Future City Competition
This article provides an overview of the Future City competition, an annual competition where middle school students design a “future city” based on a specific theme, creating a virtual model using SimCity as well as a physical model. It takes a closer look at how SimCity is used and discusses the many ...
BIMx Docs
This review takes a comprehensive look at GRAPHISOFT’s new BIMx Docs app, which includes the sophisticated and intuitive 3D model navigation capabilities of its predecessor, BIMx, and extends the scope of the viewing and navigation to 2D content as well, enabling all the models as well as the ...
Performance Based Design: Why Real-Time Feedback is Better Than Intuition
In this Viewpoint article, Ara Massey, Sustainable Design Manager at Slaterpaull Architects, describes how important it is for her to try and understand the impact of early stage design decisions on building performance when designing green buildings. In the absence of better methods, she had to rely ...
AEC Exhibitor Highlights from Autodesk University 2013
This article provides an overview of some of the key AEC technology products that were on display in the Exhibit Hall at Autodesk University 2013 last month, including ArchVision's upcoming RPC Creator, Axomic's OpenAsset BIM plug-in for Revit, Sefaira for Revit for easier early stage energy analysis, …
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