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SiteView integration to bring ‘simple 360° visual documentation’ to PlanRadar platform
PlanRadar is to get a new AI-powered ‘SiteView’ feature, designed to enhance the digital construction and facilities management platform’s documentation, communication and reporting capabilities.
SiteView allows users to capture 360° imagery of a project while walking the site with a 360° camera attached to a helmet. Images are automatically mapped onto a 2D plan, creating a ‘detailed visual record’ of activity across every stage of the build.
With the PlanRadar integration, reality capture images are automa ..read more
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Through new partnership, companies plan to drive adoption of digital twins
Hexagon’s Geosystems division and the Nemetschek Group, which owns leading AEC brands including Graphisoft, Allplan and Vectorworks, have formed a strategic partnership with a view to ‘accelerating digital transformation within the AEC/O industry’.
As a first step, the partnership will look to drive the adoption of digital twins.
The two companies aim to provide customers with tools, services and expertise for an ‘end-to-end digital twin workflow’ by joining the up-to-date building data through Hexagon’s reality capture ..read more
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Multi-core structural solver promises faster calculation times and more control
Scia Engineer 24, the latest release of the structural analysis software from Scia, part of the Nemetschek Group, has launched with a brand-new multi-core solver.
The software is also now available as one complete version, eliminating the need for users to navigate between different configurations.
In addition to delivering faster calculation times, the new solver allows for more control over the calculation process, allowing users to monitor ongoing tasks, review results, and interrupt processes as needed.
Scia En ..read more
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1w ago
Omniverse Cloud APIs let developers stream interactive ‘digital twins’ into the mixed reality headset
Nvidia has introduced a new service that allows firms to stream interactive Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) industrial scenes from 3D applications into the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset.
The technology makes use of Nvidia’s new Omniverse Clouds APIs (read our story), using a new framework that channels the data through the Nvidia Graphics Delivery Network (GDN), a global network of graphics-optimised data centres.
“Traditional spatial workflows require developers to decimate the ..read more
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1w ago
Ansys, Cadence, Hexagon, Microsoft, Siemens, Trimble and others adopt Omniverse Technologies to help customers design, simulate, build and operate physically based ‘digital twins’.
Nvidia is making its Omniverse Cloud industrial digital twin platform available as a series of five application programming interfaces (APIs) to make it easier for software developers to integrate core Omniverse technologies for OpenUSD and RTX into their existing design and automation software applications.
According to Rev Lebaredian, VP of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia, this gives ISVs all the pow ..read more
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1w ago
A new integrated reality capture solution uses computer vision, AI and a proprietary handheld camera with GPS, to capture infrastructure at scale
Over the last ten years the AEC industry has been inundated with a plethora of reality capture technologies, from affordable laser scanners and SLAM devices to aerial and terrestrial photogrammetry – even iPhones with LiDAR.
Last month saw the introduction of a novel device and platform from Looq AI, a startup that claims to offer a ‘one-stop solution’ for surveyors, engineers, contractors, and asset owners to capture infrastructure, in minutes, with ..read more
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Greg Corke caught up with Chaos to learn more about its plans for enhancing workflows between Enscape and V-Ray, embracing real time collaboration, and giving architects powerful new story-telling tools through Project Eclipse.
Two years ago, Chaos, the developer of V-Ray, merged with Enscape to create a single entity to cover all aspects of visualisation from real time to photorealism.
V-Ray and Enscape remain entirely separate products, with extremely passionate sets of users. The message is still clear: Enscape is for design decisions while V-Ray is for the highest tier of visual quality.
O ..read more
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1w ago
Chaos recently gave a glimpse into the future of its real-time visualisation software Enscape, with a new module designed to give instant visual feedback on building performance. Greg Corke caught up with Kam Star and Petr Mitev from Chaos to find out more
Enscape by Chaos has become a firm favourite with many architectural practices. The real time viz tool transformed architectural visualisation by making it an integral part of the design process. It allowed architects to go from BIM viewport to visually-rich real time environment – on desktop or in VR – at the push of a button. Any changes m ..read more
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1w ago
Automates tasks for Revit files stored in Autodesk Build, Docs or BIM 360
Ideate Automation, a software tool designed to automate tasks in Revit, now integrates with Autodesk Construction Cloud.
With the new no-cost Ideate Cloud Connector, project teams can ‘seamlessly integrate’ with Revit models managed in Autodesk Build, Autodesk Docs, or BIM 360, enabling Ideate Automation’s scripting capabilities to run time-intensive BIM tasks in the background.
Examples of tasks that can be started in Ideate Automation manually or scheduled to run at regular intervals include: opening large Revit files ..read more
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Software family said to offer enhanced user experience and connected workflows across projects and stakeholders
Trimble has introduced the 2024 versions of its Tekla software for constructible BIM, structural engineering, and steel fabrication management.
Tekla Structures 2024, Tekla Structural Designer 2024, Tekla Tedds 2024 and Tekla PowerFab 2024 boast an enhanced user experience and better collaboration through connected workflows, among other new features
The 2024 version of Tekla Structures provides an enhanced user experience and ‘more intuitive’ modelling for engineers and detailers. A ..read more