ANKENY, IOWA — QA Graphics has announced the expansion of its capabilities to provide building information modeling (BIM) solutions for building product manufacturers.
 

NORCROSS, GA. — In a first of its kind effort, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Engineering Services Office in Boulder City, N.V., has built a detailed, highly accurate model of Hoover Dam’s 75-year-old Monument Plaza using high-definition surveying (HDS) technology from Leica Geosystems.

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA — StrucSoft Solutions has launched its Component Management Software (CMS v5.0), a 2D/3D graphical application for creating, viewing, editing and managing DSTV-CNC files commonly used by structural steel fabrication machines.

CSC Inc. invites engineers to be more competitive with structural BIM by joining its free BIM webinar series. At 2 p.m. CDT on June 16, structural engineers across America will join Building Information Modeling (BIM) expert, Kevin Lea, to understand the key benefits of structural BIM for engineers.

Point clouds — the 3D data points collected by laser scanning devices — were a hot topic Bentley’s Be Together Conference in Philadelphia. During the technology keynote, Bhupinder Singh, SVP of Bentley Software, presented Bentley’s product vision for the adoption of the Pointools Vortex engine — for referencing point clouds inside Bentley applications.

MIAMI — McGraw-Hill Construction and Autodesk have announced a new, simplified way for manufacturers to create and publish information-rich, Building Information Modeling (BIM)-ready models of their building products in both McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets and Autodesk Seek.