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You can easily convert a standalone licensed Civil 3D 2016 to network licensing by making a simple registry edit. Shut down Civil 3D 2016. Open the Registry Editor. Navigate to...

It is the first day of summer and coincidently the first day of my sabbatical. Autodesk is one of the top employers in North America and recognizing employees work life balance and providing us the...

Yesterday many big hearted employees in the Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon office took time to assemble 3D printed Phoenix prosthetic hands designed using Autodesk’s own Fusion 360 in the e-NABLE...

By default, Autodesk wants you to use their “download and install” combination method of installation. This may work for some, but many times it simply does not work for whatever reason (browse...

Check out the just released Autodesk 2016 AEC Showreel. It is always amazing to see what our customers design and build using our software and technology. Enjoy! http://youtu.be/cEdOIKrSGu8

There is a new feature in Civil 3D 2017 that allows you to cache a DREF surface in a drawing (DREF meaning Data Reference). What this means is that the surface retains its data shortcut reference,...

Robin Deurloo from the Netherlands took me up on the challenge to re-create the Engineers Guide to Drinks drawing using Autodesk products, and he nailed it. He researched the history of the about 40...

This week, a few hundred of our closest Revit-using friends will be gathering in Scottsdale, AZ. Starting with the Building Content Summit on Monday, July 11th, and culminating in the Revit...

Fort those that have done a fair bit of laser scanning, what do you do while the scanner is rotating 360 degrees and you try to stay out of the beams view and pass time? My laser scanner...

I was surprised when the computer using Autodesk’s generative design technology Dreamcatcher mimicked nature’s optimal designs. When we were researching the next evolution in design we found that...

If your layer manager or properties palette is suddenly missing, and you can’t find it, take a look at these ways of restoring the location. Resetting display of the Properties Palette (or other...

Jimmy Bergmark from JTB World, has reported that the just released SP1 for AutoCAD 2017 may break the functionality of the “plug-in auto loader mechanism”. Please make note of this before installing...

If you have the need or preference to work with locally installed HELP files for AutoCAD 2017, you can download and install the local help files fairly easily. The download is about 180MB in size....

Have you ever wanted your own 3D skull or other unique object? Now you can make any 3D model you create or find on the web into a real physical 3D object of cardboard or clay without a 3D printer....

Back in May of this year I had the pleasure to be in the hot and beautiful Southern California desert at Trona Pinnacles near Death Valley with a group of engineers, scientist, champion Baja 1000...

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 Service Pack 1 is now available and you can find it via the Autodesk Desktop App or on the Civil 3D downloads page.*Remember to read the readme file for a list of what’s been...

A fairly recent addition to the Autodesk family is FormIt 360. FormIt 360 is a design program that is similar to other “sketchy” programs, but with the ability to take models rather seamlessly into...