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I'm glad you gave us the justification for why it is now two step, as I too was wondering the same as others. It makes sense now.
Changes to the Autodesk Feedback Community Login Process are In Progress
Last week, Autodesk made changes to our single sign-on login process that is used for a variety of Autodesk communities such as Autodesk Labs and Autodesk Beta. Users will notice that there is now a 2 step process for accessing the Autodesk Feedback Community site which is home to Labs technol...
Are you able to elaborate on the size of the files that were uploaded to A360 to give an idea of performance compared to the size?
Machu Picchu Rock 'n' Rolls in A360 Viewer
I was at AEC Hackathon in Dallas from May 1st to 3rd. This time I joined with Shiya Lu, the newest member of my team. This was my fourth AEC Hachathon (including the one organized by Thornton Tomasetti last May). It turned out to be the smallest among the ones that I attended: about 30 particip...
They way I've been watching DWF evolved over the last decade, is that it has moved away from being a user focused format, to a more back-end infrastructure.
I agree that DWF hasn't held up too well to actual user adoption, but that doesn't mean that it isn't still relevant, or dead.
DWF provides a great lightweight *model* format that should serve well for services like Autodesk 360.
As products move further away from file delivery (through email, etc) to a product-to-product, or product-to-service delivery method, the DWF will be more hidden to the user, but it will still be there in facilitating these transitions.
DWF is not dead. Long live DWF!
Autodesk VP/IPG CTO, Brian Mathews, was on our team when he invented the DWF format. Our first foray into sharing design data via the internet was a WHIP! plug-in for the Netscape Navigator browser. Internet Explorer had not really emerged on the scene yet. Sun Microsystems had just released J...
Are we going to see a link to demos of this to try for ourselves soon?
Run Autodesk applications using just a browser
A long time ago in a galaxy far away I worked on Project Twitch when it was on Autodesk Labs. This was a technology preview of an experiment in reduced latency when running Autodesk applications on remote servers. This eventually led to Project Blink which emerged as Autodesk Remote. Enlarge. ...
Revit support in the future?
From Car Parking to Intersections, New Autodesk Vehicle Tracking 2014 Software Aims to Improve our Transportation Environment
Next time you drive into the car park where you work, shop or go to school, consider this: about 20 percent of all vehicle accidents happen in car parks, according to the US-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Could better design aided by vehicle simulation software help reduce this st...
What's not made clear enough on the site is whether this has just 'Revit Architecture' features, or all 'Revit' features.
There is a distinct difference these days. From looking at the small images on the site, it looks as though it is Revit *Architecture* LT.
Can you please clarify?
Revit LT
In case you missed it earlier today Autodesk announced Revit LT! The Revit LT page with additional information is available here: Autodesk Revit LT Feature comparison between Revit LT and Revit \ FAQ: Compare Autodesk Revit LT and Autodesk Revit Revit LT FAQ
I stumbled across the Pixlr Editor the other week and was impressed with how much it does for a free product, especially it's integration with Google Drive.
Pixlr-O-Matic is easy and fun
Pixlr is our web-based photo editing solution. It is being developed as part of Autodesk Research in the area of visualization. When you go to the http://www.pixlr.com home page, you see: You can open the photo editor itself: or you can try Pixlr-O-Matic by selecting Retro vintage effects: ...
I've always thought the auto-chain highlighting functionality in the Massing to be unusual, but usually not an issue. That is until you accidentally move a chain of elements after when you thought you had tabbed to a single element in the chain.
But then again, for the most time you are working with chains of elements in the massing environment so the current functionality helps speed the design process.
So it comes down to auto-chain in massing suits that environment's workflow, whereas tabbing in all other environments like a project works better.
One of the things I like about the current functionality is the ability to double-click an element in the chain to select it without having to use Tab.
If I had to pick one method over the other across the entire product, I would go with the default behaviour of using Tab to select a chain.
I like the current chain functionality how it is, regardless of environment. But having said that, I'm also open to other selection ideas.
