Novedge Pulse™ of Jason Pratt

You might say BIM has arrived when you see it in your local shopping mall. Autodesker Ilya Bass writes: "BIM is seeping into the consumer world. See the attached picture - Tocci Construction is remodeling Crate & Barrel at the [more...]

Our product team has just notified me that NavisWorks 2009.1 now can import 64-bit DWG files natively, via a patch available on the Autodesk Subscription Center. So those of you rocking the 64-bit versions of AutoCAD-based products, using NavisWorks 2009.1 [more...]

As a twitterer, I love that I can keep up with what my friends are doing and vice versa using a simple web or SMS service. How great would it be to have the same updates available for work? I [more...]

I tried File Director in Chrome...not so much. I did confirm that it's definitely not using IETab however. Pretty amazing that it was able to render the pages correctly even when Firefox doesn't!

Microsoft has produced a clever piece of marketing video to promote the often-maligned Windows Vista. What happens when people see Vista for the first time, and don't know it's Vista? Hidden cameras (and some careful editing, of course) tell the [more...]

I just got this great little tidbit from KBR's Aakanksha Luthra - what a great story! I've personally been in meetings just like this, when it was discovered that somebody was doing a little jiggery-pokery with the facts...it's great to [more...]

Hey everyone, Just a quick update here to let you know that the good folks at DPR Construction have decided to release their Revit Model Slicer add-in for free, so go over there and read about it and download it [more...]

Calculate how much screen you need to work electronically in construction.

Mark Hadwen on the QTO development team, writes: I figured out what is causing the 3D graphics issue with QTO 2010. As previously known, some graphics cards do not work in 3D mode in QTO with hardware acceleration turned on. [more...]

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Meet, greet, and learn. Join Autodesk, the Boston Society of Architects, and Microdesk for a networking event at the Autodesk Gallery Boston on Trapelo Road. Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009 Time: 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Location: 1560 Trapelo Rd, Waltham In [more...]

Here's how you make DWFs for use in Autodesk QTO (and other tools) that require smart (i.e., property-containing) DWF files from AutoCAD Architecture and Revit Architecture. Enjoy! How to publish DWF files from AutoCAD Architecture and Revit Architecture from Jason [more...]

Hi guys, I continue to post videos at vimeo.com because of the high-def capability and no ten-minute limit and so forth. Here's one from a little while back on how to take off exterior siding in QTO. Enjoy! (remember: watch [more...]

Removing a section of a linear takeoff in Autodesk QTO from Jason Pratt on Vimeo.

QTO 2010 Add Vertices from Jason Pratt on Vimeo. Click the outwards arrows next to the word "vimeo" to expand the view!

Created another QTO 2010 video: this time on concrete slab/grade beam takeoff using QTO. Enjoy! Autodesk Quantity Takeoff 2010 and Concrete from Jason Pratt on Vimeo.

Back by popular demand, here's a little trick for comparing DWF files in Autodesk Design Review, along with a demo of how to use Design Review's built-in Compare tool. Hope you like it! DWF Compare "trick" from Jason Pratt on [more...]

QTO 2010 is coming out real soon. I made this video to show you guys what's different about it. Lots of stuff to love in here - model takeoff improved, better formula editing, PDF support...enjoy! QTO 2010 Overview from Jason [more...]

I posted this quick video to show how you would use the Lock Permissions feature in Buzzsaw to protect your private stuff. Let me know if it helps out!

I spent much of last week at Greenbuild in Boston. Busy show; great theme, lots of forward-thinking, revved up people around.We didn't make C|Net's Greenbuild blog entry directly, but you can see our booth sign behind the Interface booth.Come on [more...]

You might have known this, but Google lets you type in a city name and the word "Time" (such as "Sydney Time" and it gives you the current time in that city. Fast, simple, Google. Coming from someone who is [more...]

First off, Happy Halloween Eve everyone! Hope to see you all out trick-or-treating tomorrow night.Here's an email I got today from Jay Moore of Ameri-CAD: Jason, Just wanted to say THANKS AGAIN for the quick introduction to NavisWorks. That bad [more...]

Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to hear Mr. Marshall Brain, author, lecturer, and founder of HowStuffWorks, speak about the robotic future of America. The venue was the Singularity Summit in San Jose (Singularity is the idea that in [more...]

BusinessWeek is running a slide show on the history of 3D graphics...pretty interesting stuff if you're into BIM, digital prototyping, and so forth. Includes a shout-out for AutoCAD's early 3D capabilities in 1985.

Tami Molyneaux of Lakemont Homes writes to tell us about her experience using Buzzsaw: I can’t really tell you how much we’ve saved dollar-wise, but the time savings for me has been HUGE and I’m able to work on multiple [more...]

Like every blogger worth his salt, I'm posting about Google Chrome today (Chrome is Google's new, reinvent-everything browser.) I've downloaded it and wow is it fast. I was surprised to see that Constructware opens in Chrome flawlessly, probably due to [more...]

Really? The very top? Found this snippet from a page picked randomly in the Amazon book viewer for this book. Looks funny. If anybody gets the book, let me know if it's good.

At least that's what they're doing in China. Take a look - the Chinese have erected a fake building near the Olympic facilities, to fool foreigners. Maybe they're onto something [more...]