Software

Image User requested platform features designed to boost collaboration and communications across the construction project lifecycle

Image Real time BIM tool also embraces the cloud for enhanced collaboration and features enhanced visual quality

Image SCIA AutoConverter uses ‘controlled and automated’ conversion to help bring analysis into the BIM process

Image SiteSolve can help developers understand the potential of sites or help architects carry out early phase design work

Image Ideate Sticky now allows users to link PDF and Microsoft Word as well as Microsoft Excel documents to Revit files

Image Cirrus Insite handles laser scan and drone data. Future AI capabilities could include defect detection and automated mapping

Image Tailored solutions for fabrication and MEP offer streamlined workflows within Autodesk Revit

Image Blox uses real time computation to balance form, function and business insights on design projects

Image Photorealistic ray tracer adds post-rendering compositing and lighting tools, to provide a ‘more complete rendering toolset’

Image OpenIfcViewer offers IFC property inspection, scene markup, clash detection and more, plus early access to candidate IFC schemas

Image Free software can be used to design, calculate and implement safety measures in spaces in response to virus

Image Resolve from InsiteVR streams in data to get around the limitations of the popular self-contained headset

Image OpenBuildings Station Designer with Legion Simulator can help plan social distancing and mitigate risk in reopening public facilities

Image NoteVault’s technology to be integrated with Synchro to feed live site updates into 4D model

Image Willmott Dixon has chosen the 3D model viewing technology due to the simplicity of the system and the speed to upload design models

Image New Oasys MassMotion proximity modelling tools to aid post-pandemic planning

Image The collaborative project breaks open files such as .RVT or .QGS to be transactional on the individual parts of the file

Image BIM expert Nittygritty has developed a Project Information Management layer for Microsoft 365’s cloud backbone

Image This new cloud service for owner operators, targets the whole building lifecycle, from design through operation

Image We caught up with Vectorworks CEO Biplab Sarkar to get the latest on the CAD / BIM tool and his views on future BIM software development