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Autodesk University kicked off today in Las Vegas, with a media day briefing that spoke frankly about technology disruptions facing their customers. Customers are being pushed to do more with less in an uncertain economy, with a greater focus on sustainability. Even in the face of these challenges, this year’s event has drawn more than [...]
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Bentley Systems speaks internally of the ‘integration tax’ that they pay in developing their software with an eye toward cross-platform interoperability and their continued commitment to backward compatibility of their software. Bentley is unique in this regard as most software companies of their tenure have had complete code base transitions that have broken the ability [...]
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At today’s BeInspired 2011 presentation day, Bentley Systems displayed the ability to extend online mapping functionality beyond the 2D map or imagery view. The offering provides a 3D immersive view of models from wherever they originate, such as Oracle Spatial 3D, cad files, and point clouds. Interactive navigation capabilities within the context of the map [...]
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Bentley Systems announces today the acquisition of Pointools, a hardware-neutral point cloud handling software. The point cloud creation hardware is reducing in cost, and becoming more integral to infrastructure projects. To date, the size of point clouds has made them problematic because they overwhelm storage and query capabilities. Pointools Vortex engine has been integrated into [...]
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In a short blog post, Chris Andrews the product manager of Autodesk’s Infrastruture Modeler software, outlines a new cloud-based version of this product that is now available via Autodesk Labs. The product is dubbed Project Galileo Online, and it adds the ability to take the merged data from Infrastructure Modeler to the Autodesk Cloud for [...]
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Microsoft Research demoed an impressive hack of their Kinect hardware at the Siggraph conference yesterday that was highlighted on TechCrunch. The research project uses the Kinect to map interior space, intuitively building a 3D model with texture mapping. A truly compelling element is that moved objects are updated in the model, and moving objects can [...]
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Today, Autodesk released two highly-anticipated products in their BIM for Infrastructure portfolio with the release of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler, and AutoCAD Utility Design. Both products address changes within the planning and design process, and bring the efficiencies of intelligent information modeling to aid much-needed transitions toward smarter design, planning and construction. Earlier this year Autodesk [...]
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Geoweb 3d has entered into the geospatial visualization space from roots in the gaming industry, providing impressive 3D visualization performance that takes full advantage of the processing power of today’s video cards. I visited the company within the NAVTEQ booth yesterday at the Esri International User Conference, and was impressed by their powerful processing and [...]
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Esri announced today the acquisition of Switzerland-based company Procedural with their CityEngine application that allows for the quick modeling and visualization of cityscale models. With this acquisition, Esri enters the 3D design and city modeling space in force, further blurring the lines between what the CAD and GIS toolset are capable of in terms of [...]
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It’s hard not to get excited about the genesis of earthmine‘s core data collection technology that comes from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has been used on the Mars rovers to quickly map and navigate foreign terrain. The company has been aggressively partnering with mapping companies globally, collecting street-level 3D data worldwide, as well as [...]
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