There’s lots of talk about virtual design/manufacture/prototyping but starting next month it gets an extreme test. Virgin Racing recently launched their first Formula 1 car, the VR-01, for the 2010 season. Its a computer designed/tested car without the usual wind tunnel model validation. In a sport
It’s hard to avoid BIM, even when you’re on holiday. I must admit the prime motivation for visiting the Maritime Museum was a recently opened exhibit: Blue Water Black Magic - A Tribute to Sir Peter Blake It features the 1995 America’s Cup-winning boat NZL32 – Black Magic
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I haven’t used this product, other DotSoft stuff I’ve tried has been great, but it gets a mention due to the lovely ascii art diagram* that featured in the plain text email that announced it. Who needs Visio… DotSoft Excel2DWG 5.1 DotSoft has developed a revolutionary new
The Computer Integrated Construction Research Program at Pennsylvania State University (phew!) have produced a comprehensive guide to implementing any scale BIM project. I found it last week, thanks to James Vandezande, and showed it at the last Revit User Group Auckland meeting. The “total lifecycle” aspect of the guide interests
It is amusing that Peter Day’s podcast introduction mentions a chance encounter. It’s only a result of chance that I heard the interview and thanks to an unlikely encounter that I knew the interviewee. I turned on the radio this afternoon and heard the last minute of “Peter
I'm not a Vectorworks user but was interested to see this Novedge interview with Jonathon Pickup, a Kiwi Vectorworks blogger. NOVEDGE blog: Interview with Jonathan Pickup, Vectorworks Guru and Tr...
This took me back to a discussion at the the last RUGAKL meeting about sharing models and ownership of data. Laura sums it up in a line, but read the post for context. dODDS and ENDS: We All Work For The Project... This past week, at the Vella Systems Customer
It’s not that I don’t like Apple, just their “our way or no way” attitude and the fanatic devotees annoy (but not Phil, Matt, Adam, Terrance and other iFanatics I know!). I’m not really into cults, except one, but will change my mind if the evidence stacks
Build LONDON Live is on again with the challenge to create a master plan for a hypothetical Thames estuary site. This year Judges include Lachmi Khemlani, founder/editor of AECbytes. Build LONDON Live - www.buildlondonlive.com/ Building on the success of Build LONDON Live 2008, Asite, AEC3 and BIM
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I don’t do “sales” demos but there are some useful tips in this article for any software presentation. I suspect I’ve been guilty of all of them! Stunningly Awful Demos: Five Things Not To Do in a Demo : The World Idea Hub Here is a collection of poor
In the CADMAN Rd post I asked if anyone had been to BIM? Thanks to a vigilent reader who spotted a feature on the map closer than BIM, West Virginia I found out I have been to BIM, well Bims Rd. Even...
I attended an IPD/BIM meeting and thought it rather ironic that, due to stupid planning rules that allow you to build several new multi-story office blocks with insufficient visitor parking, I found a park in nearby Cadman Ave (No Exit)*. I wondered if any New Zealand place names have
