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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.
Autodesk Labs has released another handy tool for Civil 3D, the new Subassembly Composer. It's basically a tool that automates the programming of custom subassemblies. You can…
January 13, 2011 · 2 min read
I was babysitting my nephews recently and astonished by their ability to fight over whatever toy the other one was currently playing with. Sharing is clearly a learned behavior…
January 11, 2011 · 3 min read
I enjoy working with Civil 3D styles. It allows me to be both analytical and creative – two things that make me tick. In this post, I’ll show you how to create a label style for a…
January 5, 2011 · 1 min read
Happy New Year! My CAD new year's resolution is to try out more of Autodesk's new programs. There are so many of them and there is so little time explore them. Here are a few that…
January 3, 2011 · 1 min read
This post is going to address another one of the more common AutoCAD conundrums that people run into. Most people are trained to use AutoCAD in 2D. However, even when working in a…
December 20, 2010 · 2 min read
I've been helping a customer solve an issue in Civil 3D 2011. They have a user working on a plat map. Their standard is to have one drawing with the parcels and another sheet…
December 17, 2010 · 2 min read
Welcome home to everyone that went to AU. From what I hear, it was a great conference, though your legs might be tired from all the walking. Brian was telling me about one of the…
December 3, 2010 · 1 min read
At Autodesk University 2010, I was happy to have met many users throughout the exhibit. To get a better understanding of where everyone was coming from, I asked users what CAD…
December 2, 2010 · 1 min read
So you need to generate an Excel spreadsheet or text file of your existing ground surface profile using Civil 3D. Maybe you're looking to do some in-depth analysis in Excel, or…
December 1, 2010 · 1 min read
Most AutoCAD users are familiar with Express Tools, and one of the most frequently asked questions we get is where are my Express Tools? If you do not have them showing, the first…
November 24, 2010 · 2 min read
Process Explorer is an amazing tool from Microsoft with a new version just released last week. I found it purely by accident while trying to track down some dll dependencies. The…
November 23, 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 file to set an AutoCAD variable –…
November 22, 2010 · 2 min read
The XCLIP and WIPEOUT commands are used to quickly hide specific areas in your drawing. First of all, an XCLIP takes an externally referenced drawing and hides certain areas using…
November 19, 2010 · 2 min read
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