Chris Downing

AutoCAD Ortho Mode Shortcut Key

How to quickly activate and deactivate Ortho mode in AutoCAD (Orthographic mode). Ortho mode in AutoCAD can be quickly and easily activated via the status bar on the bottom right corner, but did you know that you can temporarily activate it with a shortcut key, without adjusting the status bar options. When Orthographic mode is …

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Autodesk Vault Latest Release Date and Latest Approver

Vault Maintenance

New Properties in Vault! Finally, it is here!! Within Autodesk Vault it has always been a pain to get the latest approver and latest release date into your drawing title blocks and revision tables, until now. In Vault 2022 we have two new and critical properties that we can utilise for exactly this. In previous …

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Importing Revit 2022 File into Inventor 2022 Error Message

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“0x8013150d: C\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Revit Interoperability 2022\Rx\ATFRevitRCEHost.exe” when opening or exporting Revit RVT file in Inventor 2022 Error Message: There has been reports that when trying to open or export a Revit RVT file in Inventor 2022, the following error message occurs: When opening an .RVT file:  0x8013150d: C\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Revit Interoperability 2022\Rx\ATFRevitRCEHost.exe When exporting an …

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Create a Template Folder Structure to Duplicate in Vault

Vault Maintenance

How do you create and copy a standard project folder structure in Autodesk Vault? This is a very quick win inside of Vault. Have you noticed that you can’t copy a folder with subfolders in Vault? This could be very useful if you like to keep a consistent folder structure for every project inside Vault. …

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How to Uninstall Autodesk Vault SQL Instance

Vault Maintenance

There are some occasions when a complete uninstall of the Vault SQL instance is required, for example, when you need to rename the Vault server. The following steps detail how to uninstall the AUTODESKVAULT instance so that you could rename the server then re-install and restore Vault from a Vault backup. First uninstall Autodesk Data …

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