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Interesting video on AutoCAD Exchange over at this link. The main point of the video is – if you want to work with Solids in AutoCAD effectively, you should correctly set the DELOBJ system variable. W…
Steve at Revit OpEd has posted about how he feels about the Properties Palette and other interface items here. I recommend you also check out the comments – Troy Gates makes a very interesting comment…
We run a Small Business Server box and it primarily provides our email via Exchange Server 2003. Recently, our ISP indicated that our server was relaying or forwarding spam messages. I have tried a nu…
With regard to my recent posts about using legacy mass forms, I would like to let you know how Autodesk responded to some feedback I gave them.Basically, I used the Feedback Form at this link to make …
Here is the problem: An elevation crop region is not visible. It cannot be turned on using any of Visibility/Graphics settings. The problem is not anything to do with the ‘Show Crop Region’ switch. Th…
By ‘legacy mass forms’, I mean the nice, simple kind – sweeps with editable profiles, extrusions with sketches and the like. The problem with 2010 and 2011 massing is that you cannot create these nice…
You should all know something about adaptive points by now. I will here describe how I recently used them to solve a modeling problem. Basically, I need to create a surface that was quite irregular – …
I am quite sure that I was the first to post about the Web Update for RAC 2011 (please feel free to correct me if I am wrong). So I thought this might be a good time to encourage you to subscribe to t…
There is a Maintenance Update available for Revit 2011 x64. Please use the link below to download the update for 64-bit:http://updatesdl.autodesk.com/updates/files/rac_x64_ur10.exe For 32-bit:http://u…
Dimond Architects have launched an exciting new landing page for their website. Check it out: Please email us if you would like to know more about us.…