TenLinks Inc., an online CAD, CAM and CAE network, has announced the winners of Best of Show for Autodesk University 2014 in Las Vegas.
With an attendance of more than 10,000, this annual meeting of users of Autodesk software is the largest gathering of CAD users in the world. More than 150 companies show their products in the exhibit hall, making Autodesk University an unequaled venue to see technology of interest to this community.
TenLinks was on hand with 10 judges, chosen from among the ranks of Autodesk software users and industry experts, to evaluate many of these products. Twenty-one of these products and services were nominated for consideration and, after voting, the Best of Show in Hardware, Software and Services were determined. They are listed below.
“Real experts—the power users—were asked to determine the best tools,” says Roopinder Tara, CEO and founder of TenLinks. “We are delighted to present the most useful and interesting of those to users, most of whom were not able to attend Autodesk University.”
Awards were given to products and services that best met this criteria:
- 1. They enhance productivity of users of Autodesk software.
- 2. Their technology is of interest to CAD, CAM and CAE users.
The winners are as follows:
Hardware
Best of Show, Gold:
Lenovo ThinkPad W550s — Mobile workstation
Nomination: Lenovo’s Thinnest, Lightest Mobile Workstation Ever: The W550s
Best of Show, Silver:
HP Sprout — Built-in 3D scanning
Nomination: HP Sprout Integrates a 3D Scanner
Best of Show, Bronze:
SmartUse — Big tablet shows whole drawings
Nomination: Navigate PDFs on Big Screen with SmartUse
Software
Best of Show, Gold:
Bluebeam Revu — Manage, create PDF
Nomination: Bluebeam Revu is CAD-friendly PDF
Best of Show, Silver (tie):
Content Studio — Family management for Revit
Nomination: Content Studio Manages Revit Content
Best of Show, Silver (tie):
CL3VER — Interactive 3D presentations
Nomination: CL3VER Makes AEC Models Into Product Showcases
Best of Show, Bronze:
RTV — Productivity tools for Revit
Nomination: RTV Makes Productivity Tools for Revit
Best of Show:
Microdesk — Services for AEC and civil engineering
Nomination: Microdesk Is in Your Future with AEC, Civil Engineering Services
Nominations
A complete list of nominations, from which winners were selected, is listed here:
- Autodesk BIM 360 Layout App
- Bluebeam Revu
- CL3VER
- Content Studio
- Contex large format scanner
- Eagle Point
- EON Reality
- Epson large format printer
- Flatter Files
- GoBOXX SLM mobile workstation
- HP Sprout
- Kenguru
- Keynetix HoleBASE SI
- Lenovo ThinkPad W550s mobile workstation
- Microdesk
- NearMAP
- RTV
- Skycatch
- SmartUse
- SolidCAM
- Spike by ike
- Unifi
A full description of the products, criteria for selection and applications to be a judge are available on TenLinks’ website.
Judges
TenLinks wishes to thank all judges who participated in the the selection, nominations and voting for the TenLinks Best of Show. The Autodesk University 2014 judges were:
- Sunith Babu
- Bill Debevc
- John Foster
- Christopher Fugitt
- David Gaskill
- Sam Lucido
- Mathew Miller
- Curt Moreno
- Paul Munford
- Roopinder Tara