Open BIM Program for Improved AEC Collaboration

March 13, 2012 — buildingSMART® International, GRAPHISOFT®, Tekla® and several leading software vendors joined forces to launch a global program to help promote Open BIM collaboration workflows throughout the AEC industry. Open BIM is a universal approach to the collaborative design, realization and operation of buildings based on open standards and workflows. Open BIM is

Christchurch Earthquake – One Year On

Today marks one year since the devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch (more info at Wikipedia) – the effects of which are still very much dominating the lives of those who live there. We’d like to again extend our sympathies to all those affected by it. If you would like to help in the recovery efforts

ArchiCAD 15 – BIM Product of the Year

GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD 15 has won the BIM Product of the Year award at the sixth annual Construction Computing Magazine Awards. Affectionately known as ‘The Hammers,’ the Construction Computing Awards showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering

We Won!

So as I’m sure you’ve all heard, New Zealand has won the Rugby World Cup. This is the second time for us since the thing first started back in 1987, so it’s kind of a big deal. Especially since we didn’t even make it into the Semi-finals last time. So to celebrate – and as

Artlantis 4 Announced!

Abvent have announced Artlantis 4 – the latest version of their stand-alone 3D rendering application developed especially for architects and designers. You can find a full new features list on the Artlantis website (here), but for now, we just want to show you the new iVisit 3D presentation feature in Artlantis 4. It lets you

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From the Developers

The past few days we’ve spent fixing bugs, testing, and uploading installers. New Installers for the Cadimage Tools A number of bugs have been reported for the ArchiCAD 15 version of the Cadimage tools. Some of the bugs also affected the latest interim release of the tools for ArchiCAD 14. Yesterday we re-released all of

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ArchiCAD 15 is shipping – and so are we…

Overnight New Zealand time – while the Cadimage team slept, after an extremely intensive week – GRAPHISOFT Budapest were busy shipping ArchiCAD 15. At the same time, our web developer (who resides in the Czech Republic) ‘turned on’ our ArchiCAD 15 Tools ready for download! As a team we work extremely hard to upgrade, test

Building Smart – MESH Conference

Recently Mark and I attended the Building Smart MESH Conference in Sydney: Sharing Information Building Innovation Building Smart is the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI): The key issue in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) sector  is the lack of interoperability – the ability to share information, from the inception of a project,

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Solibri Model Checker v6.2 Released Today

Solibri Inc., has just released version 6.2 of their Model Checking software. This new version brings a bunch of usability and efficiency updates to the market leading Solibri Model Checker, as well as the new Automated 3D Selection Box feature. The automated selection box makes it possible to single out areas of the model while

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FirstLight Site Visit

At the start of last week I was in Wellington running an BIM Introduction Course this gave me the opportunity to have a look at the FirstLight construction site. Whilst Monday was a quiet day due to material delays the past couple of weeks have seen a hive of activity in the shed (Check out

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