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PTC’s financial report for Q1 2021 is a cause for optimism

PTC was one of the busiest companies in the design and engineering segment through 2020, and that’s saying something after a year of shutdown and buildup. CEO Jim Heppelmann said, “Fiscal 2021 is off to a great start” and that’s a pretty good way to describe double-digit growth, strong cash flow, new customers, and new growth in partnerships with Microsoft, … Read more

Expanding the universe for Unity Reflect and models

In 2017, Autodesk announced plans to collaborate with Unity to create a link between Unity and Revit’s BIM models.  The first result of that collaboration was Unity Reflect, which started shipping in November 2019. Unity Reflect creates a link between Revit and Unity enabling the creation of 3D visualizations of Revit projects in Unity Reflect. Users could define what information … Read more

Autodesk Q3 results show continued gains

It’s not news to anyone that cloud-based workflows are booming, but it’s good news for Autodesk that its customers are buying into SaaS models. In addition to riseing revenues, the company says it’s becoming more engaged with its customers as strategic partners. In his call to investors, CEO Andrew Anagnost says the company has signed some of its largest deals … Read more

AU 2020: Autodesk’s search for the Unified Theory

If you can forget about the silence of the slot machines, Autodesk’s virtual AU perfectly captured the vibe of the real thing with all the good and all the not so good. All of the good includes a wealth of information including ideas and news about product updates as well as ideas from outside the box of Autodesk’s software applications … Read more

Nemetschek’s very interesting year

Nemetschek is ahead of the adapting to the new normal curve. The company has been in the process of a major restructuring for a couple of years, and some of the most obvious changes became evident in 2019. In his annual address to shareholders, Alex Kaufman, spokesman for the management board and the company’s CFOO, wrote in the company’s annual … Read more

Architects demand more from Revit and from Autodesk

Source: energepic.com   The open letter to Autodesk landed on the desks of editors, analysts, and interested observers with a thud—if a digital letter could land on a digital desk at all. The letter, signed by major architectural firms, complained about the state of Autodesk’s Revit development and was evidence of fraying relationships within the Autodesk community. Basically, the complaints … Read more

Graphisoft releases ArchiCAD 24 and a big new attitude

We’re all virtual now. Graphisoft convened a meeting of our virtual selves for their annual worldwide meeting. This year the theme was Building Together as CEO Huw Roberts and his team unveiled a new version of Archicad. More important for parent company Nemetschek, the virtual conference also showcased new levels of interoperability with Nemetschek’s RISA and SCIA for an integrated … Read more

Gensler blox: algorithm-powered, data-driven workflows for design visualization

A global architecture, design, and planning firm, Gensler says it believes in creating a better world through the power of design. Gensler has developed a proprietary set of digital design tools around information metrics and geometry form-finding, which they’re branding as their inFORM ecosystem. The company says that these tools work to boosts its design capabilities. Blox is the first software … Read more

Vectorworks looks ahead

(Source: Vectorworks)   One of the side benefits of the Coronavirus lockdown is that we now get an inside look at people’s offices. Biplab Sarkar, the CEO of Vectorworks, presented his keynote for the Vectorworks Design Summit, from his home office and we were able to chat with him later about the company. The conference was originally planned for April … Read more

Omniverse—work anywhere, in any program, with your colleagues

Don’t lose your marbles   It hasn’t been too many years since the siloed effects of specialists in the graphics production pipeline drove up a studio or company’s costs, and delayed projects because they used incompatible programs. At GDC 2020 Nvidia introduced Omniverse, its open collaboration platform to simplify workflows for real-time graphics. Nvidia has built its Omniverse platform on … Read more