CAD Masters Blog & Resources
Practical guides, cheat sheets, and release news for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and the wider Autodesk ecosystem — written by the CAD Masters team.
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
Autodesk Cloud was recently released for all subscription customers. What is Autodesk Cloud? It's an online service that gives you access to a variety of online server based…
September 27, 2011 · 1 min read
Revit 2011 introduced the modeless properties palette that allows us to change the properties of selected elements while in the model. This made it much easier to change the…
August 10, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk released a new subscription extension recently to help estimate project costs using data from the Bid Express service. If you need to download the extension, you can get…
August 3, 2011 · 1 min read
The Civil 3D 2012 Subassembly Composer was officially released today and has been heavily upgraded from its Autodesk Labs form. For Civil 3D users, this add-on has been generating…
July 7, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk released a list of the planned fixes for the 3ds Max 2012 to improve feedback from the customers. This is very different from what we would typically see of the other…
June 1, 2011 · 1 min read
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
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
A couple of weeks ago, my wife graciously gifted me a Sony Network Blu-Ray player, so we could watch streaming Netflix on our flat-screen from the comfort of our own bedroom. So…
January 17, 2011 · 2 min read
I've been helping a customer solve an issue in Civil 3D 2011. They have a user working on a plat map. Their standard is to have one drawing with the parcels and another sheet…
December 17, 2010 · 2 min read
As the excitement fades from Autodesk University and we feel the daze of Christmas and New Year coming on, getting back to work and putting to use what we learned last week may…
December 8, 2010 · 2 min read
No, I’m not talking about the 1950s fad that got us to shake our bootys, but the little known benefit that Autodesk offers with their Subscription program. HULA, or Home Use…
November 18, 2010 · 2 min read
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