Cobus Bothma

Design Platform Specialist - Omniverse

NVIDIA

Bio

Cobus Bothma is an enthusiastic designer and technologist employed at NVIDIA, where he focuses on developing the Omniverse Platform for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industries. He has a diverse educational and professional background, including product design, Architectural design, and visualisation. Cobus specialises in utilising design computation, simulation, and advanced visualisation functions to democratise the design process.

Before joining NVIDIA, Cobus was the Director of Applied Research at a global architectural firm, where he was responsible for the development of design functions and the progression of technology adoption to enhance the design and construction process. He also worked on the design of large-scale architectural projects during his tenure.

NXT DEV Talk

Panel discussion: Data frameworks: Achieving True Openness in AEC
The AEC industry has been hamstrung with proprietary file formats and a need for data wrangling. There is now great lip service paid to openness and it seems that every vendor is onboard to opening up the data flows between applications. But it’s not just about files, which are ‘dead things working’. What happens when we have most of our data hosted on the cloud, where we rely on open API access to proprietary data stores? We assemble a panel of experts to discuss what openness should be and how we get there, what formats will emerge and how data should be structured to benefit everyone.

Panel discussion: What can the AEC industry expect from USD?
Universal Scene Description (USD) is best known as Pixar’s lightweight data format for transferring scenes between their animation teams. It’s worked extremely well for that intended purpose. Over the last few years USD has been championed by NVIDIA as a seamless solution for CDE data wrangling and collaborative working on the web. USD has since been adopted by firms such as Autodesk and Siemens as a possible data format for internal and external data sharing. Pixar has agreed to let the industry advance USD’s development to better cater to other vertical markets, including Mechanical CAD (MCAD) and AEC. This result in the creation of the AOUSD – Alliance for Open USD, which will extend USD to better serve AEC with relevant metadata and capabilities and expand its architecture to suit streamed cloud environments. While the AOUSD was created last year, the number of firms supporting this initiative has been rapidly expanding and looks set to be a core AEC format in the future, with a targeted aim of ISO standardisation. AT NXT DEV we will quiz the key firms behind the AOUSD on what kinds of capabilities we can expect to see added to USD with regards to the AEC community, how they envisage it being used? How will it compare to IFC?

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