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The Cascade Licensing Effect

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The cascading is slightly different with the collections, but follows a similar trend. Cascading behavior for Autodesk Software using Multi-user license (network license) Essentially, a product will look for the cheapest available license first so to speak. So, a subscription of a single product, followed by an older style perpetual license. After that, it will …

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Creating a Corridor in Civil 3D

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I’ve been using Civil 3D for a little while now and wanted to create a short blog with a few tips I found along the way to create a corridor (road design). 1. So first thing’s first, you will need a surface (existing ground). This can be created from many many different types of survey. …

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How to Create a Walkthrough in Enscape

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In this blog I will show you how to create a walkthrough of your Revit project using Enscape. Walkthroughs are very easy to create in Enscape and once created can be exported as a video file. What is Enscape?Never heard of Enscape? Not to worry, you can check out our live demonstration of Enscape here: …

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Vault Basic License Compliance

In this blog I want to have a quick chat about Vault Basic and license compliance. I know that doesn’t sound very exciting but please remember if you are not license compliant and you get audited by Autodesk, you could be in for quite a big penalty. So, recently I was at a customer where …

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What is Autodesk Desktop Connector and Do I Need it?

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In this blog I am going to explain to you what the Autodesk Desktop connector is, what it does and why you may need it. Ok, so first thing’s first, you have may have noticed a little dialog box popping up in the bottom right hand corner of your screen saying there is an update …

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Inventor 2020 New Unwrap Tool

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With the release of Inventor 2020, Autodesk has introduced a new unwrap feature.  To some designers this probably won’t be all that useful but to manufacturers of composite materials that in the past had to use 3rd party methods for creating flat patterns, you will love this one! The unwrap tool is located on the create …

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Revit 3D Section Box

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What is a 3D Section box?A 3D section box is an invisible box which you can customise the size and position of, to display only elements which are contained within. Perhaps you want to only see the first floor in 3D or maybe just an out building. Using a 3D section box in Revit, we …

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How to Import a Point Cloud into AutoCAD

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More and more industries are turning to laser scanners to assist in their CAD design process. Using scan data can reduce the time taken to model existing landscapes, structures or equipment and at the same time it increases the accuracy, thus reducing errors and cost when retrofitting new equipment and/or planning changes to existing structures. …

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