Boston is a company which has a reputation in IT as the supplier of high-end workstations, render boxes and servers to system integrators, as well as directly out to specialist companies in the 3D Industry. Boston has been about since 1992. It has...
This has to have been the most exciting Parts Built System we have tested in a long time. Generally on looking into review systems they are very well built, though this is an extraordinary unit with the grunt to push things to the extreme – hence ...
Navfree USA for iPhone offers turn-by-turn navigation, voice guidance, integrated Google search, and map updates for life--all for free. How is that possible, especially when competing apps from the likes of CoPilot, Navigon, and TomTom sell for u...
November 8th, 9th & 10th featured three conferences; IC CAD, ARM Techcon and ParCAD, which made for a busy but very interesting week. Just to touch the highlights; IC CAD ran out of printed programs, ARM Techcon featured a new GPU and an open sour...
PTC really has the MCAD blab-a-lot-zzi buzzing with conjecture about its upcoming – October 28 -- Project Lightning announcement. And goodness knows, I would never jump into the braying with my brilliant albeit patently ignorant guesses. So, I'll ...
9/8/2010 - Desktop Engineering Anthony J. Lockwood
IDEA is a BIM application for architectural design built on top of IntelliCAD, which is best known as the low-cost alternative to AutoCAD compatible with the DWG file format. The development of IntelliCAD is regulated by the IntelliCAD Technology ...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
