A few times this has come up in support where the Fabrication database appears to have lost the GUID for no apparent reason. Without the GUID changes to the already loaded configuration can not be …
5 Common Problems for New Inventor Users
If you’re sitting at your desk with your head propped in your hands, sighing deeply while staring at your computer screen where Inventor is poised to taunt you yet again, take heart. Maybe you’re like …
5 Trends You May Have Missed That Involve Bluebeam
Remember 40 years ago when they told us computers would make our lives easier? We would have so much leisure time that we wouldn’t know how to act. I don’t know about you, but I truly feel that life …
25 Surprising Facts about Construction Coordination
If you’re in the construction business, you may have cringed when you saw this title. Over the years, maybe you’ve gotten used to the delays, the workarounds, going over budget and past deadlines. It’s what …
A Tour Guide to Applied Software
Maybe the technology aspect of your job started out as more of a “3-hour tour,” and now you feel a little like Gilligan stranded on an island of technology with no way to get rescued …
Adding Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds Symbols to Civil 3D Reports
When Civil 3D was first introduced, there was a lot of excitement regarding its ability to generate reports almost automatically. Those of us who spent hours writing up tedious metes and bounds reports were about …
A Guide to BIM 360
For everyone who has adopted BIM 360 processes, it’s good to know that BIM 360 continues to be ranked among the top software products available for BIM-process work (Revit and Navisworks are up there too). …
Fabrication: The Path Forward
Where have we been? It’s been nearly fifteen years since Revit was introduced to the world as the best way to achieve building information modeling. Once the term BIM was coined, it was everywhere. It …
Adding Image Data in Map 3D/Civil 3D from a Web Mapping Service (WMS)
This video briefly explains the process to connect to a WMS and import aerial imagery within Map 3D or Civil 3D:
5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Inventor
Have you heard of Autodesk Inventor? Not the guy who invented AutoCAD, but the incredible software program that will set you on your ear with its amazing product creation features. Inventor 3D CAD software is …
3 Reasons Why You May Catch the Inventor Bug
“Go big or go home,” they sometimes say. Well Autodesk Inventor has three ginormous enticements that may tempt you to take a closer look at Inventor. So if you have a fear of falling in …
Panzura – Revit File Locking Demonstration
Watch how Panzura enables multi-site Revit collaboration. This demonstration shows Revit users in three different locations. Denver, Crawford and Atlanta. All three users work collaboratively using worksharing in Revit on the Panzura Global file system