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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.
AutoCAD 2015 is off to a strong start and many of our clients are already implementing a variety of AutoCAD 2015 applications such as AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015. If you are in the…
April 30, 2014 · 1 min read
Custom programming for AutoCAD ranges from a simple command in the CUI editor to fully independent complimentary programs. However, the sweet spot seems to lie somewhere in the…
June 19, 2012 · 1 min read
This strange command was introduced in AutoCAD 2011. Speaking with co-workers here, it’s mainly a source of frustration as users try to Zoom Extents and instead get the ZEBRA…
March 21, 2012 · 1 min read
Data Links are a great way to link tables in AutoCAD with Excel spreadsheets. If you update the Excel file you'll most likely get a warning in AutoCAD that the file has been…
February 15, 2012 · 1 min read
I actually wrote this post a few weeks ago, but decided not to post it for some reason. Today I learned from Without a Net that the creator of the LISP language, John McCarthy…
October 26, 2011 · 1 min read
In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to customize AutoCAD using an ACAD.LSP file. We started with a simple example where we used an ACAD.LSP file to set an AutoCAD variable –…
November 22, 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
Today’s Blog post will address a feature of AutoCAD that has been around for a long time, Tool Palettes. I’ve received many questions about setup, protection, and sharing them with…
September 28, 2010 · 1 min read
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