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AutoCAD WS is now AutoCAD 360. The online/cloud version of AutoCAD has seen over 12 million downloads and 11+ million registered users since it was...

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AutoCAD 2014 includes some new command line enhancements briefly covered in our launch time review titled*AutoCAD 2014 in two minutes. Let's dive in...

I am starting a list of known bugs in Civil 3D 2013 here. Some of these may be inherited through AutoCAD.

Product Version Description Addressed? Civil 3D 2013 When you insert...

Many Autodesk products including AutoCAD and verticals such as Civil 3D include a proprietary shortcut bar in file selection dialogs, known as the Places List. It's the leftmost panel shown here.
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Today, March 29, is the 8th birthday of CAD Panacea. Inspired by Shaan Hurley, our first post was a simple tech tip back on March 29, 2005*on...

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Autodesk announced the new line of 2014 branded products this week. Since 2008, CAD Panacea has brought you a quick summary of the new AutoCAD...

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Have you ever come across a block that you could not explode? You might try and get this message:

Command: explode Select objects: 1 found Select objects: 1 could not be exploded. Command: The...

Have you ever wanted to run a script file on one or more drawings, without having to use the overhead of the entire AutoCAD application? Starting with AutoCAD 2013, you can. AutoCAD 2013 comes with a...

There does not seem to be an option for changing text portions of dates (such as the name of the month) to UPPERCASE (or lowercase) using the Field command dialog box. All of the examples shown are...

A common problem I see in Civil 3D on is hard to read text in the Text Component Editor, as shown here.

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This can be caused by a feature in...

Have you even run into a problem in AutoCAD (or a vertical such as Civil 3D), that you can't figure out such as a drawing behaving strange, commands not acting right, commands not working, or maybe...

Brian M. Curran of www.draftingservices.com has posted his annual Top CAD Blogs, this time for 2012. It is no surprise that the top spot belongs to Shaan Hurley for his Between the Lines blog, which...

The LENGTHEN command has been around for over 18 years, it was introduced with Release 13 in November of 1994. Yet, I still see many instances where it is ignored and some other method is used in its...

There is a bug in Civil 3D 2013 that occurs when you try to sort the parcels in the Prospector. Normally, you can click on a column header and sort the table by that column, but if you do this with...

This is a quick tutorial on adding and using User Defined Properties for Civil 3D cogo points, and we will create a new expression for use in our point label style. I’m starting with the stock...

What a week at Autodesk University 2012 in Las Vegas. More than 7,000 AU attendees were present for the event, now in its 20th year. Many of those 7,000 gathered Tuesday morning for the main stage,...

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One of the events at AU2012 was a special...

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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Service Pack 1 is now available for download! This Service Pack includes all previous hotfixes for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. It also includes the fixes included in AutoCAD 2013...