1. OrthoGraph Survey and Architect
   

   Surveying is an essential part of our business but in Building Information Modelling (BIM) it would be good to get survey data that was a little more useful, writes Martyn Day.

   9/1/2010 - AEC Magazine
   Martyn Day
    
2. Revit Architecture 2011
   

   A few months ago, we looked at the highlights of Autodesk’s 2011 product portfolio launch webcast, which summarized the main enhancements in the 2011 versions of AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and 3ds Max (see AECbytes Newsletter #44). Subsequently, we...

   8/26/2010 - AECbytes
   Lachmi Khemlani
    
3. Reduce Development Cycles with a New Modeling and Simulation Tool
   

   Recently released MapleSim 4 software sports a number of updates that could help you reduce development time and add higher fidelity to your models. The product now supports a range of domains and includes validated Modelica components for modelin...

   8/18/2010 - Design World
   Laura Carrabine
    
4. Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011
   

   With so much emphasis placed on Building Information Modeling (BIM) lately, the capitalized Information sometimes threatens to overshadow building aesthetics. But in the latest release of Revit, Autodesk is starting to restore the balance.

   8/5/2010 - Architecture Week
   Kenneth Wong
    
5. Product Review: MapInfo Professional Version 10.5
   

   MapInfo Professional version 10.5, launched in June 2010, is the latest release of the desktop location intelligence software from Pitney Bowes Business Insight. This review will focus on enhancements to the software since the previous version. Ma...

   8/4/2010 - Directions Magazine
   Paul Amos
    
6. Bunkspeed SHOT 3D – Photorealistic Rendering Simplified
   

   How many times have you found a great model either online or in some library and simply want to render a beautiful photorealistic picture? You don’t want to mess with building materials and fancy caustic or final gather settings, or perhaps you ju...

   7/2/2010 - VizWorld.com
   Randall Hand
    
7. MapleSim 3: Fast and Furious Progress from Maplesoft
   

   Allowing the user to lift the hood takes the black-box haze out of the process

   6/18/2010 - Scientific Computing
   John A. Wass, Ph.D.
    
8. Piranesi 2010 Pro review
   

   3D output and 64-bit support are nice to have but it’s the new layer-based handling that adds most to Piranesi’s existing creative power Read more: Piranesi 2010 Pro review | Software | Reviews | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software/3587...

   6/18/2010 - PC Pro
    
9. Tekla Structures 16
   

   Tekla recently released version 16 of its well-established and popular BIM application for structural design and detailing, Tekla Structures. AECbytes first took a detailed look at Tekla Structures in November 2007 when it was in version 13—that r...

   6/1/2010 - AECbytes
   Lachmi Khemlani
    
10. ARES Commander Edition [PDF]
    

    Low-cost 2D/3D CAD software holds promise as an AutoCAD replacement for some, including Mac, Linux, and mobile device users down the road.

    5/7/2010 - Graebert GmbH
    R.K. McSwain
     
11. Keytech Brings PLM within Reach of SMBs
    

    Scalable, modular solution goes beyond document management, extending the value of CAD data across small and midsized engineering organizations.

    4/23/2010 - CADALYST Magazine
    Jeffrey Rowe
     
12. Elysium has Data Migration Down to a Science with NXdoctor
    

    Data interoperability is one of the great challenges of the engineering and design industry. Because CAD implementations almost never stay static companies are constantly forced to adapt to new systems. This means finding ways to implement and int...

    4/21/2010 - Elysium
    John Myers
     
13. AutoCAD Architecture 2011 Overview
    

    The NDA on discussing the features in the soon-to-be-released AutoCAD Architecture 2011 has been lifted, and once again I find myself very busy (a good thing!). I will try to summarize the new features and improvements in this post, with the hope ...

    3/25/2010 - The Architect's Desktop
    David Koch
     
14. Familiar Look & Feel Characterizes Cadac Organice Suite 2010
    

    International marketing manager Guus Weitzel spoke with AECWeekly this past week about the latest release from the Netherlands-based Cadac Organice BV, Cadac Organice Product Suite 2010. This product is unusual in that it leverages the Microsoft S...

    3/16/2010 - AECWeekly
    Susan Smith
     
15. Online Project Management Review: Clarizen
    

    Of all the project management programs, Clarizen uses an email-style look to manage projects in a simple, almost one-click interface. Clarizen runs online from a web server instead of downloading onto your computer, also known as a SaaS (software ...

