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AutoCAD Analysis Zebra
This strange command was introduced in AutoCAD 2011. Speaking with co-workers here, it’s mainly a source of frustration as users try to Zoom Extents and instead get the ZEBRA…
March 21, 2012 · 1 min read
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Revit DB Link and Office 2010 64-bit MDB
I recently upgraded to Office 2010 64-bit on a Windows 7 64-bit workstation. From our experience, many Revit users are running a 64-bit version of Revit with an older version of…
March 16, 2012 · 1 min read
CAD Masters
Civil 3D
Civil 3D Survey Figure Linetype Generation
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
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AutoCAD
Auto Updating Data Links
Data Links are a great way to link tables in AutoCAD with Excel spreadsheets. If you update the Excel file you'll most likely get a warning in AutoCAD that the file has been…
February 15, 2012 · 1 min read
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Civil 3DNews
Professional Development
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
CAD Masters
Civil 3D
Autodesk Vault and Civil 3D - Part 4 - Milestones & Labels
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
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Civil 3D
CMI Tools for Civil 3D - Rename Subassemblies
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
CAD Masters
Civil 3D
Autodesk Vault and Civil 3D – Part 3
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
CAD Masters
Civil 3D
Autodesk Vault and Civil 3D - Part 2
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
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Civil 3D
Obscure AutoCAD Commands
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
CAD Masters
Civil 3D
Autodesk Vault and Civil 3D - Part 1
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
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Civil 3DNews
AU 2011 Highlights
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
CAD Masters
Civil 3D
NVidia Maximus
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