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Archicad 20 Involves BIM in the Early Stages of Design
Eniko Paulo, business development manager for GRAPHISOFT, spoke on the new release of Archicad, Archicad 20. The new release seeks to extend user information usage to the information management stage,...
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Going Live with Autodesk LIVE Visualization Service for AEC
Amar Hanspal, senior vice president and Nicolas Fonta, senior product manager of Autodesk, spoke about yesterday’s launch of Autodesk LIVE, a new interactive visualization service which offers Revit...
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Augmented Reality that You Wear
David Smith, CTO, Wearality, a 3D pioneer of VR, AR, and other technologies, spoke at the SPAR 3D Conference in Houston earlier this year, about how his company is dedicated to delivering and creating...
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Vectorworks 2017 Sports Innovative New Features for Collaboration, Immersive...
In a recent interview with Dr. Biplap Sarkar, CEO of Vectorworks, we discussed the latest features of Vectorworks 2017, which was released September 14th. Resource Manager While making significant...
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The Autodesk Subscription Program Meets Bentley’s Autodesk License Upgrade...
An ongoing topic in the AEC industry for over a year now has been the issue of Autodesk’s moving its customer base to a subscription only program. While Autodesk has given customers a lot of time to...
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SmartBetterCities Just Released New CloudCities Version
In its first version, SmartBetterCities’ released CloudCities virtual reality tool, that can be imported from CityEngine, SketchUp and GoogleEarth. CloudCities is an online platform for hosting,...
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Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2016 Coming to London Next Week
This year’s Bentley Year in Infrastructure Conference will be held at the Hilton Metropole in London, Monday, October 31st – November 4th. Phillip Island Penguin Viewing Platform, Phillip Island,...
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BEinspiring in London – AECCafe’s Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2016 Report
It’s difficult not to be inspired when attending the Bentley Year In Infrastructure Conference, with so many talented professionals gathered to show off their infrastructure projects. Innovation in...
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AECCafe Attends Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM in Santa Clara
AECCafe will be in attendance at Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM held in Santa Clara, California on Thursday, November 10th. This venue is focused on how to address industrial challenges and...
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The Human Experience and Technology: AECCafe’s Autodesk University 2016 Report
The Autodesk University 2016 keynote kicked off this Tuesday morning at the Venetian Congress Center, Las Vegas, with some rousing state-of-the-art rock and roll, followed by an introduction by...
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Reality Modeling Goes Viral at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2016 Conference
One of the exciting developments that came out of The Year in Infrastructure 2016 Conference was the growth of Bentley’s ContextCapture reality modeling offering over the past year. Introduced at the...
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2016 in Review Through AECCafe Stories
No one would contest the fact that 2016 has been a tumultuous year, with lots of shifts worldwide and many disruptive technologies coming onboard. Oak-paneled Auditorium inside the Aliyev Center –...
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U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Declined Dramatically for Last 11 Years
Projected U.S. building sector energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the year 2030 have declined for eleven straight years since the 2030 Challenge was issued in 2005. This statement...
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Some Picks from CES 2017
The 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas attracted over 165,000 people this month, with 3800 companies doing product launches. Erek Dyskant, co-founder of BlueLabs, an analytics and...
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AEC Predictions for 2017
AEC technology company spokespeople weigh in on what their predictions are for 2017, with their thoughts on “going digital,” virtual and augmented reality, smart cities, “assembled architecture,”...
View ArticleEase-of-Use, Owner Involvement are Big Themes at Rand IMAGINiT
Carl Storms, Senior Applications Expert, for Rand IMAGINiT and Matt Mason, director of Software Development, for Rand IMAGINiT spoke with AECCafe at Autodesk University in November 2016 about the...
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Knowing What’s Underground with BIM and GIS
“Disruptive technology changes the face of industries, but we are also in an age of disruptive data.” – Anne Kemp Back in November 2015 at the Bentley Year in Infrastructure event held in London, Dr....
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Autodesk Revit Live Brings Designs to Life
Autodesk Revit Live (formerly Autodesk LIVE), a new interactive cloud-based visualization service which offers Revit AEC users the ability to transform their designs into fully-interactive 3D models,...
View ArticlePresenting 2030 Districts: Urban Sustainability Through Collaboration
Dave Low, Network Liaison for the private-sector led 2030 Districts, spoke about the recent development of that group’s establishment of a non-profit separate from Architecture 2030, an organization...
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CloudCities Adds Procedural Terrains for AEC Professionals
CloudCities announced an update to their cloud platform for building insights that adds procedural terrains and advanced search features. CloudCities for AEC professionals and their clients highly...
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