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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.
As the manager of a computer repair store, the worst situation is to tell our customer that their hard drive is dead and we cannot recover their data. There is nothing worse than…
October 27, 2010 · 3 min read
Part 1 looked at the coordinate transformation of points in Civil 3D. Continuing on the theme of coordinate systems, now we'll take a look at performing a coordinate transformation…
October 26, 2010 · 2 min read
Historically, in older versions of AutoCAD, most CAD Standards would avoid using True Type Fonts(TTF) since they were prone to more issues than the native SHX file fonts. However…
October 25, 2010 · 1 min read
The Autodesk University conference and exhibition brings together Autodesk users, developers, executives, solution providers, and strategic partners from around the world this year…
October 23, 2010 · 1 min read
So in the ongoing saga that is Autodesk Subscription Center , our customers are always asking: “Where do I get the latest version? …How come I never got a box? …Will this take a…
October 22, 2010 · 2 min read
Continuing in the spirit of my last post, I'd like to work my way up to the question of "What Is Topobase?" To begin with, let's revisit AutoCAD Map3D, Autodesk's GIS program…
October 21, 2010 · 3 min read
I distinctly remember the answer to a question that my professor asked one day in grad school. Too bad I don’t remember the question. It was somewhere along the lines of "Why…
October 20, 2010 · 2 min read
For our CMI Standards Manager (CSM) customers, I would like to share a product feature we’ve worked on over the years that really makes a difference within a CAD standards…
October 19, 2010 · 3 min read
Here is an AutoCAD Civil 3D/Map 3D bug for the folks using 2009, 2010. If you are running a 32-bit OS without the 3 GB switch , the MAPINSERT command will run with no problems. If…
October 18, 2010 · 2 min read
In November of 1994 R14 appeared on the scene and you could no longer run AutoCAD on an Apple Macintosh. Fast forward 16 years—your babies have grown into high schoolers, you’re…
October 15, 2010 · 4 min read
Last time I discussed how to log into Autodesk Subscription Center . Now that we are in, we can discuss the many, many functions that Autodesk has packed in there. But, since we…
October 15, 2010 · 2 min read
As I 'pen' my inaugural post, I can already see that I've likely spent more time than I care to (and perhaps should have) on this topic I'm venturing into. It has taken me out on…
October 14, 2010 · 3 min read
Life seems to have an increasingly electronic focus. The top movie in the box office is about the founding of Facebook, and, after checking that fact through Google, I’m writing a…
October 13, 2010 · 3 min read
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