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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.
In my last post , I said that I was going to exclude c:\windows\winsxs from the on-access scans for McAfee Virus and Spyware Protection. The McAfee software prevents me from doing…
October 20, 2011 · 1 min read
Recently, I had an issue with AutoCAD performance. Whenever I would pick an entity there was a 3-5 second delay before I could do anything with it. The issue occurred in both 2011…
October 19, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk suites have been increasing in popularity since their release. They give you get a lot of power and flexibility at a reduced cost. They're a great solution and we've got a…
October 5, 2011 · 2 min read
Network Licensing Overview Autodesk network licensing gives you a pool of floating licenses where users are able to check out a license from the license pool upon launch of their…
October 4, 2011 · 3 min read
Autodesk Cloud was recently released for all subscription customers. What is Autodesk Cloud? It's an online service that gives you access to a variety of online server based…
September 27, 2011 · 1 min read
If you've ever seen a survey prism , you may find them hypnotic to look at. You'll always see the pupil of your eye in the dead center, no matter what angle you look into the prism…
September 22, 2011 · 1 min read
Sometimes you need to change the display of your assembly in plan view or in your sections. Today I had a call on the topic that reminded me that there a few nuances to the process…
September 1, 2011 · 2 min read
In Civil 3D, you may wish to create line and curve ticks so that it's easy to find the beginning and ending points of your geometry. One method to do this is to create Civil 3D…
August 18, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk released a new subscription extension recently to help estimate project costs using data from the Bid Express service. If you need to download the extension, you can get…
August 3, 2011 · 1 min read
This is a strange problem that has been haunting my workstation for a while. Whenever I was using Civil 3D 2010 on my workstation I would have COM errors and AutoCAD would run very…
August 2, 2011 · 1 min read
As you may know, Civil 3D does not like vertical faces in a TIN. Many of the default corridor subassemblies actually have slight offsets built in to avoid creating vertical faces…
July 22, 2011 · 1 min read
Recently, we had a customer call in asking about how to preserve the gaps in a corridor surface when exporting to Civil View. When you export a corridor in Civil View to 3DS Max…
July 14, 2011 · 1 min read
New service packs have been released for most AutoCAD-based 2011 products within the last month or so. This is true for AutoCAD , Civil 3D , Map 3D , Architecture , and MEP among…
July 12, 2011 · 1 min read
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