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Bob Felton
New England
I've been supporting Autodesk products for 23 years including core AutoCAD, P&ID, Plant 3D, AutoCAD for Mac and also AutoCAD Mechanical as well as Autodesk Vault. My background is in graphics with a degree and ten years mfg experience drafting as well as technical illustration, image editing and even patent drafting.
Interests: Web content creation, photography, softball, mt biking, hiking, canoeing, skiing, scuba and anything that makes me laugh.
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Does the AutoCAD for Mac 2019 include the specialized toolsets?
When customers subscribe to AutoCAD 2019, they will have access to AutoCAD, AutoCAD for Mac, plus vertical toolsets for architectural design, mechanical design, electrical design, MEP design, and much more. AutoCAD specialized toolsets only work on Windows and are not available for Mac users, unless they use a virtual machine... Continue reading
Posted Sep 15, 2020 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Vault Pro Client Add-in for MS Office 365 is continuously becoming disabled in Excel and Word
Posted Jul 17, 2020 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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In the IMAGINiT Vault Change Summary Utility, can it detect deleted files?
Posted May 5, 2020 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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No Vault check out dialog box in Inventor
Posted Apr 8, 2020 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Pack and Go for Inventor Functionality Missing in File Explorer
Posted Jan 17, 2020 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Inventor 2017 connected to BlueCielo Meridian Vault can't save iam with placed CC part
Posted Aug 28, 2019 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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AutoCAD for Mac 2019 released
AutoCAD for Mac 2019 was released. Continue reading
Posted Dec 3, 2018 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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AutoCAD first start up error: "Establish an Internet connection to continue" - caused by antivirus
Posted Dec 27, 2017 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Setting custom page size for PDFs generated in Vault by automated utilities
Posted Dec 27, 2017 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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AutoCAD Datalink command error: "The specified Excel spreadsheet is not valid or not supported"
Posted Dec 19, 2017 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Thanks for the note, Josh. I'll add it to the article so that others may benefit from your solution.
Autodesk Vault Office Add-in Tools are grayed out for selection
Recently an Autodesk Vault Pro 2015 workstation that had the Vault Pro 2015 Add-in for Microsoft Office 2013 installed, reported that although the Add-in loaded and provided an 'Autodesk Vault' tab in Outlook 2013, the tool icons in the panel for that tab were grayed out and non-functional. No...
An error was encountered sending email - from Vault Server Utility
Posted Jun 21, 2017 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Vault Admin account appears to be missing
Posted Jan 27, 2017 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Only seeing wireframe objects when an AutoCAD Plant 3D dwg is opened in Navisworks Manage?
Posted Sep 23, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Robert, the case that inspired this article was from an experienced IT admin who already knew and had a preferred method to push registry keys to his workstations, so we didn't discuss whether he was using SCCM or GPO.
But, in general, here are details from Microsoft for pushing reg keys to workstations using a batch file:
To create a registry key with a batch file
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742162(v=ws.10).aspx
How to deploy specific settings for Autodesk DWG TrueView 2016
Recently a company asked how to deploy Autodesk DWG Trueview 2016 to 120 workstations so that they all have access to specific network printers. Because DWG TrueView can't export profiles like AutoCAD does to share network settings for printers, etc, there is no means to save a profile as a .arg...
Thanks, John! I really appreciate the compliment, especially coming from you. I enjoy your blog as well: https://beyondthedraftingboard.blogspot.com
Method to remove FEA related files before checking assembly into Vault
When a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is performed on a design model in Inventor Pro, the FEA setup is stored in the component file and the results of the FEA are stored in separate files with one of several file extensions such as .fins, .fsat, .ftes. fwiz, .fmsh, or .fres. When the design mode...
Vault Check in Error: The following files cannot be resolved (with derived parts)
Posted Jul 15, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Jittery response when editing Excel spreadsheet in Windows 10 when connected to Vault over VPN
Posted Jul 14, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Method to remove FEA related files before checking assembly into Vault
Posted Jul 12, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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What are the supported SQL Releases for Autodesk Vault versions?
Posted Jul 8, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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How to deploy specific settings for Autodesk DWG TrueView 2016
Posted Jun 28, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Vault Thin client cannot download dwg's within Internet Explorer 11
Posted Jun 27, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Have you lost the Vault Server Admin Password? Ask Autodesk for the ADMS Server Admin Password Reset tool
Posted Jun 22, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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How to avoid loading duplicates into Vault with the Autoloader and what to do if duplicates are sent.
Posted May 20, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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Help file for IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client
Posted Apr 4, 2016 at IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
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