Double vision
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The collaborative efforts of a UK real estate advisor and a Parisian BIM supplier developed a digital twin for Aurora, a 4,830 sqm office building in Ealing for one London client, the Moorfield Group
Automatic for the people
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Three professionals from global engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services firm GHD explain how they are embracing design automation and applying it to real world projects
BLK to the future
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RIBA Chartered Architect, Jacob Down takes the Leica BLK360 for a field test to see if the low-cost, compact, simple-to-use reality capture device really does live up to its promise of bringing laser scanning to the masses
Interview: A Q&A with Revizto
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AEC Magazine speaks with Revizto’s Rhys Lewis to find out more about the simple-to-use cloud-based collaboration tool that can work with 2D and 3D data
Review: Tekla Structures 2018
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Trimble brings its structural BIM tool up to date with new workflows for complex modelling and design automation as well as support for point clouds
NEWS: New analytics tool for high-performance glass
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Guardian Glass releases web-based Glass Analytics tool to streamline glass performance analysis
Review: Lenovo ThinkPad P52s
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Lenovo’s updated slimline mobile workstation features an enhanced Quadro GPU and a quad core CPU. It may not have the performance or good looks of its peers but it wins hands-down when it comes to battery life
NEWS: Substance Plugin for 3ds Max ships
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Material authoring tool adds support for Corona Renderer and Octane 3.06 and is now compatible with 3ds Max 2019
NEWS: Artlantis 7 boosts rendering performance and project sharing
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Architectural-focused 3D visualisation software features a new light sampling method and smarter anti-aliasing
NEWS: IrisVR boosts visual quality and team collaboration in Prospect 2.1
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Users can now join meetings without a VR headset, while ambient occlusion increases realism
NEWS: Autodesk unveils Revit 2019
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New release focuses on delivering updates and features that are most requested by users
HP Mars Home Planet competition enters rendering phase
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Creative community challenged to deliver stills, animations or VR/Real-time
NEWS: Trimble to acquire Viewpoint for $1.2 billion
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Firm says acquisition will create the Industry’s most complete construction management Solution
Dell’s new incredibly thin 2-in-1 mobile workstation
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Dell achieves 9-16mm thickness by being first workstation OEM to adopt Intel processor with Radeon Pro graphics
Samsung unveils 970 PRO and 970 EVO SSDs
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New NVMe M.2 SSDs promise 30 percent boost in sequential read/ write speeds
NEWS: HP ZBook G5 generation brings mobile workstation tally to eight
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New CNC machined aluminium laptops include convertible HP ZBook Studio x360 and ‘affordable’ HP ZBook 15v
NEWS: Tata Steel launches ‘first of a kind’ web-based BIM tool
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Company’s DNA Profiler lets users retrieve the ‘exact level of BIM data’ they require at any stage in the construction process
NEWS: WorldViz puts products in place for collaborative VR
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Vizible delivers collaborative software while VizBox offers VR hardware in a shippable box
NEWS: 3D Repo adds BCF support and GIS integration
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BCF improves collaboration by removing the need to manually locate design issues using only a description or screenshot
NEWS: Trimble introduces Tekla 2018 BIM solutions
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New releases focus on 2D drawing and 3D modelling efficiency and collaborative construction workflows
NEWS: Chaos Group launches V-Ray for Unreal Beta
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'Seamless’ import of V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine bridges gap and optimises workflow between ray trace rendering and real time viz
Get ready for real time ray tracing with Nvidia RTX and Volta
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Nvidia ushers in a new era for design viz with Nvidia RTX technology and Volta-based Quadro GV100 GPU
Sponsored: Scan-to-BIM with ReCap and Revit: An Alpine Case Study
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French firm ATFF uses Autodesk ReCap and Autodesk Revit to provide scan-to-BIM services for a hospital renovation in the Alps
The future of the 3D graphics engine?
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Imagine working in 3D CAD and seeing your model in near photorealistic quality at any point in the design process – without leaving your application viewport.
Epic Games unveils Unreal Studio and lifts lid on SketchUp support
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Commitment to design viz part of wider strategy to make the game engine more accessible to architects and designers
The future of construction
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New design software is needed for an age in which modular buildings are built for off-site fabrication and then assembled on-site, according to Autodesk’s Jim Lynch
The CDE conundrum
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Current common data environments have a number of shortcomings, so what needs to happen for them to better support efficient information-sharing in our industry?
DEVELOP3D Live event preview
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DEVELOP3D Live (Warwick, March 20) offers the perfect opportunity to learn from those truly pushing the boundaries of design. Tickets are free so claim yours now
BIM, the Chinese way
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In the third installment of our region-by-region exploration of BIM adoption, Rebecca De Cicco turns her attention to the world’s most populous nation
NEWS: Chaos Group to host new event on future of rendering
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V-Ray developer invites 3D artists and developers to ‘Total Chaos’ in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 18-19