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Gain Advanced Access to Your Autodesk Software When You Switch to Subscription

Did you recently make the switch from a Design Suite to an Industry Collection (like the AEC Collection) subscription but don’t have access to the new software because your contract hasn’t flipped yet? Why the wait? Although Autodesk allows clients to renew early and take advantage of current promotions, your contract date remains the same. …

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BIM Interoperability Tools for Revit Major Update

CADD Care, Productivity / By Jason Kunkel

We are huge fans of the BIM Interoperability Tools for Revit over here at CADD. We blog about them a lot and we even make files for them to share on our CADD Community. The original four tools: Classification Manager, Model Checker, Model Checker Configurator and COBie Extension for Revit have recently released a major update. …

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Autodesk Update Roundup – October 2018

CADD Care / By Donnie Gladfelter

Unlike the 2019.1 updates that introduced new features in July, August, and September, our October releases primarily focus on bug fixes. Of note is the AutoCAD for Mac updates we see this month. With the recent release of macOS Mojave, the AutoCAD for Mac updates addresses compatibility issues with the updated operating system. Also of …

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A First Look at What’s New Autodesk Account

CADD Care / By Donnie Gladfelter

Autodesk recently updated its Account site with both a new design and some new functionality. While the overall structure of the site has not changed, the look certainly has. In this post, we’ll explore these changes so you can hit the ground running the next time you log in. If you’re not familiar with the …

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Autodesk Update Roundup – September 2018

CADD Care / By Donnie Gladfelter

Stay up-to-date with the latest updates to Autodesk software including 3ds Max, AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Plant 3D, InfraWorks, Inventor, Revit, and Vault.

US Survey Feet vs. Feet in AutoCAD – What’s going on?

CADD Care, Productivity / By Marissa Gagné

Introduction If you are using an AutoCAD-based product that is 2017 or later, you may have noticed that in your handy “Drawing Units” dialog, in the drop-down under “Insertion Scale,” you now have two options for working in feet. They are “Feet,” and “US Survey Feet.” It may be a big surprise to many people …

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Autodesk Update Roundup for August 2018

CADD Care / By Donnie Gladfelter

Last month, the first of the 2019.1 updates appeared for Alias, AutoCAD, Inventor, and Point Layout. As expected, that trend continued in August with much anticipated 2019.1 updates for Revit and Civil 3D. In addition to Revit and Civil 3D, we also see 2019.1 updates for Navisworks and Vault. Beyond the flagship 2019.1 updates, we …

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What to Know About Revit 2019.1 and Revit Home

CADD Care, Productivity / By Jason Kunkel

Revit 2019.1 dropped recently and there are some great new features in it for working with your civil engineers. We are diving into those features and will blog about them soon, but for now I wanted to cover a small but neat, new feature: the new Revit Home. New Revit Home in 2019.1 The “start …

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Revit Element ID – How To Get It and What To Do With It

CADD Care, Productivity / By Jason Kunkel

Every single element in your Revit model, and I am talking about instances and types here, has an ID. It’s a way for the Revit database to be able to keep elements organized, find what it needs to find, and act like a good database should act. And also to see if that element is …

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Dynamo 2.0.1 and Revit 2019.0.1 Updates

CADD Care, Productivity / By Nick Sipes

A while back, we posted the blog Dynamo, Dynamo, Dynamo. But what version? Shortly after that post, the very busy team at Dynamobim.org released version 2.0.1. Because of this, we wanted to update both the flowchart and version chart from our previous post. We also wanted to take a moment to discuss the Revit 2019.0.1 …

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