Accurate, dynamic 3D city models streamed live
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Dynamic 3D models to provide a visualisation and analytical platform for smart city projects, transport / infrastructure planning, development planning and more
HP VR Backpack G2 blurs consumer / pro boundaries
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Machine offers a ‘free-roam’ tetherless VR experience and doubles up as ‘super-slim’ desktop
Quadro RTX at heart of new ZBook mobile workstations
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HP also rolls out new entry-level desktop workstations that aren’t so entry-level anymore
Nvidia launches Quadro RTX for mobile workstations
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All of the new GPUs are VR Ready and are heavily focussed on ray trace rendering
Bentley’s site tool goes from concept to detailed design
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OpenSite Designer includes analytics optimisation, links to geotechnical engineering solutions, and tools to produce ‘all required project deliverables’
Oasys GSA 10.0 improves model creation for simulation
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Engineers can move away from working directly with a building’s analysis model and with its design model instead
Graphisoft tunes performance for ArchiCAD 23
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The latest release of the popular BIM tool accelerates software startup, file opening and more, and includes re-engineered column and beam tools
Tekla Structures 2019
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With its latest Tekla promises to make engineers more productive. Accelerated production of GAs is the most obvious benefit but the end goal is to build confidence in the 3D model, so data can flow freely from design office to site
Out of the shadows
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The race for enterprise VR is heating up. Stephen Holmes gets hands-on with Varjo’s first headset and discovers an experience that goes far beyond anything he’s seen before
Graphisoft’s new CEO
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With the London launch of ArchiCAD 23, AEC Magazine had the chance to catch up with Graphisoft’s new CEO of two months, Huw Roberts, to capture his thoughts on the company and the BIM market
Allplan updates BIM solution for bridge construction
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Allplan Bridge 2019-1 features 4D construction process planning and ‘effortless positioning’ of standardised and repetitive profiles
Five ways rugged tablets with 3D technology are transforming BIM
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Five ways rugged tablets with 3D technology are transforming BIM
Elecosoft enhances construction planning tool Powerproject
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Powerproject XV features new UI, schedule checking and more realistic real-time project simulations
Virtual learning
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Paul Tallon, design and visualisation Manager at the 3M Buckley Innovation Centre (3M BIC) in Huddersfield, talks us through the process of building a virtual, to-scale version of the University of Huddersfield’s campus using ever-evolving 3D technology and drone data
AEC hackathon
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Randall Newton reports from the recent Hackathon event in Seattle, which aims to get people from various AEC disciplines together to think about new technologies in new ways
Design-build specialist Southland adopts cloud workstations
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Firm increases ‘flexibility, productivity and scalability’ using Workspot Cloud Workstations delivered through Microsoft Azure
Autodesk adds construction cost management to BIM 360
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New module designed to help contractors manage budgets and supplier contracts, and streamline change order workflows
ISG transforms scan-to-BIM workflows with Pointfuse
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Laser scanning software reduces time spent processing point cloud data from days to hours
The Wild adds new features to improve collaboration
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Speech-to-text comment tool and sketch annotation now available for VR-based design review tool
Solibri extends reach of BIM quality assurance
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New Solibri product family offers tailored tools for different roles, from BIM manager to site manager
Symmetry version 1.2 brings teams together in VR – literally
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The latest release of the AEC-focused VR tool can instantly gather collaborators together in the same position
Autodesk BIM 360 hooked into VR
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Insite VR integration allows users of the construction management platform to host group model review in VR
First look review: Dell Precision 3540
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Greg Corke gets hands on with Dell’s new budget mobile workstation, which looks like a great machine for entry-level 3D CAD
Review: HP Z2 Mini G4
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With a high frequency 6-core Intel Xeon CPU and several GPU options, HP’s updated micro workstation is a great alternative to a standard CAD desktop, writes Greg Corke
Design viz: Para trooper!
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Stephen Holmes discovers how a new waterside residential project in England has benefitted from high detail renderings to achieve planning permission for its ‘Paragraph 79’ application
ISO 19650: going global part II
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In the second and final installment of this article on ISO 19650, Rebecca De Cicco explains why the UK is benefiting most from the practical application of the new standard
Keeping up appearances
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How advanced structural software made a difference on a London re-development where the facade needed to be retained while the internal structure was replaced
Going underground
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Bentley Systems is developing new software that merges the engineering worlds of structural and geotechnical, from design all the way through to operations
BIM: designing for safe and smart maintenance
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By using BIM, it’s much easier to get people thinking about the maintainability of buildings, write Mike Ford and Dr Nick Bell
NXT BLD 2019 preview - robotics meets digital fabrication
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From autonomous robots from Boston Dynamics to highly optimised digital fabrication and robotic construction, NXT BLD 2019 is shaping up to be our best event yet