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Nemetschek Scia sponsored a series of BIM seminars in New-York, Boston and Atlanta last week to educate the U.S. structural engineering community on the advantages Structural BIM technology can have on the design process. More than 100 engineers attended the seminars series.



“Structural Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology is changing helping firms increase their ROI by connect today’s disjointed… Continue

According to an official press release from Nemetschek NA a selected group of Vectorworks products are now available from the Online Apple Store. Mac addicts can now enjoy the pleasure of buying directly from Apple paying only $0.95 more than the full list price.… Continue

For those of you new to the concept, the Geographical Information System (GIS) is what site design professionals use to take several layers of information (environment, infrastructure, and cultural aspects) to help make better decisions on land planning.

Nemetschek NA has recently published a technical white paper on processing geographical data with Vectorworks Landmark. This white paper offers specific GIS functionality as well as important steps for preparing and processing… Continue

This past month, Sean Flaherty, CEO of Nemetschek North America, had the opportunity to visit Droste Innenausbau, a medium-sized interior design and production company in Gelsenkirchen that uses interiorcad — a complete woodworking design and production CAD/CAM software built on Vectorworks. Together with Carlos Lüthy, CEO of ComputerWorks Germany, Andreas… Continue