Using Oracle's IMPDP and EXPDP with Autodesk Enterprise Industry Models on...
If you are using an Oracle database with AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 or later, this article may help you make you first foray into the world of Oracle's Data Pump utilities. It's not intended to be an...
View ArticleUnable to Obtain an Autodesk Product License
If you have ever been attempting to use an Autodesk product configured to use a network license and received one of the following types of messages “Failed to acquire a license.”, “A valid license...
View ArticleOracle data tips for AIMS: Dealing with a large database table
Working with Enterprise customers, I've dealt with some very large spatial datasets containing database tables that are not ideally set up for AIMS. I was once working with a huge table, both in the...
View ArticleHow to Clone an Oracle Server VM on VMWare vSphere ESXi
After having performed this operation a number of times I now feel I'm ready to blog on the topic. Thanks goes to all those who have posted on this topic before me. In this post I refer to the server...
View ArticleCustomise Autodesk Vault's ECO/ECN Print Templates
IntroductionAutodesk Vault uses an Engineering Change Order or Engineering Change Notice to record events in a change management cycle and controls how design changes are managed and released. Change...
View ArticleRemote debugging in ASP.Net with Reflector Pro, Part 1
IntroductionWhen debugging your application, there are often times when it would be helpful to get a better understanding of what is happening beyond the boundary of your application's source code. For...
View ArticleAutoCAD ETO
Inventor Engineer-to-Order (ETO) Series is a product that allows the automation of repeatable designs. ETO captures engineering logic and taking care of the code typically required for configuring,...
View ArticleObtaining the Start Point from LineString in Oracle Spatial
If you're thinking 'Skip the guff, take me straight to the solution!' you can jump to The Solution. Recently I had the task of working out which Suburb a list of pipe assets were located in. 'Easy!' I...
View ArticleRemote Debugging in ASP.Net with Reflector Pro, Part 2 - Regenerated Assemblies.
In my previous post Remote Debugging in ASP.Net with Reflector Pro, Part 1, I touched on a more complicated potential scenario where the assembly you want to debug does not have a debugger signature....
View ArticlePorting AIMS Themeing to a New Oracle Environment
In one of the AIMS applications I work on, we allow our customer to do most of the themeing in AIMS. They are more than happy to set up exactly how they want the data to look and how the users will...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Connection Manger
Remote Desktop Connection Manager is a free Windows utility that provides you with a central place to organize, group, and manage your various Remote Desktop connections. This is particularly useful...
View ArticleComponent Library Updater Tool
Here's a handy little tool for developers of add-on and customisation projects. This tool is free of charge and can be downloaded using the link at the bottom of this page.A lot of our development work...
View ArticleEnabling external parties into your Vault
Our team has now been involved in a few Vault implementations where our customer has wanted a way that external parties can access files that are stored in their Autodesk Vault system. With the latest...
View ArticleGreyed out Vault tool bar in Inventor
Recently while accessing Vault from Inventor I was not able to access the Vault Ribbon. application. All the icons except "Go to Vault" were greyed out.Though Vault was accessible through the Vault...
View ArticleAutodesk University 2013
Well, it's nearly that time of year again! Which time? The time when we get together for Autodesk's premiere yearly technical conference, Autodesk University in Las Vegas. This year two of the ANZ...
View ArticleThematic Filters in MapGuide / Infrastructure Map Server for Performance
In this post I'd like to present what might appear as a rather un-intuitive performance tip for Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server / MapGuide: Under certain conditions, superior performance can be...
View ArticleMissing or Hidden dialog boxes in AutoCAD
Working in a dual screen environment is very common now. Unfortunately AutoCAD applications sometimes get confused with this dual screen environment. It often seems like AutoCAD treats the second...
View ArticleAIMS – Why you should consider a central data repository for the large...
One of the most powerful features in AIMS is the ability to point it at pretty much any spatial data source and then diplay that data in a map. For one of our large enterprise customers this was...
View ArticleManaging Document Templates with Vault Data Standard
A common request from Vault users is to be able to manage document templates more effectively. Firstly, what do I mean by a document template? This is not just .dwt files, it could be any file that...
View ArticleFile Name and Location Conventions with Vault Data Standard - Part 1
As its name suggests, at the core of Vault Data Standard is standardisation including file names and directory structures. With some simple configuration VDS can apply complex directory structure and...
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