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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.
This is a strange problem that has been haunting my workstation for a while. Whenever I was using Civil 3D 2010 on my workstation I would have COM errors and AutoCAD would run very…
August 2, 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
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
One of the main new features of AutoCAD 2012 is called the Content Explorer. The Content Explorer essentially conglomerates Design Center and Autodesk Seek, while also adding…
March 22, 2011 · 2 min read
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for 64-bit versions of was recently released. I doubt that many people have installed it yet. Especially since most of us have the "if it's not broken, don't…
March 18, 2011 · 1 min read
Shape files (.shp) are a common file format in the GIS world, the file format is often used to exchange data between ESRI software and AutoCAD. Because each software package…
March 16, 2011 · 3 min read
One of the more difficult aspects of using Feature Data Objects (FDO) is the fact that all of the styles in the Display Manager are What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG). This is…
March 9, 2011 · 2 min read
AutoCAD is flexible. There are few restrictions on the number of entities, layers, or text styles in a drawing. A line can exist at any elevation (z value) with any color and…
February 25, 2011 · 2 min read
Everyone in AutoCAD drafts at a different speed. When you're watching someone use AutoCAD, especially if you are unfamiliar with the software, you might find yourself amazed at how…
February 3, 2011 · 2 min read
Many engineering firms are built around the idea of “get the plans out the door.” That’s how they make their money. That’s what everybody rallies around. But what happens once the…
December 22, 2010 · 1 min read
At Autodesk University 2010, I was happy to have met many users throughout the exhibit. To get a better understanding of where everyone was coming from, I asked users what CAD…
December 2, 2010 · 1 min read
I'm going to expand on what makes Topobase different than a lot of the products in the Autodesk lineup. If you have are completely unfamiliar with Topobase, you might want to read…
November 30, 2010 · 2 min read
Now that we've seen how to translate point files and drawings from one coordinate system to another, let's take a look at another option, translating data sources. Feature Data…
November 11, 2010 · 1 min read
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