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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.
Now that we have addressed the 1000-lb gorilla that is CAD Standards , we can finally get started on creating the templates. The very first item you should address are Drawing…
April 20, 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
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
Do you find yourself doing some of the same things over and over again in AutoCAD? Things like adding text styles and dimensions styles, or creating the same layer again and again…
January 27, 2011 · 3 min read
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
For our CMI Standards Manager (CSM) customers, I would like to share a product feature we’ve worked on over the years that really makes a difference within a CAD standards…
October 19, 2010 · 3 min read
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