- Architosh Staff ([email protected])
- 18 Jan 2001 [updated: 5 Mar 2001]
Macworld SF 2001 - AEC Report Architosh is bringing this multi-part AEC report to you in a new format. In the past we had organized show reports by product category and brought unique items to your attention that we felt added some value to the AEC audience. Our new approach focuses on problems and their solutions. What's Your AEC Problem? The following index lists the various problems that we found solutions for and some of the new items that address those problems. This is a multi-page and multi-document report so come back later for further segments: - What AEC document tools were shown at the Macworld Expo?
- How do I print my AEC documents?
- How do I print my CAD/3D documents in large format?
- How do I work with my AEC documents in the field?
- How do I photo-document my AEC projects? New!
- What tools can I use for digital photo editing? New!
- How do I manage my digital media files? New!
- How do I showcase/promote/publish my AEC work? New!
What AEC document tools were shown at the Macworld Expo? Traditionally Macworld venues bring in just a few of the AEC document creating tool vendors that actually exist for the Mac platform. Many vendors show their wares at vertically oriented venues only. Of all of the Macworld Expos San Francisco and Paris have the largest AEC pro tools exhibitors. Here are those vendors from this year's show. Starting at the top, the French folks at Abvent were on hand showcasing their upcoming Art-lantis 4, an extremely powerful and ever more popular raytracing renderer. Art-lantis works as as a standalone rendering program or a plugin to CAD programs. Adittionally Abvent was there with ZOOM and Katabounga, the former being a very precise and flexible modeler (suitable for industrial designers and architects). Of particular note this year was Alias/Wavefront's new presence. They were there showing the upcoming Maya for OS X and they were guest presenters at the keynote as well. Maya is an awesome tool! Will architects and other AEC pros use it? Probably not many, but some will. Maya is much more suitable for ID, film special effects and high-end visualization. We know that Boeing's tactical figher division has been a beta tester on G4's for some time now. In the world of modeling and rendering, such stalwarts at FormZ, by autodessys Inc.; Cinema4D, by German Maxon Computers; and LightWave 6.5, from NewTek, were all on handand had large crowds. Each of these software vendors allows you the ability to produce stunning industry-leading rendering and animations of your AEC projects. Discreet, the makers of Combustion, a 3D visual effects and compositing software was also at the show. For general purpose CAD document creation, VectorWorks, by Nemetschek, and MacDraft, by Microspot USA, are solid tools. Nemetschek was at Macworld to showcase their new VectorWorks LANDMARK and VectorWorks SPOTLIGHT products, tools that add modular enhancements to the basic VectorWorks CAD program. For technical, scientific and engineering needs Ashlar's Vellum 3D and Vellum Solids 2000 were being shown. Vellum is a long-time Mac program with superior mechanical engineering and solids modeling abilities. Additionally, Mathsoft was showing MathCAD 2001, a new version to a venerable program. | | Apple G5: Smokes Intel Competition Apple, Autodesk and Mac OS X ProSwitcher: Joe Esch: SketchUp, Cocoa and Mac OS X Bill Gates' House Designed on Macintosh? Only on Architosh Mac Architect: Mac-based architect Giorgio Borruso receives 2007 American Architecture Award - [28 Nov] Hot! Mac 3D: Silo 2 for Mac and free Learning Version/File Converter - [14 Nov] Hot! Mac 3D: Mac Users Invited to Adobe Acrobat 3D Contest - [22 Oct] Mac 3D: HyperShot now shipping for Mac OS X - [17 Oct] Hot! 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