Category: Productivity

        I go to tech meetup talks around town. One i went to recently as about RPA (Robotic Process Automation). In the talk a few vendors were demonstration their services/programmes and showing Bank/Enterprise processes that included Chat Bots and other automated processes. They talked, on the one han about efficiency, and also about customer enguagement &

        I am not a touch typer, so look at the keyboard when I type. Sometimes I’ve hit the caps lock key and suddenly half of what I’ve written is in upper case GRRRR! Smart Caps Lock I found a small free app called SMART CAPS LOCK that sits in the toolbar tray that allows you

        I’d played with this before and just saw it as dark magic. I couldn’t really get my head around it. I remember trying to set one up and making a total mess of it, so I left it. Yesterday I went to an Azure All day presentation on Cognative services, hopefully I’ll try one of

        In my constant search for ways to automate trivial processes and make life easier I came across DropIt. A free flexible tool to automate processing & organizing files and folders On the above site it shows this flow. Basically you make a rule with actions on a file type/filter and it will do those actions.

        There are times when you need a little tool to do something. You could download a programme to do it, or you could use an online tool. Mostly though, you only need the tools at infrequent intervals , or you have a specific project that requires some minor tools. I’m a fan of free online

        I haven’t played much with C# and revit add-ins for a while and I thought it would be good to re-explore the process. The last time I was trying to do so was about 3 years ago so I thought I’d look on Mr YouTube to see what has appeared since my last effort. It

        I have been working n a project with a number of buildings. To begin with I had them all in one model, but as the scheme developed the buildings became a bit more complex, the forms settled down, and I decided to split them into seperate files to manage them better. Revit shared coordinates I’d

        I’ve just buggered another computer, so loading software onto a new PC is tedious, but also good in that you can review programmes that you’ve loaded and you can consider if you want them on your new computer A couple of productivity tools I want to ment ion are 1. Textify & 2. Smart Caps

Using 3D PDF's to manage your buildings through their lifecycle with the help of 2d & 3d comments, static and dynamic stamps for annotating and recording events, inspections and changes.

Using JavaScript with 3D PDF's can make usability of it far easier for people with limited 3D model skills making it far more accessible to many