Small Firms, Big BIM: Why Technology is Essential for Architects to Survive -...
Friday, April 26, 2024
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AUGI CON24 Day 2
Friday, April 26, 2024
In 1-hour, AUGI CON24 Day 2 begins with a fantastic lineup of speakers, including special guest S... » read more.. From Between the Lines
AUGI CON24 Starts Tomorrow
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The first 2-day AUGI CON event by AUGI starts tomorrow is and will be full of great sessions from... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Autodesk + Nemetschek
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
“Nemetschek Group and Autodesk agree on advancing open, interoperable workflows for the entire bu... » read more.. From Between the Lines
RealityCapture 1.4 is Now Available Free to Some
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
RealityCapture 1.4 is now available in the Epic Games Launcher - Capturing Reality Updated pricin... » read more.. From Between the Lines
The Power of Mentoring in Design and Technology
Friday, April 19, 2024
Mentoring is a powerful tool for professional growth and development, especially in the fast-pace... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Should Architects do the "100 Days of AI" Challenge? - Replay
Thursday, April 18, 2024
» read more.. From The Revit Kid.com!
Revit: Moving A Legend on a Sheet Deletes the Legend
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
» read more.. From The Architect's Desktop
Newest Addition to AIGI CON24 AEC Software Panel
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
We are excited and honored to announce the newest addition to our 8 person AEC Software Panel for... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Revit 2025: My Live Reaction to New Features! - Replay
Friday, April 12, 2024
» read more.. From The Revit Kid.com!
New Panelist for AEC Software Industry Panel at AUGI CON24
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
We have an exciting addition to the AUGI CON24 AEC Software Panel. Marc Goldman Director – Direct... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Revit: Choosing a Maximum Value in a Formula
Monday, April 8, 2024
» read more.. From The Architect's Desktop
Revit: Upgrading Family Files
Monday, April 8, 2024
» read more.. From The Architect's Desktop
Esri Autodesk Grow Alliance for GIS BIM
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Esri and Autodesk have formed a strategic alliance to integrate Geographic Information Systems (G... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Revit 2025 Some Keyboard Shortcuts Missing
Thursday, April 4, 2024
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
AEC Industry Panel at AUGI CON24
Thursday, April 4, 2024
I’m leading a panel on AEC Industry Software at AUGI CON 2024 on the 2nd day. This 90-minute pane... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Free Dynamo Graph: Auto Dimensions from Grids and Walls
Monday, April 1, 2024
These Dynamo graphs can help you to automate creating dimensions on multiple grids or walls refer... » read more.. From CAD Notes
March 2024 - 20th Anniversary!
Sunday, March 31, 2024
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Twenty years since that first tentative post! I really... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
JTB SSMPropEditor 2024.3.0 released with AutoCAD 2025 support
Thursday, March 28, 2024
JTB SSMPropEditor 2024.3.0 has been released and comes with some improvements and fixes. Added su... » read more.. From JTB World Blog
Autodesk Updates for Trust Issues
Friday, March 22, 2024
Autodesk Updates for Trust & Secuurty Issues and Exploits » read more.. From Between the Lines
Managing Change During an AEC Digital Transformation
Friday, March 22, 2024
Digital transformation is sweeping through the architecture, engineering, and construction indust... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Proptech at Pratt - Hybrid Event
Friday, March 15, 2024
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
AEC Software Panel Discussion at AUGI CON 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
On April 26th at 3 pm EST I will be moderating a 1-hour panel discussion of AEC Software with AEC... » read more.. From Between the Lines
Can't Delete Toposolid Points and Guardian
Monday, March 4, 2024
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
How to: Use Dynamo Graph in Dynamo Player
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Learn how to register Dynamo Graph folders in the Dynamo Player and use them in Revit » read more.. From CAD Notes
Smart Museum - Digital Twin at The Wright Museum
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
Civil 3D labels disappearing???
Thursday, January 4, 2024
For a long time in the Civil 3D world, we have had labels that update based on the state of the m... » read more.. From Land Development Engineering
When old things become new
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a healthy and happy holiday. In today’s installment, I ... » read more.. From Land Development Engineering
2023 Blogging Highlights
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Happy New Year! Another year has flown by, time to look back from a bloggy/social media (not just... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
JTB FlexReport 2023.12.0 - EPLAN HTML usage report
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
JTB FlexReport 2023.12.0 is now ready. JTB FlexReport Core HTML support for EPLAN added. Sentinel... » read more.. From JTB World Blog
JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.12.0 released (Sheet Set Manager Editor)
Friday, December 22, 2023
JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.12.0 has been released and comes with some improvements and fixes. Several... » read more.. From JTB World Blog
Revit 2024 - New Home Screen
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
CAD and car design at Renault
Monday, December 11, 2023
Patrick le Quément, Renault Design, on how he fostered the use of CAD at Renault... Of Mouse and ... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
Model-Based Progress Tracking in Autodesk Build
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Now you can monitor the construction progress by using the new model-based progress tracking feat... » read more.. From CAD Notes
AutoCAD/Civil 3D version numbers
Friday, November 17, 2023
An incomplete list. Will be updated. Civil 3D 2023 Base = 13.5.131.0 Civil 3D 2023.1 = 13.5.211.0... » read more.. From CAD Panacea
Curing 'phantom screen touches' on an old Surface Book?
