A while back we had a Twitter conversation with @AutodeskHelp and @TommieR on UNinstall procedures for various Autodesk products. Autodesk has published articles regarding the removal of Civil 3D 2009, 2011, and 2012. For whatever reason, there is nothing on…
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Depending on what discipline you work in, you may or may not have the need to work with User Defined Coordinate Systems. By default, a new empty AutoCAD drawing starts out in the World Coordinate System (WCS) by which all…
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In recent versions of AutoCAD Map and Civil 3D, you have the ability to drag and drop ESRI .SHP (shape) files into your drawing editor. This method is extremely fast and in most cases a better solution as opposed to…
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Our reseller Total CAD Systems held an informative event on 06/10/2014 in Houston. There were breakout sessions in the morning covering the new 2015 features in Infrastructure Systems, Digital Prototyping, and Building Systems. Check out the twitter feed from the…
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Autodesk has released Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2015. Be sure to read the download page and the readme file (English only). This Service Pack can be applied to AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 installed as a standalone application…
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Prior to AutoCAD 2000, paper space viewports could only be rectangular. If you needed to crop or trim portions of your viewport, you had to get creative and use multiple rectangular viewports or maybe another creative trick. But ever since…
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Many years ago, programs started using splash screens to give you something to look at while the program was loading. Now days many programs load so quickly that trying to display a splash screen would probably cause the program load…
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When you drag+drop a DWG file onto a tool palette, the program knows what to do and creates a tool to insert that drawing file as a block (or optionally an xref). Depending on your needs however, an unfortunate side…
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One of the things you might want to migrate to a new computer, new version, etc. is the items in your Places Bar, the sidebar on the left of File Dialogs in AutoCAD. These locations are stored in the AutoCAD…
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We want to call your attention to something that has just started to crop up here in Civil 3D. Not sure how widespread this is, but it’s known to occur in version 2013. Essentially, Civil 3D objects such as feature…
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