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.
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
Service Pack 1 (SP1, Update 1) has been released for the Windows versions of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT . No news yet on the Mac update, but given that it was just released on August…
September 6, 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
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
We've been having a couple of calls recently about drawing slowness in the 2012 products. Just in case you are experiencing this, Autodesk released a hotfix that seems to solve the…
July 7, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk rolled out their Exchange Apps recently. If you're using a 2012 product you may have already noticed the new tab in your Exchange window. Exchange Apps is a place for…
June 23, 2011 · 1 min read
There are around 6.92 billion people in the world. A number that is nearly impossible to fathom. All these people, all over the world need infrastructure. Furthermore, they need…
June 16, 2011 · 1 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 released a list of the planned fixes for the 3ds Max 2012 to improve feedback from the customers. This is very different from what we would typically see of the other…
June 1, 2011 · 1 min read
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