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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.
We get a lot of calls from people that have seen a command once, but forgot what the command was. Sometimes, we know these off the top of our head, other times they take a bit of…
December 16, 2011 · 1 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
Map 3D 2012 (Enterprise) Service Pack 1 The Map 3D 2012 Service Pack was recently released. You can download it from this Autodesk link . While investigating the update, here are a…
November 11, 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
In my last post , I said that I was going to exclude c:\windows\winsxs from the on-access scans for McAfee Virus and Spyware Protection. The McAfee software prevents me from doing…
October 20, 2011 · 1 min read
Recently, I had an issue with AutoCAD performance. Whenever I would pick an entity there was a 3-5 second delay before I could do anything with it. The issue occurred in both 2011…
October 19, 2011 · 1 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
If you are going to Autodesk University , and are a geospatial, utilities, or telecommunications professional, I encourage you to enroll in our class . We are very excited about…
September 26, 2011 · 1 min read
If you've ever seen a survey prism , you may find them hypnotic to look at. You'll always see the pupil of your eye in the dead center, no matter what angle you look into the prism…
September 22, 2011 · 1 min read
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