Monday, November 29, 2021

Autodesk Run 64 bit Access database engine with 32 bit office causes Excel and Word to reconfigure each time they start

 "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\FilesPaths\MSO


NavisWorks and Electrical install the 64 bit access database engine.



Autodesk Desktop connector Crashes opening shutting down message

Uninstall Autodesk Desktop connector
Delete key  Autodesk Desktop Connector Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Autodesk Desktop Connector

Reinstall Desktop connector

Saturday, October 23, 2021

AntiVirus test

 It's vital to note that the EICAR file, by itself, is not a virus. You can even make one yourself; to do so, paste the following into a text file:

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Monday, October 18, 2021

Change the default settings for new Word documents

 Open Word > open your Normal.dotm file > add in what you want, I add FileName, date and page of in the footer






Tuesday, September 28, 2021

AutoCAD Copy text and paste into Excel, Text export to Excel _txt2mtxt

Make a copy of the text first.

In the "Express tools" "Text" menu > “Convert text to mtext”.

Then do SEttings. Turn off “work wrap”.
Then copy and paste mtext into Excel.


Command: _txt2mtxt
Select text objects to combine ...
Select objects or [SEttings]: SE

Friday, September 10, 2021

RFO Benchmark for Revit

 https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_163130533381811&key=e4ea19c29c9058c9eebe9f88bff38928&libId=ktet26hg0103e3ji000DLdik0a8ry&loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.revitforum.org%2Fnode%2F36875&v=1&opt=true&out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.revitforum.net%2FRFOBenchmark%2FRFOBenchmark_v3.3_2022.zip&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.revitforum.org%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dbenchmark%26searchJSON%3D%257B%2522keywords%2522%253A%2522benchmark%2522%257D&title=RFO%20Benchmark%20v3.%23%20-%20Revit%20Forum&txt=%3Cb%3ERFOBenchmark_v3.3_2022%3C%2Fb%3E

Building Better Workstations For AutoCAD Revit

 https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Hardware-Wonks-Guide-Specifying-Best-BIM-and-3D-Workstations-2017-Edition-2017#video

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Practical-Guide-running-Windows-10-workstation-and-Autodesk-software-2018#video

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/blog/Building-Better-Workstations-AU-Sessions-Hardware-2019

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

 Process Explorer - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs


Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Hard Drive SSD software tester

 https://crystalmark.info/en/download/

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Bentley MicroStation and View printing.

 Bentley MicroStation and View printing.

 Use the Fence tool to pick all the items you want plotted.

Ctrl P to bring up the plot window. Set Printer to PDF, set size, set Color.

In “Settings” pick “Set Fence from Fit All”

Level Manager = Layers in AutoCAD

Monday, August 16, 2021

AutoDesk - Licensing Error License manager is not functioning or is improperly installed Named user licenses

 

Rem Copy to a .bat file

Rem copy line to Rem End bat 

START /wait taskkill /f /im AdAppMgrSvc.exe

START /wait taskkill /f /im AdSSO.exe

START /wait taskkill /f /im AutodeskDesktopApp.exe

START /wait taskkill /f /im ADPClientService.exe

START /wait taskkill /f /im AdskLicensingAgent.exe

START /wait taskkill /f /im AdskLicensingService.exe

Del "%localappdata%\Autodesk\Web Services\LoginState.xml"

Rem End Bat


Or manually 

Kill  (right-click > click End task)

·         AdAppMgrSvc.exe

·         AdSSO.exe

·         AutodeskDesktopApp.exe

·         AdskLicensingAgent.exe

·         ADPClientService.exe

·  I also killed AdskLicensingService.exe    

       Delete LoginState.xml  in %localappdata%\Autodesk\Web Services.

Launch your Autodesk software and perform a new login.



Microsoft Office “configuration setup” when I start WORD or EXCEL

Uninstall and reinstall  

Microsoft Access database engine 2010 and 2016

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

PDF to DWG scanned pdf free https://www.zamzar.com/convert/pdf-to-dwg/

This one worked good for raster scanned file. 

https://www.zamzar.com/convert/pdf-to-dwg/

Vector PDF can be imported directly into AutoCAD with PDFimport.

PFD converters

I like "Any PDF to DWG Converter" it seems simple and is the exact same output as "Aide PDF to DWG Converter" Also the EUA is good. one computer with many users is ok.



Tuesday, March 30, 2021

AutoCAD "Another installation is already in progress. Wait until it completes and try again.

Killed "AutoDESK Installer" in Task Manager. There were several running.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Navisworks Grid lines and text showing in green.

 Navisworks Gridlines and text showing in green.

Turn off show grid

View > Show Grid