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Many months ago I was sitting down having a coffee with one of the top sales reps for 3Dconnexion. He had a strictly confidential release to share with me… ‘a 3 button mouse!’ I was a little skeptical…
Konrad has put together some very handy nodes to work with Revisions in Dynamo and Revit. I have packaged up a simple implementation of these in my Bakery package that takes a list of sheets, gets the…
Do you want to create a shareable cloud-based resource for your Autodesk updates? Here is one way: Create a folder in one of your local cloud based mirror locations, for example:E:yourpathonedriveAUTO…
Here are the basic steps: Download Office Deployment Tool Modify the configuration xml to include Updates Enabled TRUE and Current Branch info, as well as Display Level Full. Looks something like this…
If you are on Subscription, you can login to your Updates page and download Autodesk Shared Reference Point extension to connect coordinates in Revit with Civil3D. For Revit 2016 http://download.autod…
Quote: you can use RDP Wrapper which acts as a middleman between Terminal Services and Service Control Manager. This way you don’t need to touch termsrv.dll file…Download and extract RDPWrap-v1.6.zip …
Jon Buerg recently posted his ‘top tips’ for content on Shoegnome. Here are three I particularly liked: If you can actually afford to invest the labor and time into producing a complete library all in…
Here’s how: Open Quick Access in a new window Select All Copy Go to an empty folder Paste shortcut Your Quick Access items are now ‘normal’ shortcuts You can quickly clear the auto-populated entries f…
One of my most liked posts on the Ideastation is this one, where I request the ability to share viewpoints between Navisworks and Glue. This functionality has finally been provided in Service Pack 3 f…
Here is the Application Manager version of SP3 for Navisworks Manage 2016:http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/NAVMAN/2016/Autodesk_Navisworks_2016_SP3_ML_Manage_64bit.msp Other links: Autode…