Autodesk Subscription Center Retiring

Very interesting information this morning that Autodesk are going to retire their Autodesk Subscription Center, but a Autodesk Account to replace it....

To find out more read Scott Sheppards Coming Soon to All Autodesk Customers on Autodes Labs Blog.

New: Autodesk Certified BIM Specialist

Autodesk Certified BIM Specialist: Roads & Highways

Autodesk have released a new certification exam but for InfraWorks and Civils 3D users. If you wish to find out more click on the below link.

Check out: Certification Exam Roadmap

Revit To ASD Link For Steel Frames

Check out how to export a Structural model from Revit in AutoCAD Structural Detailing.

Revit to ASD Link for Steel Frames

AutoCAD - Windows XP

Autodesk have announced that from 1st January 2014 support will end for all new and upgraded versions of AutoCAD products, which are released in 2014 or later.

AutoCAD products released prior to that date will still be supported on Windows XP operating system

To find out more see the following link: Windows XP Support

ROLLOVERTIPS in AutoCAD

In AutoCAD you may of noticed that when you hover over an object with your cursor it may or may not display some information about the object. 

The below images shows this information:

 And this images doesn't show the information:

This can be controlled by typing ROLLOVERTIPS into the command line.

0 - Object rollover tooltips aren't displayed

1 - Object rollover tooltips will be displayed.

Autodesk to Acquire Structural Fabrication and Detailing Technology from Graitec

Some very interesting news coming from Autodesk today, they have signed an agreement to acquire Structural fabrication and detailing technology from Graitec.

This means Autodesk will add Graitec's Advance Steel and Advance Concrete products to its growing technology portfolio and structural engineering and BIM solutions.

For more information and details see the following link: Autodesk News

Information above has been taken from Autodesk news website

How to show or hide file name extensions in Windows Explorer

Do you ever forget how to do thing or can't find something your looking for when your working on your computer? Well today I needed to show the extensions for the files in a folder, but I couldn't remember.

So hitting Google give me the answer.

If you need to do the same I am going to list how to.

To show how to show or hide the name extensions in a folder

For Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 only

• Opening a folder, you wish to see the file extensions
• Click Organize.

• Click Folders and search options.
• Click the View (tab).
• Scroll down until you see Hide extensions for know file types, un-tick the box to left.

Note: To hide the extension just tick the box.

• Click OK.

Please note this information was taken from Microsoft Support, also if you click following link it will explain how to do this for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003: support.microsoft.com/kb/865219