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BIM

  • Revit 2026.1 Update – What’s New?

    by Dennis Collin It’s that time of year again when u...

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  • Revit 2026 Tip - Splitting Floors into separate entities

    by Dennis CollinI recently had a question on how to ...

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  • Revit 2026’s improved assembly editor makes complex joins easier

    by Dennis Collin The modelling of complex wall join...

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  • Revit Tip – Unable to Convert ReCap Mesh Elements to Revit Families?

    by Dennis Collin With the release of Revit 2026, th...

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  • Revit Tip – Suppress non-core wall/slab layers in 3D and Section Views

    by Dennis Collin When modelling walls, floors and r...

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  • Revit Tip – Improving the look of Revit Content

    by: Dennis Collin The default installation of Revit...

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Manufacturing

  • AutoCAD Electrical 2026 – Enhanced Cable Markers

    by Miles Nicholson   Cable marker symbols in the sc...

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  • AutoCAD Electrical 2012 - Importing a DWG Footprint Assigning Intelligence

    by Miles Nicholson Although AutoCAD Electrical adds...

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  • AutoCAD Electrical 2026 – Enabling Wire Number Annotations Update

    By Miles Nicholson  In AutoCAD Electrical 2026, you ...

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  • How Autodesk Inventor Can Help Small Manufacturers Compete with Larger Companies

    by Chris Smith Introduction In today’s fast-paced ma...

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  • Working with complex assemblies in Autodesk Inventor

    by Chris Smith   Working with complex assemblies in ...

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  • Automated Vault backup with emailer

    by Chris Smith The Autodesk Vault batch driven backu...

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Technology

  • New way of Autodesk Subscription renewals

    by Vladimir MichlIn June 2025, Autodesk introduced a...

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  • Rotating an Object to an Existing Line (An update from a previous blog)

    by Martin Phelps This is not a new function, since ...

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  • AutoCAD Tip – Slow opening, crashing PDF files generated by AutoCAD?

    by Dennis Collin   I recently had a conversation wi...

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  • W3W – Excel Plugin

    by David Crowther Did You Know: There is a What3Wor...

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  • Autodesk Introduces OTP (One-Time Passcode) Verification for User Accounts

    by Vladimir Michl Both Autodesk and we at ARKANCE pr...

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  • AutoCAD 2026 is out! – A first look at what’s new

    by Dennis Collin It’s that time of year again! Flow...

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ARKANCE UK Products

  • QGIS – Calculate Geometry Plugin

    by David Crowther Did You Know:There is a free plug...

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  • QGIS – Precision Zooming

    by David Crowther Did You Know: When you push your ...

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  • QGIS – World Map

    by David Crowther Did You Know: When you open QGIS ...

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  • MEPworx – What happens if I can't find my DXF file

    by Simon Brown Many of you have DXF files in a loca...

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  • GeoServer/QGIS – WFS not Saving!

    by David Crowther Question: In QGIS when I connect ...

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  • GeoServer/QGIS – WMS works but WFS doesn’t!

    by David Crowther Question: In QGIS when I connect ...

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Infrastructure

  • 3ds Max Tip - Using Autodesk Shared Material Library

    By Dennis Collin When using Autodesk products, the ...

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  • 3ds Max 2024 – A first look at what’s new

    By Dennis Collin 3ds Max has also had a new update ...

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  • 3ds Max Tip – Collaborating with team members

    By Dennis Collin Since the 2019 release, 3ds Max ha...

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  • 3DS Max 2022 - Arnold Error

    By Justin Doughty During Arnold Rendering in 3ds Ma...

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  • 3DS Max 2022 - Material Instances

    By Justin Doughty In 3ds Max, when duplicating obje...

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  • 3ds Max 2022.2 - Update

    By Dennis Collin Recently a 3ds Max 2022 update was...

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Plant

  • Plant 3D 2023 - Share Palettes on a Network

    By Justin Doughty P&ID users can spend a lot of tim...

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  • AutoCAD Plant 3D 2020 – P&ID – Multiple Design Options in 1 Project

    By Andy Davis If you routinely start a new P&ID proj...

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  • AutoCAD Plant 3D 2020 - P&ID - Add End Connections to Equipment

    By Andy Davis Out of the box, AutoCAD P&ID does not ...

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  • AutoCAD Plant 3D – Add a new type of Piping Connection

    By Andy Davis General AutoCAD Plant 3D comes with ma...

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  • AutoCAD Plant 3D 2020 – P&ID – SLINENOZZLEERASE

    By Andy Davis The un-documented system variable SLIN...

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  • AutoCAD Plant 3D 2020 – Block-Based Fittings and the Shared Content Folder

    By Andy Davis If you have ever created block-based f...

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Videos

  • Autodesk Docs - Review Auto Trigger

    by James Philip

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  • Creating Navisworks Clashes as Issues - Nov 24

    by James Philip.

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  • Autodesk Docs File search Filters using Attributes

    by James Philip

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  • BIM Collaborate Object Colours

    by James Philip

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  • Autodesk Docs Packages

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  • BIM Collaborate Object Exclusions

    by James Philip  

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