It’s sad but true; every once in a while you have to take your brilliant Revit model and export flat old-fashioned DWG files. There are any number of reasons you might have to crank your Revit file through a time machine such as owner requirements, consultants still working in AutoCAD, etc., and there might be …
The annual Autodesk University Call for Proposals closed on Monday. When the deadline arrived nearly 1,200 experts from 49 countries had submitted 2,155 proposals. With the time to submit proposals for the 2018 conference behind us, now comes the hard part. Those 2,155 proposals must be whittled down to the roughly 700 classes to be offered come …
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New on CADD Community! The CADD Community is our online portal, powered by Global eTraining and loaded with on-demand training, apps, model/design content and whitepapers, built to help our clients use their Autodesk software more efficiently. This blog series highlights new content recently added to CADD Community, and why you need it. If you’re one of those …
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Nestled about halfway between our Alexandria and Richmond offices is The Meadow – birthplace of Secretariat whose 1973 record-shattering Triple Crown victory remains unsurpassed to this day. On Saturday, Justify, the 3rd great grandson of Secretariat joined a field of just twelve other horses to become the thirteenth Triple Crown winner. To celebrate the …
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THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS ARE THE 2018 #STANLEYCUP CHAMPIONS! #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/QNrMYcleBi — Washington Capitals (@Capitals) June 8, 2018 For the first time in their 44 year history, the Washington Capitals are Stanley Cup Champions! Defeating the Vegas Golden Knights with an intense game five victory, the Caps are, to the excitement of the CADD Microsystems team, …
Hopefully, you all understand the great benefit of using view templates to standardize your graphics across similar views within a project and across a firm, while being able to quickly update V/G changes in a single location. But have you used view templates in conjunction with view types? View types in Revit are generally those …
Autodesk announced the Next Gen BIM 360 platform at Autodesk University last November and on April 9, 2018, the changes came into effect. What does this mean to the existing subscribers of C4R/BIM 360 Team? Let’s dive deeper! BIM 360 is Autodesk’s cloud platform for AEC project delivery and construction management that supports informed decision-making …
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As we head into Summer, we have one more opportunity to save on Autodesk software. Between now and July 20, 2018, you can save 15% on 1- or 3-year subscriptions to the latest Autodesk Industry Collections and most individual products when you trade-in your non-current perpetual licenses. Not only can you save up to 15%, …
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Revit 2019 had a host of great new features that taken together make a very compelling upgrade argument. One additional feature that might cause a little confusion is the addition of a “Do not ask me again” checkbox to the view/level renaming dialog prompt. This is the prompt you get when you rename a level …
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As many of you know, if your firm uses network licensing with Autodesk software you need to borrow a license if you are planning on working away from the office. If you’ve ever done this, you may have experienced a limit to how long you can borrow a license. By default, the software limits the …