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The incompatibility between 32 bit Microsoft Office database systems and 64 bit Revit program architecture have been causing headaches for a while, but this technical solution may provide the answer y…
Have you struggled to install nview on Windows 7 64-bit? Here are the steps: Step 1 – Download the latest Drivers from the nVidia website Step 2 – Download WinRAR (you could use 7-zip) Step 3 – Open t…
In RAC 2011, we can not directly modify the display name for a ‘My Places’ entry in the Open dialog. This needs to be done in the Registry, as described over at Do U Revit in 2009. I made a brief vide…
Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I previously described the difficulty of encoding walkthroughs on 64-bit Revit with any sort of compression codec. I did provide a workaround in t…
You may have seen the long list of fixes already available for Revit 2011. Perhaps the first release will be stable, perhaps it won’t, but many of you might like to consider running Revit 2011 in a vi…
I recently stumbled across the fix for an issue that has annoyed me for ages. The problem we had was that Revit would always crash when tearing off any ribbon panel. This issue affected two of our hig…
Found some very interesting information on Wikipedia about 32 bit and 64 bit processor architecture – check it out (italics by me): AMD licensed its x86-64 design to Intel, where it is marketed under …
Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I encountered a problem today related to walkthrough creation in Revit 2010 64 bit with Vista 64 bit. I was exporting a large walkthrough to uncom…
Have you mastered file and folder navigation in Windows Vista yet? If you haven’t, here are a few simple tips, guaranteed to increase your productivity (well, hopefully 😉 Use Vista ‘Links’.What is it?…
Check this out. Whether you use Revit or not, I challenge you to find a faster way to access your frequently used folders. However, since upgrading to Vista x64, I am struggling to find a good replace…