Autodesk 2020 Direct Download Links
The 2020 release season is here… Links are for Autodesk 2020 trial versions, you will need your own official Autodesk licenses to activate. Autodesk Revit 2020 Direct Download Links – WIN 64 – EN http…
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Autodesk Revit 2019.2.1 Hotfix Direct Download Link
I have been resisting the 2019.2 update because there were some issues with it originally, plus the forced upgrade of Dynamo. I decided to go ahead with Revit 2019.2.1 Hotfix today. I think that the f…
Moving the Navisworks Cache and BIM 360 Glue Cache to Secondary Hard Drive
Having recently installed some more storage hardware, and previously posted about moving folders with symbolic links, I then decided to move my BIM 360 Glue cache folder and Navisworks Cache folder to…
A Virtual Guardian for Your Revit Projects
Revit Users do a lot of funny (and sometimes quite terrible) things. BIM Managers have spent years trying to control the chaos, through training, documentation, standardisation, model auditing, Big Br…
I Know the Days of the Unwieldy Desktop Replacement Laptop are Numbered…
but for now, I’m leaning into it. Ever since I bought it, the Metabox occasionally began screaming at me by way of extremely loud internal fans. As we know, cooling equals performance in laptop device…
Upgrading Your Hard Drive while Keeping Box Sync Data, and Adding a New SSD to Your Laptop
Box is great, and Box Sync is still the most robust file sync tool I have used for huge datasets. In BIM and VDC, our data is getting bigger, primarily due to the prevalence of point clouds. It is not…
Under the Bridge
A couple of weeks ago, I created a post on LinkedIn about a bridge I worked on… It got a few people interested so I did a bit of a behind the scenes look at how we got to the end result. Behind the sc…
Batch Convert DWG Files to DWFx inside AutoCAD
You have received a bunch of DWG files transmitted to you, and you want to quickly convert to a DWF, DWFx, or PDF file for downstream use (perhaps to import to Revizto). Here is one way, assuming that…
Digital Prototyping Framework (DPF) – Because We Need Another Acronym
A couple of days ago I was considering how Architects design, and how their processes can be very detailed and effective, and yet those ideas are often presented in somewhat traditional ways: like a b…