IdeateApps Updates Include New Revit Sheet and View Functionalities
San Francisco, CA – Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member, announced enhancements to IdeateApps, its collection of Revit add-on tools that streamline tasks daily Autodesk Revit users perform most often. “The majority of the updates in this release improve the way Revit users manage sheets and views,” said Glynnis Patterson, Director of Software Development. “Earlier this year, we asked for ideas on how to enhance Revit productivity, and one recurring theme from the 500+...
Wärtsilä Expert Insight takes predictive maintenance to the next level
The technology group Wärtsilä announces the launch of its Expert Insight predictive maintenance product. This digital product enables customer support to be delivered proactively by Wärtsilä Expertise Centres to ensure long-term accurate insight for their predictive maintenance strategies. The product is available in combination with a Wärtsilä Lifecycle Solutions agreement. Wärtsilä Expert Insight is an innovative breakthrough that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced diagnost...
EarthCam’s A.I. Technology Advances Autodesk Integration with Improved 3D Model and 360° Reality Capture Alignment
EarthCam, the leading provider of construction camera technology and services, today announced at Autodesk University a new feature set that continues to enrich its integration with Autodesk. Today’s digitized workflow creates enormous amounts of data from a growing number of sources, which makes it difficult to keep track of. By converging live jobsite cameras, AI, and 360° reality capture with Navisworks and Revit models, a powerful multifaceted model emerges making it easier to organize ac...
OpenSpace Announces New Integrations with Autodesk® BIM 360® Software
SAN FRANCISCO - OpenSpace, the leader in automated 360° photo documentation and analysis, today announced additional integrations with the Autodesk BIM 360 construction management platform. The new integrations will help streamline the creation of RFIs and Issues in the BIM 360 platform by allowing users to generate them directly from within site walkthrough images. With these new integrations, builders can better understand job site status and problems, easily adding rich visual...
Leica Geosystems Enriches Construction Collaboration with Launch of BLK3D Web, Integrates with Autodesk
Leica Geosystems announces BLK3D Web, an online collaboration workflow that extends the Leica BLK3D imager by enabling users to share 3D measurable images with anyone, anywhere online, and the integration with Autodesk BIM 360 Docs Heerbrugg, Switzerland – Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, today announced BLK3D Web, an online collaboration workflow that extends the Leica BLK3D imager by enabling users to share 3D measurable images with anyone, anywhere online. The BLK3D device allows...
USGBC Launches New “Insight” Feature to Help Green Building Projects Prioritize Sustainability Strategies and Improve Performance
ATLANTA, Ga. – Today, at the annual Greenbuild conference, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched Insight, a new data-driven tool that highlights building project design features that can lead to better performance. Insight is available as a feature of the Arc platform and provides information on the design attributes of LEED certified buildings within a specified geographic region. Project teams can then compare and rank potential sustainability strategies to see how they stack up...
ACI Foundation Partners to Launch Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) Tool
Farmington Hills, Mich. – The ACI Foundation has partnered with the Carbon Leadership Forum on the formal launch of the public beta of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool. The EC3 tool is free, open-access tool for architects, engineers, owners, construction companies, building material suppliers and policy makers to compare and reduce embodied carbon emissions from construction materials, and was launched at Greenbuild on November 19, 2019. The ACI Foundation – a not-f...
Five Profile Products Earn USDA Certified Biobased Product Label
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — Profile® Products announced that it has earned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label for several of its erosion control and vegetative solutions products. The label displays a product’s biobased content, which is the portion of a product that comes from a renewable source, such as plant, animal, marine or forestry feedstocks. The following Profile products have earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product label: ProGanics® Biotic...
Leica Geosystems, Autodesk further collaborate to bring even more efficiency to the building construction industry
Heerbrugg, Switzerland – Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, announced today a new collaboration with Autodesk, integrating the Leica iCON iCT30 construction layout tool and Leica Viva TS13 and TS16, and Leica Nova TS60 and TM50 total stations with the Autodesk BIM 360 Layout App. With a focus on bringing more efficiency through digitalisation to the building construction industry, Autodesk and Leica Geosystems are collaborating on various projects to integrate technologies. In this latest col...
AMD Launches World’s First 7nm Professional PC Workstation Graphics Card for 3D Designers, Architects and Engineers
AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700 graphics card harnesses high-performance AMD RDNA architecture, industry-leading process technology and enterprise-grade software to help professionals increase productivity, improve product quality and accelerate time-to-market AMD RDNA architecture delivers up to 25 percent higher performance-per-clock1 and up to 41 percent higher average performance-per-watt2 than the previous-generation AMD architecture to power demanding 3D design, real-time visualization and VR w...