Gremlins in My Drawing!

Purge command
“What is wrong with AutoCAD?  It takes forever to open drawings and forever to save.  My drawings have ballooned to ten times the size they were last week and doing
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Drafting the Survey in the Field with AutoCAD Civil 3D

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Decades ago, field surveyors started using instruments that ran software that would enable them to store much of the data collected in the instrument. Prior to this point in the
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Accounting for Driveways and Ramps in AutoCAD Civil 3D Corridors

Defined Driveways
I thought I’d blow the dust off of an old topic because I’m finding that many folks out there are not accounting for driveways in their corridor. It is fairly
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Constructing the Metaverse

Ken D’Amato, CEO of SmarTwin, helps guide us through using digital twins and BIM modeling concepts in the Metaverse. We’ll focus on the reasons behind and benefits of modeling real
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The CAD Cage: Digitized Lines

The CAD Cage
Side-by-side comparison of AutoCAD and BricsCAD to see which system has better design functionality. In this episode, we look at the the process of cleaning up polylines brought in through
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Implementing Tool Palettes like an A-Lister

Content Browser
Implementing standard tool palettes throughout the entire company always sounds like a great idea. Doing so is wise, so that people have a convenient way of adhering to company standards
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What’s the Point of the Point Cloud?

Point clouds are becoming more vital, particularly in the infrastructure space, and there’s confusion on the best ways to generate, import, and use this type of data in projects. In
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The CAD Cage: Bad Linework

The CAD Cage
Side-by-side comparison of AutoCAD and BricsCAD to see which system has better design functionality. In this episode, we look at the process of cleaning up bad linework. Learn more about
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BricsCAD: A CAD Alternative that Neither Insults Your Intelligence nor Your Pocketbook

BricsCAD Quad tool
If you are in the industry, you may have heard of BricsCAD when researching software, downloading plugins or updates, etc. The only thing you may know about BricsCAD is that
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The CAD Cage: Parametric Blocks

The CAD Cage
Side-by-side comparison of AutoCAD and BricsCAD to see which system has better design functionality. In this episode, we look at the process of working with parametric blocks, where you take
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