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.
One of our applications that we develop at CAD Masters is called CMI Tools for Civil 3D. It includes several utilities for working with AutoCAD Civil 3D. You can read about the…
January 19, 2012 · 1 min read
In part 2 , we looked at installing Vault Collaboration for Civil 3D and how to create a Vault project. In this post, we will start designing in Civil 3D put drawings and data into…
January 11, 2012 · 3 min read
Now that the Vault server is up and running, the next step is to install the Autodesk Vault Collaboration client software on the computer with Civil 3D. The software requires a…
January 4, 2012 · 2 min read
Autodesk Vault was introduced for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2007 as a project and data management solution. We had several clients hop on board the Vault train, since at that time it was…
December 13, 2011 · 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
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
Sometimes you need to change the display of your assembly in plan view or in your sections. Today I had a call on the topic that reminded me that there a few nuances to the process…
September 1, 2011 · 2 min read
In Civil 3D, you may wish to create line and curve ticks so that it's easy to find the beginning and ending points of your geometry. One method to do this is to create Civil 3D…
August 18, 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
This is a strange problem that has been haunting my workstation for a while. Whenever I was using Civil 3D 2010 on my workstation I would have COM errors and AutoCAD would run very…
August 2, 2011 · 1 min read
As you may know, Civil 3D does not like vertical faces in a TIN. Many of the default corridor subassemblies actually have slight offsets built in to avoid creating vertical faces…
July 22, 2011 · 1 min read
Recently, we had a customer call in asking about how to preserve the gaps in a corridor surface when exporting to Civil View. When you export a corridor in Civil View to 3DS Max…
July 14, 2011 · 1 min read
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
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