How do you show metric bolts sizes when working with imperial pipe components in a Mixed Metric Plant 3D project? Standard bolts sizes in imperial catalogues such as ASME are shown in imperial but in some mixed metric projects, it […]
Man and Machine Blog
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What is an Option File, do I need one if I am using multi-user Licenses (Network Licenses) for my Autodesk software and what can I control? Well in this blog I plan to answer these questions… What Is An Option […]
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A major cause of not being able to get a network (multi-user) license is lag on your network. Autodesk software have a specified amount of time which it will spend trying to get a license before giving up. Sometimes this […]
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Having an Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection means you have access to more tools than just Inventor and AutoCAD. If you have chosen to subscribe to a collection you should investigate the other software packages you are missing out […]
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“A valid license could not be obtained by the network license manager” is an error you receive when your Autodesk software is unable to find a network/multi-user license in the allowed timeframe. This can be down to a number of […]
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Ever wanted your Autodesk software to return a Multiuser license if the software has been left open but unused? Well, we can! Using an Option File we can specify a time limit for Multiuser licenses to be returned in the […]
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Did you know your Revit project contains two Norths? We have the Project North which helps keep the project orthogonal to make working easier and we also have the True North which is how the project is orientated geographically. Identifying […]
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Due to major functionality changes in the Solibri licensing system, the below-listed Solibri versions will no longer work from Sept 18th, 2019. Therefore, all users must upgrade to a supported version to ensure the continued working functionality of […]
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It is now possible to see what version of Revit a project was saved in without having to open the project. This is a huge advantage as previously the only way to check was to open the project in the […]
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In this blog I am going to detail the correct procedure for creating a symbol to use in AutoCAD Electrical. AutoCAD Electrical uses blocks with attributes for its symbols. These attributes determine what type of symbol the block is, which […]
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When working with assemblies in Autodesk Inventor, it is sometimes useful to have different representations of the assembly. These are separated into different types: ‘View Representations’, ‘Positional Representations’ and ‘Levels of Detail’. They can each be found under the ‘Representations’ […]
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In this blog I will show you have to you can copy and paste objects on one level to multiple levels. This can be extremely useful for objects that exist in the same layout on multiple floors such as windows, […]
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If you are experiencing difficulties with connection speed to your AutoCAD Electrical Access MDB catalog database, it could be beneficial to switch to an SQL database instead, which was made available in the 2017 release. Create your catalog and footprint […]
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While running Inventor, you select a new file to open and a complete new instance of Inventor appears and runs. I have seen this problem occur a couple of times now, so I am writing to explain the solution and […]
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After installing an Add In for a version of Inventor, you may find the tabs at the top of Inventor do not show anything, and the Add In is now missing. This can occur for a number of reasons. For […]
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The cascading is slightly different with the collections, but follows a similar trend. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Cascading-Behavior-for-the-Autodesk-Industry-Collections.html Essentially, a product will look for the cheapest available license first so to speak. So, a subscription of a single product, followed by an older style […]
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I’ve been using Civil 3D for a little while now and wanted to create a short blog with a few tips I found along the way to create a corridor (road design). 1. So first thing’s first, you will need […]
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In this blog I will show you how to create a walkthrough of your Revit project using Enscape. Walkthroughs are very easy to create in Enscape and once created can be exported as a video file. What is Enscape? Never […]
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In this blog I want to have a quick chat about Vault Basic and license compliance. I know that doesn’t sound very exciting but please remember if you are not license compliant and you get audited by Autodesk, you could […]
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In this blog I am going to explain to you what the Autodesk Desktop connector is, what it does and why you may need it. Ok, so first thing’s first, you have may have noticed a little dialog box popping […]