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Greetings!
Revit 6 Released!
Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK), the world's leading
design software and digital content company,
announced today the immediate availability of Autodesk
Revit 6 software, the latest release of the industry's
only design platform that is purpose-built for building
information modeling. Autodesk Revit 6 provides
architecture, interior design, and design-build firms with
a competitive business advantage by assisting them in
securing new projects, retaining existing clients, and
increasing profitability. New features in Revit 6 enable
building industry professionals to develop compelling
design proposals more quickly than with traditional
design and drafting software, while enhancing design
decision support and client communication once
projects are underway.
Building industry professionals who are ready for a new
way of working and want to make use of state-of-the-
art parametric building modeling technology will find
that Revit 6 supports the architectural design process
by improving design collaboration for all members of the
project team.
Autodesk Revit 6 also includes enhancements that
continue to deliver improved construction document
coordination and quality by helping reduce mistakes and
rework.
Autodesk Revit 6 is available to Revit subscription
customers from the Web immediately in English in most
countries worldwide. Autodesk Subscription benefits
customers with the latest releases and enhancements
of Autodesk software, personalized web support direct
from Autodesk technical experts, and self-paced
training developed by Autodesk to help extend product
skills.
Revit Tutorials
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ANSYS Holds Free Seminars |
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With the aim of providing ongoing education to
existing and future
customers, ANSYS and its partners are conducting a
seminar series focusing
on ANSYS technologies as well as best practices.
Best Practices: Engineering Simulations for Six Sigma
Presented By:
Mallett Technology Inc.
When: January 13, 2004
Where: HP Falls Church Office
3141 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 300
Falls Church, VA 22042
More Info: http://www.ansys.com/mti-va/5.htm
To learn more... »
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Inventor R8 Bugs & Extras |
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There has been a bug detected in R8 that can cause
problems with IDW files. If your current IDWs do not
contain a "sheet format" (if you don't know what this is
you probably don't have one) then you may
encounter "Schema Error" when trying to open migrated
drawings. Autodesk is aware of this issue and is working
on a fix.
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Down near the bottom of the page you'll see an item
called The Ruler.
This macro is really cool for measuring to the outside of
curved edges and surfaces.
Thanks to Nathan Rutman, who created it.
This works in Inventor/MDT/AutoCAD.
While in the trim command, hold down the shift button
and it becomes the extend command...and the same if
you are in the extend command.
How to place an etch mark In Inventor that would show
up on the flat pattern of a sheet metal part?
Use an iFeature. Define an iFeature using a Point, Hole
Center. Ifeatures show up on a different layer when
you save the flat pattern out to dxf from the model.
The cam software can then be set up to only etch
geometry on that layer.
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Light 'frozen' in its tracks |
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A pulse of light has been stopped in its tracks with all
its photons intact, reveal US physicists.
In a vacuum, light travels at the phenomenal speed of
300,000,000 metres per second. Scientists can exploit
the way that the electric and magnetic fields in light
interact with matter to slow it down.
Over the last few years, scientists have become
masters of the light beam. Speeds of a few metres per
second are now reached routinely in laboratories around
the world. It is rather harder, however, to stop light
completely and previous attempts have halted light but
lost its photons in the process.
Mikhail Lukin and colleagues at Harvard University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts managed to stop light
without this loss by firing a short burst of red laser light
into a gas of hot rubidium atoms.
This may have applications for future board designs.
Full Story »
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Setting your View Default for Windows Explorer |
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Do you prefer Details view? Thumbnail view? for your
Windows Explorer for Windows 2000
You can set up Explorer so it applies the same view
style to all your folders as a default. Set up one folder
the way you want all your folders to appear.
Go to Tools->Folder Options.
Select the View tab.
Select the Like Current Folder button.
Press Apply.
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Using Your Mouse with Revit |
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If its an IntelliMouse:
In the Control Panel , add the Revit.EXE to the
exclusions list. This should make the mouse wheel work
properly.
Make sure the middle button is set to "Middle
Button"and not Universal Scroll or whatever the MS
equivalent of that is.
To rotate realtime in Revit instead of pressing F8 or the
eye icon, try pressing the wheel button + the shift key.
If you have something like a Microsoft 5 button mouse
then make use of the 2 side buttons to enhance
productivity.
For example, I have 'Properties' assigned to my left
button and 'Project Browser'assigned to the the
right. 'Properties'would have to my most used command
and the 'Project Browser'can be hide/shown on demand
to gain more valuable screen real-estate.
To do this:
- Set up your Keyboardshortcuts.txt file to assign a
keyboard shortcut to a command. I believe you will
have to assign a single key, e.g. F2.
- In your mouse software assign your key to the
button of choice.
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Change the Color of your Work Points |
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I don't know about you, but I don't like the color of the
workpoints in Inventor. The default color is yellow and
the workpoints can be difficult to see on some materials.
The color of the workpoints are controlled by a file
called FwRes.dll. The file is located in the Bin
folder under Inventor.
I downloaded a new dll file from somewhere that
changes my workpoint color to Black. Works great with
R6 and below. It messed up my R8.
Simply download and copy the file into your Bin folder.
Download the new dll... »
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Student Contest for Digital Artists |
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Alias Systems announced its Expose Yourself contest
for digital
artists who use Alias SketchBook Pro for Tablet PCs and
Wacom
tablets. Comic artist Dale Keown, best known for The
Incredible Hulk
comic book, and Gray Holland, founder of the industrial
design firm
Alchemy Labs, will judge submissions based on
originality as well as
the artist's use of colors, layers, brushes, and
backgrounds.You can
submit entries from November 17, 2003, until February
13, 2004.
Find out More... »
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Tips & Tricks |
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Do you want to customize the sample text string that
displays when you first enter AutoCAD 2004's updated
Mtext command?
You can set the MTJIGSTRING system variable to
display your favorite football team, pet, whatever!
Do you find yourself wading through directories
searching for drawings?
Be sure to include your most frequently used folders in
the Open dialog box. Right-click on the far left of the
dialog box to add and remove directories.
Need to open and edit an attached xref?
Try the new Xopen command. It works much better
then Refedit. You can also find this command in the
shortcut menu that appears when you highlight an xref.
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