There was recently a security issue published on the internet about the Apache Log4net component: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-1285/

Unlike the previous issue about Apache Log4J, Clarity DOES in fact use this component.

We do not believe that this security issue meaningfully affects Clarity customers. Here is why:

If you have concerns about this issue, please reach out to us via support (at) rand.com.

We have been working with Autodesk for some time, trying to identify why the Desktop Connector and AdSSO components have been frequently "stepping on one another", causing the loss of the BIM360 token on Clarity Task Servers.

Autodesk today released Desktop Connector 15.4.0.1677 Download: https://help.autodesk.com/view/CONNECT/ENU/?guid=GUID-03D59AAD-65B0-45E3-84F2-A12AAA5BB267 

According to one Clarity customer who was involved in pre-release testing of this version, it resolved more than 70% of the "lost token" issues. While this is not 100% - we're extremely grateful for this kind of progress.

We strongly recommend deploying this version of Desktop Connector to anyone who has had issues of the BIM360

We have had a variety of customers asking for a statement of whether we're affected by the Log4J / Log4Shell vulnerability.

We do not use Log4J (or any other Java, for that matter) - so we should be unaffected.

We DO use Autodesk Forge - and at one point a customer indicated that Autodesk's trust-and-security page still had "Forge" as pending. Autodesk has expanded the statuses on this page:

https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2021-0012

Clarity does use:

- Forge Data Management:  Not Vulnerable

- Forge Design Automation: Mitigated (and we only use only if you opt into Clarity Cloud Processing)

- Forge Model Derivative

Recorded Webinar Now Available:

Matt Mason (Product Manager for Clarity at IMAGINiT) and Bill Carney (Design Technology Leader) discuss the new Clarity Space Programming Module.

https://resources.imaginit.com/videos-webcasts/explore-the-new-clarity-space-programming-module

Hello, In the Alternate IFC In the configuration of "Configuration Name" I cannot retrieve my personalized export parameters from my Revit model. I tried to do DBexport but nothing or done. For information, my central model is on BIM 360.    

Last week we reported that a percentage of customers encountered an issue during installation which was causing their Clarity web application to not work after install. Root Cause: During an upgrade install, the Clarity Host Installer issued a command to stop all of the Microsoft IIS services—to ensure that no files are in-use when we attempt to remove/replace/upgrade them. For some customers, this command either:

In these cases, the DLLs for the web application did not get properly replaced, and it caused issues after the installation. NOTE: If you successfully installed the software, and your web application worked—then there is

For architects that do Space Programming / Space Planning projects, we have introduced a new module for Clarity to help.

• Develop your Space Program inside of Clarity, or in Excel (then import it).
• Provide various tools to analyze the program in Clarity (pivot table, stacking diagram, etc).
• Build adjacency rules
• Inside Revit:
  • Define parameter mappings to work with your Space Programming Families
  • Automate the creation of elements to represents program requirements
  • Track the design against the program
  • Check adjacencies
  • Convert families to rooms (with walls)
  • Check and place FF&E to meet requirements
  • Synchronize data back to Clarity for reporting
• Report

Hello!

The development team is happy to offer the newest version of IMAGINiT Clarity: 2022.1.

What’s In 2022.1?

• New integration to Egnyte Cloud Storage (Post Task Action and Sync Task)
• New integration to Google Drive (Sync Task)
• Improved configuration of BIM360 Upload Post Task Action (lock it to THIS project)
• Improved ProjectWise to Sharepoint integration
• Metrics Enhancements:
• If you are opted into “Community Metric Sharing”, see what (anonymous) other firms are using for Firm Standards
• Added Metrics for AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
• Clarity Client for AutoCAD

What Else?

For Architects doing Space Programming work, there is a whole new Clarity

Is there a way to apply a bunch of Task Templates to a project at once?

