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Issue You want to know if Autodesk products are supported on non-Microsoft networks. Solution Autodesk products are designed to conform to Microsoft Network API standards. All other networks that are …
In another post, I discussed the feedback form that allows you to make suggestions directly to Autodesk. Yesterday, I made this suggestion:When overriding a Category in view by using: Select element R…
It looks like Firefox 4 is going to have some very nice features, but they might be old news if you are an Apple fanboy. To download Firefox 4 Beta (codenamed ‘Minefield’ hehe), go to this link. Then,…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…