Category: Functionality

Dec 11 2006

Microsoft Vista support for Autodesk DWF format (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Internet
11 December 2006

I wrote 10 days ago on this topic, and Ralph Grabowski has also been watching developments. In his latest article on the topic, About DWFx, he talks about the limitations, and links to an article, Does Vista really open DWFs?, on another interesting blog, Owen Wengerd’s Outside the Box (Owen’s lates post concerns The secret world …

Autodesk, DWF, DWFx, Microsoft, Vista

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Dec 08 2006

Autodesk University – little collaboration buzz

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
8 December 2006

Amid the stream of blog articles discussing Autodesk University 2006, there has been very little about construction collaboration technologies. I had hoped that this major US event, which attracted 7,500 people this year, might have been the platform for Autodesk to make some major announcement, perhaps regarding its Constructware product (following the acquisition earlier this …

AEC, AECbytes, Autodesk, BIM, Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, extranet, US

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/12/autodesk_univer/

Dec 04 2006

EatYourCad Babbage Award goes to … Avanti

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
4 December 2006

On the excellent EatYourCad blog (see December 2005 post) Nigel Davies has had an irreverant look back at 2006 and made some awards for ‘“things that should not be”, things that have drawn a wry smile or things that have been plain crazy’. And ‘The Cart Driving The Donkey Award’ goes to … Avanti. Nigel writes: …

4Projects, AEC, Asite, Avanti, Babbage, BIW, blog, EatMyCad, extranet, Nigel Davies, PIX Protocol, UK

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Dec 01 2006

Bentley ProjectWise StartPoint extends SharePoint functionality

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Vendors
1 December 2006

In May and October, I noted developments relating to Bentley’s entry-level collaboration system, ProjectWise StartPoint. The latest release from Bentley (see AECcafe.com), says that StartPoint will now connect to and extend new capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

AEC, Bentley, Microsoft, ProjectWise, SharePoint, StartPoint
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Dec 01 2006

Microsoft Vista support for Autodesk DWF format

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
1 December 2006

Autodesk has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to integrate DWF technology with the Windows Vista operating system (released to business customers today – see BBC news story). Vista users will be able to view and manage DWFs without additional downloads of plug-ins or special viewing software. Viewers are a feature of all construction collaboration technologies, or …

AEC, Autodesk, AutoVue, BIW, Brava!, Cimmetry, construction collaboration, DWF, extranet, Informative Graphics, Microsoft, Vista

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Nov 27 2006

BIM, BIMs or SBIM?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
27 November 2006

After last week’s Construction Computing Show (see previous post), I have finally got round to reading the show edition of Construction Computing magazine (November/December 2006), which incorporates CAD User. In the latter, there is an article (not yet on the CAD User website) from Mervyn Richards, which I think gives a good, if ultimately somewhat …

AEC, Asite, BIM, Collaborative BIM, Construction Computing, Mervyn Richards, people issues, UK
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Nov 20 2006

Cimmetry AutoVue for SharePoint 2003

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Vendors
20 November 2006

Not everyone needs the full-blown collaborative capacity of a construction collaboration platform (aka ‘extranet’) to share and collaborate upon design drawings. Particularly when working within organisations, teams can share drawings using a simple Microsoft SharePoint solution, and Cimmetry has just released a version of its AutoVue viewer product for just such an environment. Read the …

AEC, AutoVue, Cimmetry, file viewer, Microsoft, SharePoint

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Nov 03 2006

“QS News” feature on mobile working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
3 November 2006

UK trade magazine QS News has published a feature article written by me: Why ‘I’ always comes before ‘T’. In the article, I argue that providers and users of mobile IT solutions in the construction industry need to focus on ‘whole life information‘ instead of getting hung-up about technology hardware and connectivity issues. The key …

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Nov 03 2006

Now Trimble buys XYZ

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet
3 November 2006

Just days after acquiring Meridian Systems (see post), GPS technology developer Trimble has also purchased US technology firm, XYZ Solutions – a provider of real-time, interactive 3D intelligence software to manage the spatial aspects of construction projects.

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Nov 01 2006

Google acquires JotSpot

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, SaaS
1 November 2006

In September 2005, I blogged about the JotSpot wiki product. Today, I learned that Google has bought JotSpot. Registration for new JotSpot accounts has been temporarily suspended while the systems are migrated to Google, but hopefully this move will open more people’s eyes to the day-to-day possibilities of Wikis.