Integrated products for reality capture Bentley Systems is building a significant ecosystem around its ContextCapture products. Over the past two years, Bentley has been showing the building blocks of its reality capture system, which it has been building since its acquisition of Acute3D in 2015. The company has announced partnerships with Siemens and drone maker DJI. At the … [Read more...] about Bentley introduces ContextCapture and ProjectWise ContextShare
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Autodesk launches Memento Gallery with new build
Photogrammetry tool adds a 3D viewer to share models. Non-traditional 3D end users including archaeologists and miners are among the user base. Memento has gotten many launches. Formally unveiled last spring and showcased at Siggraph this year, Memento is available for people to experiment with in the Autodesk Labs. Surprisingly, the company is still tinkering with a Mac … [Read more...] about Autodesk launches Memento Gallery with new build
Real 2015 explores the intersection of reality and computers
Autodesk threw a fair and invited a few other software vendors to celebrate the emergence of capture–compute–create workflows. By Kathleen Maher In a burst of hey-kids-let’s-put-on-a-show, Autodesk kicked off its Real 2015 conference on a beautiful February day at San Francisco’s Fort Mason. The site, a reclaimed military base, is a longtime center for the city’s … [Read more...] about Real 2015 explores the intersection of reality and computers
Bentley acquires Acute3D to extend Reality Modeling portfolio
Existing conditions taken with any camera become part of a high fidelity virtual model. Drones are becoming popular for gathering current physical conditions. Bentley Systems has acquired Acute3D, maker of software for aligning photographs of existing conditions with 3D models to create what Bentley calls reality modeling. The data can come from any photo device from a … [Read more...] about Bentley acquires Acute3D to extend Reality Modeling portfolio
Autodesk 2012 by the numbers
Autodesk made its annual pitch to the media this week in San Francisco, and threw out a lot of numbers. When we parse the numbers, the picture emerges of a company happily running as fast as it can to transform digital art and design. There is a shift taking place in Autodesk’s public messaging. For years the story at Autodesk Media Day or Autodesk University was always the … [Read more...] about Autodesk 2012 by the numbers