What Revit Wants
Here’s how:
The following command should successfully silent deploy Unifi 3.1.1 to your network.
msiexec /I Unifi-admin.msi /qn
Download the Unifi .msi at:
http://installer.
Below is a GPO:
Install:
wusa.exe Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-
Detection Clause:
File Exists C:\Windows\System32\
Version = 6.3.9600.16406
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Setting up a BIM workstation can take some time. From unboxing to actually being ready-to-work you have to go through various ‘layers’ of installation, like:
In a large, corporate IT environment, most of this is handled by an IT department, and usually these are set up as deployment images. However, in a small or medium office, you may have to do some of this work yourself.
With that in mind, I’m sharing my notes on the steps I took to get my Metabox portable BIM workstation up and running. I may start to put links against most of these steps as time allows, because I have posted about a lot of these programs before. Feel free to comment if you have any thoughts or advice.
Installation Order – from unboxing to System Image:
2016 Updates
2017 Updates
Install BIM 360 Glue desktop app
Install latest Glue addins (Revit 2015, 2016, 2017)
Bit of a strange dialog box menu disappearing issue… so:
Had to manually remove ‘old’ Bim 360 glue addin from 2016 install, %programdata% location
Navisworks Exporter updates
Revit addin install:
Uninstall Dynamo 0.9.1 (from 2017 install)Install Dynamo 1.1Install Autodesk ScreencastInstall Revizto
Set up Outlook
Install Firefox
Install Github Desktop
Install 7-zip https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/3097bf8b/
Install Bluebeam Revu and activate
Reinstall Box Sync (due to some sync errors)
Install FreeFileSync
IFC Exporter Addins for Revit
Install Tekla Bimsight
Properties+ addin for Navisworks
Install Advanced RenamerExport the ‘currently installed programs’ list from CcleanerInstall NotePad++
Windows Update Fix
All Windows Updates
Other software installed:
Other errors and notes:Boot error fix:
XTU Update error:
Here are the basic steps:
Got this from Jetze’s blog:
to upgrade Office 365 ProPlus on a single computer to, just follow this procedure.
Note that the value for Branch is set to Current. Other valid values are Business or Validation (First Release).
During the installation of Office you will be prompted to save your work and close any opened Office programs.
via
Jetze’s blog: Office 2016 update branches and how to force an upgrade for Office 365 ProPlus
It is pretty difficult to change the Workset of Pipe Insulation. The Properties Palette allows you to change them one at a time (but not multiple), while the method I posted about previously can change multiple Pipe Insulations to a different Workset, but it didn’t have a nice filtering mechanism.
Enter Dynamo… I made a custom node that takes a list of Pipe Insulations and gives you the Host Pipe element:
Then, I packaged this up in another node that collects all Pipe Insulations, checks their Workset, finds their Host Pipe, and then saves those Pipes to a SelectionSet:
So, if you have Pipe Insulations on the wrong workset:
1. Install Bakery package in Dynamo
2. Run definition as in image above
3. Close Dynamo
4. Load the Saved Selection
5. Group these Pipes (which groups the Insulations too)
6. Change workset (it will have already adopted the current workset)
7. Ungroup
8. Done
Thanks to Konrad and Andreas for archi-lab and Clockwork packages respectively. I get a few comments about my Bakery package having a lot of dependencies, but I like the fact that I just need to install Bakery and I get archi-lab, Clockwork, Lunchbox etc. Its like a rough and ready deployment solution…
Oh, one more thing. You may notice in recent versions (like 0.8.2 RC) that there is now some custom path management for Dynamo resources:
Good stuff!
I think its safe to say that Dynamo package deployment is still a work in progress, particularly when considering issues of intellectual property along with the complexity of IT networks in large organizations. For that reason, any step to make Dynamo easier to deploy and use is a good idea.
Dyno Browser gives us a very simple way to share and view DYN definitions using a certain file structure and the Roaming directory inside a user’s profile.
Steps to setup and use Dyno Browser on one PC:
So, what is good about this? Because now we can create a shortlist of important or ‘approved’ DYN files and deploy them using the appropriate file structure to the team, using Roaming profiles.
There is actually a bit more functionality available in Dyno Browser: it supports using JSON to feed certain preset values to Dynamo nodes. This is a bit more in-depth, and can be review at the home page.
Video:
The current alpha version is 0.2.52
Main site:
Dyno – Organising, deploying and running <strong>Dynamo</strong> workspaces tool for <strong>Autodesk Revit</strong>: Alexey Lobanov
In less than 10 steps, can you set up all the PCs in your office with all required software? Here’s one way:
Sysprep /generalize will essentially make the image “non-unique” to that system, meaning it can easily be imaged to other hardware without activation or driver headaches.
Sysprep must always be run from the %WINDIR%system32sysprep directory
Make this registry setting:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsInstaller
via
Autodesk – Autodesk AutoCAD Services & Support – Using log to troubleshoot installation errors
In our case, we had to add local PC “Users” permissions for Full Control to this file:
“C:ProgramDataAutodeskApplicationPluginsADSK-IFCExportUI2014.bundlePackageContents.xml”
I recommend that you review each PackageContents.xml in the ProgramData location to check for appropriate permissions.
Key lines from journal:
‘ 0:< Autodesk Revit 2014
‘ 0:< 64-bit load point = C:Program FilesAutodeskRevit 2014
‘ 0:< this journal = C:UsersljohnsonAppDataLocalAutodeskRevitAutodesk Revit 2014Journalsjournal.0008.txt
‘ 0:< ::0:: Delta VM: Avail -54 -> 8387401 MB, Used +8 -> 186 MB, Peak +39 -> 218 MB; RAM: Avail -15 -> 12989 MB, Used +13 -> 241 MB, Peak +14 -> 242 MB
‘ 0:< Exception occurred
‘C 24-Sep-2013 09:05:39.639; 0:< ExceptionCode=0xe0434352 ExceptionFlags=0x00000001 ExceptionAddress=000007FEFD17940D
‘ 0:< System (MB) [Available / Total ] [Revit Memory Usage (MB) ]
‘ 0:< RAM Statistics: 12989 / 16291 241=InUse 242=Peak
‘ 0:< VM Statistics: 8387402 / 8388607 186=InUse 218=Peak
‘ 0:< Unconverted MessageBox “An unrecoverable error has occurred. The program will now be terminated. All of your data has been recently saved, so there is no need to create recovery files.”
