I want to double click a “goto this P&ID page” block and … have it go there. The block has the filename (mostly) in the block’s attributes. This should be a nice tool to make people’s workday nicer and save time to focus on quality – not just getting the job done. Note I did not say – to reduce hours. Reducing hours only is not helpful to anyone – not the customer, not the engineering firm.

• About the Events in AutoCAD (VBA/ActiveX)
  • About Handling Document Level Events (VBA/ActiveX)
• Drive AutoCAD with Code

So about 4 hours of hacking and I FINALLY figured out how the whole thing is put together I want to drive Navis from Excel. Why? Because all engineers and managers use excel!. We are using Navisworks Simulate 2013 (or internally the com API is NavisworksAutomationAPI10). The key to understanding all we need to make this work is

• use the manual/by-hand find tool in Navisworks
• on that screen, there is an export button – look at the XML – the internal names are the key
• then – to understand how that XML stuff helps you decode/use the find in code be it the COM API or the .net API. Lets see how this all fits together.
• [UPDATE Jan 2016] Also, see my other post, save hours of time and know why Document.StayOpen is so critical when automating a live version of Navisworks Simulate.

I am using VBA – because that is native to Excel -put it in an add-in and everyone can enjoy without having to know or do anything – just click and “Trust Macros” and zoom to the part of interest.

Next, I knew one person online who seemed to ‘get it’ and use it successfully is Xiaodong Liang as well as a co-worker who worked with Navis who said – yes, look here and there (in the GUI interface). Next, know where the help files are Continue reading →

Well, I have made an XBMC plugin and am very familiar with it, but on a raspberry pi? Cool – lets go – but not without talking to a friend who has done this and demoed what he as done. Here is his 1,2,3’s to help get me started – I will share. This is not the newest raspberry pi, because they were all sold out before they were finished being made. This is for the model B+

1. Get one, I live in Calgary – so here is a local supplier,.an amazon.ca link for Canadians and amazon.com for the rest of you.
2. This changed since the first post. I need xbmc on my raspberry pi – so follow instructions below. Otherwise Load it with NOOBS load (New out of the box)
3. Use it … I don’t really have a step 3 but it sounds cool to have 3 steps.
   1. ok – add an xbox controller to the mix. OpenELEC xbox ctrlr discussion

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Ccleaner. Whatever Malware Bytes does … it is BEYOND awesome and has saved a lot of people from having to redo their computers. Makes me look like a hero – this is my first choice. When I brought this up with my IT desktop guy – he said ccleaner is great. He uses it from his USB stick. PAY THE $$ for Malware bytes. It is NOT an antivirus – it is just plain awesome.

https://czerwsup.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/adding-everyone-permissions-programmitcally-in-sharepoint-2013/

Lets keep it simple .. click here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/

First, I didn’t need to find this – I blogged a javascript version long ago, but I forgot I blogged it. I thought it was pre-blogging.  Here is a DOS version too. Someone complained it was slow, but copy, paste into notepad, change the line below “Please enter IP address range (for example, 192.168.0)” (remove the /p) and run it. Answer in less that 3 minutes. Here it is. http://superuser.com/questions/45687/how-can-i-ping-a-range-of-ip-addresses-simultaneously

I did change a couple other lines cause I wanted to see the results – not just look in the created file. Change the 2 lines into 4 …

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IF %errorlevel%==0 echo %subnet%.%count% UP >> c:\pingnet.log
IF %errorlevel%==0 echo %subnet%.%count% UP
IF %errorlevel%==1 echo %subnet%.%count% DOWN >> c:\pingnet.log
IF %errorlevel%==1 echo %subnet%.%count% DOWN

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Lets keep it simple. Here is the link. This is related to another article I outined enabling Folder Redirection and setting environment variables via GPO (also in that article).

Also – the default login domain isn’t consistent – it needs to be for the users. Since I had to use the local computer name as the domain for administrative reasons during the initial joining of the domain – but it doesn’t stick and I don’t want to have to train users how to enter the domain name each time (why should they – their job is their job – not learning complex IT stuff). So lets make this more “mac-like”. Follow this article.

So I have this blog that is supposed to help me find bookmarks for past projects so I can redo stuff quickly – but it only works if you use it. I didn’t and I had to relearn the steps WHICH DID NOT WORK. So luckily – the history of the machine where I did it still had all the links. Here are the pages that worked. When I figure out what is different between the one that worked that the one that didn’t I will re-blog it in this article. Here is a dump of the links that worked. At the bottom was the one that didn’t [UPDATE: It did work – the GPO settings didn’t save – that was the root cause] –  but I didn’t follow it to a T because I didn’t want some of those features (they were optional .. or were they) . So – like a mac, there is no save button – but the setting’s didn’t take for some reason. So – never assume it took – double check. I also found 10 reasons GPO fails – mine was reason#11 – “it didn’t save”. I had 2 of them today that did this on Server 2012 – but i know to hit F5 to refresh the summary page now to see if it took. Continue reading →

I got this from networksolutions.com helpdesk. If they use it, I will use it. http://mxtoolbox.com/#