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Download AutoCAD

• Downloading AutoCAD 2010
• AutoCAD Education Licensing
• Download AutoCAD 2009 for free
• Vuze, to download all… including piracy
• Download sheet’s mesh in 1:50,000 of your country
• How worth are Autodesk’s products

Tricks with AutoCAD

• Convert lot of AutoCAD/Microstation files
• How to make small a dgn / dwg file size
• Mouse’s right button
• 40 + lisp routines
• AutoCAD, how the FILEDIA variable acts
• CAD: Send backward, bring forward
• View AutoCAD 2010 as AutoCAD 2007
  Removing the Ribbon in AutoCAD 2009?
• 6 minutes of trust for ConstrucGeek
• Selection by attributes, AutoCAD – Microstation
• AutoCAD: How to place text aligned to an arc
• Alternatives to convert pdf to dxf
• What novelties could AutoCAD 2010 bring
• The wishes list for AutoCAD 2010
• Converting file from AutoCAD 2009 to Microstation V8
• What’s good on AutoCAD 2009
• What’s new on AutoCAD 2008?
• How a curve length can be known?
• Earth Globe in a dwg
• Recommending a web: LisTop
• Autodesk with good intentions to reach Hispanics
• Chow can it be changed size and angle of several texts in Microstation and AutoCAD
• Converting dwg files without AutoCAD
• Georeferencing an image with AutoCAD

AutoCAD blocks

• GaliciaCad, many free resources
• BlocksPortal, +12,000 AutoCAD blocks
  More blocks for AutoCAD
  How to convert cells to AutoCAD blocks
  Looking for blocks to AutoCAD?

AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD Map

• Civil 3D, road’s design, lesson 1
• Civil 3D, road design, Lesson 2
• Civil 3D, create an alignment (Lesson 3)
• Engineering projects with AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Connect to the data, AutoCAD Map – Bentley Map
• Designing a Solar Plant with AutoCAD Civil 3D
• How to create contour with AutoCAD Civil 3D
• AutoCAD Civil 3D, importing points from an external database
• Creating a table of bearings with AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Learning AutoCAD Civil 3D, valuable resources
• How to change a NAD27 map to a WGS84 one (NAD83) with AutoCAD
• Toolkits for AutoCAD Map 3D 2009
• AutoCAD Civil 3D Solutions, for housing developments
• AutoCAD Map 3D is compatible with Linux
• Tool kits for AutoCAD Map 3D 2009
• Land and Infrastructure, in Madrid
• AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 Novelties
• Civil 3D Seminars a good Autodesk strategy in Spain

Tricks and tools for surveying

• Adjusting data based on a more precise survey
• Contours from polylines (Step 2)
• Contours from polylines (Step 1)
• Bentley Geopak, first impression
• Civil 3D topographic data
• From Excel to AutoCAD, more easier than ever
• How to create contour with AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Creating a table of bearings with AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Building a table of bearing and distances in AutoCAD
• Build a polygon based on bearing and distances in an Excel table
• Import Excel table to AutoCAD or Microstation
• Building contours using AutoCAD
• Export coordinates from CAD to txt
• Build a polygonal with AutoCAD and Excel
• How to import points from Excel to AutoCAD

AutoCAD Manuals and training

• Free AutoCAD course
• More videos for Civil 3D, AutoCAD and Revit Map
• Webcast: Roads & Highways – Planning Ahead
• Sinfogeo: GIS distance courses
• Videos for learning AutoCAD, free!!!
• Learn AutoCAD with videos
• 13 Videos of AutoCAD 2009
• A kitchen with AutoCAD 2007 in 5 minutes
• An easy way of teach (and learn) AutoCAD
• An AutoCAD manual, very good

Other AutoDesk products

• Choose Autodesk Solutions for Water Resources Projects
• The slow progress of CAD integration– Costs
• Autodesk will show the best from Raster Design
• Autodesk graduates its file browser
• Do you want to win $30 by testing Autodesk Topobase?
• Remote control for AutoCAD
• How to publish AutoCAD files in Internet
• Comparison between maps servers (IMS)
• Happy Thanksgiving day created online

