What Revit Wants
CEO and President of Autodesk Carl Bass stated: “Today we are taking an important step on our path toward delivering a better manufacturing experience. Together Autodesk and Delcam will help further the development and implementation of technology for digital manufacturing.”
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http://www.tctmagazine.com/software/autodesk-announces-delcam-acquisition-intent/
Heads-up:
https://twitter.com/FAROFocus3DUK/status/398696861038837760
“From an industry perspective, we have really been expanding BIM across the lifecycle, starting with architects when we first moved Revit, and then with the engineering disciplines, and now we are pushing out from the design disciplines into construction with the MEP fabrication application MAP that we acquired last year,” Lynch said.
“And from a technology standpoint,” Lynch continued, “Autodesk is very clear about our direction to increase the services we deliver through the cloud, through infinite computing and mobility. Vela is all cloud based and runs on mobile devices and is tightly aligned with our focus on mobility to the cloud.”
If you want to know more about Vela:
Vela Systems provides Field Management Software for construction. Unlike carrying pads of paper and tubes of drawings on the jobsite, Vela Systems combines mobile technologies and BIM at the point of construction with reporting for management.
http://www.velasystems.com/
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Gehry Technologies – Autodesk and Gehry Technologies Working Together
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Adventures in the World of BIM
Trimble Finland Oy, a subsidiary of Trimble Navigation Limited, has acquired Tekla. This could result in some interesting products, as Trimble has a real focus on mobile technologies. Watch this space…and read on for some more information.
Here is a quote from the press release on the Tekla website.
The extended offer period in the public tender offer by Trimble Finland Oy, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Trimble Navigation Limited, for all of the issued and outstanding shares in Tekla Corporation that are not owned by Tekla, expired on June 27, 2011.
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Notification of a change in shareholding according to Securities Markets Act 2:9 – Tekla
And here is a pretty big claim made by Tekla at the above link:
Tekla Corporation drives the evolution of digital information models with its software, providing a growing competitive advantage to customers in the construction, infrastructure and energy industries.
So, who or what is Trimble? Here is some more information:
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location: including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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Trimble Navigation Limited – Trimble Completes Tender Offer for Tekla Corporation
