Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. Upcoming classes include: 4.2.13::Navisworks 201:Worksharing Best Practices4.9.13::Revit 201:Revit for Interior Designers4.15.13::Civil 101:Civil 3D for BeginnersEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Win Business With Enhanced Solutions For 2014, Autodesk solutions for Building Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Prototyping, and Digital Entertainment Creation provide strong business value with powerful toolsets that facilitate your company’s growth. The 2014 Autodesk portfolio incorporates products, suites and cloud-based services to help you achieve greater time efficiencies, enhanced workflows, and improved multidisciplinary collaboration. Get...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
UPDATE: In Ideate’s blog post Windows 8 and Autodesk Products posted on 10.24.12, Ideate said that Autodesk products were not supported on Windows 8 operating system. GOOD NEWS – Autodesk 2014 Products are Supported on Windows 8Please note that if you are using 2014 products and 2013 products on the same machine, you may run into a .NET 4.5 issue. For 2013 products, make sure you have all the Autodesk software updates installed. For 2012...
Monday, 25 March 2013
One of the more tedious and labor-intensive BIM tasks confronting architects and engineers is the act of renumbering or renaming elements. We’ve had customers who require that all of the system families, for example, are prefixed with their company name. So instead of “Wall: 1-HR” we need “Wall: ABC_1-HR.” Likewise, even simple design changes can set off a chain reaction that requires significant renumbering of details, views, or equipment. Many...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. Upcoming classes include: 3.26.13::Revit 201:Worksharing Best Practices4.15.13::Civil 101:Civil 3D for BeginnersEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day...
I enjoyed making the rounds to the COBie + Revit community in the Bay Area this week; taking the opportunity to share my recent research into this topic with design and construction professionals at the Sacramento, East Bay, and San Francisco Revit user groups. My presentation focused on where COBie requirements intersect with BIM and then specifically how the Autodesk Revit Toolkit and Ideate BIMLink support managing this information.If you are...
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
On Monday we published the first five of the top ten support requests that come into Ideate Technical support. Today, the long-awaited, highly-anticipated 6-10 requests present themselves for your reading pleasure (and bookmarking reference convenience):As Support manager here at Ideate we see a lot of general Autodesk cases come in, some of which are repeat questions or issues. Bradley, Ideate’s Technical Support Dispatcher, and I have come up with...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:3.20-22::SacramentoRevit MEP Electrical Fundamentals3.26-28::SeattleRevit Architecture Fundamentals4.2-4::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals4.3-5::San FranciscoAutoCAD FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...
Monday, 18 March 2013
As Support manager here at Ideate we see a lot of general Autodesk cases come in, some of which are repeat questions or issues. Bradley, Ideate’s Technical Support Dispatcher, and I have come up with a list of our top ten. The first line of support often deals with new Features, Network Licensing setup as well as troubleshooting Installations. Please take a look at the most common issues we see: License Cascading What’s license cascading? License...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. Upcoming classes include: 3.18.13::Ideate Software 101:Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink3.26.13::Revit 201:Worksharing Best Practices4.15.13::Civil 101:Civil 3D for BeginnersEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:3.20-22::SacramentoRevit MEP Electrical Fundamentals3.26-28::SeattleRevit Architecture Fundamentals4.3-5::San FranciscoAutoCAD FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. Upcoming classes include: 3.12.13::Revit 201:Revit Import Into 3ds Max3.18.13::Ideate Software 101:Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLinkEach class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Insert your own comments here:“I have a corrupt file what do I do?”“My file keeps crashing how can I fix it?”“AutoCAD keep crashing my file, what do I do?”“!@#$%^& CAD file!”…and the list goes on. Here are some troubleshooting tips that we at Ideate Technical Support go through to help you get your file working.STEP 1. If you are able to open the drawing, use -PURGE to purge out Regapps, Zero length geometry, and Empty Text Objects. Regapps...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Know It. Ideate Training.Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:3.6-8::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals3.6-8::San FranciscoCivil 3D Fundamentals3.11-12::SacramentoRevit Beyond the Basics3.13-15::San FranciscoAutoCAD FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...
Monday, 4 March 2013
If you are a Revit, Civil 3D or Inventor user, Autodesk has a community where training videos and blog posts for your product can be found. This is known as the Mosaic Community. In your software application select the drop-down arrow beside the Help button in the upper right, then click the Mosaic Community option. This will open the Mosaic web page where you can configure it to filter for the kind of information that applies to your product and...
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