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It comes as no surprise that the annual Autodesk Right of Spring began this year on the first day of spring with the release of AutoCAD 2018. AutoCAD 2018 introduces a new version of the DWG format which is both a performance and model capability upgrade to the 2013 DWG format employed in releases 2013-2017.

AutoCAD 2018

2018 is a classic core…

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AutoCAD supports the core Microsoft (Excel) table object directly these days. Odds are you already know this. It has actually been true for a number of releases. I don’t mean the old Windows OLE technology.  To be specific - if you directly copy and paste a selected range of cells from Excel into AutoCAD, you will get an OLE object result. The same OLE result happens if you paste out of Word and…

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The wind up to the Columbus Day holiday (which may have become Indigenous in your neck of the woods) brought interesting new releases from Autodesk. The Fall has been an Autodesk pre-AU barrage. We've all seen Stranger Things.

Is the real-life Upside Down anything like the weekly Friday night fights that…

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At the end of last week Autodesk released Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2017.
The Service Pack applies to all AutoCAD 2017 based products.
The SP1 includes all the three previously released AutoCAD 2017 hotfixes.
Service Pack 1 is available via the Autodesk Desktop App.
As of this posting the Service Pack does not yet appear on the public…

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The Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D by default employs the concept of project-based resources.
Why? Many civil engineers and surveyors work on projects with different design, survey, and deliverable requirements. Therefore. a project based approached to those specific resources makes the most sense. This is not always the way things are in your local version of Civil 3D Land.

It’s…  Read more