If you are not already aware, Autodesk Vault Workgroup and Professional come with something called the ‘Job Processor’, it’s a utility that helps process PDF, DWF and other visualisation files taking the stress of the users CAD workstation amongst other…
Man and Machine Blog
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AutoCAD® 2019 software includes many of the vertical, industry-specific toolsets found in separate versions of AutoCAD, alongside improved collaboration workflows across desktop, web and mobile; and all new features such as DWG™ compare. But where are all the toolsets? Recently I…
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This week (11/04/2018) sees the hugely anticipated release of a second edition BIM protocol drafted by Beale & Company. For those that have not used the BIM protocol before it is a supplementary legal agreement document that is usually incorporated…
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As you will most likely already know, product keys are required for installation of Autodesk products. These change year on year, but are pretty much the same for most Autodesk customers of the same product, although there are some differences…
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Revit 2019 has now been released with the new features focused on community feedback. The top two requested features on the Revit Ideas forums with over 2000 votes each have both been included in this new release. If you want…
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One AutoCAD With the release of AutoCAD 2019 you now have access to all industry specific toolsets in one application, in one AutoCAD! AutoCAD 2019 is designed to allow you to work faster from anywhere from the web and from mobile apps.…
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Additive manufacturing technologies (such as 3D-printing and selective laser sintering) have already made waves in industry, but their greatest impact has yet to come – the revolution they will bring to design. Rather than discussing the very-Googleable advantages and disadvantages…
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The day has finally come. They called me mad. They called me a dreamer. They said that it would never happen, but it could and it finally did! Generative design and additive manufacturing have barged their way into the consumer…
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If you’ve kept abreast with the news, Autodesk’s Product Design and Manufacturing Collection now ships with Nastran In-CAD. For FEA fanatics such as myself, this is fantastic news. Nastran enjoys a solid reputation in the industry of engineering analysis and…
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Are you working with customers around that want to collaborate with your Vault but are on the other side of your firewall? Need to exchange data with manufacturing partners, suppliers, subcontractors, and even end customers at all project stages, from…
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In this blog I am going to show you the workflow to take a Plant 3D model and export it so that it can be used to create a Revit Family file (rfa). Pre-requisite- You will need the following tool…
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Would you like to know how to save your Revit system families? In this blog post I will explain how we can save system families as a Revit file and how we can easily load them into other projects. What…
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In this blog I am going to explain how and why you should be Auditing your Revit project for errors. Like most files on a Windows computer the more you write and delete to the file the more chances there…
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Have you installed a configuration of Vault Data Standard, only to have it randomly stop working? The problem may lie with Windows Security… Windows the Mighty Protector Scripts have the potential to harm your computer. With this in mind, when…
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Are you getting a HTTP 503 Error with Vault Server? Microsoft’s latest batch of Windows 10 updates have been linked to breaking Vault Servers. It has been discovered that the latest Windows 10 updates are changing IIS user account permissions…
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Autodesk regularly update the DWG file format and with the release of AutoCAD 2018 Autodesk has once again released a new version. When this happens older AutoCAD releases are unable to open the newer DWG files. So how do you share…
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Using parametrics to define your model in Inventor can not only save you time and money down the track, but also open up new pathways to design optimisation and configuration. If you are not yet using parameters and would like to…
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Design Software has long been able to have dynamic references between different parameters, both for driving values and referencing information. This is the basics of Parametric Modelling, something that we are all used to using. Autodesk Revit has, since the…
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In this blog I am going to explain how to recover your drawings should they become corrupt and fail to open in AutoCAD. Explanation AutoCAD drawings like most other editable files are subject to becoming corrupt, sometimes this can result…
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In this blog I am going to explain how and why you should regularly audit all your AutoCAD drawings. Explanation Your DWG file contains a database of all the information within your drawing. As you work on your drawing this…
