Autodesk Vault Basic 2014 add-in for MS Office 2013

Release Date: 2014-03-14

Autodesk Vault is fully integrated into Microsoft Office 2013 ( Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).

The integration provides the ability to manage all of the supporting information for your Digital Prototype.
This includes email correspondence, specifications, calculations, and presentations enabling the entire workgroup to collaborate more effectively and get to market faster.

Available as Product Enhancements in Autodesk Subscription.

Source: Autodesk Site

Synchronizing problem with Revit Server

Have you ever experience synchronizing problem with your Revit Server and you get this pop-up message "Operation could not be completed" -> "File not saved"?

There are many reasons that can cause this issue, to name a few:

- it can be due to network access. Ping your Central Server and check if the latency is more than 200ms. Probably the process could be timing out.
- file access issues.
- model changes may create conflict too.
- connectivity issues between office networks.
- network bandwidth issue and the network is saturated due to video conferencing, YouTube etc.
- Revit server needs a dedicated 1 mbps for a good performance.
- local hardware can also be an issue like docking station malfunctioning creating disruption between Revit and the Revit Server.

File Naming Conventions

One of the basic requirement in Data Management is a good standard File Naming. It is a good idea to name and organize your files in a descriptive and consistent manner in order that other users can find the specific data they are looking for.

I suggest that you consider including in your project file names:

- Project Number
- Document type (preliminary design, CD-contract doc., etc.)
- Plan, section or detail
- Other unique identifier

Tip :
Try not to make file names too long since long file names might pose some problem in other type of software.

When using a sequential numbering system, use leading zeros for clarity and to make sure files sort in sequential order. For example, use "001, 002, ...010, 011 ... 100, 101, 200, 201 etc." instead of "1, 2, ...10, 11 ... 100, 101, etc."

Do not use spaces. Instead, use underscores between words, e.g. file_name. Camel case may also be used to avoid spaces and make file names easier to read, e.g. FileName.

Be consistent with the number of characters in the file name for your drawings.

Avoid using special characters such as $ % * etc.

Drawing Sheet duplication

You need to duplicate a Sheet for a project with Title block information and you do not want to create it from scratch.

Steps:

Select the sheet you want to duplicate in the Project Browser.

Right click and select “Copy to Clipboard” from the menu.

Go to Modify tab > Paste > Paste from Clipboard.

Repeat the “Pasting” procedure as needed. In this example, duplication is executed 4 times using the original sheet CK28_10 001 – Beganegrond.

Sheet numbering will be incremented as shown in the above figure, CK28_10 2 till CK28_10 5.

Note:

If  ”Copy to Clipboard” is grey out in the “right click menu”, it means that the Sheet you are trying to copy has a View and/or Legend in it. This trick will not work.