AECO Technology News

0% Financing for 36 months on new and renewing 3-year Subscriptions switched from Maintenance. Offer valid from May 2, 2022 through July 18, 2022.* The Autodesk 0% Financing offer enables [...]

Save on AutoCAD today! Get the best value when you subscribe for 3 years. Save 15% on new 1-year and 3-year AutoCAD 2022 subscriptions. Don't miss out! Offer available April [...]

0% Financing for 36 months on new and renewing 3-year Subscriptions switched from Maintenance. Offer valid from February 1, 2022 through April 18, 2022.* The Autodesk 0% Financing offer enables [...]

It's AutoCAD Flash Sale Week! Get the best value when you subscribe for 3 years. Save 15% on new 1-year and 3-year AutoCAD 2022 subscriptions. Don't miss out! Offer available [...]

It's AutoCAD Cyber Week! Get the best value when you subscribe for 3 years. Save 20% on new 1-year and 3-year AutoCAD 2022 subscriptions. Don't miss out! Offer available November [...]

Registration is open for AU 2021October 5-7, 2021Learn from industry experts who are progressing architecture, engineering, construction, design, manufacturing, and more.It all kicks off October 5th. It is virtual. And [...]

Kelar Pacific is pleased to support the 2021 International Mass Timber Conference taking place virtually this year. Experts from around the world will gather to explore the supply chain for [...]

NECA San Diego celebrated their 2021 annual installation of officers this week and announced Kelar Pacific as their 2020 Associate Member of the Year Award. We are honored to receive such [...]

  Wow! What a surprise when we opened an email and learned Bluebeam had honored Kelar Pacific with the 2020 Bluebeam® Gold Partner of the Year Award for North America. [...]

Enjoy the benefits of 3D Laser Scanning to achieve the most accurate existing conditions and SAVE. The RTC360 Demo Special is $64,900 including the Basic CCP (customer care package). Limited [...]

Many of our work days have changed to minimize the COVID-19 spread. We want to share useful tips on working with Bluebeam Revu and Studio remotely.   How Bluebeam is [...]

Kelar Pacific wants to do our part to help the AEC industry continue working on projects and doing what we do best  — designing, modeling and building. Your technology tools [...]

Many of our work days have changed over the past week and we want to help you make the switch to using your Autodesk software in your home, or remote [...]

AutoCAD® 2021 is now available and includes industry-specific toolsets, improved workflows across desktop, web, and mobile, and new features – see below. Drawing history Compare past and present versions of [...]

AECOM on digital project delivery for civil infrastructure. Date/Time: February 25th  |  10:00am PST Inspire and collaborate are core values at AECOM. As the digital project delivery lead for civil [...]

Autodesk Price Increase for New Multi-user and BIM 360 subscriptions  While we prefer to share details about special offers and flash sales, we also know budgeting for technology tools is [...]

Digital construction is here, and Autodesk BIM 360 is ready to help. Date/Time: January 21st  |  9:00am PT Do you spend time moving field data around manually or living in [...]

The future of construction is here, and it is called the Autodesk Construction Cloud™. Date/Time: December 10th  |  11:00am PT Just announced at Connect & Construct in Las Vegas, the [...]

Kelar Pacific is honored to receive the 2018-2019 Bluebeam Gold Partner of the Year Award. The 2019 Bluebeam eXtreme Conference (XCON) took place in our nation's capital in late August. [...]

Kelar Pacific is honored to receive the 2018-2019 ASA San Diego Affiliate of the Year Award. The weather Friday evening matched the tropical air of the beautiful Catamaran Resort Hotel, [...]

Defining Needs, Prioritizing Wants - Episode 1 Every Revit project begins with a template, either a good one, or otherwise. The best way to create predictable success is to plan [...]

Stipulations To Take Onboard: Learning ultimately comes from within oneself. Biologically we remember limited stimuli by filtering out most of what our senses pickup. For instance, the things our unconscious [...]

Episode 2: Laterna Magica I can still remember the day I returned to the office, having spent the better part of a day in the field sketching, measuring, and photographing [...]

Autodesk University (AU) 2018 was my second time attending the conference, third if you count the year I went to the ATC summit followed by a day in the Exhibit [...]

Episode 1: Veritas As an architect, you may wonder if can you leverage drone technology in your current workflow? The answer is – Yes! Let’s look at how and where […]

When you need to capture as-built conditions there are multiple methodologies to consider. A few of the high-tech options growing in popularity are LiDAR scanning & Photogrammetry to assist in […]

Outsourcing Drone Services for Efficiency and Cost Savings Can an architect design his own structural system or HVAC system? Yes, he can. Can the same architect also go out to […]

Every year as the new Autodesk releases roll out, Revit devotees like me wonder how it will improve our work. As we all know, Revit is used by multiple AEC […]

Revit is not a drafting software. Revit is not AutoCAD. CAD* is not BIM (*as understood in normal conversation). CAD* processes Do Not Work In BIM. Any part of “traditional” […]

As the use of technology is becoming more and more prevalent in the construction industry you may be asking yourself how you can implement such a huge change in your […]

The BIG Picture – Autodesk® Forge, the Development Platform for the Future Autodesk University (AU) 2017 highlighted Autodesk® Forge as the proven foundation for creating connective technology. With Forge API […]

Autodesk provides numerous cloud-based solutions to the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry facilitating collaboration between project teams throughout the project lifecycle. One  solution is BIM 360 Team, a project-centric […]

What is considered the industry standard of LODs? Today, there is no official LOD Standard, or a requirement for one in the U.S.  Several organizations are providing LOD Specification Workbooks […]

What are the Definitions of BIM Levels of Development? The following reflects the general consensus of the most widely used LOD Definitions: LOD 100: A Conceptual Model where parameters like area, […]

It’s important for contractors to understand the various LOD’s for each trade at any point so they can provide related cost and scheduling that is measured by the same design […]

Design Phases of Construction The construction industry has utilized the “Design Phases of Construction” as milestones for measuring how complete the overall design of a construction projects was. Generally they […]