM Tracker partnership, plus several new visualization and collaboration improvements.
Epic Games Obtains Strategic Investment from Sony
Sony has made a sizeable investment in Epic and this will enable the advancement of Unreal Engine technology and the upcoming Unreal Engine 5.
Product Review: Twinmotion 2020
Architosh reviews Epic’s Twinmotion 2020, a leading real-time interactive photorealistic rendering application for AEC and design markets.
Unity Reflect adds Navisworks integration, BIM coordination
Unity announces Unity Reflect with Navisworks support, among other features.
Deltek launches 41st annual state of A&E report
Deltek’s state of A&E report helps architecture, engineering, and dual-discipline firms understand the AEC business environment including KPIs.
ODA releases Open IFC Viewer for Mac and Windows
OpenIfcViewer is to provide professional-grade visualization to facilitate the development and adoption of new IFC versions.
Bentley’s ProjectWise 365 Has Gone SaaS—Brings Broad Market and Platform Appeal to AECO Industry
The future of Bentley’s ProjectWise 365 looks bright—technical advances, standards adoption, and carry-over from traditional ProjectWise customers all suggest good things for Bentley.
The Future: Apple Moving to ARM-based Macs in 2021
Apple is poised to make the move to custom design processors for its Macs and will tap its elite experience in ARM-based chip design to empower Mac computers to go places it deems it cannot get to by sticking with Intel.
Building Together Digital Event—Features World’s 2nd Tallest Structure
We take a look into themes shown in the upcoming Graphisoft Building Together digital global event and tie-in some analysis and commentary from what we heard a year ago at Graphisoft’s last major event in the US.
Why Scaling from Little BIM to Big BIM Made Sense for Idle Architecture
A Melbourne-based practice is discovering that moving to Big BIM is enabling them to take on larger projects and better streamline their project delivery.
AEC News: Prof. Georg Nemetschek Establishes New Innovation Foundation
Prof. Georg Nemetschek establishes the Nemetschek Innovation Foundation in Munich, Germany, with the aim of supporting science and research in the industry with a focus on global industry leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) in construction.
CAD News: IMSI Design Releases New DesignCAD 2020—New SketchUp 2020 Support
New DesignCAD 2020 product line features new SketchUp 2020 and AutoCAD 2020 compatibility among several other important improvements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bentley News: Public Stock Listing and Other News for Infrastructure Software Giant
Bentley may be going public soon and the company acquires UK AEC industry CDE leader GroupBC with its market-leading BS 1192 compliant SaaS tools used in construction.
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.
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.
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.
INSIDER: A Brief Tour of Select Grasshopper Add-Ons
We look at 35 Grasshopper plugins that add additional capabilities and superpowers to the number one AAD tool in the market used in AEC. Importantly, there are quite a few GH plugins working for the Mac version of Rhino + Grasshopper—a growing reality that is good for the market.
Autodesk Announces AutoCAD 2021—Includes Free Extended Access to Cloud Tools
New AutoCAD 2021 boasts excellent new features that will streamline the work of AutoCAD users on desktop, web, and mobile, integrating with Google Drive and AutoCAD Web App, plus lots more.
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).
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).
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.
A New Openness—How Vectorworks is Adapting to the World of Integrations
A software application famous for its all-inclusive capabilities is learning how to gain new powers for its users by connecting to others.
AAD software company TestFit Raises $2M for new breed of AEC software
TestFit secures $2M in seed funding round. The market for generative design software to explode, doubling to $275M by 2023.
Fireside Chat: Talking about emTech (Emerging Technologies) with Vectorworks
What the Advanced Technology Group at Vectorworks is working on can excite the senses—especially for Vectorworks users!
BricCAD BIM supports the BIMcollab issue management ecosystem
Bricsys collaborates with BIMcollab and announces integration between products yielding new BCF features and workflow capacity.
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.
XTAL Professional VR Headset—As Shown at CES
New VR headset features unbeatable 8K resolution and unique VirtualLink capable implementation.
Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.2—Graphics API Takes Off
Vulkan 1.2 integrates 23 proven extensions into the core Vulkan API—propels low-level graphics API standard further and with very wide industry adoption and support.
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.
The Nemetschek Group Strengthens Market Position in Media & Entertainment
Nemetschek Group strengthens its market position in the growing Media & Entertainment software division.
AU19: Autodesk University Evolves with ‘Better Starts Here’
Our first featured post from Autodesk University 2019 touches on AU themes and a selection of keynote highlights and does a round-up of AU Expo Hall highlights from some of the vendors Architosh spent time with.
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.
Epic Games Acquisition of Quixel—Announced at Unreal Academy London Architosh Discusses Details
Unreal Engine users gain invaluable assets thanks to Epic’s recent acquisition of Swedish software developer, Quixel.
Bentley Systems Advances Digital Twins—Critical to Smart Infrastructure and Climate Change
This feature—which was originally published in our free monthly newsletter (INSIDER Xpresso) several weeks ago—focuses in on what we learned from the Bentley 2019 Year In Infrastructure Conference, held in Singapore, this past October. The key innovations we want to talk about from that conference center around “digital twins,” but we also want to highlight some stunning facts about the size and growth of the global infrastructure market. Some of these are “head-spinning” and hard to fathom, but nonetheless absolutely true.
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!
Lumion 10 Stuns with New Features—New Versions Available Now
Lumion 10 is now out and available and is packing great new features for visualization pros in the architectural market.
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.
YII2019: Bentley Joins as Multinational Member—Announces Support for IFC for Digital Twins
buildingSMART International’s IFC standard has gained a significant partner in Bentley Systems’ as it joins the consortium as a multinational member and announces new file format interoperability between its iModel standard for Digital Twins and the open industry IFC file format.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Architecture in Perspective—An Interview with Keely Colcleugh of Kilograph
Today we start off coverage of the 34th Annual Architecture in Perspective Conference with an interview with ASAI President and Kilograph CEO, Keely Colcleugh.
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.
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.
Kilograph Turns Unrealized Michael Graves Designs into VR Watercolor Experiences
Kilograph melds Architecture’s past and future, letting users add VR paint to unbuilt resort.
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.
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.
SIG: Siggraph 2019—Highlights from the Computer Graphics Show (Part 2)
We continue with Part 2 of our Architosh coverage of SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles.
SIG: Siggraph 2019—Highlights from the Computer Graphics Show (Part 1)
This year in Los Angeles SIGGRAPH 2019 had an evolving twist in the format of the conference, with many more companies opting to host their wares in private rooms. Regardless, there was a slew of exciting announcements in software and hardware at the biggest computer graphics conference in the world.
