FREMONT, CALIF. — 3Dconnexion’s latest driver update brings intelligent 3D navigation and a streamlined 3D mouse user interface to Google SketchUp.

FOLSOM, CALIF. — Meridian Systems has announced that Constructech magazine has honored Meridian customers with its 2010 Vision Awards. Meridian Systems and five partners received Technology Enabler Awards.

BEDFORD, N.H. — 4D Technologies has announced its CADLearning Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 Tutorial Series. The 30-hour training course for Revit Architecture users is composed of 421 video tutorials, covering beginner, intermediate and advanced topics for building information modeling.

“Cows aren’t so sacred to me anymore,” said Darren Rizza at KA Connect 2010. Rizza moved to India to become the CEO of Satellier, a provider of CAD and BIM production services to AECO firms. Learn how changing technology and the global economy have exposed other (metaphorical) cows to be less sacred than we once thought.

SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Autodesk Inc. has announced AutoCAD for Mac software. This version of AutoCAD runs natively on Mac OS X and will increase choice of hardware for millions of users around the world, the company said. Autodesk also announced the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch that will allow users to edit and share their AutoCAD designs in the field.

ARMONK, N.Y. — Spitfire Management LLC has selected Alinco IT Inc. as its Microsoft-certified platform partner to offer Spitfire’s Construction Project Management Software solution via private cloud.

ATLANTA — “We are in a revolution. The public simply can’t afford to pay the price of construction in its current form. This is the time to take BIM, 3D, pre-fabrication and industrialization and change this industry that is absolutely in the dark ages.” With these words, Dr. Charles H. Thornton, P.E., former co-chairman of Thornton Tomasetti, opened the 2010 Tekla User Meeting for Tekla Structures users in Atlanta.