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Hey CNC’ers! Curious about the hype around Autodesk’s HSM CAM? And now you’re looking for more information and possibly a demonstration? Well, you’ve come to the right place! SolidCAD is not only Canada’s ... https://www.solidcad.ca/curious-about-the-hype-around-autodesks-hsm-cam/ AutoCAD FLATTEN

AutoCAD has a command contained within the Express Tool named FLATTEN.  It is designed to remove any non-zero elevations from selected objects within a drawing.  It does an excellent job with this, but there ... https://www.solidcad.ca/autocad-flatten/ Customizing the Inventor Marking Menu

A few years ago, Autodesk introduced context-sensitive radial menus called Marking Menus, in Inventor. These menus provide a quick and visual way for users to select the most commonly used commands in each environment. ... https://www.solidcad.ca/customizing-the-inventor-marking-menu/ Revit Data Corruption

Let’s talk about data corruption in Revit. In this post I will look at these 4 points: File crashes before opening Crashes when opening a new view Looking for corrupt families Higher level investigation As ... https://www.solidcad.ca/revit-data-corruption/ ArcGIS and AutoCAD – Free Background for everyone using AutoCAD

Imagine a world where you could get high resolution background image maps to display and PRINT in AutoCAD. Esri and Autodesk are working closer than ever and this alliance benefits all CAD and GIS users. Esri ... https://www.solidcad.ca/arcgis-and-autocad-free-background-for-everyone-using-autocad/ PART 3 : Change Management (ECR, ECN, and ECO)

This is the third in a three-part series of Fusion Lifecycle videos. In this video, we will focus on Change Management with a specific focus on Engineering Change Orders. In the previous video, we saw that the ... https://www.solidcad.ca/change-management-ecr-ecn-and-eco/ Revit Family Creation: Family with Adjustable Built-in Label

Usually Tags are added separate from the Components we place, but in certain situations the “tag” needs to be part of the family. To push this further occasionally a request is made for flexibility in the ... https://www.solidcad.ca/revit-family-creation-family-with-adjustable-built-in-label/ PART 2 : Bill of Materials (BOM) Transfer from Vault to Fusion Lifecycle 

This is the second in a three-part series of Fusion Lifecycle videos. This video, will focus on the Bill-of-Material transfer from Autodesk Vault Professional to Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle. Vault Pro and Fusion ... https://www.solidcad.ca/new-project-introduction-process-in-fusion-lifecycle-2/ Revisiting AutoCAD Basics: Shortcut Menu Hotkeys

Many of us use keyboard shorts and aliases to keep our eyes on the drawing area and keep our thoughts on our design. Searching for commands on the ribbon, especially if it’s buried in the pull-down portion, ... https://www.solidcad.ca/revisiting-autocad-basics-shortcut-menu-hotkeys/ Path of Travel tool – Revit 2020

Path of Travel tool is a new feature in Revit 2020 that determines the distance between two points on a floor plan. By selecting a start point and an end point, Revit automatically creates the path and calculates ... https://www.solidcad.ca/path-of-travel-tool-revit-2020/