Work Smarter with Cutting-Edge App Integrations
Key Highlights
- Veras 4.0 allows architects to generate high-fidelity visuals directly from SketchUp, Revit, or Rhino, with features like Image Reference input and Gallery Mode for easy comparison.
- Chaos enhances site planning by enabling rapid iterations, deal validation, and direct integration with Revit, AutoCAD, and other tools, reducing project timelines significantly.
- Revizto's new 2D/3D Split View improves workflow by allowing simultaneous viewing of plans and models, with instant navigation between views and issue tracking.
- Morpholio Trace combines sketching speed with CAD precision, enabling quick, scaled drawings with tools like Super Ruler and Protractor for detailed design work.
- Cyclone 3DR automates point cloud data processing into accessible 3D models, supporting inspection, meshing, and reporting for comprehensive project deliverables.
- Hypar organizes complex building requirements into accurate, live metrics, facilitating quick space planning and seamless transition to Revit for further development.
It's hard to believe that the Apple App Store launched in 2008, bringing with it a deluge of apps that would soon become ever-present in our daily lives. While our earliest memories of apps may be more game-related—Texas Hold'em, Angry Birds, and Candy Crush—they have emerged as true tools that can help us work better and faster.
For architects, the best new apps feature AI integration to process information faster, streamline project workflows, and enhance collaboration across the team—from client to subcontractor.
Check out these new, effiency-improving apps. They just might help you find the time to play more games.
Veras 4.0 for Better AI-Powered Ideation
Veras 4.0 is built for architectural or interior designers who need fast, design-faithful visuals directly from SketchUp, Revit or Rhino, without needing to be rendering experts. It introduces practical improvements, like Image Reference as Input, allowing designers to guide new outputs using an existing image instead of relying on text, and Gallery Mode, a grid-based, thumbnail view of all past renders, which makes it easier to compare variations over time. Powered by Google’s advanced image-generation model, Nano Banana Pro Render Engine 7.0, Veras 4.0 is designed to deliver higher fidelity designs with fewer visual errors.
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Chaos
TestFit for a New Real Estate Feasibility Workflow
This app uses AI to improve many stages of the process. This tool enables designers to plan sites in hours, not days. Get greater certainty in deal evaluation with the ability to validate pro formas against actual layouts and know if the deal pencils before design begins. Maximize site potential with 3x iterations. Designers can text zoning, unit mixes, and parking ratios to uncover the best use of the land. In addition, TestFit offers direct integrations that allow design teams to push approved layouts directly into Revit or export to AutoCAD, SketchUp, Excel or PDF.
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TestFit
Revizto 5.16 for Streamlined BIM Workflows
The latest iteration of Revizto delivers new tools and improvements that further streamline workflows and enable smarter collaboration at every stage of the project lifecycle. New features include items like 2D/3D Split View (shown here). Users can now view a 2D sheet and 3D model—including issues and markups—side by side and instantly jump from a location in 2D to its corresponding location in the 3D model, eliminating the need to switch between tabs.
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Revizto
Morpholio Trace for a Fan-Favorite Drawing App
Morpholio Trace combines the beauty and speed of sketching with the intelligence and precision of CAD. New updates now allow architects, landscape designers, or interior designers to set a drawing to scale in seconds. Teams can also add scaled grids to sketch over, draw straight lines anywhere with Super Ruler, Protractor and Triangle. Draft or sketch floor plans, sections, elevations, details and more with CAD-like scale and accuracy.
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Morpholio Trace
Cyclong 3DR, the All-in-One Solution for 3D Deliverables
Cyclone 3DR is a powerful software solution that transforms point cloud data into accessible 3D models and actionable deliverables, leveraging automation and AI classification tools. Where most software will focus on a single workflow to create a specialized deliverable, Cyclone 3DR includes a range of adaptable tools for inspection, modelling and meshing that can be leveraged to create an assortment of 3D deliverables and reports.
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Leica Geosystems
Hypar for Easy Program Grouping
Say goodbye to messy program lists. Now, with Hypar, you can organize your program by department, function, floor, or whatever structure makes sense for you and keep your metrics live and accurate as you design. Hypar is the first space planning application that enables you to turn complex building requirements into accurate plans, quickly. Create precise 3D design options and track areas as you plan. When you’re ready to take the next step, your project transitions to Revit without starting again from scratch.
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Hypar