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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.
Process Explorer is an amazing tool from Microsoft with a new version just released last week. I found it purely by accident while trying to track down some dll dependencies. The…
November 23, 2010 · 1 min read
In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to customize AutoCAD using an ACAD.LSP file. We started with a simple example where we used an ACAD.LSP file to set an AutoCAD variable –…
November 22, 2010 · 2 min read
No, I’m not talking about the 1950s fad that got us to shake our bootys, but the little known benefit that Autodesk offers with their Subscription program. HULA, or Home Use…
November 18, 2010 · 2 min read
Jargon is funny, it can obfuscate conversations but also make them clearer for some. Sometimes jargon is overused in such a way as to judge or separate outsiders that might be very…
November 15, 2010 · 2 min read
Now that we've seen how to translate point files and drawings from one coordinate system to another, let's take a look at another option, translating data sources. Feature Data…
November 11, 2010 · 1 min read
Customization Using ACAD.LSP - Part 1 Supporting Autodesk software on more than a few workstations can be a daunting task. If you are going to customize and standardize AutoCAD…
November 5, 2010 · 1 min read
As Drew started talking about in his post Death of the Draftsman , with new software implementation, we have to reevaluate the entire way that we think about software. When…
November 4, 2010 · 2 min read
In most versions of AutoCAD, the Communications Center likes to run in the background. When AutoCAD crashes, this process sometimes remains and can cause conflicts with your…
November 1, 2010 · 1 min read
Part 1 looked at the coordinate transformation of points in Civil 3D. Continuing on the theme of coordinate systems, now we'll take a look at performing a coordinate transformation…
October 26, 2010 · 2 min read
So in the ongoing saga that is Autodesk Subscription Center , our customers are always asking: “Where do I get the latest version? …How come I never got a box? …Will this take a…
October 22, 2010 · 2 min read
Continuing in the spirit of my last post, I'd like to work my way up to the question of "What Is Topobase?" To begin with, let's revisit AutoCAD Map3D, Autodesk's GIS program…
October 21, 2010 · 3 min read
I distinctly remember the answer to a question that my professor asked one day in grad school. Too bad I don’t remember the question. It was somewhere along the lines of "Why…
October 20, 2010 · 2 min read
Here is an AutoCAD Civil 3D/Map 3D bug for the folks using 2009, 2010. If you are running a 32-bit OS without the 3 GB switch , the MAPINSERT command will run with no problems. If…
October 18, 2010 · 2 min read
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