The RTV Tools Aconex Uploader makes the process of uploading documents to your Aconex project and generating Aconex transmittal emails as easy as a 1,2,3 process! Step 1 in that process is to define your source import folder and connect to your Aconex Project. To do so click the Connect button from the Aconex panel of the ribbon. The First time you use Aconex Uploader you will be asked to specify the source folder on your network to be used for imports when connected to the Aconex System. From then on each time you click the Connect button you can choose to keep using the same source folder or specify a new source folder as required. Navigate to the required ...
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The RTV Paint application will look in a user defined folder location for any colourbook files (.acb) from various paint manufacturers which can then be accessed and displayed through the RTV Paint user interface. When installing the RTV Paint plug-in you are provided with various manufacturers colourbooks which will be located in the default colourbook folder location on your machine as per below path. C:\Program Files\RTV Tools\Paint version\RTV Paint Colour Books You may already have other colourbook files that you use which can either be added to the default Colourbook folder or you can point the RTV Tools plug-in to any other user defined folder on your network instead. To define the required Colourbook Folder location go to the Settings ...
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For some of our RTV Tools products you will need to install and configure an SQL server to store database information. You can download required installation files from the following links; SQL Server 2012 R2: click here. SQL Server 2008 R2: click here. For guidance on the configuration setup of the SQL server please see the below PDF document. SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition Installation
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Parameter setup in Xporter Pro works in relation to the Project Parameters created directly in your Revit Project itself that Xporter Pro can then read and utilize to form part of the file naming convention and formatting when exporting various file formats. You do not have to make use of this ability if you do not want to however it does provide the means for a very useful parametric file naming mechanism out of Xporter Pro that Revit itself cannot do natively. There are three categories of Project Parameters that you can utilize with Xporter Pro being Sheet Parameters, View Parameters or Project Information Parameters. Create any required Project Parameters as you normally would within Revit itself just like the ...
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Parameter setup in Xporter works in relation to the Project Parameters created directly in your Revit Project itself that Xporter can then read and utilize to form part of the file naming convention and formatting when exporting various file formats. You do not have to make use of this ability if you do not want to however it does provide the means for a very useful parametric file naming mechanism out of Xporter that Revit itself cannot do natively. There are three categories of Project Parameters that you can utilize with Xporter being Sheet Parameters, View Parameters or Project Information Parameters. Create any required Project Parameters as normal within Revit itself just like the below screen shot showing some existing ...
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In order to create a Drawing Manager SQL project database for your current Revit Project you will need to make sure you have saved your current Revit Project with the required file name first as Drawing Manager will name the SQL database to match your Revit Project file name. If you have not saved your Revit project before launching Drawing Manager you will receive the following dialog display message. Once your Revit Project has been saved then launch RTV Tools Drawing Manager from the RTV Tools ribbon tab by clicking the Drawing Manager button. When you launch Drawing manager for the very first time when working with either an existing or newly created Revit Project, it will then create the ...
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Once you have selected your required Categories to capture the Revit Parameter Data for you can then also save the Category List for future use. Launch the Categories dialog box again by clicking the Categories button from the Reporter Ribbon The Right hand window will automatically display a list of ‘Recently Used Categories’ which you can select from to create a saved category list or by selecting categories from the left hand window. Once you have ticked the selected categories from either window go to the Save Category list window and type a name for the saved list and then click the Save Icon which will then add it to the drop down list. You can create as many Category ...
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When connecting to your Aconex project Aconex Uploader will check the contents of your specified source folder against what is already present in the actual Aconex Project database for any differences such as new files or existing files that have been revised/superseded. Aconex Uploader works seamlessly alongside our other Xporter Pro plug-in for Revit to produce the required electronic files ready for use by Aconex Uploader. Before you can upload the files to Aconex you will need to fill out the required Mandatory information for each document which is highlighted by the empty Yellow Cells in the data grid. This information is required by the Aconex system and until you have completed all mandatory information you will not be able ...
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With RTV Paint you can select predefined colours from the various manufacturers colour book files or you can use the Colour Picker to select your own user defined colour from the colour wheel. The RTV Paint app will then find the closest matching colour from the current colour book chart along with similar and complimentary colours. To use the colour picker option launch the RTV Paint plug-in. First of All you must choose a manufacturers colour book collection from the Colourbook library drop down and then click on the Colour Picker button to launch the Colour Picker dialog box. On the Colour Picker dialog box click on the colour wheel to define a colour or you can use the RGB ...
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In order for Shared Parameter Manager to manage your Shared Parameter files you will need to define the various parameter files to be actively managed and then import the parameters themselves from those files to the SPM SQL database. Your Revit application itself must of course have a default Shared Parameter File defined as the current parameter file, therefore when you launch SPM you will see that same parameter file and location already listed on the Settings Tab of the Ribbon. In addition to that if you have other Shared Parameter files then you will need to load those into SPM also to define them and manage them.
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