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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.
Map 3D Enterprise 2012 is what used to be referred to as Autodesk Topobase . The main feature of Map 3D Enterprise 2012 is that you can use the features of Topobase with an Oracle…
May 26, 2011 · 2 min read
A frequently asked question for us at CAD Masters is whether we know of any good block or family libraries. This is a difficult question to answer since there are so many different…
May 24, 2011 · 2 min read
As you’re getting ready plot and you look at the plot preview, you might notice something strange. Sometimes objects in paperspace that were previously on top of the image are now…
May 17, 2011 · 1 min read
We see many strange issues in tech support. The following is a made-up call for a not so made-up problem. Caller: I see a big red X in the Layer Properties Manager Support: A big…
May 13, 2011 · 1 min read
One of the biggest areas that Inventor Fusion seems to be hurting in is the lack of options and settings. It's easy to complain about most Autodesk software having too many…
May 6, 2011 · 1 min read
Civil 3D and Civil View (Dynamite VSP) make 3ds Max much easier to learn if you are trying to create civil renderings. Civil View is used to quickly convert Civil 3D geometry such…
May 4, 2011 · 2 min read
The sheet set manager has a nice feature that creates viewports on your sheets from model views. In this post I'll show you how to use this feature in your sheet sets through a…
April 15, 2011 · 2 min read
With the advent of the associative arrays in AutoCAD 2012 products, we’ve got a great new tool with some interesting possibilities. Recently, I wrote about using Civil 3D…
April 7, 2011 · 2 min read
The UCS is a challenging aspect of AutoCAD, despite how innocent it seems. We often recommend that people never change the UCS. Here are a couple of reasons that we usually tell…
April 5, 2011 · 3 min read
Let me start out, that this post was originally inspired by the recent Civil 3D Reminders, Civil 3D Interview Questions post, which according to Chris' last post is no longer going…
April 1, 2011 · 3 min read
It's time to take a step back from all the Autodesk 2012 releases and look back into the past a little. The AutoCAD Customize User Interface (CUI) was a new feature of AutoCAD…
March 31, 2011 · 2 min read
Some of you should have installed AutoCAD 2012 by now and if you have, then you were probably mystified by what you were actually looking at on the box's cover . In case you were…
March 28, 2011 · 1 min read
Inventor Fusion comes with AutoCAD 2012. We've been very excited about this product ever since seeing it in Autodesk Labs and learning that it was going to be a part of the AutoCAD…
March 24, 2011 · 1 min read
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