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Tips and tricks for using AutoCAD, Revit, Autodesk Inventor, Civil 3D, Autodesk Vault, InfraWorks, BIM 360, Fusion 360, and more.

  • In Today’s Return To Office Era, a Unified Workplace Management Platform is More Important Than Ever

    In Today’s Return To Office Era, a Unified Workplace Management Platform is More Important Than Ever

    Hybrid work is changing how facilities are managed. Discover how Eptura’s unified workplace platform helps teams optimize space, improve employee experience, and reduce costs.

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  • Powering Utility Transformation Requires More Than Technology

    Powering Utility Transformation Requires More Than Technology

    Learn how utilities can successfully modernize by aligning strategy, execution, and partnerships. Watch the on-demand webinar to explore IMAGINiT’s approach to utility transformation.

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  • Why Construction Firms Need a Single Source of Truth About Safety

    A digital platform like SiteDocs gives construction firms a single source of truth for safety—improving compliance, reducing risk, and keeping teams audit-ready.

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  • 5 Questions to Ask About Visitor Management

    5 Questions to Ask About Visitor Management

    Evaluate your visitor processes with these 5 key questions. Learn how Eptura's visitor management improves security, efficiency, and guest experience.

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  • Why Facilities Teams Are Rethinking the Front Desk

    Why Facilities Teams Are Rethinking the Front Desk

    Learn how Eptura Visitor helps facilities teams streamline visitor check-ins, improve workplace security, and create better experiences for guests.

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  • Data Center Construction Portfolio Governance: Why Owners Must Standardize at Scale

    Data Center Construction Portfolio Governance: Why Owners Must Standardize at Scale

    Data center owners must standardize construction portfolios to reduce risk, improve capital visibility, and accelerate energization timelines.

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  • .XYZ Filters in Advance Steel & Plant 3D

    .XYZ Filters in Advance Steel & Plant 3D

    When multiple 3D points (different -values) project to the same 2D screen coordinate. AutoCAD guesses the wrong -depth point because it can't distinguish them in a flat view.

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  • Whitelisting IMAGINIT Utilities

    Whitelisting IMAGINIT Utilities

    You are having trouble activating the IMAGINiT Utilities because the connection to the IMAGINiT licensing server is being blocked (Note: This may result in the error message "400 Bad Request").

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  • Autodesk: When launching offline message “The required connection to Autodesk for license Validation could not be established”

    Autodesk: When launching offline message “The required connection to Autodesk for license Validation could not be established”

    You should be able to run Autodesk Products for 30 days without connecting to the Autodesk Server using Single User Licenses.

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  • Autodesk Desktop Connector Startup Error

    Autodesk Desktop Connector Startup Error

    You are receiving the error message: "Startup Error: Desktop Connector Could not Initialize the Autodesk Identity Manager, prompting shutdown."

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  • Autodesk Scheduled Updates are Not Applying to Users

    Autodesk Scheduled Updates are Not Applying to Users

    You have successfully created a Scheduled Update Policy within the Autodesk Portal but the updates are not applying to your users.

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  • From Buzzword to Backbone: How Digital Transformation Is Redefining Manufacturing Collaboration

    From Buzzword to Backbone: How Digital Transformation Is Redefining Manufacturing Collaboration

    Digital transformation has evolved from a buzzword into a strategy for connecting teams, data, and workflows across manufacturing with the Autodesk Fusion platform.

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  • AutoCAD 2026: When launching message “Catalog file ‘Support\AcFields.fdc’ is not found”

    AutoCAD 2026: When launching message “Catalog file ‘Support\AcFields.fdc’ is not found”

    In AutoCAD 2026: When launching message “ Catalog file ‘Support\AcFields.fdc’ is not found/”. Here's what you need to know and do.

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  • How to Schedule Autodesk Software Updates

    How to Schedule Autodesk Software Updates

    You need to create a Scheduled Update Policy for your Autodesk software that can be applied to your users within the Autodesk Portal.

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  • Autodesk Update Policies - What You Should Know

    Autodesk Update Policies - What You Should Know

    Autodesk has introduced a new Update Policies feature within the Autodesk portal. This feature provides a mechanism to control Autodesk updates for users' Autodesk software.

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  • The Journey to Authentic Leadership in Construction: Insights from Sarah Lawrence

    The Journey to Authentic Leadership in Construction: Insights from Sarah Lawrence

    As part of Women in Construction week, IMAGINiT Construction Account Executive Sarah Lawrence shares her experiences and offers advice to the future women of the field.

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  • If You’re a Woman, Know That You Belong in Construction: Insights from Danielle Lucas

    If You’re a Woman, Know That You Belong in Construction: Insights from Danielle Lucas

    As part of Women in Construction week, IMAGINiT Construction Engagement Engineer – Preconstruction Danielle Lucas shares her industry experiences and advice for the future women of the field.

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  • Powering Safety & Efficiency: How Utilities Cut Costs with SiteDocs

    Powering Safety & Efficiency: How Utilities Cut Costs with SiteDocs

    Discover how utilities companies streamline field operations, reduce compliance risk, and cut operational costs with SiteDocs’ digital safety and documentation platform.

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  • ACC: How to Import Additional Locations to Build Project

    ACC: How to Import Additional Locations to Build Project

    Administrators have a number of existing locations in an ACC project.  They would like to import a large number of additional locations/rooms without affecting or deleting existing locations.

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  • ACC: Docs Subscription Not Available to Assign on ACC Platform

    ACC: Docs Subscription Not Available to Assign on ACC Platform

    When attempting to assign an Autodesk Docs license to a member on their ACC account (Account Admin > Members page), some users report that Docs is not included under "Member subscriptions".

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