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Revit gets a new version every year, and every year we theoretically have to upgrade our Revit files. If you are a pro-active BIM Manager, you also have to upgrade a bunch of families and other files.…
Here’s how: The following command should successfully silent deploy Unifi 3.1.1 to your network. msiexec /I Unifi-admin.msi /qn Download the Unifi .msi at: http://installer.discoverunifi.com/Unifi-adm…
Autodesk recently announced the retirement of the Building Performance Analysis Certificate (BPAC). You have 3 days left if you want to complete, as per this note: Until December 15th 2017, you can en…
Firefox 58 Quantum resulted in our old extensions not working anymore. But if you want to enable extensions and keep using them, here’s what you need to do: Download and install Firefox Nightly from h…
Over the years I have posted a lot of workflows for PDF creation and management, including the use of CutePDF Writer and PDF Creator. I’m also a regular user of RTV Xporter Pro, as it is the quickest …
The whole C4R thing with link files is a bit of a challenge at the moment. It will get better, but for now, there are at least two things that don’t match typical desired project delivery: We essentia…
The Preview Image Generator (PIG) is a new Revit addin produced by Parley Burnett, a guy that has been in and around Revit and BIM for a long time. Out-of-the-box Revit has been producing family previ…
Over the years, Autodesk has provided various means for us to access, sync, backup and share files. Most recently we used “A360 Desktop” (see end of this post) and more recently “A360 Drive“. Autodesk…
A while back I posted about how to setup and deploy Collaboration for Revit. Things are moving quickly in this space, as more projects now need concurrent access to centralized models from a distribut…
When working with a large project, you may often close all or most Worksets for performance reasons. Secret #1 Did you know that objects still show in Schedules when the Workset is closed? And even if…