Okana awarded Innovate UK grant for Aquila

Funding will allow onsite performance measuring software to progress to pilot projects Okana, the global built environment consultancy, has been awarded Innovate UK funding to further develop its onsite plant performance measuring software Aquila. Aquila uses real...
Chaos unveils Envision for architectural storytelling

Chaos unveils Envision for architectural storytelling

Animation tool can assemble scenes from multiple sources, including Enscape, V-Ray and Corona Chaos is gearing up for the beta launch of Chaos Envision, a new photorealistic real-time ray traced 3D assembly and animation tool, designed to help architects and...
Autodesk charts its AI future

Autodesk charts its AI future

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 The Autodesk AI brand debuted in Las Vegas last year at Autodesk University, but the...
Bentley Systems: the promise of data freedom

Bentley Systems: the promise of data freedom

Many AEC software firms talk openness, but as the industry shifts from file-based systems to data lake environments, none inspire as much confidence as Bentley Systems in ensuring that customers will retain full control of their data now and well into the future...

V-Ray 7 to get support for gaussian splats

Integration will enable PLY files to be rendered alongside standard CG content Gaussian splats, a technique which uses AI to create a rich 3D scene from a series of photos or videos, can now be rendered in the beta version of V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max. The technology...

Nemetschek to add AI layer to key solutions

AI layer will support a large range of use cases, from design ideation to task automation The Nemetschek Group, whose brands include Allplan, Graphisoft, Solibri, Bluebeam, and Vectorworks, has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) layer to be embedded in all of...