Civil 3D –“I Can Label with Xrefs?” Yep!
By Nick Harper, ENI Industry Expert, CADSoft Consulting One of the benefits with AutoCAD itself has always been the variety of ways you can draft and achieve the result you need. Conversely though that...
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How to Download An Autodesk Point Product for Your Design Suite
By Chris Perry, CADSoft Consulting. Autodesk provides a vehicle to download individual products for installation, using the Virtual Agent. Often, with Design Suites, we would like to install only one...
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Tales from the Helpdesk Crypt – Selecting Hardware Configurations for Revit
By David Metcalf, CADSoft Consulting Frequently, we have are asked on customer support to make hardware recommendations for Revit users. Being that hardware technology advances fairly quickly, we can’t...
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Experience a Smooth Ride in Revit – How to Keep your Project Intact and Moving
By Patrick Villella, LEED AP, CADSoft Consulting If you’ve ever accidentally moved a linked model or deleted a bunch of column grids in older versions of Revit and found your whole world crashing down...
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How to Download Products from Autodesk Subscription Center
By David Metcalf, CADSoft Consulting Given it takes up to 3 weeks to get physical media, downloads are our best option. However, factors such as extremely slow download speeds, poor internet...
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How to Use the New Lasso Selection Method in AutoCAD
By Isaac Harper, CADSoft Consulting Being an Arizona native, I really like this new LASSO selection method for a quick round up of those stray little doggies, (or entities in this case). In order to...
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Very Nice Cursor Improvements in AutoCAD 2015
By Isaac Harper, CADSoft Consulting Autodesk has made some enhancements to the Cursor in AutoCAD 2015. A minor improvement was the crosshair lines that used to run through the pick box have been...
View ArticleOur 10 Most Popular CAD Blogs of 2014
Here we are again, another New Year, another opportunity to look back and plan ahead! We’ve published over 100 articles this year, featuring insights, tips, best practices and commentary on all aspects...
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What is the AutoCAD Design Feed and How do You Use It?
By Isaac Harper, CADSoft Consulting If you are like most people, the first time you opened your AutoCAD 2015 the first thing you probably did is start closing all of the palettes that popped up on your...
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How Does the Civil 3D Batch Drawing Converter Command Stack Up?
By Ron Couillard, CADSoft Consulting Civil 3D users always seem to have the need to batch export drawings for one reason or another. Years ago, there was the Pack n Go routine which would grab all...
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How to Export High Quality Views from Revit for Reports
By David Metcalf, CADSoft Consulting Wanting to save a view as an image for reports? While I typically use a premium screen capture and image annotation tool on a daily basis. I’ll suggest anyone to...
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Revit 2016 Speeds the Making of 3D Section Views
By David Metcalf, CADSoft Consulting I have always been a big proponent of making 3D views with a section box to better understand design iterations and the relationship of the parts of the building...
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4 Steps to Reduce your Civil 3D DWG File Size
By Ron Couillard, CADSoft Consulting Have you ever seen a drawing file you created with Civil 3D balloon in file size? Has this caused performance to take a nose dive? The following steps should help...
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Getting to Know the New AutoCAD 2016 Start Tab
By Isaac Harper, CADSoft Consulting Well AutoCAD 2016 is out and loaded with a bunch of new features, and once again I will be covering a lot of them in my up-coming blogs and community sites....
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Civil 3D DWG File Size To Big? Try These Steps
By Ron Couillard, CADSoft Consulting Have you ever seen a drawing file you created with Civil 3D balloon in file size? Has this caused performance to take a nose dive? The following steps should help...
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How to Use View Filters for Other View Types in Revit
By Chris Perry, CADSoft Consulting Color schemes are a great visual tool in views to highlight or callout specific criteria of information in the view, generally used in plan-type views. But, color...
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