    1/4/2010 - TopTenREVIEWS
     
16. Solido SD300Pro - Desktop 3D Printer, Capable and Affordable [PDF]
    

    Solido revolutionizes 3D desktop printing by creating a new standard for price, performance, and ease of use

    11/24/2009 - MCADCafe
    Jeffrey Rowe
     
17. Maple 13: Mathematics and Modeling Made Easy
    11/23/2009 - Scientific Computing
    John A. Wass, Ph.D.
     
18. MapleSim 2
    

    Powered by the Maple technical computing engine, MapleSim is a 3D modeling and simulation solution that lets users specify and evaluate myriad simulation conditions for physical models.

    10/28/2009 - Maplesoft
    Jeffrey Rowe
     
19. Toon Boom Studio 5
    

    So many artists today want to venture into the animation world but either don't have the hand-drawing artistic capabilities or the time and resources to learn 3-D animation. Many of us have tried our hand at stop-motion with in-camera techniques o...

    10/16/2009 - Computerworld
    Dan Ablan
     
20. Revu Review
    

    Bluebeam’s Revu 7 now has a dedicated CAD Edition, aimed at the growing number of CAD users who prefer to distribute their documentation in PDF format, says david Chadwick

    10/8/2009 - CAD User Magazine
     
21. Maplesoft Gets Visual with MapleSim2
    

    New 3-D animation and visualization capabilities transform multi-body models into realistic animations, giving engineers greater insight

    9/21/2009 - Design News
    Beth Stackpole
     
22. MapleSim 2: Multi-Domain Modeling and Simulation
    

    Powerful analytic engine is capable of analyzing complex physical models and allowing engineering discovery

    9/2/2009 - Scientific Computing
    John A. Wass, Ph.D.
     
23. DoubleCAD XT vs. AutoCAD LT
    

    IMSI/Design claims its new, free 2D drafting tool is a viable replacement for AutoCAD LT. Is it?

    7/1/2009 - CADALYST Magazine
    Bill Fane
     
24. CINEMA 4D R11 - Powerful Tools...Easy To Use
    

    MAXON's CINEMA 4D, having been around since the early 90's, has made some great strides in its evolution. Now, with Release 11 (R11), MAXON has taken another great leap. In this review, I will cover some of the new offerings this time around, in b...

    6/29/2009 - Renderosity
    Nick C. Sorbin
     
25. Cinema 4D R11 Sports Powerful New Features
    

    CINEMA 4D R11 was released in September 2008, and it includes several new features and enhancements that make this software even more powerful. Furthermore, C4D R11 still retains the same ease of use as its predecessor (although, sometimes it’s to...

    6/29/2009 - Renderosity
    Sergio Rosa
     
26. Maple 13
    

    Things are moving fast at MapleSoft, these days. Since review of release 11, two years ago, there have been two major upgrades to Maple accompanied by versions 1 and 2 of the new MapleSim (of which more separately, although Maple power underpins t...

    6/9/2009 - Scientific Computing
    Felix Grant
     
27. Nemetschek Vectorworks 2009
    

    Nemetschek's Vectorworks software is a powerful and popular CAD program, which unusually is available for the Mac as well as Windows.

    5/14/2009 - DigitalArts
     
28. Vectorworks 2009
    

    CAD program gets major under-the-hood upgrade

    5/13/2009 - Macworld
    Greg Miller
     
29. My impressions of 3DConnexion’s SpaceNavigator and the release of SpacePilot Pro
    

    Another gadget? I’m not an exclusive gadget blogger, but this thing is so damn cool, especially for people who have never seen a 3D mouse in action. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves for a while, because I think it’s important to give a b...

    4/23/2009 - The Momentum Blog
     
30. SmartGeometry 2009 Conference Day
    

    Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the SmartGeometry Conference Day that was held in San Francisco. This is part of an annual conference that is hosted by the SmartGeometry Group, a non-profit organization that was started in 2001 to encou...

    4/13/2009 - AECbytes
    Lachmi Khemlani
     
31. Maxon Cinema 4D 11
    

    Cinema 4D 11 adds advanced matte painting, non-linear animation and faster rendering to its existing strengths

    4/10/2009 - PC Pro
     
32. Solibri Model Checker
    

    I was first introduced to Solibri Model Checker at an "Interoperability" workshop I attended in San Francisco all the way back in Feb 2001. The event was co-hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Pacific Gas and Electric, and it w...

    4/1/2009 - AECbytes
    Lachmi Khemlani
     
33. Maxon Cinema 4D R11 & BodyPaint 3D R4
    

    Maxon has improved the user interface by adding a new set of commands, both under the main 3D viewport as well as under layer and material manager windows. Under the 3D viewport, you will notice a new command palette that includes commands to quic...

    2/24/2009 - CG Channel
    Eric Miller, Justin Coury
     
34. MapleSim Handles Multidomain Modeling & Simulation
    

    Right at the end of the last year, Maplesoft announced MapleSim, its new multidomain modeling and simulation tool. MapleSim combines numeric solvers with the Maple symbolic mathematics engine in a graphical environment for designing, diagramming, ...

