In its first implementations, Omniverse is most useful for enabling designers to create renderings of their work. (Source: Nvidia’s Graphisoft Connector Site) The future is in the ‘verse and Graphisoft has opened its own door into it. Nvidia and Graphisoft have announced the availability of a connector for Archicad 24 to Nvidia’s Omniverse. Omniverse is a 3D development tool now in … Read more
Tinkercad was born of a desire to extend 3D CAD and along the way 3D printing to the world. Original founders Kai Backman and Mikko Mononen were determined to break the logjam that has grown along with interest in 3D design. They could see that there was huge interest in 3D design to enable 3D printing, create rendered visualizations, and … Read more
Dassault Systèmes has reported its first quarter of 2021 and, said they’ve exceeded its guidance and are looking forward to the future. During the quarter, the company made gains on their goals for 2025, as laid out at their Capital Market Day last November 2020. Dassault CEO Bernard Charlès described the company’s first-quarter as “a very solid start on 2021.” … Read more
Nemetschek closed out its fiscal year at the end of March, meeting its targets after raising them before the year’s end, and predicts at least high single-digit growth with EBITA margin between 27% and 29%. Nemetschek reported revenues of EUR 596.9 million for 2020, a 7% increase over the year before. It’s modest, but Nemetschek’s parts are often much stronger … Read more
Doesn’t this picture make you think about how badly this could go on a real site where there are loose nails, and other surprises lying around? Still, AR has found a place in AEC. (Source: Unity) Unity has been having very good success with developing business in AEC. The company started with a partnership with Autodesk for Unity Reflect, … Read more
Since its debut in 2019, the Autodesk Construction Cloud has been growing and a structure has been developing. The company has been adding on to its Construction portfolio with small affordable basic capabilities and complex management tools. This month, the company announces the availability of several new tools and services after last month’s rollout of BIM Collaborate and BIM Build … Read more
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
Indisputably, 2020 was a big year for Bentley Systems and the third quarter a major milestone, as the company provided its financial results as a public company. The company is a big data company through and through, even before it knew it was a big data company. Visualizing and understanding trends and technology flows through the company’s DNA. It’s great … Read more
The upcoming Ares Commander 2022 enables users to access BIM content to take off DWG files for documentation that stay current with the BIM model. (Source: Graebert) At one time it may have been possible to consider Graebert as the maker of products to compete with AutoCAD, but that was a long time ago. Graebert’s CAD tools—from DraftSight for … Read more
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
Graphisoft is turning the crank and getting updates when they’re ready rather than waiting for full release packages as has been the practice across the professional software world. This summer, Graphisoft released Archicad 24 as a significant release to advance BIM capabilities and interoperability between architects and engineers. It has enabled better exchanges of data across Architecture, Structural, Civil, and … Read more
Autodesk’s second-quarter revenues for fiscal 2021 were absolutely on course for the company underlining several points: the resilience of the subscription model, the ongoing progress of Autodesk’s revamped licensing plan, and the relative powerlessness of customers. Autodesk is in the process of transitioning from multi-user licenses to named license, which boils down to one license person rather than a company … Read more
