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A year on from launch of Autodesk AI, much of this still seems to be R&D. The MCAD team did manage to add some potentially useful AI capabilities but AEC was primarily a story about data, getting everyone to move their RVTs and DWGs to Autodesk Docs for what comes next. Apart from Forma getting an embodied caron calc and GIS underlay, Revit PDF getting its own thread and AutoCAD increasing in speed there seemed to be less on the table this year. #au2024 #revit #forma #autocad #nextgen #AI

Fascinating insights from AEC Magazine July-August Special Report on 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬. The industry recognizes a 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞: ✖️ Generating thousands of drawings per project, each taking 5-10 hours to complete. ✖️ This process consumes a disproportionate amount of time compared to actual design work. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: 💡 Drawing generation is a major cost factor in construction projects. 💡 Current legacy tools lack automation and AI-assisted workflows for final deliverables. 💡 Designers want to focus on design, not repetitive documentation tasks. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲: "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎, 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦." It's exciting to see the industry acknowledging the need for change and seeking innovative solutions. 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠?

If 2023 was the year that Autodesk announced its ambitions for AI, 2024 was when it fleshed out some of the details. But, as Greg Corke reports, there’s still a long journey ahead. https://lnkd.in/enVA8E5e #autodesk #AI #revit #forma #AU2024

Martyn Day, consulting editor at AEC Magazine, speaks to members of Graphisoft’s product development team to discuss AI and its influence on design. The article discusses new developments in Graphisoft’s AI Visualizer, and explores generic vs personal AI capabilities. Find out what they had to say here: https://lnkd.in/eSxcw36h #BIM #Visualization

V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max from Chaos to get support for gaussian splats Users can place buildings within their real-world context, or integrate scanned objects directly into the 3D scene. https://lnkd.in/eSDsdfHn #GaussianSplats #nerf #chaos #vray #3dsmax

Nemetschek Group, whose brands include Allplan, Graphisoft, Solibri, Bluebeam, and Vectorworks, to add AI layer to key solutions in portfolio. Will support a large range of use cases, from design ideation to task automation. https://lnkd.in/eB52bEtJ #AI #BIM #allplan #graphisoft #Solibri #Bluebeam #Vectorworks

Does the AEC industry really need another collaboration platform? HP certainly thinks so, as the tech giant identifies a gap in the market for a simple, cost-effective alternative, with some sprinklings of AI. We caught up with Daniel Martinez and the HP Construction Services team to find out more about the recently announced HP Build Workspace. https://lnkd.in/eKEdHpc4 #designjet #CAD #vector #siteprint #collaboration #drawings #engineering #architecture #AI #construction #ML

Need more GPU power for AI (training and inferencing) with tools such as Stable Diffusion? Just grab a GPU from any HP Z workstation on the network. We get the low down on the new Z by HP Boost technology. https://lnkd.in/eGibRQHV #workstation #stablediffusion #aiarchitecture #HPworkstation #AI #pytorch #TensorFlow

Eighteen months on from its acquisition by Autodesk, Unifi’s cloud-based software solution for managing and accessing design content has been reworked and integrated into Autodesk’s cloud stack. https://lnkd.in/eyPiRpWw #BIM

Following the launch of Vectorworks 2025, we caught up with company CEO Biplab Sarkar to talk new features, moving from file to cloud databases, auto-drawings AR, openness in BIM and AI https://lnkd.in/eak8jqhA #CAD #BIM #vectorworks #AI