AU2016 Event
If you are planning on attending AU2016 in Las Vegas this November, Autodesk would like to get our thoughts on a fun event they are planning. This link will take you to Shaan Hurley’s Between the Lines blog where you…
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If you are planning on attending AU2016 in Las Vegas this November, Autodesk would like to get our thoughts on a fun event they are planning. This link will take you to Shaan Hurley’s Between the Lines blog where you…
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John Mayo, PE, a fellow Autodesk Expert Elite member, has discovered a white paper from Autodesk with a link to what we can only describe as an unofficial Performance Enhancement for Civil 3D, versions 2014-2017. For Civil 3D 2014 and…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 Service Pack 1.1 is now available and you can find it via the Autodesk Desktop App. Remember to read the readme file for a list of what’s been fixed and any important information regarding the install of…
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A topic on the forums got us to thinking about how to draw lines in AutoCAD that fade from a single color to nothing, gradually. Of course that last word there is the key. Can we apply a gradient to…
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Registration is open for Autodesk University 2016! The earlier you sign up, the better chances are that the classes you want will be available. Get started by clicking the Register Now link below. The classes your CAD Panacea authors…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 Service Pack 1 is now available and you can find it via the Autodesk Desktop App or on the Civil 3D downloads page. Remember to read the readme file for a list of what’s been fixed and…
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If you have the need or preference to work with locally installed HELP files for AutoCAD 2017, you can download and install the local help files fairly easily. The download is about 180MB in size. After you have downloaded it,…
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Jimmy Bergmark from JTB World, has reported that the just released SP1 for AutoCAD 2017 may break the functionality of the “plug-in auto loader mechanism”. Please make note of this before installing SP1, which is available via the Autodesk Desktop…
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If your layer manager or properties palette is suddenly missing, and you can’t find it, take a look at these ways of restoring the location. Resetting display of the Properties Palette (or other dockable window) Palettes will not display in…
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There is a new feature in Civil 3D 2017 that allows you to cache a DREF surface in a drawing (DREF meaning Data Reference). What this means is that the surface retains its data shortcut reference, but a local copy,…
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