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Civil 3D

Autodesk 2013 Virtual Event

It's not too late to register for the Autodesk 2013 Virtual Event here . The general session presentation starts at 9AM PDT. There's also a group of breakout sessions to choose…

March 29, 2012 · 1 min read

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Civil 3D

Autodesk 2013 New Releases

This year’s Autodesk 2013 product launch is significantly different than previous years. We’re seeing almost all of the products being released on the same day. Typically, AutoCAD…

March 27, 2012 · 1 min read

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Revit

Revit DB Link and Office 2010 64-bit MDB

I recently upgraded to Office 2010 64-bit on a Windows 7 64-bit workstation. From our experience, many Revit users are running a 64-bit version of Revit with an older version of…

March 16, 2012 · 1 min read

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Civil 3D

Autodesk Vault and Civil 3D - Part 1

Autodesk Vault was introduced for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2007 as a project and data management solution. We had several clients hop on board the Vault train, since at that time it was…

December 13, 2011 · 2 min read

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Civil 3DNews

AU 2011 Highlights

Autodesk University 2011 has now passed. Just a week ago, we were in the midst of thousands of attendees trying to share and receive as much information from each other as…

December 7, 2011 · 1 min read

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Civil 3D

Autodesk Product Suite Cascading

Autodesk suites have been increasing in popularity since their release. They give you get a lot of power and flexibility at a reduced cost. They're a great solution and we've got a…

October 5, 2011 · 2 min read

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Civil 3D

Autodesk Network Licensing Information

Network Licensing Overview Autodesk network licensing gives you a pool of floating licenses where users are able to check out a license from the license pool upon launch of their…

October 4, 2011 · 3 min read

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RevitTips & Tricks

Revit Quick Tip - Multiple Equal Distances

In Revit, there are many different methods available to create dimensions. It's fairly easy to create dimensions from the temporary dimensions (Activate Dimensions), and if you're…

August 25, 2011 · 1 min read

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Revit

Revit-Quick Select

Revit 2011 introduced the modeless properties palette that allows us to change the properties of selected elements while in the model. This made it much easier to change the…

August 10, 2011 · 1 min read

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Civil 3D

Civil 3D Bid Express Subscription Extension

Autodesk released a new subscription extension recently to help estimate project costs using data from the Bid Express service. If you need to download the extension, you can get…

August 3, 2011 · 1 min read

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Revit

Lofted Revit Mass

Lately I was working on a conceptual building design. I wanted to create an arched glass roof with a non-uniform shape. I planned to use a curtain system on an in-place mass. Every…

July 19, 2011 · 2 min read

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