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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.
Autodesk recently announced their latest promotion. If you have any old perpetual licenses that are not currently on a maintenance plan, you are in luck. You can trade in those old…
February 3, 2017 · 2 min read
For the 2016 release of Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk boasts 387 new additions and improvements thanks to the help of Inventor user requests. Inventor is Autodesk's 3D product…
August 20, 2015 · 3 min read
California is one of the few states that does not require professional development hours (PDH) for licensed professional engineers. I've often wondered about this and why this is…
February 1, 2012 · 2 min read
Now that the Vault server is up and running, the next step is to install the Autodesk Vault Collaboration client software on the computer with Civil 3D. The software requires a…
January 4, 2012 · 2 min read
Recently, I had an issue with AutoCAD performance. Whenever I would pick an entity there was a 3-5 second delay before I could do anything with it. The issue occurred in both 2011…
October 19, 2011 · 1 min read
Autodesk Cloud was recently released for all subscription customers. What is Autodesk Cloud? It's an online service that gives you access to a variety of online server based…
September 27, 2011 · 1 min read
Project Neon allows you to use Autodesk's servers to render your Revit models. However, Web Update 1 for Revit broke Project Neon. There is now an update to the add-in so that it…
July 1, 2011 · 1 min read
We see many strange issues in tech support. The following is a made-up call for a not so made-up problem. Caller: I see a big red X in the Layer Properties Manager Support: A big…
May 13, 2011 · 1 min read
Recently, the buzz about Autodesk's Project Galileo (now graduated to Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler) has been growing and to be honest I was skeptical about the program. To me…
April 18, 2011 · 2 min read
I was babysitting my nephews recently and astonished by their ability to fight over whatever toy the other one was currently playing with. Sharing is clearly a learned behavior…
January 11, 2011 · 3 min read
So you need to generate an Excel spreadsheet or text file of your existing ground surface profile using Civil 3D. Maybe you're looking to do some in-depth analysis in Excel, or…
December 1, 2010 · 1 min read
Process Explorer is an amazing tool from Microsoft with a new version just released last week. I found it purely by accident while trying to track down some dll dependencies. The…
November 23, 2010 · 1 min read
If you’ve read my previous posts on AutoCAD for Mac and WS , you’ll know that Autodesk is trying to stay with the times. Macs and mobile devices are hip and Autodesk is on the…
November 16, 2010 · 1 min read
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