New Revit Families Guide for 2011
Wouldn’t it be nice if we got an update version of the Revit Families Guide?Well, sadly, we don’t have it yet. You can still access the 2010 version here and the 2009 version here. I don’t know about …
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Experts Exchange and the Google Cache
In order to have its content indexed, it seems that the website ‘Experts Exchange’ allows its paid content pages to be cached by Google. Unfortunately (for them), this means you can access the content…
Accurately Rotating Sections
For some of you, this will be old news. However, it is a very important yet not very well known procedure. How do you accurately rotate an existing section view accurately? Here are the steps: Draw a …
Microsoft Security Essentials Beta
If you are interested in trying out the new, supposedly improved, beta of Microsoft Security Essentials, head over to this link and see if you can become part of the limited beta program. There are 32…
The Best of AutoCAD 2010: Meshes (AutoCAD Exchange)
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…
Check out 'Proper Properties Palette' post and Comments
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…
Fighting Spam on Exchange Server 2003
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…
Legacy Mass Forms – follow up
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 …
Design Options and Elevation Crop – Head Scratcher
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…
Using legacy mass forms in 2010 and 2011
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…