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I recently conducted an interview with Paul McRoberts, vice president of the infrastructure product line group at Autodesk. The company has steered away from using the term geospatial in their approach, although they clearly have the design and management of broader geographies within their sites. In fact, they’re taking a multi-scale approach in how they [...]
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Autodesk has rolled out a tool for conceptual design for infrastructure with their Project Galileo software, which builds on their purchase of LandXplorer. The product retains the GIS integration that was in the original product and adds Autodesk’s rich visualization and rendering capabilities. The product provides a whole new level of geospatial visualization capability that [...]
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BIM for utilities starts with layout and design productivity that goes beyond the use of CAD and drafting tools. In the BIM environment, the creation of a line is realized in a 3D model with a perspective view and connectivity rather than simply a polygon. The software steps in to add a level of productivity [...]
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We’re hearing this morning from James Moore, senior vice president for National Community Planning and Urban Design at HDR, on the “Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities” at the Autodesk AEC Media Day. HDR is a full-service architectural and engineering firm based in Omaha, Nebraska that does work around the world, with [...]
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Emma Stewart, senior program lead for the Autodesk’s Sustainability Initiative, addressed the AEC Media Day on the workflow of sustainable design with a brief presentation that took a look at different workflows within the Autodesk product suite for an urban renewal project in the City of Chicago. She took us through the different phases of [...]
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Paul McRoberts, Autodesk’s vice president of the infrastructure product group, addressed press today at the AEC Media Day. The focus of McRobert’s group has been on the porting of model-based design to bring BIM workflows and concepts to infrastructure. At the center of this approach is the capability to start with as-built and existing conditions, [...]
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Today, I am at the Autodesk AEC Media Day in Waltham, Mass. for a focus on the 2012 product suite. The AEC headquarters in Waltham is where Revit is created, and it’s just 45 minutes from Manchester, NH where the Civil3D team is located, so it provides the ideal location for a focus on both [...]
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Autodesk launched their 2012 product line, including a whole new packaging of suites that offer an integrated design approach with computational and collaborative tools that extend to the cloud. The suites come in three flavors: standard, premium and ultimate, and are tailored to entertainment creation, building, infrastructure and product design. Packaging size is also new, [...]
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I asked Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, about the success of their Open Source experiment with MapGuide and its applicability to other markets that they serve. He commented that the effort has been a success based on the large number of users, but that Open Source was a bit of a ‘last gasp of the [...]
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Autodesk’s Project Galileo promises an easy-to-use planning tool for creating 3D city models from civil, geospatial and building data, and 3D models. This new offering will start its life in Autodesk Labs, and will allow users to sketch conceptual infrastructure ideas within the 3D city model. The focus market for Galileo is on communicating plans [...]
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