In the 2020 version of AutoCAD you may have noticed a new command ‘BLOCKSPALETTE’. This command opens up a brand new window which gives you a new way of finding and inserting blocks, the Blocks Palette. This new palette is similar to the Tool Palette in some ways but it gives you the ability to …
This blog describes in detail some best practices and tools for working from home effectively and productively. Working from home can be a struggle for most, however, this situation we are facing as a civilization may require us and push us to do it more and more moving forwards. At Man and Machine, we have …
Issue When creating IFC exports from Revit using standard IFC exporters some geometry is not being created in the transfer in to Navisworks but is visible in external IFC viewers such as Solibri or BIMTrack. Detail Revit uses either an out of the box or Autodesk Appstore updated IFC exporter to create an IFC file …
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 is out and ready to download and install now. Let’s take a look at some of the new features. The new features for this release are predominantly enhancements that were requested by and driven from customer feedback, the Autodesk IdeaStation, surveys and analytic data. Other additions are general feature improvements and increased …
Is it possible to map a cell in Excel to a document property? Many people want to be able to utilize the data in their documents or CAD files to populate their document/file properties and thus map this data to their document management system. Excel spreadsheets often have lots of data in them which relate …
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