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AutoCAD Utility Design 2013 – Reports and Custom Drawing Properties

In AutoCAD Utility Design 2013, you can use AutoCAD custom drawing properties to store information about the project that you are working on.  These properties may include the project name, address, work order number, designer, etc: Further, you may want … Continue reading

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CMI Tools for Civil 3D – Rename Subassemblies

One of our applications that we develop at CAD Masters is called CMI Tools for Civil 3D.  It includes several utilities for working with AutoCAD Civil 3D.  You can read about the application here. Recently we added a tool to … Continue reading

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Effective Inexpensive Backups – Part 1 of 5

We recently had two clients who were forced to pay dearly for clean room recovery specialists to recover data from machines that had bad hard drive failures and were not backed up. Software recovery techniques were of no use because … Continue reading

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Talk of the Trade

Last week, I was at a conference where I didn’t feel like I spoke the same language as everyone else. The conference was for appraisers and property assessors. They seem to use a lot of terms I’m not privy too. … Continue reading

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Civil 3D Label Style – Pipe Boat

I enjoy working with Civil 3D styles.  It allows me to be both analytical and creative – two things that make me tick.  In this post, I’ll show you how to create a label style for a pipe.  We refer … Continue reading

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