Saturday, November 11, 2023
My Surface Book 2 is old, well out of any warranty, but still performs really well for my own nee... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
Understanding Surface and Cut Patterns in Revit
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Revit generates views automatically, including the patterns as the actual surface pattern or anno... » read more.. From CAD Notes
Breaking pinned taskbar shortcuts out of Taskbar Overflow Menu jail
Saturday, October 14, 2023
If, like me, you pin a lot of commonly used shortcuts to the Windows 11 Taskbar it will eventuall... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
Reality of BIM in FM - Podcast
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
Recognition from Verdantix
Thursday, September 21, 2023
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
A challenge for Andrew Anagnost, make this using only the advertised product
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Why do Autodesk show things that can't be done with the product being advertised. I recently got ... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
A new home for my blogs, Me Dot Net?
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
It must be a procrastination record; start a blog in March 2004 and only now get my own domain? Y... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
Better controlling Word image placement
Saturday, August 26, 2023
I saw this meme, on Mastodon, about the fight that is Word images. They hide the anchoring contro... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
OT: What they think I do meme
Thursday, August 24, 2023
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
Ghost Tooltips Be Gone
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
A Tiny Case for the Smallest Solid State Drive
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Opinion One of the things that happens when you replace the SSD in a computer with another one is... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
My new favorite laptop isn't new and isn't a laptop
Monday, August 14, 2023
Opinion I have four Windows laptops, which may be no surprise, after I left a laptop behind at St... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Manage Cloud Models Dialog in Revit
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
Delete Toposolid Points
Monday, August 7, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
2024.1 Schema Warning
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
Dept of Subtle - Select Everything in a Property's Field
Monday, July 31, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
PTC Succession Plan was a Succession Episode
Monday, July 31, 2023
In the HBO hit series, Succession, the CEO of a company that WayStar RoyCo was going to acquire, ... » read more.. From CAD Insider
Move Room Tool
Saturday, July 29, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
Room Tags and Leaders
Saturday, July 29, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
Reliving the Jornada Era
Monday, July 24, 2023
Opinion There was a time when designs of small computer devices were flourishing, a Renaissance p... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
A different kind of earphone
Friday, July 21, 2023
Opinion Just as there are foods that are normal in one part of the world but not in the other, th... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Slanted Walls Don't Miter
Thursday, July 20, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
Fixing what ails HP's Pro X2 tablet
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Opinion The Pro X2 tablet from HP is a remarkable device that gets ignored by the tech media, who... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Revit 2024.1 Update is Released
Friday, July 14, 2023
Revit 2024.1. is the 1st major update for Revit 2024. Not only it resolves issues in Revit 2024, ... » read more.. From CAD Notes
Phasing and Replacement Windows
Thursday, July 13, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
Revit 2024.1 Now Available
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
What our future under AI will look like
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Opinion Sometimes, I write reviews of products I bought from Amazon for Amazon. All the ones I've... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
AUGI Survey Reminders
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
Well Behaved Waymo Observed in San Francisco
Sunday, July 9, 2023
A ride to SFO is a chance to conduct very unscientific surveys. From a elevated position on the M... » read more.. From CAD Insider
Fix a MindManager file with XML Processing Illegal XML Character Error
Friday, July 7, 2023
I recently opened a MindManager file and got this XML Processing error: Followed by this error, e... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
My New MP3 Player
Friday, July 7, 2023
Opinion Apple used to dominate the MP3 player market with its iPod line, both in product sales an... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Updated: When your Dell laptop's fan races
Monday, July 3, 2023
Tip Some people -- like me -- find that when we start up our Dell laptop -- an Inspiron 14, in my... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Revit 2024 - Template Views Crop Boundary Controlled by Scope Box
Friday, June 30, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
PTC’s Tri-lemma
Friday, June 23, 2023
Opinion Software firms selling mechanical CAD software tend to have two products: a really expens... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.6.0 released (Sheet Set Manager Editor)
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.6.0 has been released and comes with some improvements and fixes. Here are... » read more.. From JTB World Blog
Does Apple Despise Seniors?
