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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.
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
Autodesk University 2011 has now passed. Just a week ago, we were in the midst of thousands of attendees trying to share and receive as much information from each other as…
December 7, 2011 · 1 min read
NVidia Maximus allows you to link up a Quadro card for graphics, and a Tesla card for data processing. This allows programs to unload intensive data processing operations off of…
November 23, 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
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
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
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
In Revit, there are many different methods available to create dimensions. It's fairly easy to create dimensions from the temporary dimensions (Activate Dimensions), and if you're…
August 25, 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
Lately I was working on a conceptual building design. I wanted to create an arched glass roof with a non-uniform shape. I planned to use a curtain system on an in-place mass. Every…
July 19, 2011 · 2 min read
Project Neon allows you to use Autodesk's servers to render your Revit models. However, Web Update 1 for Revit broke Project Neon. There is now an update to the add-in so that it…
July 1, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk Labs recently released an eTransmit plug-in for Revit 2012. Similar to the AutoCAD ETRANSMIT command, it will group all of the files for a Revit project so that they can…
June 30, 2011 · 1 min read
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