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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.
The DB Link for Revit has been around for quite a while now. First, it existed in Autodesk Labs, and then became a subscription add-in. The 2012 version of DB Link was released…
April 13, 2011 · 4 min read
Revit 2012 is now officially available. You can download it from the Subscription Center, if you have not already. However, maybe you have not even purchased Revit yet and are…
April 11, 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
It's time to take a step back from all the Autodesk 2012 releases and look back into the past a little. The AutoCAD Customize User Interface (CUI) was a new feature of AutoCAD…
March 31, 2011 · 2 min read
Some of you should have installed AutoCAD 2012 by now and if you have, then you were probably mystified by what you were actually looking at on the box's cover . In case you were…
March 28, 2011 · 1 min read
Inventor Fusion comes with AutoCAD 2012. We've been very excited about this product ever since seeing it in Autodesk Labs and learning that it was going to be a part of the AutoCAD…
March 24, 2011 · 1 min read
That's right, AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD Architecture 2012, and AutoCAD MEP 2012 are out and available for download from the Subscription Center . Look for the other vertical products…
March 23, 2011 · 1 min read
Revit Architecture 2012 Worksharing - Worksharing has greatly improved in Revit 2012. You can now graphically identify many aspects of elements, such as the ownership status…
March 23, 2011 · 2 min read
Topobase functionality - Map and Topobase, Autodesk's enterprise GIS solution, are now integrated. See our series on " What is Topobase? " for more information on that product. All…
March 23, 2011 · 1 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
March Madness, hints of spring in the air, more daylight, baseball season around the corner, and the release of the latest and greatest version of AutoCAD. How can you not love…
March 22, 2011 · 3 min read
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