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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.
It's not too late to register for the Autodesk 2013 Virtual Event here . The general session presentation starts at 9AM PDT. There's also a group of breakout sessions to choose…
March 29, 2012 · 1 min read
Display Styles per Viewport with Dynamic Legends, North Arrows & Scales Previously, AutoCAD Map 3D was limited to a single display style at a time in a drawing. If you wanted a…
March 28, 2012 · 3 min read
This year’s Autodesk 2013 product launch is significantly different than previous years. We’re seeing almost all of the products being released on the same day. Typically, AutoCAD…
March 27, 2012 · 1 min read
This strange command was introduced in AutoCAD 2011. Speaking with co-workers here, it’s mainly a source of frustration as users try to Zoom Extents and instead get the ZEBRA…
March 21, 2012 · 1 min read
California is one of the few states that does not require professional development hours (PDH) for licensed professional engineers. I've often wondered about this and why this is…
February 1, 2012 · 2 min read
We get a lot of calls from people that have seen a command once, but forgot what the command was. Sometimes, we know these off the top of our head, other times they take a bit of…
December 16, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk University 2011 is less than two weeks away and we're gearing up to make AU 2011 one of the best ever. Autodesk Topobase First up, we are presenting a class on the…
November 16, 2011 · 1 min read
Map 3D 2012 (Enterprise) Service Pack 1 The Map 3D 2012 Service Pack was recently released. You can download it from this Autodesk link . While investigating the update, here are a…
November 11, 2011 · 1 min read
Touch Screens We are now seeing the wide scale adoption of the touch screen as an input device. AutoCAD for Mac supports gestures when using the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. We…
November 2, 2011 · 2 min read
In my last post , I said that I was going to exclude c:\windows\winsxs from the on-access scans for McAfee Virus and Spyware Protection. The McAfee software prevents me from doing…
October 20, 2011 · 1 min read
Recently, I had an issue with AutoCAD performance. Whenever I would pick an entity there was a 3-5 second delay before I could do anything with it. The issue occurred in both 2011…
October 19, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk suites have been increasing in popularity since their release. They give you get a lot of power and flexibility at a reduced cost. They're a great solution and we've got a…
October 5, 2011 · 2 min read
Network Licensing Overview Autodesk network licensing gives you a pool of floating licenses where users are able to check out a license from the license pool upon launch of their…
October 4, 2011 · 3 min read
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