Revit User Group NZ
One of the Autodesk University 2010 photos I showed at a recent Revit User Group Auckland was an Autodesk concept for interacting, real time, with a living BIM model. Linking the BIM & Building Automation Systems enabled use of live data for analysis, visualisation and operation in the Building Information
CAD and BIM General
One of the great things about conferences is meeting previously “virtual contacts”. Hardi Meybaum, CEO/Founder of GrabCAD, was one of those until we met in the media room at AU as had only known each other by email. GrabCAD’s current focus is engineering & manufacturing but it’s
My Road To BIM
Don’t know how I missed it but a tweet, soon followed by a fellow BIM geek’s email, led me to Phil Bernstein’s relatively new Blog. It’s great to see him jump into the world of blogging. I have seen Phil speak at Autodesk University and (long
One of the most memorable aspects of my first day at TWL was finding the CAD computer wasn’t ready, going home and bringing my in own. It was only for a day or two and, coming from life as a contractor, supplying a computer wasn’t a big deal.
The Warehouse Group Ltd
Our Retail Design application subscriptions are actually funded from an IT budget. Its owner just happened to be near my desk as I was dealing with the 2011 license file today. It’s amazing that writing quite a large cheque results in the delivery in a few lines of text
Tablet PC
I first saw this video on Long Zheng’s blog a few days ago. Microsoft Research show how pen & touch can combine to be more than touch alone. While touch gestures like pinch, tap & drag can be good for changing view, tapping links or moving objects it’s
Cool Hardware
Maybe living a long haul flight from just about everywhere results in an lifelong interest in aircraft design? Whatever the motivation, it’s worth clicking through to this post from Boeing to see the 787 Dreamliner wing/fuselage load test video. Just amazing technology and it can fly! Boeing Confirms
AutoCAD
I guess if it’s on Twitter…! Below is our, rather lovely, view of the Auckland CBD from work. Next week I have the opportunity to go there and hear about the Autodesk 2011 releases. It couldn’t be much closer, for me, but if there isn’t an Autodesk
TypePad
Ok, that post did go live on April 1 and I admit thought there might have been more reaction to RobiNZ Revit Blog. It wasn’t really an April Fool as it wasn’t all false. I do now own AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite but firmly subscribe to picking the
Writing about meeting Greg Arkin at Autodesk University (see BIM Bids Only!) I described his style as “BIM’vangelistic”. It seems some BIM’vangelism, combined with the gift of a domain name, worked for Scott! CADuzer becomes BIMuzer - thanks to Revit3D.com Well, I think my work is done
A couple of tweets between CAD authors @thecadgeek & @SWGeek (right) combined with a need to reprint a sheet, several times, prompted me to think about the paper wasted with CAD. I read the tweels and dreamed this post up while waiting for my car pool ride, how green is
I must be getting old… Remember when AutoCAD came on a few floppy disks? Then a handful of CDs, or a DVD? I just finished building CAD application deployments that would require about 26,624 floppy disks. Admittedly it was AutoCAD Architecture/MEP, Revit Arch/MEP and 3DS Max (plus
