• Welcome to the AEC Tech Drop

    Hello, you’ve arrived at the new AEC blog from Autodesk. We launched this blog to bring together essential news and notes for people that use Autodesk software and for those looking to learn more. One place to go, all things AEC at Autodesk. That’s our mission. This will be an evolution. Buckle up! We hope…

    Architecture

  • Data Exchanges Now Available in Europe, Middle East, Africa Regions

    We’re thrilled to share an exciting and highly anticipated release with customers and businesses in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Today, Autodesk is expanding its Data Exchange support to the EMEA region, enabling you to seamlessly share and integrate data across your preferred tools – as well as control where you store and…

    What’s New

  • ReCap Pro in the Cloud Increases Productivity While Decreasing Costs

    If you were tasked with coming up with a one-word adjective to describe the work done by the AEC industry professionals, one thing is for certain, “simple” would not be it. All three of the professions that make up the AEC industry—architects, engineers, and construction specialists—rely on ingenuity and creative problem solving daily to construct the…

    Infrastructure

  • Bridge for Design Collaboration: The Evolution of Project Federation Enabled with Controlled Sharing

    With the increasing demand for building and infrastructure projects, growing complexity of owner requirements, and the evolution of project delivery methods, the AEC industry faces an undeniable shift towards the need for a multidisciplinary collaborative design approach. This approach is being fueled by the availability of cloud-based design collaboration and document management solutions, but that’s…

    What’s New

  • What’s new in openBIM and Infrastructure: IFC 4.3 for Civil 3D

    The extension IFC 4.3 for Civil 3D 2024 allows civil engineers and designers to share data and context for open project delivery and localization. For architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms working with complex data, software interoperability is a game-changer. Open data formats like IFC allow data to be transferred accurately across different software platforms,…

    Infrastructure

  • Revit 2024: Improvements to MEP Fabrication Data Quality with Straight Adjusts 

    Relevant MEP Fabrication products: CADmep, ESTmep, CAMduct, Revit  Overview  To have more consistency and predictable behavior in the generation of flat pattern developments, our team has prioritized several efforts to address a variety of user-reported issues. Historically, these issues would have been addressed in isolation, one by one, resulting in varying levels of inconsistency in…

    MEP