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Autodesk Stingray: Interactive Real-Time Game Engine for AEC
Rick Davis, Autodesk marketing manager, Design and Animation and Erin Emery, industry marketing manager for Building Design talked about the recent Autodesk announcement at the Game Developers...
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New InfraWorks 360 Release Offers Improved Productivity Enhancements and...
Autodesk’s mid-year release of InfraWorks 360 was discussed along with the latest release of Civil3D in a recent webinar. In this article we focused on InfraWorks 360. Eric Chappell, Community...
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Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Rebranding and Vectorworks 2016
Vectorworks, Inc. formerly Nemetschek Vectorworks, announced this morning the rebranding of the company plus the release of Vectorworks 2016. Vectorworks 2016 includes more than 100 updates and...
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Sefaira’s Direct Sunlight Analysis Complements Existing Daylighting Analysis
In an interview with Carl Sterner, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, Director of Product Marketing at Sefaira, he discussed Sefaira’s Direct Sunlight Analysis launched in September. Sefaira sunlight heating and...
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IMAGINiT Clarity 2016.1 and Clarity Owner Data Portal (ODP) Released
Matt Mason, director of software development with IMAGINiT Technologies, of Rand Worldwide, answered some questions for AECCafe Voice about the release of the new version of IMAGINiT Clarity, Clarity...
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ContextCapture Promises Accurate, High-resolution Reality Modeling Option for...
The building industry has been seeking ways to build a model of as-built or existing conditions more accurately and quickly, and then integrate it into a design or use it for the beginning of a design....
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AECCafe’s Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2015 Report
Assimilating the week’s worth of information from the Bentley Year In Infrastructure Conference 2015 is no easy feat. The company’s product portfolio has grown exponentially, morphed and consolidated...
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New Tekla Products Combine Analysis and Design Process into Seamless Workflows
Kevin Lea, Product Manager, A&D Solutions, Tekla, a Trimble Company and Andrew Norman, Tedds Product Manager, Tekla, a Trimble Company talked about the recent release of the new version of Tekla®...
View Article21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on...
France will chair and host the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11), from 30 November to 11 December 2015. The conference is crucial...
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Contribute Ideas to AECCafe’s Trends/Predictions article
Greetings, Readers! The first week of January AECCafe Voice will publish a Trends/Predictions article, looking forward toward what might be the big trends for the new year, as well as the next five...
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From the Exhibit Floor: Autodesk University 2015
“If we are to bring the broad masses of the people in every land to the table of abundance, it can only be by the tireless improvement of all our means of technical production.” – Winston Churchill,...
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AECCafe’s Trends Report 2016
Trends that are shaping the built world are powered by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, institute BIM mandates across the globe, the need for convergence or collaboration of AEC teams, the...
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Call for Participants: February Topics – Collaboration and Reality Capture
Two topics coming up for February timeframe on AECCafe Voice: Collaboration platforms and the Cloud Reality Capture Google Cardboard Collaboration platforms and the Cloud - Buildings are now...
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The 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the U.N. Framework Convention...
In December 2015, an historic agreement was reached among 195 nations in Paris at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to combat climate...
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AECCafe Special Report: Reality Capture to Reality Modeling
Over the past few years reality capture has taken the AEC world by storm, with ever increasing attention to being able to collect, process and import data more efficiently and accurately. New...
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AECCafe Special Report: AEC Collaboration Platforms and the Cloud
Buildings are now generating vast amounts of data, cities need to be sustainable, flexible and producers of resources. AEC professionals must also have their eye on environmental impact and diminishing...
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Zaha Hadid Leaves an Architectural Design Legacy Behind
Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born architect who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for architecture, died last Thursday in Miami at the age of 65. Hadid died of bronchitis and suffered a...
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SPAR3D 2016 Shows Off 3D Mixed Realities
The four morning keynotes kicking off SPAR3D 2016 in The Woodlands, Texas, Tuesday morning included Eddie Paddock, Engineering/VR Technical Discipline lead, NASA Johnson Space Center, Greg Bentley, CEO...
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Autodesk Announces Revit 2017 and a Host of Other New Product Releases
Typically, Autodesk announces the latest version of its software in the spring of each year, and this year is no exception. Each new release signals an increase in performance with new and enhanced...
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From the Exhibit Hall: SPAR3D 2016
Those I spoke to at SPAR3D 2016 last week were amazed at the progress the 3D laser scanning/reality capture products had made over just one year. Many people attended in order to find out if the...
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