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.
When using AutoCAD, a popular setup is to have one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse. This means that your keyboard hand dances around like you are playing Beethoven…
November 6, 2013 · 1 min read
Selectio n Manager is a free and easy to use AutoCAD add-in application by CAD Masters that allows you to quickly create, save, and restore selection sets in a drawing. Selection…
July 18, 2013 · 1 min read
After years of hearing rave reviews about the blazing speed of SSDs (solid state drives), I decided it was time to take the plunge and get one. It was the perfect time - my 300gb…
July 10, 2013 · 2 min read
Autodesk Fusion 360 was officially released today. The most apparent difference between Fusion 360 compared to Inventor Fusion is that it’s a cloud application and that all data is…
June 26, 2013 · 2 min read
Civil 3D 2013 and Civil 3D 2014 Interoperability For previous versions of Civil 3D, the dwg file format is year specific. Civil 3D .dwg files opened in a newer version could not be…
April 8, 2013 · 1 min read
Here is a list of some of the top AutoCAD 2014 new features in no particular order. Autodesk ReCap (Reality Capture) Autodesk ReCap comes with AutoCAD and is used to process point…
March 28, 2013 · 2 min read
Revit comes in five different flavors Revit (aka: One Box) Revit Architecture Revit MEP Revit Structure Revit LT Revit One Box includes all of the components of Revit Architecture…
February 22, 2013 · 3 min read
When working with Civil 3D Hydraflow Storm Sewers, if you export an .stm file from Civil 3D and then subsequently make edits in the .stm file in Hydraflow and save the .stm file…
January 29, 2013 · 2 min read
I'd like to share with you information I’ve found while researching MAP-21, the new legislation that affects federally funded transportation projects. On October 1, 2012, the…
January 21, 2013 · 2 min read
As one of the instructors here at CAD Masters, I’d have to say one of my favorite topics to teach is creating custom AutoCAD linetypes. While not too difficult, it tends to be a…
January 10, 2013 · 3 min read
If you have tried rendering in Revit, you may find that the materials have colors that look faded or washed out when rendering. This is because Revit does not apply any gamma…
January 7, 2013 · 1 min read
Microsoft’s RDP 8.0 protocol for Remote Desktop was first released with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Fortunately, it can also be installed on Windows 7 SP1 workstations…
January 3, 2013 · 4 min read
AutoCAD Map 2013 Service Pack 1 was recently released. It’s not available through the support.autodesk.com website yet, but is available through the Communication Center in…
September 26, 2012 · 1 min read
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