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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.
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
One of the biggest areas that Inventor Fusion seems to be hurting in is the lack of options and settings. It's easy to complain about most Autodesk software having too many…
May 6, 2011 · 1 min read
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
The post, Inventor Fusion Vs. Inventor touched on the broad overall picture of differences between the two packages and focused on the fact that Inventor is designed as a tool to…
April 28, 2011 · 3 min read
One of the easiest ways to identify the coordinates of a point in Navisworks is to use the Measure Tools. However, if you have only used the Ribbon in Navisworks, then you might…
April 22, 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
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