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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.
Are you looking to bring your architectural designs to life with stunning exterior site features? Look no further than Revit's powerful Toposolid feature. In Revit, you can create…
September 18, 2024 · 4 min read
If you are in the engineering or GIS business, you have probably needed to translate data from one format or database to another, such as from ESRI® ArcSDE® to AutoCAD® DWG. For…
March 13, 2014 · 1 min read
Display Styles per Viewport with Dynamic Legends, North Arrows & Scales Previously, AutoCAD Map 3D was limited to a single display style at a time in a drawing. If you wanted a…
March 28, 2012 · 3 min read
Map 3D 2012 (Enterprise) Service Pack 1 The Map 3D 2012 Service Pack was recently released. You can download it from this Autodesk link . While investigating the update, here are a…
November 11, 2011 · 1 min read
If you are going to Autodesk University , and are a geospatial, utilities, or telecommunications professional, I encourage you to enroll in our class . We are very excited about…
September 26, 2011 · 1 min read
Map 3D Enterprise 2012 is what used to be referred to as Autodesk Topobase . The main feature of Map 3D Enterprise 2012 is that you can use the features of Topobase with an Oracle…
May 26, 2011 · 2 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
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
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
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
Many engineering firms are built around the idea of “get the plans out the door.” That’s how they make their money. That’s what everybody rallies around. But what happens once the…
December 22, 2010 · 1 min read
I'm going to expand on what makes Topobase different than a lot of the products in the Autodesk lineup. If you have are completely unfamiliar with Topobase, you might want to read…
November 30, 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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