By now, many in the design and construction industry have heard about BIM 360. BIM 360 Document Management enables document managers to share project files in the cloud, making them available to invited members of a project team. If one of the big pains on your project has been timely …

Did you get a chance to check out the NXTBLD conference live stream on June 11?  Don’t worry if you missed it, because Rabi Sidawi was watching while eating breakfast! The annual conference explores emerging technologies for the built environment. Rabi lists his three favorite presentations below with links to …

Client reviews, control over consistent reports, groups that need access to the latest changes in data . . . these are some of the challenges that CAD users on projects using AutoCAD P&ID face every day. When it comes to these challenges, there’s a way to make life easier by …

Kenneth Driscol, Sr., Applied Software Senior Specialist, with Carol Dunn In the competitive AEC industry, sometimes it’s a challenge to stand out among the crowd. The industry is ripe for leaders. You need ways to distinguish yourself and become more valuable in your position. Your firm needs ways to differentiate …

Director of AE Core Services Matt Dillon shares exciting new features in Revit 2020.

The designs that Ron’s company creates – wood pieces that are assembled at the construction site – are unique to each building construction project and run the gamut from pure utility to functional art. The creation process was slower and more complicated than Ron wanted and sometimes wasted raw materials, …

When new Autodesk software versions roll out, there’s a bell curve effect for the way customers upgrade and embrace the new features. Only a few of the really gutsy guys jump in feet first from the high dive. Most users – actually about 70% – want to wait until the …

A recent article in AECMagazine pointed up a transformation in the AEC industry that’s taking place so quickly that it may not even be on the radar for many consumers. In Embracing Digital Fabrication, the author compares the industry’s adoption of building information modeling (BIM) with the move to prefabrication …

If your product design process would benefit from automating repetitive tasks, iLogic should be in your future. Included with Autodesk Inventor, iLogic adds another level of intelligence in your design work. It provides a simple way to capture and reuse your work with rules-driven design. With iLogic you can standardize …

Seems like collaboration-speak is everywhere these days. And Autodesk BIM 360, design and construction management software for project delivery, is at the forefront of the collaborative movement. The BIM 360 product group has 71 notable features, from accounting integration to workflow management. Of the next two closest competitors, one has …

In December 2018, Autodesk released an initial version of Refinery, a Dynamo Generative Design package that works with Dynamo version 2.02 and is mainly used with Revit 2019 and Revit 2020. Developed by Kean Walmsley (Platform Architect & Evangelist, Autodesk Software Development), and Lorenzo Villaggi (Research Scientist Associate, The Living, …