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I reviewed RTV Xporter PRO late last year, but there have been a few updates and new features since then so I thought I’d briefly list them here. For less than $50US per user, you get a lot of automat…
This little utility is VERY basic. It can basically can record mouse movement and clicks, and keyboard input. You can record a task, save it to a file, open an existing recording, and play. There are …
Here is a little trap for those who use the Block Editor in AutoCAD. From the Help documentation: Note Automatic save is disabled when the Block Editor is open. This is scary stuff. You could work for…
There are many sources of content out there, the main ones being Seek and RevitCity. Sometimes, a content provider will attempt to obfuscate the links to the original files, so that you can’t just com…
Let’s say you have printed a bunch of PDFs to a folder, hopefully using one of the techniques described in my previous two posts (links below), and now you want to rename them to match the data export…
I hope that you found my previous post on batch printing with automatic naming helpful. But what if you want to add a prefix or a suffix to all PDFs in a set? Some firms like to add the current revisi…
Sometimes you will want to produce a large set of PDFs where each drawing sheet is in its own PDF file. You also want the PDFs to be automatically named and created. There are a number of ways to acco…