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If you have gone through a process of saving Central models, and you have forgotten to ‘Synchronize with Central’ before closing them for the first time, you may find that your user has all User Creat…
OwnCloud is a free file sharing and syncing software, and for the most part it works ok. I don’t think it really compares with a full featured, appliance based enterprise solution… but, its free. You …
We have been told that Dynamo core code can eventually support network sharing of custom node definitions. In the meantime, how can you share custom nodes between a few different pcs and laptops, keep…
Sometimes Google Drive isn’t happy when you have it syncing large folders of often-changing files (sounds like a BIM environment, yeah?) But usually, all it needs is to restart the googledrivesync pro…
From rvit:We got everyone else to sync and get out of the model. Then, in the central file’s backup folder, we hunted down the SLOG file… and deleted it. And that works. He opens his local file and al…
Steve’s post recently reminded me of something I have done in the past – using multiple pseudo usernames to access the same Central File in different instances of Revit. Let’s say that you wanted to r…
Daryl Gregoire posted about this recently and I found his post very helpful. In the past, if the checkbox was grayed out to ‘Create New Local’, I would just manually copy the file to my C: drive, appe…
Problem The Autodesk Sync component does not upgrade properly under the following conditions: You installed AutoCAD Beta 2013 (or Showcase Beta 2013) and subsequently install Inventor 2013. You instal…