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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 XCLIP and WIPEOUT commands are used to quickly hide specific areas in your drawing. First of all, an XCLIP takes an externally referenced drawing and hides certain areas using…
November 19, 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
If you didn't know, CAD Masters does a lot of programming. A long time ago, we wrote a lot of LISP files, nowadays we do a lot of Microsoft .NET programming. Even though we write a…
November 9, 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
You have your drawings all ready to go, you email the drawing to your client and they only receive bits and pieces of your drawing. Your client is telling you that there are broken…
November 3, 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
Autodesk sure moves fast. It feels like the company is always branching out and reaching it's tendrils into new areas. This becomes even more pronounced with the internet and all…
October 28, 2010 · 1 min read
Historically, in older versions of AutoCAD, most CAD Standards would avoid using True Type Fonts(TTF) since they were prone to more issues than the native SHX file fonts. However…
October 25, 2010 · 1 min read
The Autodesk University conference and exhibition brings together Autodesk users, developers, executives, solution providers, and strategic partners from around the world this year…
October 23, 2010 · 1 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
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