Sketchup Make, a fun, free 3D drawing tool for anyone interested in 3D design, and loads more from a community of developers using the Ruby API to produce apps to solve the kind of 3D modelling problems that might otherwise leave you scratching your head. Tools like Trimble MEP Designer, Layout for turning models into sets of drawings by adding model views to pages, choosing drawing scales, and adjusting line weights, etc. Graphisoft ArchiCAD is now fully integrated with LumenRT 2015 on both Mac and PC, enabling architects and landscape designers to present their designs with the utmost realismĬonject tools support PIM (Project Information Management) and the AIM (Asset Information Model) - from Project Control to Defect Inspections and Operations & MaintenanceĪfter a fallow period, when Sketchup was owned by Google, and nothing much seemed to happen to it – despite widespread adoption – the popular 3D building design application, now part of the Trimble stable, is forging ahead with a number of interesting new apps and extensions that take advantage of its easy-to-use 3D modelling tools and 3D Warehouse, the Sketchup repository for customer inspired designs.
Virtalis is now shipping the first new version of its Visionary Render software since it was launched last yearĪ new in-cab waste management system from Yotta is set to transform the delivery of refuse collection servicesįor a project as complex as HS2, with its political, environmental and public issues being of paramount importance, there is no alternative to building a virtual model to test every aspect before the final designs are established
With the release of SketchUp 2015, SketchUp has greatly expanded and improved its standard component collections, with more than 2,800 individual detailed pieces of new SketchUp-authored content now available on 3D Warehouse 3D Laser Mapping has launched a powerful solution that, the company says, will revolutionise the production of highly accurate building floor plans