1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (952+ words) At NXT BLD today Lenovo introduced the Think Station P4, a compact desktop workstation that brings AMD's Ryzen Pro platform into a fully certified, long-life mainstream system. Powered by Ryzen Pro 9000 Series "Zen 5" processors " including 3 D V-Cache models up to the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (244+ words) Architects and designers can now explore and iterate on V-Ray scenes in real time at "final-frame quality, without switching tools or breaking their workflow. With the new Chaos V-Ray 7 Update 3 for Sketch Up, Rhino and 3ds Max, real-time rendering is now…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (587+ words) Across the global technology landscape, a new kind of artificial intelligence is quietly taking on work that once required skilled professionals. This new wave of agentic AI " systems that plan, execute and refine tasks autonomously " is beginning to transform entire…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (701+ words) The AEC software debate around AI and BIM, vendor positions are solidifying. At Motif, Amar Hanspal wants to rebrand the "I" in BIM, transforming it from "information" to "intelligence", to build a platform that enables firms to encode decades of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1406+ words) At Arcol, CEO Paul O'Carroll's reading of where the AEC software market is heading comes from a different place and mindset to that of most of his BIM 2. 0 peers. While the company's software is mostly aimed at building developers, O'Connell…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (665+ words) For two decades the AEC software industry has operated on a simple assumption, that control of geometry equals control of the project. Vendors have competed on modelling environments, coordination workflows, and document production, confident that whoever owns the model anchors…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (533+ words) After studying civil engineering and architecture at the University of Leeds Greg Corke turned his back on 'real' engineering and has been writing about technology for architects, engineers and designers ever since. He is AEC Magazine's co-founder, managing editor and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (405+ words) Engineering software is where AI is starting to show real, verifiable productivity gains in AEC. While the BIM 2. 0 debate over what will replace Revit rumbles on, discipline-specific tools for structural, MEP and electrical engineering are already shipping AI agents into…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (825+ words) In 2018 the focus shifted to digital fabrication, as the AEC sector moved closer to an "art to part" future. Bruce Bell of Facit Homes showed how bespoke houses can be designed in Revit and manufactured on-site with a CNC machine…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (614+ words) AI is no longer a feature bolted onto existing tools " it is increasingly the architecture of the products themselves. From BIM 2. 0 and autonomous engineering design to natural language model interrogation and AI development platforms, the show floor maps an industry…...