This review looks at the many enhancements in the new release of AutoCAD Architecture, the AutoCAD-based design and documentation software for architects, including the updated user interface, sophisticated navigation modes, streamlined workflows, and significant AEC object improvements related to walls, spaces, and multiline attributes.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/AutoCADArch2009.html
This review explores the architecture-specific module of the new version of Allplan, Nemetschek’s flagship object-oriented CAD application, that has now been enhanced and rebranded for BIM.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/AllplanBIMArch.html
In this Viewpoint article, Paul Seletsky, Sr. Mgr. of Digital Design, SOM New York, reflects on the impact of digital technology on architectural practice, and shares some of the ideas behind the Digital Design Ecosystem, a joint initiative between Georgia Tech, Square One Ecotect, Gehry Technologies and SOM, that uses advanced computation to impart tacit and explicit experience into the earliest stages of conceptual exploration.