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Jeff Yoders

For five years Jeff Yoders covered IT, CAD, and BIM as Senior Associate Editor of Building Design + Construction. He's a chair at-large of the Associated General Contractors of America's BIM Forum and speaks regularly to audiences about how to transition to digital workflows. Jeff has won four American Society of Business Publications Editors awards.
Architects

No surprise that HP keeps PC business after Whitman named CEO

It came as little surprise to veteran Silicon Valley watcherss that HP announced today that it would keep its PC business, flip-flopping on an earlier statement by former CEO ...
Oct. 27, 2011
Architects

Gehry Technologies partners with Autodesk; BIM-integrated cloud add-on for ArchiCAD; Timberlake nominated to NIBS board

Autodesk and Gehry Technologies today announced that they will work closely together to support an expanded portfolio of BIM solutions. The agreement includes full service for...
Oct. 19, 2011
Architects

Trimble update adds Revit, CAD plug-ins for field points

Last week Trimble announced it will soon release new plug-ins for its Point Creator software platform to allow the creation and transfer of field points into the CAD and the Autodesk...
Oct. 5, 2011
BIM and Information Technology

Autodesk releases “Storm” technology preview

Autodesk also recently released its latest Autodesk Labs product, “Project Storm.” This technology preview offering provides cloud-based structural analysis to structural engineers...
Sept. 23, 2011
Architects

Nemetschek releases Vectorworks 2012

Nemetschek AG held a virtual event recently to announce the release of Vectorworks 2012 from its Columbia, Md., US headquarters.
Sept. 23, 2011
BIM and Information Technology

Autodesk Revit file IFC exporter now available as open-source code

AEC software manufacturer Autodesk’s Revit Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) Exporter computer code is now available as open source software, licensed through a LGPL v. 2.1 licensing...
Sept. 14, 2011
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Architects

HP Elitebook 8760w, workstation power in a laptop

The HP Elitebook 8760w was released in April as the successor to its 8740w mobile workstation PC, and the laptop is ideal for architecture, engineering, power-computing, and content...
Sept. 8, 2011
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Graphisoft teams up with NEC, Japanese construction giant to develop cloud BIM server technology

Graphisoft, NEC Corporation and leading Japanese Construction Company Obayashi Corp. announced this week that they are working on joint development of a BIM cloud-computing platform...
Aug. 31, 2011