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Autodesk just announced Vancouver, BC, Canada as the third city in its Digital City initiative. Other participants in the program are Salzburg, Austria and Incheon, South Korea. Each city has a strong vision for what they’d like to accomplish, and their objectives are unique to their location and identities. Sustainable City Vancouver is in a [...]
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Autodesk’s CTO, Jeff Kawalski, gave an impressive talk during the general session about “The Future of Design Innovation.” He lead off by speaking about digital cities for infrastructure design, and debuted an interesting interface that marries both 3D browsing and a 2D base map. The interface tilted the 2D view vertically all around the horizon [...]
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I’ll be traveling to Las Vegas today to attend Autodesk University. I missed last year’s event, and I’m eager to get back. I have a number of interviews planned, along with visits with vendors that are focused on digital cities and CAD/GIS/BIM convergence. Of particular interest is a session on Wednesday on Digital Cities, Pilot [...]
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This column is sponsored by ESRI We’re slowly entering a new era where large-scale investment in high-resolution 3D models will change how we interact with representations of our world. All disciplines that make a living planning, constructing and managing the built environment will increasingly work through shared models. Digital city models have the attention of [...]
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Autodesk is hard at work to define a new technology vision for digital cities. An outline of this vision can be found online at www.autodesk.com/digitalcities. The initiative is being led by Doug Eberhard, senior director and industry evangelist. Eberhard was previously with Parsons Brinkerhoff and has led many visualization innovations. At present the site outlines [...]
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