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Practical guides, cheat sheets, and release news for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and the wider Autodesk ecosystem — written by the CAD Masters team.
It's time to take a step back from all the Autodesk 2012 releases and look back into the past a little. The AutoCAD Customize User Interface (CUI) was a new feature of AutoCAD…
March 31, 2011 · 2 min read
Some of you should have installed AutoCAD 2012 by now and if you have, then you were probably mystified by what you were actually looking at on the box's cover . In case you were…
March 28, 2011 · 1 min read
Inventor Fusion comes with AutoCAD 2012. We've been very excited about this product ever since seeing it in Autodesk Labs and learning that it was going to be a part of the AutoCAD…
March 24, 2011 · 1 min read
That's right, AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD Architecture 2012, and AutoCAD MEP 2012 are out and available for download from the Subscription Center . Look for the other vertical products…
March 23, 2011 · 1 min read
March Madness, hints of spring in the air, more daylight, baseball season around the corner, and the release of the latest and greatest version of AutoCAD. How can you not love…
March 22, 2011 · 3 min read
Have you ever wanted to import digital images to AutoCAD? Have you ever wanted to make lines from a digital images into AutoCAD entities? Raster Design is a program that imports…
March 4, 2011 · 2 min read
AutoCAD is flexible. There are few restrictions on the number of entities, layers, or text styles in a drawing. A line can exist at any elevation (z value) with any color and…
February 25, 2011 · 2 min read
A couple of weeks ago, my wife graciously gifted me a Sony Network Blu-Ray player, so we could watch streaming Netflix on our flat-screen from the comfort of our own bedroom. So…
January 17, 2011 · 2 min read
A lot of people are upgrading to Windows 7 these days. I made the move a couple of months ago and I've actually enjoyed the new OS-- though somehow I still can't use a ribbon…
January 7, 2011 · 1 min read
Many engineering firms are built around the idea of “get the plans out the door.” That’s how they make their money. That’s what everybody rallies around. But what happens once the…
December 22, 2010 · 1 min read
Have you seen the TV show hoarders? The one where they show people's houses crammed with junk from floor to ceiling. Where navigating through the house without tripping over things…
December 14, 2010 · 1 min read
In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to customize AutoCAD using an ACAD.LSP file. We started with a simple example where we used an ACAD.LSP to set an AutoCAD variable –…
December 10, 2010 · 1 min read
As the excitement fades from Autodesk University and we feel the daze of Christmas and New Year coming on, getting back to work and putting to use what we learned last week may…
December 8, 2010 · 2 min read
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