Unity Reflect gets Navisworks support for BIM coordination
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Real time BIM tool also embraces the cloud for enhanced collaboration and features enhanced visual quality
Procore adds new features to construction management software
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User requested platform features designed to boost collaboration and communications across the construction project lifecycle
SCIA launches cloud-based CAD to analysis model converter
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SCIA AutoConverter uses ‘controlled and automated’ conversion to help bring analysis into the BIM process
Asite to help William Coates develop new business school
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CDE will help ensure collaboration and compliance for the new University of Brighton building
Atkins launches cloud-based digital twin survey platform
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Cirrus Insite handles laser scan and drone data. Future AI capabilities could include defect detection and automated mapping
Ramboll develops generative design tool for site appraisal
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SiteSolve can help developers understand the potential of sites or help architects carry out early phase design work
Ideate Software enhances Revit productivity applications
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Ideate Sticky now allows users to link PDF and Microsoft Word as well as Microsoft Excel documents to Revit files
Gensler develops proprietary data-driven design tool
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Blox uses real time computation to balance form, function and business insights on design projects
Microdesk expands BIMrx product line
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Tailored solutions for fabrication and MEP offer streamlined workflows within Autodesk Revit
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
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Photorealistic ray tracer adds post-rendering compositing and lighting tools, to provide a ‘more complete rendering toolset’
Lenovo turbocharges new ThinkPad P Series mobile workstations
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‘Ultra Performance Mode’ allows customers to push the new P15, P17, P1 Gen 3 and P15v mobile workstations even harder
ODA releases free Open IFC viewer
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OpenIfcViewer offers IFC property inspection, scene markup, clash detection and more, plus early access to candidate IFC schemas
New VR tool supports huge 10GB Revit models on Oculus Quest
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Resolve from InsiteVR streams in data to get around the limitations of the popular self-contained headset
OpenBIM tool to mitigate risk of Covid-19
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Free software can be used to design, calculate and implement safety measures in spaces in response to virus
Leica BLK2GO
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As demand for more portable, rapid scanning solutions increases, Leica has unleashed its first, handheld SLAM device and a cloud-based visualisation and collaboration platform
Working from home: AEC firms under Covid-19 lockdown
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How AEC firms have coped with lockdown, both technologically and culturally, and embraced new ways to communicate and collaborate
May / June 2020 edition free to download now
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How AEC firms have risen to the challenge of working from home, how Nvidia Omniverse is creating a new collaborative canvas for conceptual design, plus lots, lots more
Workstations for point cloud processing (Leica Cyclone)
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Greg Corke goes in search of the ultimate workstation for registering / importing point clouds into Leica Cyclone Register 360
Data-driven design for structural engineers
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Parametric design can offer many benefits, from the automation of repetitive tasks to the creation of the geometrically complex.
Pavement widths mapped to support UK social distancing plans
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Analysis by Esri UK reveals 70% of pavements are not wide enough for social distancing
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Design-build firm overcomes the complex challenges of keeping an existing mall active while redeveloping it into an upscale mixed-use development
Excitech - supporting AEC firms during the Covid-19 pandemic
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We talked with the UK technology solutions and services provider about its experiences of getting its customers up and running, away from their offices
Asite and 3D Repo to link cloud platforms
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Asite says new integration with 3D Repo will streamline BIM file management, improve collaboration and reduce complexity
Bentley Systems waives fees for pedestrian simulation software
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OpenBuildings Station Designer with Legion Simulator can help plan social distancing and mitigate risk in reopening public facilities
Esri: GIS meets BIM
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How Esri is working with BIM software developers to better integrate GIS for AEC professionals
Bentley Systems acquires voice-based site automation developer
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NoteVault’s technology to be integrated with Synchro to feed live site updates into 4D model
Network performance
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We talked to 3-GIS about the challenges of designing, constructing and managing complex fibre networks
Proximity modelling added to pedestrian simulation
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New Oasys MassMotion proximity modelling tools to aid post-pandemic planning
Willmott Dixon implements Dalux BIM tool across all projects
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Willmott Dixon has chosen the 3D model viewing technology due to the simplicity of the system and the speed to upload design models
ProjectWise 365
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AEC Magazine interviewed Dustin Parkman, Bentley Systems VP of Project Delivery, on the release of the company’s most affordable, cloud-based document management service