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	<title>MasterGraphics Weblog</title>
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		<title>Autodesk Impression</title>
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Subscription customers can download Autodesk Impression for free from their Autodesk Subscription website.
Impress your colleagues and clients with compelling presentation-ready graphics created directly from your DWG™ and DWF™ files. Autodesk Impression software is easy to use, saves you time, and recognizes data from your CAD files. Autodesk Impression 2 software is available to AutoCAD®, AutoCAD® [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing Compare Subscription Module for AutoCAD Architecture/MEP 2009</title>
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Drawing Compare is available exclusively for AutoCAD Architecture/MEP 2009 customers participating in the Autodesk Subscription program. Download this module now to get the Drawing Compare feature. The Drawing Compare feature enhances collaboration by using color-coded displays to show items on a drawing that have been changed, added, or deleted by other members of the design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AutoCAD MEP 2009 Compatibility with Earlier Releases</title>
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Because of the new enhancements to the software, for example electrical panel database files, in 2009, if you open that 2009 drawing in an earlier release, the older program doesn&#8217;t understand the new features, and will give you errors. This will continue with every new version of AutoCAD MEP in the future, so it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AutoCAD MEP 2009 Using Multiple Catalogs</title>
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In 2009, you can now specify multiple part catalogs for a category. For example, you can specify the MvPart catalog provided with the software and a custom MvPart catalog for the MvPart category. However, if 2 parts in different catalogs have the same ID or the same name, only the part in the catalog that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Showing Pipe Below a Slab in Revit MEP</title>
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The issue of hiding pipe that is running under walls and/or slab is a little tricky. At this point, there are two ways that you can show piping as hidden, when it is running under slab. Unfortunately, neither one is really &#8220;automatic&#8221;.


The following images shows a method of creating a filter using the pipe elevation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revit MEP Coordination Views</title>
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When you are using either a Mechanical or Electrical view disipline, the view will display those objects darker than the architectural objects or other MEP objects. You can see from this Mechanical 3D view below, the walls are light, and you can see the piping going through it.

If you change the view properties so it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Displaying room color fills in section views In Revit 2009 Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To display the color fills and room objects in section views, you need to enable volume calculations.  Follow these steps:


On the Settings menu, click Area and Volume Computations.
In the Area and Volume Computations dialog box, under Volume Computations, select the Areas and Volumes option.


Color fills and room objects will now be displayed in section views.

Posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flex License Manager and Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a network version of an Autodesk product and you want to run it on Vista, you MUST turn OFF the User Access Control feature. 
The FLEX license manager attempts to write a file to the local drive.  If the UAC is on, it fails.  You don&#8217;t get prompted to allow it to write nor does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raster Design Object Enabler Ready for Download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AutoCAD Raster Design 2009 Object Enabler  You&#8217;ll need this in order to import MrSID format files.  This is especially important for users of Civil 3D 2009 or Map 2009.
Make sure you download the version appropriate for your Autodesk program.  Civil 3D and Map are both technically still 32-bit applications, so you&#8217;d need the 32-bit version in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play It, Sam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you already know (and love?) FLEXLM utilities that are needed for network licensing of Autodesk products.  Did you also know that there is a utility that comes free with most Autodesk products and can be used for more in-depth license reporting?  The utility I&#8217;m talking about is SamReport-Lite, by Macrovision.
With this [...]]]></description>
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