    1/26/2009 - Desktop Engineering
    Anthony J. Lockwood
     
35. Numerical-Analysis Software Constructs, Simplifies, and Solves Complex Equations
    

    In theory, almost any aspect of the physical world can be modeled and analyzed mathematically. In practice though, performing the mathematical manipulations required to perform an analysis can rapidly become difficult. For example, the mathematica...

    1/26/2009 - Machine Design
    Bill Fane
     
36. Anark Core 2.0 Crosses the Great Divide
    

    anages your changes and easily communicate model information to any stakeholder you want to satisfy a host of different needs.

    1/8/2009 - Desktop Engineering
    Mike Hudspeth
     
37. Tekla Structures 14
    

    Last November, I reviewed version 13 of Tekla Structures, the long-established and powerful BIM application for structural engineering that also includes comprehensive tools for detailers, fabricators, manufacturers, and constructors. Since that w...

    1/8/2009 - AECbytes
    Lachmi Khemlani
     
38. Cinema 4D r10.5
    

    While this is a review of Maxon’s Cinema 4D version 10.5, we’ll also be looking at some of the changes that were introduced in version 10, which saw the biggest shake-up in Cinema 4D’s history. It’s also worthwhile stressing the modular nature of ...

    1/7/2009 - Architosh
    Tim Danaher
     
39. Graphisoft ArchiCAD 12
    

    In this product review Architosh looks at Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD 12, the industry’s leading BIM (building information modeling) solution used worldwide by architects and building AEC professionals.

    1/7/2009 - Architosh
     
40. TurboSketch Studio
    

    In this product review Architosh looks at IMSI/Design’s new TurboSketch Studio, a plugin renderer for the ever popular Google SketchUp. We evaluate the level of photo-realism, the way in which materials are assigned, bump-maps and other elements o...

    1/7/2009 - Architosh
    Tim Danaher
     
41. Cadalyst All-Star Awards 2008
    

    Cadalyst All-Star awards honor the best of the best — the most outstanding among all hardware and software products that earned Highly Recommended ratings from Cadalyst Labs over the past year. Here we present the editors' picks for 2008.

    11/25/2008 - CADALYST Magazine
    Nancy Spurling Johnson
     
42. Bentley’s V8i upgrade provides new vision for architecture visuals
    

    Bentley’s V8i upgrade, its largest-ever simultaneous release of new products, is an important step along the evolutionary line to 3D design

    11/24/2008 - Building Design
    Marc Thomas
     
43. Athens in the spotlight
    

    Marc Thomas, senior consultant at Cadventure Ltd, previews the upcoming MicroStation ‘Athens’ and finds a host of new and improved features.

    11/7/2008 - AEC Magazine
    Marc Thomas
     
44. Cinema 4D Release 11
    

    With its latest upgrade to Cinema 4D, Maxon has introduced a whole new range of very useful and much-needed features. The application has long supported animation track mixing horizontally, but this new version expands the concept of non-linear an...

    11/7/2008 - MacUser
    Tim Danaher
     
45. PDF Tool Enhances Mainstay Design App
    

    PDF creation and conversion become cheap and green with Bluebeam PDF Revu 6.5's CAD-specific functions.

    11/7/2008 - CADALYST Magazine
    Heather Livingston
     
46. Vectorworks Spotlight 2009
    

    On the surface, the latest version of Vectorworks computer-aided design, visualization and rendering software may not look as if it has had a radical upgrade, but when you replace the 3D modeling engine with a new kernel, there’s a good argument f...

    10/27/2008 - PLSN
    Richard Cadena
     
47. Review: Maple 12
    

    Scientific computing marches forward

    10/13/2008 - Macworld
    Flip Phillips
     
48. Solid Edge Gains Efficiency from Synchronous Technology
    

    In May of this year, Siemens PLM Software unveiled the future of its 3D modeling strategy with the launch of Synchronous Technology. This represented — many claimed — the next big thing, a breakthrough for modeling tools, and would result in Sieme...

    10/8/2008 - Desktop Engineering
    Al Dean
     
49. MFG.com: Where Manufacturing Meets Web 2.0
    

    MFG.com is an online marketplace servicing the global manufacturing community. Its platform simplifies the complex process of sourcing and selling manufacturing services. The technology connects buyers with suppliers of manufacturing services whil...

    10/6/2008 - Bernaise Source
    Dan Greenfield
     
50. Revisiting Manufacturing Web Sites
    

    There are several Web sites for manufacturers that are worth revisiting, either for a good read now or a bookmark for later.

    10/6/2008 - Production Machining
    Mitch Free