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Rate This	April 01, 2013 \| Paradigm Shift by Sean D Burke Revit 2014: To select, or not to select? That is the question. History Lesson One of the most troubling support issues is when a designer working in Revit exclaims that things moved, deleted or were altered “on their own”. It takes a delicate approach to resolve this issue, ... read more
Rate This	April 01, 2013 \| Computer-Aided Design for AEC by Emmanuel Garcia AutoCAD Tip of the Week: VPLAYER One of the maxims of good Database design in general, and of Computer-Aided Design in particular, is to avoid and diminish the unnecessary repetition of data. In other words, “Draw Things Only Once.” And I don’t mean, “Draw once and then ... read more
Rate This	March 26, 2013 \| The Mudroom by Craig Barr Mudbox 2014 Announced! Check out the new features in Autodesk Mudbox 2014: Advanced Retopology, enhanced multi-touch, over 27 additional feature requests added. ... read more
Rate This	March 14, 2013 \| Knowing What You Don't Know by Michael Massey Indicating Double Home Runs Correctly in Revit MEP Revit MEP will allow you to indicate double home runs when circuiting electrical fixtures. This can be done by simply dragging a home run arrow from one electrical circuit to a fixture that is on a different circuit. The result will show a ... read more
Rate This	March 05, 2013 \| Arch Tech by Eddy Krygiel and Phil Read Registration is Open RTC North America 2013Registration is Open! Westin Bayshore Hotel and Conference CenterVancouver British Columbia, CanadaThursday 11th - Saturday 13th, July 2013 Sponsorship and Exhibitor ProspectusRegistration WebsiteGreetings everyone! Th ... read more
Rate This	February 18, 2013 \| Geospecialling by Darrin Maidlow Enum: the ‘simple’ C# value type we love to complicate Enums are simple collections of constant values, using an underlying integer to store the value. Enums implement IComparable, IFormattable and IConvertible while still being value types and give us everything we need to store and use things lik ... read more
Rate This	February 02, 2013 \| Rod.Net by Rod Howarth [General Dev]–How to push to two Git remote locations at once Now that BitBucket supports Git, I’ve been utilizing both GitHub and BitBucket for my project hosting, and have been looking into migrating to BitBucket for my private repositories (as they are free). This is part of the beauty of using a distr ... read more
Rate This	January 31, 2013 \| The CAD Geek by Donnie Gladfelter Identify Drawing Changes with AutoCAD Despite our best efforts to avoid it, at some point in a project you’ll likely end up with two drawing files that are supposed to be the same, but aren’t. After running into this issue several times over the years, I learned about the ... read more
Rate This	January 31, 2013 \| What's the Word on BIM? by Patrick Villella Tales from the Helpdesk Crypt – Backgrounds that disappear in sketch mode Department of Unintended Consequences Sometimes we get issues that are gives us pause about how certain functionality can throw a curve at users. A little while ago a Revit project came our way with something we hadn’t seen before. An pla ... read more
Rate This	January 29, 2013 \| (bim)x by Laura Handler Why We are Reluctant to Share Information In the Agrarian Economy, land ownership indicated wealth. If you didn’t own land, you worked for a landowner. And if you gave away land, you gave away wealth. In the Industrial Economy, financial capital replaced land. Similar to land, capital ... read more