Starting today, December 15, 2020, you will no longer be able to request physical media from Autodesk for your products. All products must now be downloaded digitally. Most people have probably been downloading digitally for several versions, and may not…
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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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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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If you are running Civil 3D 2018 with the .3 update installed, and you are receiving a fatal error while creating a best fit alignment, then the solution, according to Autodesk is…..
Recently, Robert Green uploaded a “how-to” guide, in the Facebook group “BricsCAD Managers Unite!“, on how to make BricsCAD look and feel more like AutoCAD. By setting a few system variables, and defining a few new shortcut commands, you can…
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Starting on August 31, 2019, you will no longer be able to obtain product activations for Autodesk products, version 2010 and earlier. This will extend to Autodesk products 2016 and earlier sometime in the year 2021. What does this mean…
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There is a recent Autodesk technical bulletin out that describes a bug where double-clicking a .DWG file to open it in AutoCAD 2019, results in a new folder with the name “%RoamableRootFolder%” being created in the folder where the .DWG…
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Today, 02 November 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the initial release of AutoCAD LT. The press release was issued on this date for the new “low-cost windows CAD package”. AutoCAD LT retail price in 1993 was US$495 for a…
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If you are a Civil 3D user and you see a strange icon next to your cursor during certain operations, you are not alone. It seems to be an issue in Civil 3D 2019, and it looks like a tiny…
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It was brought to our attention in this forum thread, (and confirmed in this Autodesk KB article) that certain DIESEL expressions in fields are not evaluated in DWG Trueview, resulting in missing information. If you use such data in your…
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