Chain Select
First thank you all for the relatively large amount comments on the previous selection post (Press & Drag) that can still be found here. Again the best comments explain why you use it one way or another since that helps us understand how to best support your tasks and uncover patterns of usage....
Gordon: "I think part of the problem now is the persistent nature of the toggle. you generally want it off, then need it for a moment so you toggle it on, then forget to turn it back off and get burned."
So the experienced user who forgets to turn it back On gets just as easily burned as the careless new user who leaves the option On.
I'm certainly not picking on Gordon, but it's an interesting comment.
There is this general fear that On is ALWAYS worse than Off, and it goes back to my previous comment where I mentioned that I have seen just as many users who have this Off and still making dragging errors.
It's solely a user operator error, and one that I agree could be improved through improved software functionality, rather than just removing it altogether and disadvantaging the users who can use it On in a proper/safer manner.
Here's an opposing look at the above quote.
"I think part of the BENEFIT now is the persistent nature of the toggle. you generally want it ON, then don't need it for a moment so you toggle it OFF, then forget to turn it back ON and DON'T get burned."
It work's both ways.
The argument could be made that the Press+Drag when on by default and temporarily turned off is safer than in the hands of a user who works with it off and temporarily turns it on.
In the end, I don't care whether it's hidden in the Options and Off by default, as long as I can turn it On and it is remembered between sessions so I'm not having to turn it back On all the time. The .ini is not an option as the only way to do this. It has to be in the UI somewhere.
I do think Gordon brings up some interesting concepts and would be worth looking into by The Factory because there are some elements which I still want to move, but maybe just not by dragging.
Erik: "It would be simple enough to enable drag on first pick for annotations, and mass forms and disable for model elements and inside faces of model elements as well as links if this satisfied the majority of use cases."
That's a terrible idea to force a blanket exclusion on model elements. The place where Click+Drag is most beneficial is at the early design stage. This is the stage where elements are moving in a fluid manner and you would be hindering that fast flowing design iteration process. This comes from personal experience as my background is heavily in design concepts.
To add to this, it's also the stage of the design which has fewer elements in a view so the chance of mis-dragging incorrect elements is greatly reduced even further. The views are cleaner with more white space around elements.
I hope this helps to provide some points to the positive side of this discussion for keeping this functionality somehow. Thanks for listening.
Press & Drag?
Everyone familiar with this little guy? This control defines what happens when you click on an element and drag while holding the button down. It defaults to being enabled. Behavior When enabled the element under the mouse down action will be selected and then moved as you drag. When not enab...
I'm with Steve on this one. I'd go nuts if I lost this functionality as there are many times where I drag elements.
I'll add to some of Steve's examples where I also use Press & Drag with areas such as Massing and Family editing.
I've seen many a user do just as badly with this option turned OFF and miss-selecting their elements before using Move.
It comes down to the user and their individual ability to take care. Not the software.
As a user who NEVER turns this off, I'd be devastated if I lost this feature as it provides an increase to my modelling and especially documenting speed.
Press & Drag?
Everyone familiar with this little guy? This control defines what happens when you click on an element and drag while holding the button down. It defaults to being enabled. Behavior When enabled the element under the mouse down action will be selected and then moved as you drag. When not enab...
What a retarded move. Take something that worked well, and remove it. Why?
Revit had some of the easiest license management out of any Autodesk product... and now it doesn't. Sad.
Revit 2012 License Switching and Demo mode.
If you have downloaded or are planning on downloading a Revit 2012 product, the first thing you will notice is the new installer. Revit products now closely match the installers of other Autodesk products. However, what might not be so obvious for long time Revit users, is some subtle changes ...
Removing the content downloader progress was a bad move. It looks as though the installer has stalled and users will be likely to cancel or forcefully close the installation. Not good.
Installing Content for Revit 2012 products
Content installation (families, templates, etc) has changed for Revit 2012 products. Remember the Content loader/extraction dialog? This dialog no longer shows up in the 2012 installation. Now you simply choose the content packs you want while setting up your installation and Revit does th...
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