Longitude Media, the publishers of Cadalyst Magazine have announced some major content changes starting in January of 2016. Publication of the printed Cadalyst magazine, as well as much of the online content, comes to an end. This includes product reviews,…
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Autodesk recently announced that they have reached a settlement with the various entities identified as ZWSoft, makers of ZWCAD+. Autodesk was accusing ZWSoft of improperly using intellectual property belonging to Autodesk in their ZWCAD+ product. ZWSoft conducted an internal investigation…
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Problem: You have a Civil 3D surface, and you want to extract a particular contour line from this surface. Follow the procedure here. It works for any elevation. Starting with this surface shown here, whose elevation range is from 94′…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Service Pack 2 is now available and you can find it on the Autodesk Knowledge Network or via the Application Manager. Remember to read the readme file for a list of what’s been fixed and any important…
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At the Opening Session yesterday, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass spoke about Conxtech, a company who started out because they wanted to reinvent the way steel framed buildings were designed and built. They came up with a innovative way of attaching…
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We are at AU2015 this week. If you can’t make it, be sure to check out one of the many live streaming events. If you are here, find me and say hello! Last night I attended the Expert Elite social…
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The CAD Panacea authors have been so busy preparing for AU2015, that we have not had any time set aside for blog posts lately. Don’t worry, we are still here. In addition to preparing handouts and presentations, author R.K. McSwain…
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Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2016 and AutoCAD LT 2016 has been released. It should first become available via the Application Manager, and soon thereafter via the Knowledge Network Downloads page. The big news for this service pack is that it…
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You may have noticed that when you download an Autodesk service pack, it comes in .EXE flavor only. But, when you are making a product deployment, and you want to add a service pack, it requires a .MSP file. Fortunately,…
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If you are planning on attending Autodesk University 2015, well….. you better get registered soon. The hotel fills up fast as do the AU classes. Our CAD Panacea authors are involved with at least 4 classes at this writing. [cycloneslider…
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