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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.
The Civil 3D 2012 Subassembly Composer was officially released today and has been heavily upgraded from its Autodesk Labs form. For Civil 3D users, this add-on has been generating…
July 7, 2011 · 1 min read
We've been having a couple of calls recently about drawing slowness in the 2012 products. Just in case you are experiencing this, Autodesk released a hotfix that seems to solve the…
July 7, 2011 · 1 min read
When rendering scenes in 3DS Max and Civil View (Dynamite VSP), you might find that the mental ray presets take a long time to render. Therefore, any animations that you create…
June 28, 2011 · 1 min read
Civil and Survey templates overlap in many areas. Both templates will have styles for surfaces and alignments, maybe even profiles and profile views. Surveyors always seem to do…
June 21, 2011 · 2 min read
In part 4 , we discussed styles in your Civil 3D template. How do you ensure your styles will be used? Feature Settings are the key to setting default styles and settings. Feature…
June 14, 2011 · 3 min read
There's a great post over at Being Civil on Assigning Optional Properties to a Part Size . If you want to add any of your own optional properties, I'd recommend taking a look at…
June 9, 2011 · 2 min read
Autodesk released a list of the planned fixes for the 3ds Max 2012 to improve feedback from the customers. This is very different from what we would typically see of the other…
June 1, 2011 · 1 min read
Map 3D Enterprise 2012 is what used to be referred to as Autodesk Topobase . The main feature of Map 3D Enterprise 2012 is that you can use the features of Topobase with an Oracle…
May 26, 2011 · 2 min read
A frequently asked question for us at CAD Masters is whether we know of any good block or family libraries. This is a difficult question to answer since there are so many different…
May 24, 2011 · 2 min read
Autodesk has recently released the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Transportation Extension. This is available directly from the Autodesk support website. The extension comes with an…
May 19, 2011 · 1 min read
As you’re getting ready plot and you look at the plot preview, you might notice something strange. Sometimes objects in paperspace that were previously on top of the image are now…
May 17, 2011 · 1 min read
We see many strange issues in tech support. The following is a made-up call for a not so made-up problem. Caller: I see a big red X in the Layer Properties Manager Support: A big…
May 13, 2011 · 1 min read
In part 3 , we started working on our Civil 3D template by addressing Drawing Settings. In this post, we’ll address Styles which some consider styles the beef of the template. How…
May 11, 2011 · 5 min read
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