u/PatrickGSR94

Toposurfaces used to be fine in this regard. My building sections would show the Earth cut pattern below my toposurface, and any other solid geometry, including foundations in the linked structural model, would show up "in front" of the toposurface cut pattern.

Now with toposolids, they appear overlapping. The Earth drafting pattern shows up on top of and in addition to the structural foundations, making it look generally like garbage.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to avoid having to draw filled regions all over every section view.

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This seems to be happening in one particular model and I'm not sure why. When I create a sketch, draw a shape, then finish it, the sketch disappears immediately. Even a single closed circle sketch does this. So when I try to extrude from that sketch, there's nothing visible to pick. The eyeball next to the sketch in the list is grayscale. I can click on it and switch it to Hide. But when I click again, it comes back grayscale. If I hover the mouse over that sketch name in the list, it highlights in the workspace, but otherwise I cannot see it or select it at all. What am I missing here?

*edit* the whole Sketches heading was turned off. Didn't realize that was possible, probably clicked it by mistake at some point.

I've had the same leather belt with double rows of holes for probably 25+ years now. Bought it from The Buckle store in Opry Mills Mall in Nashville (how I remember that I have no idea LMAO, and the store is still there!).

Over the years my weight has fluctuated and so has the hole position I've used on my belt. When I was down to 175 several years ago, I was all the way to tightest hole, and even had to make another set of tighter holes at one point. But then, as I gained weight over the past couple years, I eventually ended up at the 4th hole out. I've started back on my journey 2 months ago, have lost 22 lbs now, and just this week I was able to comfortably go up to the 3rd hole out!

It's finally happening! Let's go!

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Tried to pay from my phone browser. Entered all info including CC. Got this message. Reloaded, tried re-entering all my info again. Same. Tried from my work PC, same result. Soooo, guess I'll write a paper fucking check. Last time I wrote a check was over 2 years ago.

Calorie deficit. That's it. Whatever it takes to get into and stay in a calorie deficit is how we lose weight. Various tools can help get you there. For me, I do IF, daily workouts, and food tracking.

Back in 2019, I tried the Keto fad diet. Trying to cut as many carbs as possible. It worked for awhile. I stuck to it for 6 months, and went from 225 to around 175 pounds in that time. But then I sorta just fell off the wagon and stopped caring about what I ate. I was cycling to work a couple times a week, but that was it for my physical activity.

By the end of 2021 I was back up to nearly 250 lb., which appalled me. Starting right then, I got back to food tracking. I actually joined and followed the Noom program for several months, although in hindsight it's really not required (would not recommend, if they're even still around). I also started daily workouts. First walking, and then running, on days that I didn't cycle. Combined with 16-8 IF (only ate between 12-8 pm, mostly), the weight came back off. By Fall 2022 I was down into the 170's again.

I maintained in the 180's for most of 2023, but then fell off again. I kept doing daily workouts (I've barely missed any days since 2022), but stopped caring about what or how much I ate. 2024, 2025, the weight crept back up. As of 20 April 2026, I was up to 226 again. And I decided to get back to it. Daily food logging (free version of MyFitnessPal), calorie and workout tracking via Apple watch, daily workouts of at least 30 minutes, every day. Only eating between 12 and 8 pm, aside from my morning coffee with splash of half-n-half. And, daily weigh-ins, at the same time every morning. Overall I aim for about 700-900 daily calorie deficit. And no, that does not leave me hungry, at all.

As of today, 5 June 2026, I'm 208, down 18 pounds since 20 April. Hoping to get back into the 170's eventually. I've been there before, and I felt so much better at that weight. A few things I've learned through this journey:

• I HAVE to track calories. I have to know where I'm at. That means using my Apple watch to track active calories, which feeds into MyFitnessPal to track my food and workouts, which then shows my daily calorie deficit. When I don't track, I tend to just eat everything in sight.
• IF has been a big help at maintaining the daily deficit.
• Brushing my teeth in the 8 PM hour also helps me to not sit around and snack at night.
• Daily workouts are a habit at this point. I just do it. Making it a daily habit makes it much easier to not skip.
• Daily weigh-ins also help me know where I'm at. I'm a numbers/stats type of person, so I have to know where I'm at every day, and always weighing under the same circumstances (morning before any food or drink, after the morning BM).
• I try to get in a good mixture of carbs, fats and protein. I don't really track macros at all anymore. Whatever I can eat that will fill me up while still staying in the calorie deficit, is fine for me.
• The Hacker's Diet is another good resource. I read most of it a few years ago, and still use the web-based charts and graphs to input my weight data. I only recently learned of the author's passing a few years ago, but the website itself is still up and running www.fourmilab.ch

That's it. Hope someone might be inspired by the successes (and avoid the pitfalls) I've had over the last few years.

We have a conference room with large screen, and a PC connected, with Revit installed. We use it every day for various meetings, both in person and Teams. Typical conference room stuff. So how do I set up a user for that machine, given the 2-factor authentication requirement? We have an email address reserved for the conference room, and a Revit license available to use there in the conference room. But then I would have to set up a 2FA code on my own phone's Authenticator app, for instance. That may work for awhile, for 30 days or whatever, but then if it gets logged out when I'm not here, then other people in the office would be SOL.

We used to have the boss logged in all the time, and just never have the same file open on his workstation and the conference room at the same time. It worked fine when different files were being accessed. But apparently something has changed with Autodesk just this week, such that 2 machines can't even open Revit at the same time under the same user.

Is the only option, to tell users they have to close out of their Revit, and then log into the conference room machine, and fumble around with the 2FA garbage, EVERY TIME they have a meeting? That seems like a garbage solution, when we already have AND PAY FOR another license that could be used in there. Or is there some other way for multiple people to have access to an Authenticator code for this one PC?

We're a small architecture office that depend on PDF files for documentation, and often that documentation needs to be marked up, usually by my boss (the company owner). Drawings, specifications, contracts, whatever. Most production staff have iPad Pro tablets, which I'm managing with Mosyle. Pretty much everything is stored on a Windows file server, which also serves as our Active Directory domain controller.

We've been using FileBrowser Pro for several years now, to navigate to folders on the server, and then using the markup tools built into the app. When finished, the PDF gets saved back to our server. Usually, the markups will show up fine when opening that same PDF on a workstation in Bluebeam. But recently we've had issues where the markups are being saved as a "stamp" in the PDF, and the markup content itself doesn't show up at all. Plus, the Stamp layer in the PDF is totally locked out, with the Lock option grayed out.

Anyone know of any other solutions for accessing and marking up PDF files on an iOS tablet?

My road bike's right side (rear brake) 10-speed ST-5700 brake/shift lever has been rather stiff or "gummy" feeling for at least a year now. It was shifting up and down fine, but when pulling the brake lever, the lever just stayed "pulled". I could still apply the rear brake with it, but I had to push the lever back out to release the brake. I finally got around to taking it apart last night while preparing to replace bar tape, and I noticed that the smaller lever that the main brake lever pushes, the lever that moves when shifting to larger cogs, is the sticky part. It doesn't want to spring back into position. Everything looks super dirty and greasy inside. That's what 14 years and 25,000+ miles of riding will do to it I guess.

I found a really good ST-6700 Ultegra disassembly/reassembly video, and most of the parts look similar on mine. But I'd rather not get into a full teardown if I don't have to. What's the best way to clean and grease/lube the internal shifting mechanism?

I currently have the unit off the bike, the brake lever (with upshift lever) assembly itself removed, and the side cover removed that exposes the shifting gear wheels and pawls.