Just to draw your attention to them, there are two new short videos on the IMAGINiT resource center about how to leverage Clarity data into PowerBI:

For the basics of connecting, particularly using the new OData features:

https://resources.imaginit.com/videos-webcasts/connect-to-clarity-data-from-powerbi-and-excel

If you're interested in getting floorplan (room/space/area) data in as part of your PowerBI dashboard, check out this one:

https://resources.imaginit.com/videos-webcasts/showing-floorplans-in-powerbi-data

(10/28/21)

At present, the best combination that we are seeing for stability seems to be:

• Desktop Connector: 14.10.0.1456  / AdSSO: 12.3.3.1803

Other "Known Good Combinations" include:

• Desktop Connector: 14.11.0.1476  / AdSSO: 12.2.2.1802
• NO Desktop Connector (if you can live without it) / AdSSO:12.3.3.1803

You can see the versions you have installed in the Control Panel, Programs and Features.

As you know, the Desktop Connector releases come out every month, so it's difficult to keep track of exactly which combinations work best. If you don't see your version combination listed above, it may still be fine - but if you're encountering issues with

We're happy to announce a new product related to IMAGINiT Clarity - IMAGINiT Clarity Cloud.

Clarity Cloud is an early-stage product to demonstrate using Clarity entirely in the cloud, with no on premise hardware.

As of now, it works only with BIM360 projects, and all of the tasks are done in the cloud, either by IMAGINiT or by Autodesk Forge.

While the on-premise tool remains much more powerful and flexible, we're excited to see how Clarity Cloud can grow over time.

For more information, see:

https://imaginit.com/ClarityCloud

We also have an upcoming webinar on June 29, 2021:

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1532528309673293325?source=a2u4u000000zvHU&utm_campaign=2106_Clarity_Cloud_Webcast&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

The following Windows update (see things to check) causes the ClarityWebAppPool and the ClarityWebServicesAppPool to fail to stay running.

Symptoms

• When accessing the web portal you get a 503 error Service Unavailable
• Web app pools above will not stay started.

Things to Check

• Were any Windows Updates installed?
  • Update for Microsoft Windows (KB4601555)
    • May 11, 2021-KB4601555 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 1809 and Windows Server, version 2019 (microsoft.com)
  • Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5003243)
    • KB5003243: Servicing stack update for Windows 10, version 1809: May 11, 2021 (microsoft.com)

Event Logs

System Event Warning WAS

Hi folks-

I wanted to alert you that the Clarity development team has wrapped up IMAGINiT Clarity 2022 and all customers active under maintenance should receive an email about it last Friday.

What’s Inside?

Clarity 2022 contains a number of new features that we’re excited about: 

• Support for Revit and Revit Server 2022 (and offering support for 5 versions – back through 2018, so no versions are lost in this release).
• First-class support for AutoCAD Tasks, including PDF, Navisworks and eTransmit
• A Task Dashboard for easily analyzing how Clarity is being used.
• BIM360 Enhancements for Data Extraction
• Deeper integration with

Thank you for your continued interest in Clarity! We're excited to bring you the Clarity 2022 version—and we're looking for your assistance in beta testing the product. Clarity 2022 will offer:

The Clarity 2022 Beta Testing period will run from approximately 4/16 thru 5/15. You can participate by:

We'll have a webcast to give you an overview of the beta features and tell you more on April 15th, register here.

Many of our customers have encountered challenges with maintaining the Autodesk Login Token, which keeps your Clarity Task Server signed in to Revit as a particular user.

We'd like to review some basic information about the problem and then talk about some recent improvements on our side:

The Basics

The token is shared between all Autodesk products on a particular machine. By itself, each token lasts for 14 days. So it should only be necessary to sign in once every 14 days.

However - with the advent of Autodesk Desktop Connector, this changed. With Desktop Connector installed - Desktop Connector

Please find the following Release Notes for Clarity:

2023.1

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2023.0

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2022.1

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2022.0

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2021.1:

- Host Updates - Task Updates

2021.0:

- Host Updates

- Task Updates

Over the past 2 months, we've encountered more customers having trouble with keeping their Revit task servers signed in to BIM360. This is due to a confluence of factors, including updates by Autodesk to Revit 2020.2 and Autodesk Desktop Connector.

The symptom was that instead of extending your signed-in Revit token, the desktop connector seemed to be wiping out the stored token after 1-3 days - meaning that you would need to sign in again.

Autodesk has been investigating this changed behavior, and it recommends that users upgrade to the newest Autodesk Desktop Connector (12.4).

IMAGINiT has also improved its