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February 2010

AutoCAD Expert of the Week – Robert Bell

AutoCAD Expert of the Week – Robert Bell

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Between the Lines

Have an AutoCAD, AutoCAD MEP, AutoLISP, or CUI Question? Ask AutoCAD Expert of the Week Robert Bell February 22 to February 26 on the AutoCAD Exchange HERE

About Bob Bell
“Robert is the Design Technology Manager for Sparling, the largest specialty electrical engineering and [...]

AutoCAD Expert of the Week – Robert Bell

AutoCAD Expert of the Week – Robert Bell

is originally published on

Between the Lines

Have an AutoCAD, AutoCAD MEP, AutoLISP, or CUI Question? Ask AutoCAD Expert of the Week Robert Bell February 22 to February 26 on the AutoCAD Exchange HERE

About Bob Bell
“Robert is the Design Technology Manager for Sparling, the largest specialty electrical engineering and [...]

Off Topic – Unhelpful Help and the Cheeky Devil

Off Topic – Unhelpful Help and the Cheeky Devil

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Revit OpEd

Tonight I was working on a PC with only 2 GB of RAM and I started getting warning messages about having too little memory. I saved the file naturally but purposely pushed my luck. I made Revit keep working with less and [...]

BIM Support Survey

BIM Support Survey

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Revit OpEd

Jason Grant (Adaptive Practices) is curious about how different firms support BIM. He created a survey on his site and he hopes that you will be willing to take a few minutes to fill it out. He plans to share the results once he gets a decent sample. [...]

Point colour in Revit 2010

Point colour in Revit 2010

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Revit

When working with Points in a conceptual mass sometimes it can be a bit of challenge seeing your points using the default out of the box settings. The default colour is a rather nice purple colour, which is unfortunately  the same colour defined for Reference Lines and [...]

Worksets Tip – Add the Extension

Worksets Tip – Add the Extension

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Revit OpEd

When I was attending the Revit Technology Conference 2009 or RTC09 in Melbourne last June we had session for Tips-n-Tricks. A panel of users convened earlier to put together a nice stack of ideas. As the session went forward someone on the panel tossed out [...]

Off Topic – Blog Alterations

Off Topic – Blog Alterations

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Revit OpEd

I’ve made some changes to the places that information is located on the blog. The screencast videos were causing longer page loading and I didn’t much care for that. I’ve added pages to the blog now so that I could move some sidebar overload off the [...]

Off Topic – Blogging Trivia

Off Topic – Blogging Trivia

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Revit OpEd

As of tonight (on this site) there are:

RAC – 77 blogs (in English)
RST – 8 blogs
RME – 11 blogs
API – 4 blogs
BIM – 50 blogs
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Total – 150 (nice clean number eh?)

There are also 39 foreign language (foreign to me) blogs listed here for RAC/RST/RME representing roughly [...]

Off Topic – Twitter Data Comparisons

Off Topic – Twitter Data Comparisons

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Revit OpEd

I’ve been reading a thread at Linked In (in the BIM Experts group) lately that started out with the premise that people who use/chose Revit only did so because of the influence of Autodesk and that they most likely already used one of their products, [...]

AutoCAD Freestyle Technology Preview, was Project Cooper

AutoCAD Freestyle Technology Preview, was Project Cooper

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Between the Lines

I have previously mentioned Project Cooper on this blog, but now we have given it a more formal name. We asked you to name Project Cooper (Project Cooper – Give it a New Name – Between the Lines) and so after feedback [...]