CAD Masters Blog & Resources
Practical guides, cheat sheets, and release news for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and the wider Autodesk ecosystem — written by the CAD Masters team.
Service Pack 1 (SP1, Update 1) has been released for the Windows versions of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT . No news yet on the Mac update, but given that it was just released on August…
September 6, 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 Revit, there are many different methods available to create dimensions. It's fairly easy to create dimensions from the temporary dimensions (Activate Dimensions), and if you're…
August 25, 2011 · 1 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
Revit 2011 introduced the modeless properties palette that allows us to change the properties of selected elements while in the model. This made it much easier to change the…
August 10, 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
Lately I was working on a conceptual building design. I wanted to create an arched glass roof with a non-uniform shape. I planned to use a curtain system on an in-place mass. Every…
July 19, 2011 · 2 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
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
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