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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.
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
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 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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