I’d almost forgetten Whip! Most vendors of construction collaboration technologies (sometimes called ‘extranets’) will recommend third-party applications to use with their collaboration solutions in order to view, mark-up and comment upon CAD files. Among the pure collaboration vendors, only my employer, BIW Technologies, offers its own integrated file viewing technology, but I sometimes forget about the solutions …
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Dec 22 2006
BIM market – major merger
Germany-based building information modelling software giant Nemetschek has announced that it is to acquire a majority shareholding in Hungary-based Graphisoft (reports Cadalyst), bringing together the two major European powers in CAD and BIM in the AEC market.
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Dec 11 2006
Microsoft Vista support for Autodesk DWF format (2)
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 …
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Dec 04 2006
EatYourCad Babbage Award goes to … Avanti
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: …
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Dec 01 2006
ConVisia
A new name to me since I started watching developments in the US market (in addition to that in the UK) is ConVisia. Founded in July 2005, this business initially said it was specialising in “instant wireless collaboration of complex documents … hosted wireless solutions [for whom] the initial audience … is the architecture, engineering …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/12/convisia/
Dec 01 2006
Bentley ProjectWise StartPoint extends SharePoint functionality
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.
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2006/12/bentley_project/
Dec 01 2006
Microsoft Vista support for Autodesk DWF format
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 …
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Nov 27 2006
BIM, BIMs or SBIM?
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 …
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Nov 14 2006
BuildOnline and Koral
BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster is running two companies. As well as running the UK-based construction collaboration vendor, Suster is also CEO of California-based Koral. This is an interesting development on two or three levels: first, Koral itself seems an interesting business with a strong Web2.0 content collaboration product; second, I wonder whether this will have an …
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Nov 09 2006
Adobe ignores extranets?
An Adobe survey of 657 US-based AEC professionals undertaken by Harris Interactive (reported by AEC.Cadalyst.com) has found that, despite the advent of electronic means of exchanging project information, paper still remains the most popular form in which to review CAD information. Indeed, paper is even more popular in 2006 than it was when a similar survey was …
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