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 Industry Collections, what do they mean to you in construction?

29.06.19 04:56 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
 Industry Collections, what do they mean to you in construction?

Today we launch Industry Collections, it's a new way of thinking about how to access software and is a perfect fit for construction. Based on a term license they allow you to easily scale up and down during the course of a construction project and include contingent employees in software p...

Virtual Reality in AEC: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

28.06.19 04:52 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Virtual Reality in AEC: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

It's been 25 years this summer since I was first turned on to the idea of Virtual Reality (VR) as the "holy grail" of design visualization in architecture, thumbing through inspirational musings and essays published in magazines like Cadence and Cadalyst (yes, they were...

COBie for Navisworks tool now updated!

27.06.19 04:48 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

Great news, we have an update to the COBie exporters for Navisworks now released. One of the biggest requests we had was to support colours from the COBie spreadsheets this is now available.

Navisworks ArchiCAD IFC COBie Export Schema Tool

To learn more about the tool, look at our original article announcing the launch of the COBie for Naviswo...

Creating “Win-Win Success” using Navisworks Quantification with BAM UK

26.06.19 04:42 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

It's always better when someone else tells your story for you right? Well recently BAM Construction UK shared how they worked with the team at Autodesk to do just that. Their story tells how they used Navisworks Quantification as part of their BIM workflows to make things better, so we thought ...

Syncing Field Equipment Properties with Revit

24.06.19 04:29 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Syncing Field Equipment Properties with Revit

BIM 360 Field is offering a great way to track data on the building suite using your iPad, e.g. the status and install dates of certain equipment. But what if you want to see this data in Revit? 

The answer is pretty simple - the new BIM 360 Plugin for Revit gives you a very easy way to sync the...

Announcing Navisworks 2017 Update 1!

23.06.19 04:22 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Announcing Navisworks 2017 Update 1!

We are pleased to announce the release of an important update for Navisworks 2017. From today, subscription customers will be alerted of its availability through the Autodesk Desktop App. This update represents the culmination of a lot of work to focus on existing customer issues, and we hope that y...

Skanska Norway and BIM 360 Field: A Resounding Success

22.06.19 04:18 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
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The Statoil Pilot Project – A Success Story with Construction Technology

Skanska, one of the world’s most successful project development and construction firms, has been implementing BIM on projects around the world for many years. By utilising state of the art construction technology, they have...

SmartPlant 3D loaders for Navisworks – Updated!

21.06.19 04:10 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
SmartPlant 3D loaders for Navisworks – Updated!

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to provide an update for SmartPlant 3D (.vue) file format support in  Navisworks.

On Friday we published updates to the 2016, 207 plugins and published a new 2018 version of this popular plugin for Navisworks.  The update incorporates fixes for some customer reported...

Welcome to the AEC Bar - a YouTube channel for AEC professionals

20.06.19 04:05 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Welcome to the AEC Bar - a YouTube channel for AEC professionals

For those that follow me on social media you may have seen we've been trying out something a bit different to get news to you about tips, tricks, news and information about products in the form of a YouTube channel. The European team of technical specialists has set up a YouTube channel named 'Autod...

Hungry, Denver? The BIM 360 Food Truck is coming your way!

25.05.19 04:38 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

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Denver, what are you waiting for?  The BIM 360 Food Truck is delivering free food, refreshments and prizes to thousands of hungry construction workers in your city and I bet you have some hard-working mouths to feed.  And with all this heat recently, we bet you’re excited for some iced-col...

Happy 20th Birthday Navisworks

30.04.19 06:04 PM By Mahmoud Samir Mahmoud - Comment(s)
Happy 20th Birthday Navisworks

It seems like 2017 is a huge year for birthdays at Autodesk, earlier this year Autodesk celebrated its 35th birthday, Revit celebrated its 15 years' anniversary since acquisition, and now Navisworks is celebrating a double header!

20 years ago, today, the first code was committed ...