CAD Masters Blog & Resources
Practical guides, cheat sheets, and release news for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and the wider Autodesk ecosystem — written by the CAD Masters team.
Civil 3D Modules Bridge, Geotechnical, River and Flood Analysis will become available to AutoCAD Civil 3D Subscription customers on August 7, 2015. Previously, these were…
August 10, 2015 · 1 min read
In the not too distant past Autodesk introduced Autodesk 360. 360 encompasses their cloud offerings. For most users where they see A360 is in the saving of design files and the…
July 14, 2015 · 1 min read
Part 3: June 2015 Updates Autodesk has just (June 2015) released the first release and second update for InfraWorks 360 2016; the updates refer to the title suffix R1 or 2016.2…
June 26, 2015 · 2 min read
Part 2: March 2015 Updates In the first release of the 2016 version, there were quite a few enhancements and new tools. The same sleek interface exists but with additional preview…
June 26, 2015 · 3 min read
After January 31, 2016, new perpetual licenses of most individual Autodesk software will no longer be available for purchase. Follow the link to view a webinar with CAD Masters…
May 20, 2015 · 2 min read
Civil 3D introduced pressure pipes a few years ago, but you largely have to create your own content libraries. The how-to of that content creation is pretty accessible across the…
February 6, 2015 · 1 min read
This post will describe how to preform a database downgrade on a Civil 3D 2015 survey database down to a Civil 3D 2014 survey database. Civil 3D 2015 uses a SQL Server Compact 4.0…
June 19, 2014 · 2 min read
When using pipe rules, if the rules adjust the slope, Civil 3D increasingly iterates the slope at 1% until it finds a set of values that match the rules. This was mentioned by…
May 7, 2014 · 2 min read
Here is a list of CAD Masters’ top AutoCAD Map 3D 2015 new features, in no particular order. Installs on top of other AutoCAD installations If multiple versions of AutoCAD 2015 are…
March 28, 2014 · 1 min read
CAD Masters’ first foray into the Civil 3D Autodesk Exchange Apps has resulted in an application named Style Component Find and Replace . Style Component Find and Replace is an…
November 28, 2013 · 1 min read
Selectio n Manager is a free and easy to use AutoCAD add-in application by CAD Masters that allows you to quickly create, save, and restore selection sets in a drawing. Selection…
July 18, 2013 · 1 min read
Civil 3D 2013 and Civil 3D 2014 Interoperability For previous versions of Civil 3D, the dwg file format is year specific. Civil 3D .dwg files opened in a newer version could not be…
April 8, 2013 · 1 min read
When working with Civil 3D Hydraflow Storm Sewers, if you export an .stm file from Civil 3D and then subsequently make edits in the .stm file in Hydraflow and save the .stm file…
January 29, 2013 · 2 min read
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