cant find autodesk seek items

cant find autodesk seek items

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cant find autodesk seek items

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Hey everyone. So I am trying to do a project and would like to know where the default save location is for autodesk seek. I have windows 7 if it matters. I cannot find or load say bathroom stall partitions from autodesk seek into my commercial type bathroom. Any help is appreciated.

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rosskirby
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I'm not sure you understand how seek works.  It's just a web-based location for you to download families.  Once you've saved the families to your computer or network (wherever you want to save them), you can load them into your project (Architecture tab --> Component button --> Load Family, then navigate to the file you loaded).  Alternatively, open your project file, open the downloaded file then click "Load into project."

 

Seek will not automatically transfer a family from the web to your project model.  Also, be wary of any content you download.  There are no guarantees that the representation of the object in the family is accurate to the actual product.

Ross Kirby
Principal
Dynamik Design
www.dynamikdesign.com
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It won't seem to allow me to save them where I want to. The only options it gives are to hit a yellow download button and to the left of this button it says save to local or save to A360 drive. When I do that it brings up a loading bar, wants me to sign in, I hit the "X" to prevent signing in, already agreed to the terms and conditions in the next step, then from there I do not know where the downloaded item goes. When I hit architecture load component it only brings up some counter tops, a toilet, a couple desks, a desk chair and such. The link to the bathroom stalls I want is http://seek.autodesk.com/product/latest/agg/bradleycorporation/Bradley-Corporation/bradley0111.  If anyone can walk me through how to load these/find them after I hit the yellow download button and save to local, it would be appreciated. I already downloaded a pass thru drawer from this method and can find it on my computer and place it in my plan, but the bathroom stall does not show up in this same location and it is the same for anything else I try to download from "seek". Thanks

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rosskirby
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You have to login to download.  It may preview some kind of download process bar, but it won't actually download to your computer (or A360) until you've logged in.  

Ross Kirby
Principal
Dynamik Design
www.dynamikdesign.com
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Anonymous
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Im working in autodesk building design suite 2015, which file should i be downloading into Autocad, and I still cannot find the folder which is is downloaded under the "DESIGNCENTER" tools palete

Thank you

Jessica

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chrisplyler
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You have to sign in to download seek items. And when you do download them, whether you are asked where to save them or not and where the default download goes to if you are not asked, is controlled by a setting in your browser. It is likely that they go into your Downloads folder.

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I have signed in, will the rivet file work with the auto desk 2015
standard? I've tried downloading to 360 cloud and other option
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chrisplyler
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When you're looking at an available rfa file on Seek, you can see what year Revit it was made in. Files will work in the version they were made in or newer versions. They will not work in older versions of Revit.

 

If you want to use a family in a Revit project, you've going to have to download it to your computer. You're going to have to be signed in, download it to your computer, choose where to save it or otherwise figure out where it saved, and then with Revit you can load it in to a project.

 

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