Unifi Silent Automatic Deployment and GPO
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…
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Final Opportunity to Earn a Building Performance Analysis Certificate, and Where is the BPAC Content Now?
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…
How To Keep Using Your Legacy Extensions in Firefox (For Now)
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…
Using a Free PDF Printer with RTV Xporter Pro for Automatic Batch PDF Naming from Revit
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 …
How To Use Link Files with the Autodesk Desktop Connector
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…
You Can Now Play Like a PIG in BIM with this Free Revit Family Preview Image Generator
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…
Autodesk Desktop Connector Download Links and Information
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…
C4R Best Practices for Performance and Improving Sync Speed
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…
Two Secrets about Revit Schedules, Closed Worksets, and Highlight in Model
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…
How to Clear Your Revizto Cache of a Project, and How to Move Your Working Folder
Revizto works by maintaining a local copy of cloud models, that are synced periodically with the cloud. The Issue Tracker will always try and automatically remain in-sync if an internet connection is …