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Opinion As a computer-aware kind-of-guy for 42 years (longer, if you include my mainframe days at... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Puzzled About Making Mailto Work (Again) with Eudora
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Opinion When you click a link in a Web page for emailing someone, a simple piece of HTML code in ... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Watch Out, Tanker Trucks Could be the Next Weapon of Mass Destruction
Monday, June 12, 2023
You would not have thought of a commercial passenger aircraft as a weapon of mass destruction bef... » read more.. From CAD Insider
AUGI 2023 Annual Survey
Monday, June 12, 2023
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
Twitter’s Take on Apple’s Vision Pro
Monday, June 5, 2023
ThereOpinion The share price of Apple rose in anticipation of the release of its augmented realit... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Lessons Learned From “Whatever Happened To?”
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Opinion For some CAD vendors, the tides of time wash away the plans for their future, no matter h... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
2022 More Results for the IFMA ITC's Digital Twin Survey
Monday, May 29, 2023
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
2022 Results for the IFMA ITC's Digital Twin Survey
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
» read more.. From Mistress of the Dorkness
I Went To Liveworx 23
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Opinion I’ve visited PTC in Boston a number of times, but this was the first time for their annua... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Autodesk Forma. What’s In a Name?
Monday, May 15, 2023
The word “forma” is in wide use. That's kind of a problem if you are Autodesk and you are doing a... » read more.. From CAD Insider
Oh, No. Am I a Tesla Fan?
Thursday, May 11, 2023
To all those I have told to shoot me if you see me in a Tesla: drop your weapons. I surrender. We... » read more.. From CAD Insider
The Limits of Evolution
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Opinion Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False Book wr... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Blog Post Takedown - Revit 2008 Released - 2007
Thursday, April 27, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
How AI Tells Lies
Monday, April 24, 2023
Opinion A friend decided to get AI to write an article about the Open Design Alliance and Russia.... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Book review: The Secret Life of Groceries
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Opinion The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket Book written b... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
The New York Times Discovers Generative Design
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Generative design, the overhyped and ultimately disappointing technology, one that was to have co... » read more.. From CAD Insider
What’s New in Revit 2024: Bending Detail
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Bending detail is an excellent new feature in Revit 2024. Now you can create a rebar detail and b... » read more.. From CAD Notes
How Chevron Screwed Up Its Loyalty Program
Monday, April 17, 2023
Opinion Here in Canada, Chevron has a loyalty program called Journey that I use because -- right ... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
Q&A from Graebert neXt 2023 Conference
Friday, April 14, 2023
Q&A I captured the Q&A from Graebert's neXt conference, held yesterday. You can view the replay a... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
End of an era, as Autodesk leaves Shaan Hurley
Friday, April 14, 2023
On Tuesday 30 March 2004, I posted this on TypePad: Getting Started This is the first post to see... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
Graebert: What's neXt for CAD in DWG?
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Opinion Graebert Gmbh held its annual conference today, this year online again. Here’s some of th... » read more.. From WorldCAD Access
What’s New in Revit 2024: The Dark Theme
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Revit 2024 now has a dark theme. Something we've been waiting for some time! » read more.. From CAD Notes
Revit 2024 Installation
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
» read more.. From Revit OpEd
Autodesk Build: Using Assets for Progress Tracking
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Autodesk released asset markups for construction progress tracking in Autodesk Build. Learn how i... » read more.. From CAD Notes
It’s Easy to Use if You Know How to Use It—The UI Change Dilemma
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
An overhaul of the user interface is necessary after some time but poses a dilemma for every soft... » read more.. From CAD Insider
And this Month the PLM Leader is… Siemens
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Siemens is busy congratulating themselves on Twitter for being the leader in PLM, citing a Data Q... » read more.. From CAD Insider
Solution for modified Excel .xlam not saved after saving
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
I tried to digitally sign a .xlam (Excel Macro-Enabled Add-In) but no matter what modifications I... » read more.. From JTB World Blog
March 2023 - 19th Anniversary!
Thursday, March 30, 2023
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Nineteen years since that first tentative post! I real... » read more.. From RobiNZ CAD Blog
Blocks & system variables
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
This is a short PSA to not forget about system variables in AutoCAD or Civil 3D. In today’s... » read more.. From Land Development Engineering
JTB FlexReport 2023.2.0 - DSLS license monitoring improvements
Monday, February 20, 2023
JTB FlexReport 2023.2.0 is now ready. JTB Process Monitor has also been updated. See the version ... » read more.. From JTB World Blog