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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.
No, I’m not talking about the 1950s fad that got us to shake our bootys, but the little known benefit that Autodesk offers with their Subscription program. HULA, or Home Use…
November 18, 2010 · 2 min read
Since Civil 3D was first introduced, grading, in my opinion, has been the least reliable part of the program. Due to the incessant crashing, it always left a bad taste in my mouth…
November 17, 2010 · 2 min read
Jargon is funny, it can obfuscate conversations but also make them clearer for some. Sometimes jargon is overused in such a way as to judge or separate outsiders that might be very…
November 15, 2010 · 2 min read
Now that we've seen how to translate point files and drawings from one coordinate system to another, let's take a look at another option, translating data sources. Feature Data…
November 11, 2010 · 1 min read
CMI Tools is a set of custom commands that CAD Masters has created for Civil 3D. Just last week I was using the Export Surface to XYZ command and realized that there might be many…
November 8, 2010 · 1 min read
Customization Using ACAD.LSP - Part 1 Supporting Autodesk software on more than a few workstations can be a daunting task. If you are going to customize and standardize AutoCAD…
November 5, 2010 · 1 min read
As Drew started talking about in his post Death of the Draftsman , with new software implementation, we have to reevaluate the entire way that we think about software. When…
November 4, 2010 · 2 min read
You have your drawings all ready to go, you email the drawing to your client and they only receive bits and pieces of your drawing. Your client is telling you that there are broken…
November 3, 2010 · 2 min read
In most versions of AutoCAD, the Communications Center likes to run in the background. When AutoCAD crashes, this process sometimes remains and can cause conflicts with your…
November 1, 2010 · 1 min read
Part 1 looked at the coordinate transformation of points in Civil 3D. Continuing on the theme of coordinate systems, now we'll take a look at performing a coordinate transformation…
October 26, 2010 · 2 min read
So in the ongoing saga that is Autodesk Subscription Center , our customers are always asking: “Where do I get the latest version? …How come I never got a box? …Will this take a…
October 22, 2010 · 2 min read
Continuing in the spirit of my last post, I'd like to work my way up to the question of "What Is Topobase?" To begin with, let's revisit AutoCAD Map3D, Autodesk's GIS program…
October 21, 2010 · 3 min read
I distinctly remember the answer to a question that my professor asked one day in grad school. Too bad I don’t remember the question. It was somewhere along the lines of "Why…
October 20, 2010 · 2 min read
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