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Sometimes you have to say goodbye to old technology to welcome in new ways of doing things. This is the case as BIM 360 Team basically almost dies in 2 weeks… The key message here is: A360 and BIM 360…
As part of a very bad Cloud Model upgrade experience (a story I will tell some other time…) some models failed to upgrade. I was trying to upgrade a file from Revit 2018 to Revit 2022. After upgrading…
Problem: I was recently trying to link Revit models to a federated file on Revit 2021. The models were failing to link, but no error message or warning was provided. The federated host model and the l…
First, let’s manage some expectations – Aconex is generally viewed as a closed platform. They seem to deliberately resist platform-level integration with other tools like BIM 360 and Revizto. However,…
When a recent update to Autodesk Desktop Connector forced a migration to Autodesk Docs, file paths were generally change like this: FROM – C:\Users\USERNAME\BIM 360\YOURFOLDERS TO – C:\Users\USERNAME\…
In the old pre-BIM360 days, if you really had a problem where a Revit user didn’t relinquish elements in a workshared model, you could either Pretend to be that user and sync (yes just by changing you…
What happens if you enable BIM360 Design Collaboration on a project, but would then like to switch it off? I asked Autodesk this question, and here is part of the response (in italics): Unfortunately …
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…
If you have Desktop Connector installed, you probably realise you can ‘upload’ Revit models and other files to BIM 360 Docs by dragging and dropping to the folder in Windows Explorer (using Desktop Co…
I have developed a working BIM360 to on-premises backup mechanism. There were a few different ways to go… I initially considered: Hacking Windows Explorer to touch the files in the BIM 360 node and tr…