This article captures the semi-annual update of the main developments from AEC technology vendors in the last six to seven months, following the AEC Tech Updates articles that were published in the beginning of the year. The updates covered in this article run across the spectrum of AEC applications and include the 2016 release of the Vectorworks product family that has just been released; a number of mid-year product releases from Autodesk and its new Stingray product for design visualization; several Revit plug-ins including those from Vabi Software, VisionRez, and the new FenestraPro Premium for energy analysis of façade design; additional analysis applications include Sefaira for energy and daylight and Oasys’ MassMotion Flow for pedestrian simulation; the interactive 3D presentation and visualization tool, CLEVER; and finally, a BIM plug-in for SketchUp—at last!

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