Unity has been promising the arrival of its Reflect platform for AEC visualization for several months. The game engine company and Autodesk had announced plans to collaborate in a marriage of game engine technology and BIM in 2017. The deal was made manifest in June at the AIA conference in Las Vegas with demonstrations of Unity’s Reflect plugin. The plugin started shipping in … [Read more...] about Unity Reflect for AEC
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Bentley Systems announces new digital twin cloud services
iTwin Cloud Services help engineering firms visualize their digital twins in 4D. Nominations citing digital twin objectives for YII awards are increasing significantly. At The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference in Singapore this week, Bentley Systems announced new cloud services for infrastructure engineering digital twins. In the technology keynote at the conference, … [Read more...] about Bentley Systems announces new digital twin cloud services
Graphisoft’s Archicad 23 arrives
Multiprocessor support enhances performance and new alliances strengthen integration and visualization. Graphisoft has achieved several significant milestones with its release of Archicad 23. The company claims to be the fastest BIM product in the industry. The company has had multi-processor support since 2017. That work has continued and in the ArchiCAD 23 release, the … [Read more...] about Graphisoft’s Archicad 23 arrives
Vectorworks 2020 opens up connections to data
Latest version adds powerful data management features, GIS support, and 3D modeling. It’s the season for new design and engineering software releases and given that it’s also 2020, every release is feeling momentous in its own special way. Vectorworks, a design and BIM software vendor, has found strong points of differentiation for its tools and this release makes the most of … [Read more...] about Vectorworks 2020 opens up connections to data
The Open Design Alliance readies new tools for 2020
The Open Design Alliance’s season of press releases is here and the quantity of information is greater than ever as the organization follows up on the several new directions they have taken to support interoperability and communication in the CAD industry. The organization has moved into new territory with its Visualize, Web SDK, and BIM (Building Information Modeling) APIs. … [Read more...] about The Open Design Alliance readies new tools for 2020