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3DA Systems launches first 3D PDF converter for Revit 2014
May. 15 | Underlying technology from TechSoft 3D enables fast viewing, strong data compression. Tiny 3DA Systems from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada has the distinction of bringing to market the first 3D PDF converter compatible with the newest release of Autodesk...
BricsCAD update embraces 64-bit, 2013 DWG, and cloud collaboration
May. 15 | Latest update of an alternative design ecosystem to AutoCAD has more than 20 new and improved features. Bricsys has updated its .DWG-compatible engineering design software BricsCAD with improved performance, updated compatibility, cloud-based project...
CadFaster adds any-browser viewing to MyCadbox
May. 1 | Web 3D Glimpse does not use WebGL, allowing it to work on any browser without a plug-in. MyCadbox web viewer. CadFaster has upgraded its online CAD viewer MyCadbox with support for any browser on any platform. Most web-based CAD file viewers use...
Bentley Systems announces plans to leverage the cloud for multi-disciplinary analytics
Apr. 25 | Bentley Systems’ Santanu Das says more tasks will move to the cloud to access the rich resources available for simulation. Bentley Systems dropped a few hints about products coming to the cloud at this year’s Smartgeometry conference in London....
Interview: researcher Hesselgren says customers will demand 1 million architectural design iterations per project
Apr. 20 | Smart Geometry co-founder says architecture has barely scratched the surface of what computers can do. It has been 10 years since a group of architects in London banded together to study and promote the idea of computational geometry, the use of algorithms,...
Autodesk ports Homestyler to iPad
Apr. 12 | The 3D interior design tool is popular with homeowners as an idea generator for remodeling projects. Autodesk has created an Apple iPad app version of its popular Homestyler free online software for interior home design. The new version goes beyond simply...
Rhino plug-in gives access to Caustic Visualizer ray tracing
Apr. 11 | The free tool adds a fully ray traced viewport to Rhino; adding Caustic’s board to the mix supercharges the rendering. Rhino 3D, the popular 3D modeling tool, now has a plug-in to provide a ray tracing viewport. Neon is a full ray-traced viewport plug-in...
Reborn Lagoa launches collaborative cloud rendering for product design review
Apr. 5 | Lagoa MultiOptics is an unbiased physical rendering solution that allows multiple users to share real-time rendering and viewing. When we first reported on Lagoa in GraphicSpeak back in 2010, the essentially one-man company had just licensed multi-physics...
Smartgeometry heading home to London
Apr. 4 | Colleagues from some of London’s top architectural firms gathered to discuss computational design technology; the rest is history still being written. Smartgeometry, the annual conclave of architects pushing the boundaries of design technology is coming...