AutoCAD Interaction with Excel

• From Excel to AutoCAD, more easier never
• Build polygon based on bearings and distances in an Excel table
• Import Excel tables to AutoCAD or Microstation
• Converting coordinates UTM to geographical with Excel
• From Excel to AutoCAD, a summary of the best from this
• Export coordinates from CAD to txt
• Build polygon with AutoCAD and Excel
• How to import points from Excel to AutoCAD

AutoCAD Integration with Google Earth

• It’s available PlexEarth Tools 2.0 Beta
• What does PlexEarth 2.0 bring?
• Connect AutoCAD Google Earth
• Downloading Google Earth’s street maps
• Autodesk already has its Google Earth
• How to import a 3D surface from Google Earth to AutoCAD
• How to import a Google Earth image with AutoCAD
• Favorite topics on Google Earth
• Convert from Google Earth to AutoCAD, ArcView and other formats
• Georeferencing an image with AutoCAD

AutoCAD Interaction with GIS

• Connect to the data, AutoCAD Map – Bentley Map
• Converting shp to kml… and an all-out smoke
•  Working shape files with AutoCAD
• Toy to connect AutoCAD with ArcGIS
• Plug-in for ecw services with AutoCAD
• Create a polygon in AutoCAD and end it to Google Earth
• Georeferencing a dwg/ dgn map
• Building the mesh of an UTM zone with Excel and AutoCAD.
• Connecting to Digital Globe with Mapinfo, Autodesk map and Arcmap

Comparison with other products

• FastCAD, a shadow of AutoCAD
• AutoCAD 2012 top news, part one
• Comparative of booting with CAD/GIS programs
• gvSIG: 21 CAD tools
• The software value
• Comparative of topography GIS software
• List of Software I reviewed
• How much is the software in this blog
• Selection by attributes, AutoCAD – Microstation
• QCad, AutoCAD alternative for Linux and Mac
• Comparison between CAD software
• ProgeCAD, another alternative to AutoCAD
• AnyDWG, to convert dwg files without AutoCAD
• BitCAD – AutoCAD Comparison (Round 1)
• BitCAD, a cheaper AutoCAD
• BitCAD’s creativity
• Criterions for GIS/CAD solutions selection
• ArchiCAD, a free CAD software for students and teachers
• Products comparison Autodesk Vs. Bentley
• 27 years of Microstation
• Can you impress with only one map?

About AutoCAD and AutoDesk

• AutoCAD returns to Mac
• 2011: What to expect: CAD Platforms
• Destination CAD or Resignation CAD?
• The names of AutoCAD’s 2010 project
• What’s new in AutoCAD 2010
• eGeomate: Predictions 2010: GIS Software
• CAD, GIS… or both?
• AutoCAD and its 25 years
• Bentley and Autodesk will work together
• How does Autodesk design team work?
• Tell your experience with AutoCAD and get a video camera
• Autodesk, ESRI and Manifold in CalGIS 2009
• SA great blogger gets removed Will Autodesk launch AutoGIS Max?
• About Paperspace

Other articles where AutoCAD is mentioned

• Ares, a CAD alternative for Linux and Mac
• Thematics + 3 years of Geomate
• Preparing for my trip to Houston
• Incredible questions about CAD / GIS technologies
• 3 blogs and 8 egeomates on the fly
• 2 good egeomates and others at the flight
• eGeomate on the fly, January 2009
• Autocad not always existed
• Top 60, the most searched of egeomate 2008
• Geoinformatics, latest edition 2009
• Geoinformatics, 7th edition… GIS and much more for Hispanics
• eGeomate, 10 readings I recommend
• CAD/GIS among Free Software priorities
• The most commented on egeomate
• Manifold GIS wins Geospatial Leadership Award in GeoTec
• Files extensions
• eGeomate on the fly March 2008
• Rather strange questions about CAD technologies
• Understanding UTM projection
• How to download Google Earth’s images
• Brief answers regarding Microstation
• November has gone, summary of the month
• Testing a NetBook in CAD/GIS

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