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.
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT for Mac 2017 have been released. New features are available in interface customization, working with PDF's and the ability to run multiple AutoCAD sessions…
January 11, 2017 · 1 min read
Civil 3D 2017 was just released this April! As always, we recommend waiting until after initial bugs are addressed to install the version, especially if you will be relying on…
April 29, 2016 · 5 min read
For the 2016 release of Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk boasts 387 new additions and improvements thanks to the help of Inventor user requests. Inventor is Autodesk's 3D product…
August 20, 2015 · 3 min read
Spring time has come again, which means a new release of Autodesk AutoCAD! Many improvements have been made for AutoCAD 2016, including a few from Autodesk's top requested features…
May 22, 2015 · 3 min read
Here is a list of CAD Masters’ top AutoCAD Map 3D 2015 new features, in no particular order. Installs on top of other AutoCAD installations If multiple versions of AutoCAD 2015 are…
March 28, 2014 · 1 min read
Here is a list of some of the top AutoCAD 2014 new features in no particular order. Autodesk ReCap (Reality Capture) Autodesk ReCap comes with AutoCAD and is used to process point…
March 28, 2013 · 2 min read
The pressure pipe catalog editor (Autodesk.Aec.Content.CatalogEditor.exe) can be found in the installation directory for Civil 3D: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013…
April 16, 2012 · 1 min read
Improved Performance This one sounds simple, but is a big deal. Performance with Civil 3D has been dramatically enhanced, specifically when related to Data Shortcuts. Large sets of…
April 5, 2012 · 2 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
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
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
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
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