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Let’s say you get half way through extracting a very large (like 15gb) archive and for some reason the extraction fails. For example, the BDSP 2013 media I downloaded had one RPC file corrupt, and the…
… is not easy. Revit prefers that you don’t clog up your drawing with View Templates rather than trying to clean them out later. You can use various methods to transfer just one Template from project …
Tutorials for making a house in Autodesk Revit 2011. By Michael Johnston. Playlist with 20 videos (total length = 2 hours) embedded below: Open embedded content: www.youtube.com…
Using Windows 7, you can switch the BIOS disk management from AHCI to IDE or IDE to AHCI without reinstalling the OS. However, you need to reset 4 registry “START” keys to 0 before rebooting and chang…
Great render settings to use a starting point – see below. Render Settings – good quality but much faster to render Image Precision = 4Reflections = 2Refractions = 4Blurred Reflections = 1Blurred Refr…
Let’s say you installed a standalone trial using BDSU media, and you are trying to switch to Networked license of Navisworks. Can it be done? One possible method:If you did it by making a Deployment y…
Not a great position to be in (having point clouds with different coordinate systems and no known common point), but here is some code that may help:andymiller/FeatureBasedAlignment · GitHub From GibH…
Use the Orientation property……
In the Shared Parameter .txt file (the one in use in your office or project, as per Revit parameter settings), there is a visibility switch at the end of the line for each parameter. Set it as follows…
If Cleartype is not really working for you (perhaps you are having compatibility issues with Google Chrome and Windows XP 64 bit), then you could try replacing the font renderer with free MacType. Dow…