New features connecting data, cloud, and customer. Since the release of Revit 2019, Autodesk developers have put a lot of focus on suggestions from the Revit Ideas page. This is a platform where users can post ideas and features that they wish to see in Revit. Subsequently, with enough votes, it might be added to the…
AutoCAD Specialised Toolsets are timesavers
AutoCAD Specialised Toolsets are timesavers Autodesk recently commissioned a study comparing basic AutoCAD to the AutoCAD specialised toolsets. Therefore you can find out how they compared for performing common design tasks. You’ll be amazed at what timesavers you can achieve with AutoCAD Toolsets. When you subscribe to AutoCAD 2019, you can get access to all AutoCAD “specialised…
Markforged 3D Printer Makes Part for Pump
Markforged 3D printer to the rescue – The story of fixing a spa pool CADPRO Systems has a Markforged Mark Two 3D printer and an Industrial X7 that we make commercial parts on and do a few homers! The story In August 2013, I purchased a new spa pool that was about half the comparable price of…
Fusion 360 Tips – Set Current View As
Fusion 360’s View Cube is an essential user interface element in Fusion 360. You must become familiar with it, and how it impacts your workflow to truly feel comfortable when using Fusion. Visually and functionally it’s very similar to what you will find in many other Autodesk CAD products. The view cube influences the following…
Fusion 360 Tips – Keyboard Shortcuts
Autodesk Fusion 360‘s keyboard shortcuts are now customisable, but the original default shortcuts also remain. Earlier in 2018 the Fusion developers released support for customisable shortcuts, you can now setup a shortcut for any command by clicking on the ellipsis button next to each command in the menus.
Fusion 360 Tips – New Component
One of the most important tips you can know when starting out with Fusion 360, is to create a New Component before you do anything else. This is true 95% of the time. If you are only designing a single component, like a bolt, then there is no need. But if you wanted to model…
Cloud Collaboration – Autodesk BIM 360 Platform
Cloud Collaboration: Out with the old in with the new If you currently work in the Building industry, you are bound to have heard the term BIM (Building Information Modelling) used often. Yet it seems that after more than 10 years since the term was first uttered, people are still confused as to the exact meaning…
Own that Markup in Bluebeam Revu
Own that markup Following our recent Bluebeam 2018 webinar, we received some questions regarding “owning markups” in Revu. With tools as powerful as those found in Revu, there’s always a chance that someone could accidentally (or intentionally) edit your markups. Are you interested to learn a workflow where markups are only editable by the author? …
The secret life of a Bluebeam Revu markup
The humble Bluebeam Revu markups have a secret life that only a few users ever discover. In this short post on “the secret life of a Bluebeam Revu markup”, we’ll highlight a few of the most useful ones. Text markups Add a Text Callout (a leader line with text). Shift+left-click over the knee of the…
Bluebeam Revu 2018.1 update
Bluebeam Revu 2018.1 It’s a point-release, so there are the necessary fixes which help with the performance and stability of Bluebeam Revu, but there’s also some new features. So what have they added in Bluebeam Revu 2018.1? The good news: Customers who are using 2018 can update to 2018.1 at NO charge by following the “Check for…