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When using MySQL with Power BI Desktop, you may come across this error: Value 'preferred' is not of the correct type It seems that this is caused by an incompatibility between Power BI Desktop and a l…
A few years back, everyone was excited about the 3D and visualisation aspect of BIM. It seems that more and more, people are getting excited about BIM Data. Many companies are building and adapting bu…
When working with serious hardware and big 3D models, computer memory management is an important thing. You want every byte of RAM to be doing a job for your system. So I was very interested to read t…
In Windows, you will often use either Map Network Drive dialog or net use command to map a network drive. You can use that method with a shared folder trick to map a local folder as a drive too, as de…
I experienced an issue where some Windows 10 updates broke my favourite screen clipping tool, OneNote. Typically I’m using it all day long with the Winkey+Shift+S shortcut to send screenshots to OneNo…
Recently I wanted to start ‘unduplicating’ some files in my Pictures folder on OneDrive. There are a lot of tools out there to look for duplicate files, but here were the two that I found to be the be…
Process Explorer is a free and very powerful task manager that let’s you really see what is going on with your system… One of those things every IT person should have in their toolkit. You can get it …
Have you experienced a blank and somewhat non-responsive Print dialog in Revit? Pressing Setup does nothing in this situation: What’s going on here? Well, there is something in the Microsoft Print to …
Setting up a BIM workstation can take some time. From unboxing to actually being ready-to-work you have to go through various ‘layers’ of installation, like: updating Windows installing major software…
By using a shared folder on OneDrive, you can Copy an entire OneNote notebook from one user to another. Here’s how: Let’s call the user hosting the notebook OriginalUser, and the account we are going …