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If you have been doing your drawings in AutoCAD Civil3D 2013 version and have been applying the Transformation using a User Defined Scale factor, you… Read More »AutoCAD Civil3D 2014 Changing Transformation Settings

Try this step by step procedure and see if you go any better than before. Open the 14031 CCad.dwg Assign Co-ordinate System – MGA-56 Type… Read More »Adding Elevations to Contours using the Map Query

Here are the steps that you need to turn off the Contextual Tab States in Vanilla AutoCAD 2015 Type CUI in the command line and… Read More »Stopping the Ribbon from changing

AutoCAD 2018 heralds a change in the drawing file format to a 2018 drawing file (.dwg) format. This is a universal change for all AutoCAD… Read More »AutoCAD 2018 & Civil 3D 2018 – Not Backwards Compatible

Open a new drawing Go to the Settings tab in the Toolspace Right click on the drawing name and click on Edit Drawing Settings. Set… Read More »How to Add Bing Maps to AutoCAD Civil3D

But before you do the Define Query there are a few things you need to do. – Make sure the original drawing has been exported… Read More »Define Map Query

We are often asked how to quickly add multiple blocks into a drawing. There are a range of tools to share information between drawings, including… Read More »Inserting Multiple Blocks

Right click on the Point Group you want to change Click on Properties Go to the Information Tab Select the Point Label Style required from… Read More »Changing Point Group Label Styles – PZD (raw) to Z45d

If you have a Ribbon Tab and you want to be able to rearrange the order of the panels because the install put them in… Read More »Re-arranging Ribbon Panel Order