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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.
Starting on August 14, 2015, customers with certain Desktop Subscription products will have access to additional previous versions. Access to previously released versions of…
August 13, 2015 · 1 min read
Civil 3D Modules Bridge, Geotechnical, River and Flood Analysis will become available to AutoCAD Civil 3D Subscription customers on August 7, 2015. Previously, these were…
August 10, 2015 · 1 min read
Part 3: June 2015 Updates Autodesk has just (June 2015) released the first release and second update for InfraWorks 360 2016; the updates refer to the title suffix R1 or 2016.2…
June 26, 2015 · 2 min read
Part 2: March 2015 Updates In the first release of the 2016 version, there were quite a few enhancements and new tools. The same sleek interface exists but with additional preview…
June 26, 2015 · 3 min read
Part 1: Subscription Changes When the 2016 version came out, not only did the program become more engineering efficient but the naming convention for the suite version also…
June 26, 2015 · 1 min read
Revit Quick Select, a part of CMI Tools for Revit , is now available for free on the Autodesk Exchange App Store. You can download the app from the Autodesk Exchange App Store here…
January 8, 2014 · 1 min read
After years of hearing rave reviews about the blazing speed of SSDs (solid state drives), I decided it was time to take the plunge and get one. It was the perfect time - my 300gb…
July 10, 2013 · 2 min read
I'd like to share with you information I’ve found while researching MAP-21, the new legislation that affects federally funded transportation projects. On October 1, 2012, the…
January 21, 2013 · 2 min read
If you have tried rendering in Revit, you may find that the materials have colors that look faded or washed out when rendering. This is because Revit does not apply any gamma…
January 7, 2013 · 1 min read
Microsoft’s RDP 8.0 protocol for Remote Desktop was first released with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Fortunately, it can also be installed on Windows 7 SP1 workstations…
January 3, 2013 · 4 min read
Fall is upon us and for those in the CAD world that means Autodesk University is approaching. AU is by far the biggest and most popular even that Autodesk has to offer. It brings…
September 12, 2012 · 2 min read
Of all the new features added to AutoCAD in the last few release cycles, one of the most underused has been Parametric Constraints. What is a parametric constraint? It’s a…
July 6, 2012 · 2 min read
If you’ve been paying attention to the Autodesk 2013 launch webcasts, then you’ve probably been hearing that Autodesk’s cloud service Autodesk Cloud Document has been renamed to…
March 29, 2012 · 2 min read
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