Standards, Overhead, IP, and time to generate that content with any hope of reward are cut off here. If we cannot turn to our peers- then All knowledge is frozen, locked up and might as well be lost. The company doesn't train in hardly anything production related... Lots of safety, graft and corruption training and understanding what gifts are appropriate for business. Some PM training - anything else? Think of the complexity of BIM and Data management and all the interrelated pieces- the complexity of that information and managing those systems to stay out of trouble through structure and process; Yet - No time for hours to *utilized* overhead for creating global standards. Utilization requirements make it impossible to generate those standards to train folks to get all our projects on the same page. Innovation is impossible under these conditions unless the innovators want to give away time and effort for pitiful to no reward. Anything created or innovated with that company is...
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What I think Autodesk needs to do for the industry and certifications
Autodesk is getting into the training and support business. And they have a unique position being tied into so many platforms they could do a great deal of good to conforming data for the AEC industry which enhancing their BIM 360 Platform. Focusing on Autodesk software and how to manage small parts of BIG data in corresponding software effectively and having teams establishing the Autodesk standard for integration, monitoring through the BIM 360 platform and other data. Requiring x number of modules to be a User of the software, or a professional in the software then a manager of x number of platforms. Use data on firms and how they operate to take hints as to which modules are pertinent to greater and greater certifications. Publish this data as open-source data (anonymized for those not willing to have the data tied to them) Using the US as an example - use the NCS for view/data management in AutoCAD and Revit so those data platforms remain compatible as AutoCAD is phased o...
VBA API For clipboard functions
''https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/access/Concepts/Windows-API/send-information-to-the-clipboard << Broken code... fixed here and below https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/48e8c30c-24ee-458e-a873-a4e6e13f5926/dataobject-settext-and-putinclipboard-sequence-puts-invalid-data-hex-63-characters-in-clipboard?forum=isvvba Attribute VB_Name = "MyClipboardAPI" '' https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/access/Concepts/Windows-API/send-information-to-the-clipboard Option Explicit Private Declare PtrSafe Function OpenClipboard Lib "User32" ( ByVal hWnd As LongPtr ) As LongPtr Private Declare PtrSafe Function EmptyClipboard Lib "User32" () As LongPtr Private Declare PtrSafe Function CloseClipboard Lib "User32" () As LongPtr Private Declare PtrSafe Function IsClipboardFormatAvailable Lib "User32" ( ByVal wFormat As LongP...
Powerpoint countdown and current time in slides VBA
Add text fields- this VBA searches through the objects in the first frame until it finds " " in the text some where, truncates everything from and to the right and replaces it with an active countdown timer or current time in the box. Refreshes every 500ms with a prtsafe call so it doesn't bog down the CPU. Add a slide advance to start the next slide and begin automated slide advancement. Attribute VB_Name = "Countdown" Private Declare PtrSafe Function WaitMessage Lib "user32" () As Long Public Sub Wait ( Seconds As Double ) ''non cpu-intensive wait timer '' https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57268161/sleep-wait-timer-in-powerpoint-vba-thats-not-cpu-intensive Dim endtime As Double endtime = DateTime.Timer + Seconds Do WaitMessage DoEvents Loop While DateTime.Timer < endtime End Sub Sub Countdown_from_Start () Dim Time As Date Dim Count As ...
Batch or CMD file naming for log files
::Log Filename & Folder ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Set FP to current Directory Path of executable '0' and file Name and append _LOGS set fp = %~dp0%~n0_Logs \ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Make the file path - will complain and skip if exists @ mkdir %fp% ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Set variable to be the log file name and use that SET LOG_FNAME = %fp%%USERNAME% @ %COMPUTERNAME% .log