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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.
Civil 3D and Civil View (Dynamite VSP) make 3ds Max much easier to learn if you are trying to create civil renderings. Civil View is used to quickly convert Civil 3D geometry such…
May 4, 2011 · 2 min read
I love it when software gives me new features that not only extends the capabilities, but also reduces the need for repetitive tasks. The redesigned elevation banding in Civil 3D…
May 2, 2011 · 2 min read
Dynamite VSP was renamed to Civil View in the 2012 release of products. If you purchased the Premium Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite, then it's likely that you are going to…
April 29, 2011 · 1 min read
Now that we have addressed the 1000-lb gorilla that is CAD Standards , we can finally get started on creating the templates. The very first item you should address are Drawing…
April 20, 2011 · 2 min read
Recently, the buzz about Autodesk's Project Galileo (now graduated to Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler) has been growing and to be honest I was skeptical about the program. To me…
April 18, 2011 · 2 min read
The sheet set manager has a nice feature that creates viewports on your sheets from model views. In this post I'll show you how to use this feature in your sheet sets through a…
April 15, 2011 · 2 min read
With the advent of the associative arrays in AutoCAD 2012 products, we’ve got a great new tool with some interesting possibilities. Recently, I wrote about using Civil 3D…
April 7, 2011 · 2 min read
The UCS is a challenging aspect of AutoCAD, despite how innocent it seems. We often recommend that people never change the UCS. Here are a couple of reasons that we usually tell…
April 5, 2011 · 3 min read
Let me start out, that this post was originally inspired by the recent Civil 3D Reminders, Civil 3D Interview Questions post, which according to Chris' last post is no longer going…
April 1, 2011 · 3 min read
The release of Civil 3D 2012 is coming just over the horizon in mid-April, and there are some exciting things to come. This is the Civil 3D update that I've been looking forward to…
March 22, 2011 · 3 min read
One of the main new features of AutoCAD 2012 is called the Content Explorer. The Content Explorer essentially conglomerates Design Center and Autodesk Seek, while also adding…
March 22, 2011 · 2 min read
CAD Standards can’t be ignored when building Civil 3D Templates. You still need layers with colors and linetypes. You still need text styles. And you still need to choose between…
March 22, 2011 · 3 min read
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for 64-bit versions of was recently released. I doubt that many people have installed it yet. Especially since most of us have the "if it's not broken, don't…
March 18, 2011 · 1 min read
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