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published 15 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by joseguia 15 days, 12 hours ago

"This is an addition to a time saver I posted awhile back to open Explorer from within AutoCAD to the folder where the drawing is saved. This lisp can be altered direct users to a system resource folder where ever it may be. This one is going to a mapped drive where vendor equipment blocks may be located. The back slash means something in lisp. You will have to fool lisp by using a double backslash in the path you are directing users to. " read more...

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published 15 days, 13 hours ago, submitted by joseguia 15 days, 13 hours ago

"..sparked off a very interesting discussion on the AECbytes blog about what is a BIM application and what is not, and what is the nature of “true BIM,” if there is such a thing at all. It is a discussion very relevant also to Revit—being one of the leading BIM solutions available today—and we will come back to it later on in this review. Let us first explore the various avenues along which Revit Architecture has progressed in this 2009 release." read more...

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published 15 days, 13 hours ago, submitted by deelip 16 days, 7 hours ago

Greg Milliken, CEO of Alibre, reacts to the "breakthrough" Synchronous Technology by Siemens. read more...

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published 2 months, 7 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 10 days ago

The Add In Manager application is itself a Revit External Command, and is accessed (after installation) on the Tools + External Tools menu: The AddIn Manager shows you what external commands have been registered with Revit, as well as giving you the ability to Load a new command at Runtime (NO MORE EXITING OUT!) and Saving changes to your REVIT.INI file. read more...

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published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 11 days ago

.."I’ve now tested startup times of various AutoCAD releases under Vista. Here are the results, alongside the XP results for ease of comparison".. read more...

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published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 11 days ago

The Layer Isolate feature has been around since at least the Bonus collection back in R14. In AutoCAD 2008 they kick it up a notch by adding a Settings feature whereby you can opt to either turn Off the layers you don’t select to isolate, or Lock them … which kicks in the new A2008 Fade control feature. read more...

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published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 11 days ago

The new Quick Properties functionality in AutoCAD 2009 enables you to view and modify object properties for selected objects. Now, if you’re like me, you’re thinking “How is this any different (or better) than the Properties window that we’ve had since AutoCAD 2000”? Well, it *is* similar, but you can customize Quick Properties so it only displays only the properties that you really care about. The simplified list makes it easier for you to locate the property you want to edit. read more...

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published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 11 days ago

From an Autodesk White Paper Autodesk Revit Worksharing distributes the power of the Revit parametric building modeling environment across the project team. Worksharing allows the team to choose the best way to collaborate and interact based on their workflow and the project requirements. read more...

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published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 11 days ago

On January 15 2008, Autodesk completed the acquisition of Robobat who develops these Extensions. To find out more about this acquisition read the press release. All Extensions for Revit Structure formerly developed by Robobat, both fee and free, are now available through the Autodesk Subscription Program. read more...

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published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 11 days ago

we'll be talking about over the coming weeks and months regarding Volumes in your Revit Models, and how to define them properly. Once defined, they are the cornerstone of an accurate Analytical Model, which in turn is the cornerstone of accurate Building Performance Analysis. read more...

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published 2 months, 14 days ago, submitted by joseguia 2 months, 14 days ago

..."Revit 2009 introduces Microsoft VSTA - that's Visual Studio Tools for Applications - the next generation follow-on to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).".. read more...

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published 4 months, 16 days ago, submitted by elizabeth 4 months, 19 days ago

A comparison of licensing for AutoCAD and Microstation. read more...

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published 4 months, 19 days ago, submitted by matt 4 months, 19 days ago

SolidWorks users are questioning the value of upgrades. SolidWorks 2008's revamped interface is getting mixed reviews from long time users. read more...

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published 5 months, 4 days ago, submitted by bazzacad 5 months, 6 days ago

OpenDCL officially get 64-bit support. read more...

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published 5 months, 4 days ago, submitted by joseguia 5 months, 14 days ago

he new Visual Studio 2008 has been released, and to celebrate, I've updated VC Build Hook. The updated utility allows you to use the new IDE while still building with older versions of the build tools. Why is this necessary? If you build your AutoCAD 2007/2008 ObjectARX application with the Visual C/C++ 9.0 tools, AutoCAD will display a warning message about an incompatible module when you try to load it. You can use VC Build Hook to target all previous AutoCAD versions from a single Visual Studio 2008 solution (if you have the correct version of Visual C/C++ installed alongside Visual Studio 2008). read more...

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published 5 months, 4 days ago, submitted by joseguia 5 months, 14 days ago

OpenDCL 4.1 adds support for the AutoCAD 2008 64-bit platform, includes many improvements in the OpenDCL Studio editor, and has a completely rewritten grid control. read more...

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