Image HP’s micro machine is great for bread and butter 3D CAD but buyers need to be confident that workflows won’t change

AutoCAD’s popularity spawned a copycat DWG clone industry. Now the clone developers are aiming for verticalised BIM

Image New Ryzen Threadripper CPU takes fight to Intel with up to 16-cores for under $1,000

Image Autodesk invited the press to the new headquarters of its AEC Division in Boston, for presentations, customer site visits and technology talks on everything BIM

Image Space Group CEO Rob Charlton shares his thoughts on digital construction from design stage through to asset handover

Image How civil engineering can tap into the power of connected devices to turn data into actionable insights on challenging projects

Image Martyn Day caught up with Andrew Anagnost to hear the new Autodesk CEO’s vision for the company, including subscription, enterprise licensing, 3D printing and the future of Revit

Image Smartvid.io technology can be trained to recognise AEC objects in video and stills

Image Graphisoft held a customer conference in Japan to launch ArchiCAD 21 and to highlight increasing BIM usage in the Pacific Rim.

Image At Goodwood Festival of Speed reality capture technology was used to produce a giant 3D model of the famous Hill Climb

Image Designers can add audio clips to aid communication or to increase feeling of immersion

Image Dell Precision 5820, 7820 and 7920 boast new chassis with front access ‘FlexBays’

Image HP Mars Home Planet explores how 1 million humans could be sustained on the red planet

Image Firm that manufactures Nvidia Quadro GPUs enters the mobile workstation market

Image Datasmith workflow toolkit provides high-fidelity translation of numerous common scene assets

Image New external Quadro GPU (eGPU) plugs in over Thunderbolt 3 to boost pro graphics power

Image Takes ‘noisy’ ray traced image and uses AI to predict what it would look like after thousands of passes

Image HP Z VR Backpack G1 runs on batteries but also doubles up a as a desktop workstation

Image New GPUs include Radeon Pro SSG with 2TB of on-board memory for giant datasets

Image New feature allows project managers to easily monitor progress during construction

Image Software pitched as virtual sales tool, but also supports collaboration and design review for distributed teams

Image SkyCiv releases new design software for AISC standards. Euro, British and other standards to follow

Image Plowman Craven Vogel R3D system offers ‘faster & more accurate’ way to capture rail data

Image Bluesky LiDAR helps Mott MacDonald Bentley create 3D maps for Yorkshire Water

Image Dalux Box combines file sharing with BIM centric features

Image 3D mobile mapping solution now allows users to ‘see’ the location of assets using cloud-based mapping platform

Image BIM Academy, Desco and NBS sign up to become sponsors of PlanBEE

Image Software allows MEP engineers to access manufacturer-specific 3D content from within Revit and AutoCAD

Image Software converts DotProduct point clouds into 3D models with accurate geometry, plus

Image Real time rendering and VR tool for Revit and SketchUp boasts more realistic lighting, trees and grass