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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.
Survey figures by default do not show linetype generation in Civil 3D. This means if you have a survey figure with many closely spaced vertices, you will not be able to see the…
March 2, 2012 · 1 min read
California is one of the few states that does not require professional development hours (PDH) for licensed professional engineers. I've often wondered about this and why this is…
February 1, 2012 · 2 min read
In part 3 , we looked at putting your drawings and data into Vault. In this part, we'll discuss marking milestones for our Vault projects. For this example, lets suppose that we’ve…
January 25, 2012 · 2 min read
One of our applications that we develop at CAD Masters is called CMI Tools for Civil 3D. It includes several utilities for working with AutoCAD Civil 3D. You can read about the…
January 19, 2012 · 1 min read
In part 2 , we looked at installing Vault Collaboration for Civil 3D and how to create a Vault project. In this post, we will start designing in Civil 3D put drawings and data into…
January 11, 2012 · 3 min read
Now that the Vault server is up and running, the next step is to install the Autodesk Vault Collaboration client software on the computer with Civil 3D. The software requires a…
January 4, 2012 · 2 min read
We get a lot of calls from people that have seen a command once, but forgot what the command was. Sometimes, we know these off the top of our head, other times they take a bit of…
December 16, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk Vault was introduced for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2007 as a project and data management solution. We had several clients hop on board the Vault train, since at that time it was…
December 13, 2011 · 2 min read
Autodesk University 2011 has now passed. Just a week ago, we were in the midst of thousands of attendees trying to share and receive as much information from each other as…
December 7, 2011 · 1 min read
NVidia Maximus allows you to link up a Quadro card for graphics, and a Tesla card for data processing. This allows programs to unload intensive data processing operations off of…
November 23, 2011 · 1 min read
The much anticipated Civil 3D 2012 Service Pack 1 has been released. You can download it from here . It's great to have this service pack, especially since it contains all the…
November 17, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk University 2011 is less than two weeks away and we're gearing up to make AU 2011 one of the best ever. Autodesk Topobase First up, we are presenting a class on the…
November 16, 2011 · 1 min read
Touch Screens We are now seeing the wide scale adoption of the touch screen as an input device. AutoCAD for Mac supports gestures when using the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. We…
November 2, 2011 · 2 min read
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