With no relief in sight from a Federal Aviation Administration requirement that all drone flights be overseen by licensed drone pilots, a San Francisco-based company that had been developing an autonomous aerial jobsite survey system is adjusting.
In a large conference room in The Venetian in Las Vegas, the chief executive officer and chief technology officer for Autodesk Inc. sat before a panel of reporters and got grilled with questions for an hour. No punches were pulled at this media Q&A at Autodesk University 2015 on Dec. 2. What follows are the highlights.
At Autodesk Inc.’s user conference in Las Vegas, Dec. 1-3, the company talked about new releases, it’s plan to move everything into the cloud and robot-human work relations.
A Los Angeles car museum gets a renovation to match its collection with a cherry-red exterior and 310 distinct metal panels flowing around it like a fluid-dynamics wind-tunnel test.
Two new software products for rapidly converting collections of photos into 3D models and rapidly creating realistic environments for those models—one called ContextCapture, the other called LumenRT—demonstrate technical sophistication, data management techniques, rendering speed and ease of use that has reviewers taking notice but asking for more validation, too.
An open-source database of 100 common building materials, which is now available to the public free of charge, lists the materials’ ingredients and their potential harmful threat to human health and the environment.
