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Evan Troxel

ICON launches 3d-printed affordable housing competition

As teased near the end of TRXL podcast episode 110 with Melodie Yashar of ICON, a competition called Initiative 99 was recently announced in partnership with Dezeen that invites architects and designers to submit home designs that can be built for under $99,000... using 3d-printing of course. More than

The New York Times on AI in AEC

The New York Times has published an article on how AI can help address challenges the AEC industry. You may recognize some of the featured people and companies from their appearances on the TRXL podcast. Read to the end for related episodes. While I don't think any of

Concert's new productivity features

Concert has highlighted several new team productivity features on their platform. Broadly they include improved collaboration and task management, new visualization tools, and a new intuitive and easy-to-use interface. More specifically the features are aimed at file distribution, decision making via collaboration, delivering real-time insights, permissions and role-based functions, and

🗞️ AEC/tech Newsletter #17

👋🏼 Hi there! The AEC/tech Newsletter supplements the TRXL Podcast to fill in the details of what’s happening in the AEC/tech landscape. Happy reading.

OpenUSD Standard Alliance takes shape

NVIDIA has helped form the OpenUSD Alliance, a group dedicated to establishing and promoting the Open Universal Scene Description (USD) as a standard for 3D graphics. The alliance includes several notable companies in the entertainment and technology industries, including Pixar (who originated the technology in 2012), Apple, Adobe, and Autodesk.

AI-based reverse image search in SketchUp's 3D Warehouse

The new 3D Warehouse Image Search feature was shown to me during a personal demo session at the SketchUp booth at the AIA Conference on Architecture in June. This kind of workflow just makes so much sense. Simply drag an image of an item you want in your model (you

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