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Revit User Group Manawatu - Notice of July Meeting (tonight!)

When/Where 5.30pm, Wednesday 7th July 2010 @ Square edge fx2 theatre, Ground Floor to the rear of Square Edge Gallery, The Square, Palmerston North What: 5:30pm - Drinks, nibbles and chit chat session. 6:00pm - Welcome and introductions PRESENTATIONS: 6:05pm - View templates - Discussion on how to create and utilize view templates as a time saver by Daniel Thompson 6:25pm - Working with Roofs - Discussion on various methods to create roofs, add fascias and gutters by Sam Pradeep. 6:45pm - Annotation made easy - Discussion on how to use material tags to annotate your drawings in minutes at... Read more →

Solving the Snagit blackout and non-ActiveWords?

Something changed on my machine recently and impacted two of my favourite utilities. Screen capture blues from the black, and non-ActiveWords I went to take a screenshot and the capture looked like a photo taken in a coal mine with the lights out. You could see all the Snagit capture UI working perfectly (something like the faked image right) but the screen and resulting capture were solid black. The Clues: A quick trip to Techsmith support was in order but my ActiveWord “snagn”, which should launch the Snagit website, didn’t work. If the browser wasn’t running it launched and opened... Read more →

100 AutoCAD Tips from CAD Notes

A while back Edwin, of CAD Notes blog, contacted me regarding a post he was compiling. He had the ambitious target of gathering 100 AutoCAD tips from his own and other blogs into one reference. If you’ve ever written a “tip post” you’ll have some idea of the amount of work involved in creating this one. I recommend it as even AutoCAD veterans may learn something new. I did! The Best, the Rest, the Rare: 100 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know | CAD Notes We all want to use AutoCAD better, more productive, and easily solve problem when we have... Read more →