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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.
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
Topobase functionality - Map and Topobase, Autodesk's enterprise GIS solution, are now integrated. See our series on " What is Topobase? " for more information on that product. All…
March 23, 2011 · 1 min read
The release of Civil 3D 2012 is coming just over the horizon in mid-April, and there are some exciting things to come. This is the Civil 3D update that I've been looking forward to…
March 22, 2011 · 3 min read
One of the main new features of AutoCAD 2012 is called the Content Explorer. The Content Explorer essentially conglomerates Design Center and Autodesk Seek, while also adding…
March 22, 2011 · 2 min read
CAD Standards can’t be ignored when building Civil 3D Templates. You still need layers with colors and linetypes. You still need text styles. And you still need to choose between…
March 22, 2011 · 3 min read
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for 64-bit versions of was recently released. I doubt that many people have installed it yet. Especially since most of us have the "if it's not broken, don't…
March 18, 2011 · 1 min read
Shape files (.shp) are a common file format in the GIS world, the file format is often used to exchange data between ESRI software and AutoCAD. Because each software package…
March 16, 2011 · 3 min read
Successful Civil 3D implementation requires several steps. We’ve discussed some of these steps at a very high level in Death of the Draftsman and Build on a Strong Foundation …
March 14, 2011 · 3 min read
Recently I started working on Map Books for one of our customers. That's really just code for a big sheet set where each sheet displays a different area of a map. So, I started…
March 11, 2011 · 1 min read
One of the more difficult aspects of using Feature Data Objects (FDO) is the fact that all of the styles in the Display Manager are What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG). This is…
March 9, 2011 · 2 min read
Civil 3D expressions are a powerful tool you may be familiar with. They allow you to customize labels with calculated values based on information stored in Civil 3D objects. I'd…
March 2, 2011 · 2 min read
AutoCAD is flexible. There are few restrictions on the number of entities, layers, or text styles in a drawing. A line can exist at any elevation (z value) with any color and…
February 25, 2011 · 2 min read
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