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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.
New service packs have been released for most AutoCAD-based 2011 products within the last month or so. This is true for AutoCAD , Civil 3D , Map 3D , Architecture , and MEP among…
July 12, 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
When rendering scenes in 3DS Max and Civil View (Dynamite VSP), you might find that the mental ray presets take a long time to render. Therefore, any animations that you create…
June 28, 2011 · 1 min read
Civil and Survey templates overlap in many areas. Both templates will have styles for surfaces and alignments, maybe even profiles and profile views. Surveyors always seem to do…
June 21, 2011 · 2 min read
In part 4 , we discussed styles in your Civil 3D template. How do you ensure your styles will be used? Feature Settings are the key to setting default styles and settings. Feature…
June 14, 2011 · 3 min read
There's a great post over at Being Civil on Assigning Optional Properties to a Part Size . If you want to add any of your own optional properties, I'd recommend taking a look at…
June 9, 2011 · 2 min read
Autodesk has recently released the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Transportation Extension. This is available directly from the Autodesk support website. The extension comes with an…
May 19, 2011 · 1 min read
In part 3 , we started working on our Civil 3D template by addressing Drawing Settings. In this post, we’ll address Styles which some consider styles the beef of the template. How…
May 11, 2011 · 5 min read
Civil 3D and Civil View (Dynamite VSP) make 3ds Max much easier to learn if you are trying to create civil renderings. Civil View is used to quickly convert Civil 3D geometry such…
May 4, 2011 · 2 min read
I love it when software gives me new features that not only extends the capabilities, but also reduces the need for repetitive tasks. The redesigned elevation banding in Civil 3D…
May 2, 2011 · 2 min read
Now that we have addressed the 1000-lb gorilla that is CAD Standards , we can finally get started on creating the templates. The very first item you should address are Drawing…
April 20, 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
Let me start out, that this post was originally inspired by the recent Civil 3D Reminders, Civil 3D Interview Questions post, which according to Chris' last post is no longer going…
April 1, 2011 · 3 min read
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