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February 2010

AutoCAD Exchange Expert of the Week – Felicia Provencal

AutoCAD Exchange Expert of the Week – Felicia Provencal is originally published on Between the Lines Have an AutoCAD Question? Ask AutoCAD Expert of the Week Felicia Provencal Feb. 8 – Feb. 12 on the AutoCAD Exchange HERE “About Felicia Provencal Felicia is the Western Region Sales Director for Carlson Software based in Hawai’i. She [...]

Locked Comments

Locked Comments is originally published on Between the Lines Due to an increasing amount of spam comments being posted to old blog posts, I have set the blog service to automatically lock comments to blog posts older than 3 weeks. I felt 3 weeks was about right to at least allow for conversations, if not [...]

What would you Ask the AutoCAD Team?

What would you Ask the AutoCAD Team? is originally published on Between the Lines Since I know most of those within the Autodesk hive responsible for many Autodesk products, I thought it might be a good idea for a blog post. So what would you ask an AutoCAD Team member? It could be a question [...]

Locked Comments

Locked Comments is originally published on Between the Lines Due to an increasing amount of spam comments being posted to old blog posts, I have set the blog service to automatically lock comments to blog posts older than 3 weeks. I felt 3 weeks was about right to at least allow for conversations, if not [...]

What would you Ask the AutoCAD Team?

What would you Ask the AutoCAD Team? is originally published on Between the Lines Since I know most of those within the Autodesk hive responsible for many Autodesk products, I thought it might be a good idea for a blog post. So what would you ask an AutoCAD Team member? It could be a question [...]

Dept. of Bugs – Closing a Schedule Before Updating a Field

Dept. of Bugs – Closing a Schedule Before Updating a Field is originally published on Revit OpEd Ran into this one today. Here’s the scenario: View List – Using it to update View Names – Edit the View Name field but before advancing from the field when you are done close the view instead. Hoping [...]

Off Topic – Mr. Laphroaig

Off Topic – Mr. Laphroaig is originally published on Revit OpEd The last issue of AUGI | AEC EDGE was supposed to have an article by my friend Bruce Gow (aka BeeGee). Somewhere somehow someway…it didn’t show up. He did his part. I submitted it but never caught that it didn’t make it in the [...]

Bad Math and Construction

Bad Math and Construction is originally published on Revit OpEd I was recently in a client’s office that was having some equipment related issues in their men’s bathroom. This involved some ceiling and wall alteration. While I was in the bathroom at one point I noticed this where some wall tile had been removed. The [...]

Flip Arrows and the Exterior

Flip Arrows and the Exterior is originally published on Revit OpEd Read a post on another blog the other day stating that the flip arrows on elements are always on the exterior side of the element. It is definitely true for walls because they are system families, or Hosts as the current documentation calls them. [...]

Revit OpEd Tube

Revit OpEd Tube is originally published on Revit OpEd A comment in a recent post asked why the videos I’ve done aren’t posted at YouTube. I replied, “Because I had a Screencast account already and it was easy.” Not a very good answer really. Based on a comment after posting this initially a much smarter [...]