BricsCAD V25
BricsCAD V25 has been released. For more details, see:
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AutoCAD/Civil 3D version numbers
An incomplete list. Will be updated. Civil 3D 2023 Base = 13.5.131.0 Civil 3D 2023.1 = 13.5.211.0 Civil 3D 2023.2.1 = 13.5.1184.0 Civil 3D 2023.2.2 = 13.5.1212.0 Civil 3D 2023.2.3 = 13.5.1222.0 Civil 3D 2023.3.1 = 13.5.1478.0 Civil 3D 2022…
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Civil 3D Solution Tips
If you would like to automate the enabling or disabling of the Civil 3D setting shown in the dialog below, read on. Here is some lisp code you can put in one of your startup routines. This example disables the…
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Civil 3D phantom parcels
In the ongoing quest to keep your Civil 3D drawings clean and fast, you are probably aware of purging items using the standard AutoCAD purge command, and that you can purge C3D styles using the appropriate command. You’re probably also…
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SHX vs TTF fonts in CAD
Here are two important things to know about SHX vs TTF font usage in AutoCAD/BricsCAD.
Manually reset user profile :: AutoCAD or Civil 3D
For the last several years, AutoCAD (and verticals, such as Civil 3D) have included a utility to “Reset Settings to Default” We have seen that in the case of Civil 3D, this does some strange things such as resetting the…
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Bing imagery not working in AutoCAD?
We’ve seen this a few times, mostly in Civil 3D, but that may just be because that the is the flavor of CAD we are around more often than not. Anyway, the problem is that no matter what you do,…
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Plexscape offering assistance
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, Plexscape, makers of the popular Plex.Earth add on for AutoCAD, is offering to double the number of Plex.Earth licenses their customers have, for the next 3 months at no cost and with no catch or strings…
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AutoCAD Object Enablers
What are Object Enablers? Why might you need one? AutoCAD has native CAD entities that you can create, such as lines, polylines, arcs, circles, splines, text, mtext, and more. But in vanilla AutoCAD, there is no entity as a door,…
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Security hole discovered in Autodesk Desktop App
According to this article, the Autodesk Desktop App, prior to version 7.0.21.x contains a vulnerability to outside attacks. At least a portion of the Desktop App runs as a service using the “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM” account which has global permissions to…
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