If you’ve kept abreast with the news, Autodesk’s Product Design and Manufacturing Collection now ships with Nastran In-CAD. For FEA fanatics such as myself, this is fantastic news. Nastran enjoys a solid reputation in the industry of engineering analysis and for good reason. But how is it different from Inventor’s native FEA offering, Stress Analysis? …
Are you working with customers around that want to collaborate with your Vault but are on the other side of your firewall? Need to exchange data with manufacturing partners, suppliers, subcontractors, and even end customers at all project stages, from concept to delivery?In the past, the data management was more difficult with most of this …
In this blog I am going to show you the workflow to take a Plant 3D model and export it so that it can be used to create a Revit Family file (rfa). You can download a copy of the BATCHEXPORTTOAUTOCAD.DLL tool discussed in this blog, from my A360 account using this link http://a360.co/2nfsRC1 Pre-requisite- …
Would you like to know how to save your Revit custom system families? In this blog post I will explain how we can save system families as a Revit file and how we can easily load them into other projects. What is a System FamilyFirstly you need to understand that in Revit there are two …
In this blog I am going to explain how and why you should Audit your Revit project for errors. Like most files on a Windows computer the more you write and delete to the file the more chances there are that an error can be introduced. The same is true for your Revit projects, as you …
Have you installed a configuration of Vault Data Standard, only to have it randomly stop working? The problem may lie with Windows Security… Windows the Mighty ProtectorScripts have the potential to harm your computer. With this in mind, when they are downloaded from the Internet or from a network location, Windows can sometimes put a …
Are you getting a HTTP 503 Error with Vault Server? Microsoft’s latest batch of Windows 10 updates have been linked to breaking Vault Servers. It has been discovered that the latest Windows 10 updates are changing IIS user account permissions and so the application pool directories are no longer set appropriately. This results in the …
Autodesk regularly update the DWG file format and with the release of AutoCAD 2018 Autodesk has once again released a new version.When this happens older AutoCAD releases are unable to open the newer DWG files. So how do you share drawings when the older versions of AutoCAD are not compatible with newer DWG formats? Back Saving …