Are you fond of drawing some random doodles? Have you ever imagined some magic tricks that would transform your boring 2D picture into a realistic 3D model? Well then, turning a 2D shape into a 3D ...

In this magazine 2D often gets overlooked, despite it being the primary dimension for AEC deliverables. But, as Martyn Day reports, new technologies are emerging to transform 2D drawings into models, ...

DreamGaussian is a 3D content generation framework AI tool has been designed to be user-friendly, requiring users to simply drag and drop an image and click Generate 3D to start the process rolling.

Copilot 3D will turn your 2D images into 3D models. The tool is freely available to anyone, though you do need a Microsoft account. Microsoft suggests using an image with a single subject, even ...

With Doodle3D Transform, the Dutch start-up of the same name presents a simple application for creating 3D models for 3D printing. 26.09.2016: The app is designed to give children and beginners an ...

When I was in College; I remember a Business Studies lecturer explaining how spreadsheets revolutionised accounting in the 1970’s. A user could explore “What if” scenarios, where one number could be ...

In the emerging world of BIM 2.0, there will be generic new BIM tools and expert systems, dedicated to certain building types. Higharc is a cloud-based design solution for US timber frame housing. The ...

The new versions of the converter tools 3D_Analyzer and 3D_Evolution have been revised to optimize the reading and writing of 3D dimensions via Product Manufacturing Information (PMI). Conversion of ...