NEWS, INSIGHTS AND HAPPENINGS IN AEC TECHNOLOGY

Read about our learnings from clients and developments in products and software on our blog.

Kolberg Pioneer Equipment Animations Project

Kolberg Pioneer (KPI) is the leading manufacturer of material handling and processing equipment for the mining and highway construction industries. KPI is part of the Astec Industries, Inc., family of companies along with Johnson Crushers International (JCI). Recently KPI came...

Window Design Center’s Laser Scanning Innovation Story

Window Design Center of Madison, WI is a premier window and door dealer.  The firm works with a range of design professionals from architects and contractors, institutional and historic preservation specialists, as-well-as homeowners. Recently the firm was contracted by the...

Introducing Perimeter Scan, Our Newest Flight Mode

By: 3DR   What if your drone could not only do topographic surveys, but also help you model your structure as it’s actually going up? For construction and engineering professionals who have been using drones on-site, this capability has been...

Managing Technology Assets Without the Headache

Subscription, maintenance, network servers, deployments, installation, upgrades – do these words give you anxiety?  In part three of our series, we explore the ways initial.aec can assist you with the software and technology tools you use daily to execute your...

End User Support – There When You Need Us Most

You are working on your project and suddenly, an error message pops up that you don’t recognize. Or, your software begins to act in unexpected ways. For many, this causes a sense of panic and frustration as we often don’t...

How to get a BIM Manager Without Hiring One

“The on-site and on-demand BIM support services initial.aec provides RNL allows our design teams to get past the inevitable technical obstacles in order to focus on  the design task at hand.” Carl Hole, AIA Principal | RNL Design In the...

FormIt 360 – Layers, Scenes and Materials

Layers to Control Visibility Select lines, objects, groups, or images – assign them to a layer… then turn that layer on or off! Simple. Powerful. Necessary. Obviously, this is handy when you want to create a more complicated model, or...

Revit No Plot Layer, Yea Right

I was speaking at the Revit Technology Conference on how to do complex walls in Revit and I happened to show my concept of doing a "no plot" layer in Revit. To my surprise everyone thought it was pretty cool...

Easily Share Your Revit Models

eTransmit for Revit is a technology preview of an add-in application for Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012, Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2012, and Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2012 software. For best results, installing Revit 2012 Web Update 1 is recommended. LINK With eTransmit...

Checking Revit Families Performance

By Jarod Schultz There have been a lot of questions over the years about how to check downloaded Revit families or families created in-house and how they might impact project performance. This method is something that I have used for...
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