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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.
Project Neon allows you to use Autodesk's servers to render your Revit models. However, Web Update 1 for Revit broke Project Neon. There is now an update to the add-in so that it…
July 1, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk Labs recently released an eTransmit plug-in for Revit 2012. Similar to the AutoCAD ETRANSMIT command, it will group all of the files for a Revit project so that they can…
June 30, 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
Autodesk rolled out their Exchange Apps recently. If you're using a 2012 product you may have already noticed the new tab in your Exchange window. Exchange Apps is a place for…
June 23, 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
There are around 6.92 billion people in the world. A number that is nearly impossible to fathom. All these people, all over the world need infrastructure. Furthermore, they need…
June 16, 2011 · 1 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
One of the problems you might run into when creating an exterior render in Revit is the ground plane. When rendering, you will probably want to turn it off or cover it up. What I…
June 3, 2011 · 1 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
The 123d beta is now available to download for free from 123dapp.com . If you've been following Inventor Fusion , then you'll already have a good idea of what 123d is like. There…
May 20, 2011 · 1 min read
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