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Supercharge your design projects with industry-leading software at unbeatable prices. The Autodesk September Flash Sale is here, and it's your golden opportunity to save big on the most popular Autodesk products! Between the 18th and 21st of September 2023, we're offering...

By Robert Lakey, Commercial Director - Autodesk DivisionEnsuring your organisation stays within its purchased allocation and within the Terms of Use as detailed in your Autodesk end-user license agreement is extremely important.​ Failing to do so can result in your organisation...

Revit 2024 presents significant enhancements for structural engineers. This article looks at just twelve of the great new features. It introduces alignment choices for free form rebar and the ability to adjust stirrup orientation, boosting control over 3D rebar modelling....

By Jonathan ReinhardtBuilding on its already impressive arsenal of features, the latest Revit 2024 release from Autodesk brings even more ground-breaking updates that promise to improve the way architects work. As the demand for lower-cost, efficient, and visually stunning designs...

PINNACLE SERIES BY EAGLE POINT SOFTWARE PARTNERS WITH THE DIATEC GROUP Dubuque, IA – September 28th, 2022 – Eagle Point Software has announced a partnership with The Diatec Group, Ireland’s largest Autodesk Platinum Partner, that delivers solutions to the architecture, engineering,...

Mark Green FRICS FSCSI As an Autodesk Civil Infrastructure Trainer and Technical Support Consultant, Mark helps users of AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD MAP 3D, Infraworks and Vehicle Tracking make the best use of their software. A user of AutoCAD since 1987...

**Autodesk BIM 360 is now Autodesk Build. BIM 360 was the previous release of what is now known as the Autodesk Construction Cloud. This includes Autodesk Docs, Autodesk Collaborate, Autodesk Takeoff and Autodesk Build.**   The four main pillars of...

Revit 2022 has been released, and there are so many updates for architects that we decided to introduce them in three installments. In Part 1, we showcased features for Modeling, Documentation, and Production. In part 2, let’s talk about Interoperability and...

It’s that time of year! Revit 2022 has been released, and the product management team is excited to highlight the many ways that your feedback and needs have translated into some major enhancements and new features for communicating design intent. There...

What is happening? On February 9th, Autodesk added Autodesk Docs to the AEC Collection. This is a phased launch meaning the product will be available on February 9th (“Global Availability”), with more features and functionality will be rolled out in the...

Join CanBIM Certified Professional, Scott Chatterton with BIM One, to discuss best practices for successful BIM Management in 2021 and learn about Scott's new Global eTraining course, "Being the Best BIM Manager" Thursday, February 4th @ 9pm Irish Time WE'LL...

When an individual user has problems opening a Revit File on BIM 360 due to corruption errors or general crash reporting, then we must look locally to the users PC. A good start is to clear the Collaboration Cache https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Clear-a-corrupt-damaged-C4R-model-from-the-system.html...

I had a previous blog on missing projects within Revit for BIM 360 and another about denied access so I thought I had covered all bases but yet another ‘gotcha’ I need to put out there. It’s the missing ALL...

Civil3D Point Group Management - By Gavan Duffy Last week I was showing a customer the use of Cogo Points and Point Management in civil3D. It had always worked that the Point Group marker & label settings would dictate the...

Infraworks & Terrain Layers In the newer versions of Infraworks, when adding Terrain layers you will now see this message This is good because now we are reminded that these layers when overlapping need to be configured. See Surface Layers...

Are you having trouble finding a shared and collaborative environment to make decisions in real-time between all stakeholders? Discover how new solutions from Unity connects all project stakeholders, regardless of platform/device, model size or geo-location to create real-time collaborative environments....

The benefits of moving from AutoCAD to an AEC Collection for Architects What is the AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction) Collection? The AEC Collection provides designers, engineers and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools that support projects from...

I recently got a question from a customer who I was showing how in BIM 360 we can roll back to the previous version of published models, compare them etc. all good stuff. I was then asked, well what about...

There are so many updates and enhancements for architects in Revit 2022 that we decided to introduce them in three installments. Part 1 was Modeling, Documentation, and Production; Part 2 addressed Interoperability and Data Exchange. In a final installment, we’re talking Productivity and Ease of Use.  Roughly...

Missing Projects with BIM 360 Design Like Revit, BIM 360 Design projects are version specific and can create some confusion over missing projects. For example in image below, I have a project in BIM 360 called GD_Sample This project has...

Unity Reflect for Navisworks launched! Now, Unity Reflect adds support for Navisworks, enabling the use of Unity Reflect for BIM coordination. In this release, we concentrated on enhancing the user experience and making collaboration in real-time 3D accessible for non-developers, such...