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Windows 10 great, thanks to 8(.1) and Windows Phone!

It took me a while to get the release Windows 10 installed on hardware which does it justice. I’d been trying the ‘insider’ builds on an old machine which only gave me a chance truly test one aspect of Microsoft’s latest operating system: how well it runs on minimal spec hardware. I thought it was impressive Windows 10 installed on a 4 year old Netbook—Atom processor, 2GB ram, 1024x600 screen—at all, let alone run acceptably! It was useful to evaluate the desktop focused user interface improvements in 10, if not their performance. Fixing Windows 8(.1) for the desktop? Although it... Read more →

Using reality as your model

While there are lots of examples of using point clouds for modelling reference I thought this example using them to avoid modelling was impressive. Why model if it isn’t needed? Hear from SSOE Group how they are using ReCap for breaking up scans in order to simplify projects and to utilize the scans as the sole basis of truth for existing conditions. Project strategy will be discussed to highlight how projects also use the ReCap web service to share the project data with key stakeholders and project leadership across multiple office locations. Software shown in this demo will be Autodesk... Read more →