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CADs.cz is an international community portal providing resources and information on computer-aided design (CAD) software. It is geared toward users of Autodesk design software, particularly AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, Fusion, and Forma.

News

Blogs & Articles

In-depth technical articles, CAD/BIM industry insights, and engineering news

Updates

Regular insights on CAD, BIM, CDE and PLM software, Autodesk technologies, CAD programming, and digital transformation of construction and manufacturing industries.

10 Latest Articles
  1. CAD 2026-10-01: CADs - The Successor to CADforum Pinned
  2. AEC 2026-10-28: Details Panel, previews, and other new features in Autodesk Desktop Connector New
  3. PGM 2026-10-20: When programs communicate through agents: The future of multi-tool CAD design New
  4. PGM 2026-10-12: Will vibecoding lead to the death of the software industry? New
  5. CAD 2026-09-17: News and announcements from Autodesk University 2026
  6. CAD 2026-07-26: AI Block Generator in the AutoCAD Web App
  7. CAD 2024-11-17: The History of the Autodesk Logo
  8. CAD 2024-10-17: Autodesk University 2024 report
  9. AEC 2024-09-18: Over 1,100 new Dynamo nodes in Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.1
  10. CAD 2019-11-26: Autodesk University 2019 - Better starts here
Browse Articles ▶ blogs: 20+
Tips

CAD Tips & Tricks

Practical workflows and daily troubleshooting for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, Fusion and other products

Popular

Extensive knowledge base solving real-world design challenges, system variable configurations, hotkeys, and rendering performance optimizations.

10 Latest Tips
  1. Revit Trick - how to crop an image or PDF underlay in Revit? New
  2. AutoCAD Undocumented AutoCAD setting - suppressing WPF dialogs New
  3. AutoCAD Convert external attached raster images to DWG-embeded OLE images - IMG2OLE. New
  4. Civil 3D How to convert texts containing elevation labels into 3D points for a geodetic survey? New
  5. Inventor Automatically save a PDF copy when saving an Inventor IDW/DWG drawing. New
  6. AutoCAD How to free up disk space by clearing the local cache of Windows cloud services? New
  7. Inventor Batch conversion of Inventor parts to STEP, IGES, DWG, 3D PDF, USD... New
  8. Inventor Support for CAD formats in Inventor 2027 (import/export/AnyCAD) - overview. New
  9. Inventor An undocumented feature for displaying Inventor design diagnostic information. New
  10. AutoCAD How can you find out your last-used DWT template in AutoCAD? New
Search CAD Tips ▶ tips: 5 000+
DL

Utilities & Downloads

Verified add-ons, AutoLISP extensions, templates, and tools

Free Download

Autodesk updates and a library of free tools engineered to streamline work and automate tasks in CAD and BIM environments.

10 Latest Downloads
  1. FILE IMG2OLE - convert attached raster image to DWG-embedded OLE image (LSP for AutoCAD) New
  2. LINK AutoCAD for Mac 2026.2 Update, .dmg (macOS 27 Golden Gate) New
  3. LINK AutoCAD LT for Mac 2026.2 Update, .dmg (macOS 27 Golden Gate) New
  4. LINK Autodesk Nastran 2027.2 (2027 Update 2) New
  5. LINK Autodesk Inventor 2027.2 Update (subscription) New
  6. LINK Inventor Interoperability 2027.2 (Inventor Server) - model view for AutoCAD 2027 New
  7. EXT Inventor 2027 Czech Language Pack - add-on installation for EN/DE/FR version of Inventor 2027.2 New
  8. FILE Txt2zc - convert text elevation labels to 3D points (LSP for AutoCAD) New
  9. FILE Regress - draw regression curve - optimized curve through a set of points (VLX LISP for AutoCAD) New
  10. LINK Autodesk ReCap Pro 2027.1 Update New
Download Section ▶ downloads: 3 000+
Tools

Online Converters

Interactive technical calculators and converters

Online Tool

Unit-, coordinate-, and format-converters, online calculators, engineering tables, file viewers.

10 Popular Converters & Tools
  1. calc Physical units converter - international and historical
  2. calc Engineering calculator with high-precision support and advanced mathematical functions
  3. tab AutoCAD commands - EN/DE/FR/IT/ES/PT/CZ/PL/HU/RU
  4. calc Online converter for geodetic map coordinates - GPS, S-JTSK, UTM...
  5. tab Products overview, product codes, service packs
  6. view Viewer and converter for 3D CAD formats and 3D meshes
  7. tab Table of shaft and hole tolerances by the ISO 286-2 standard
  8. nest 3D Nesting - layout optimization of cubes and boxes
  9. gen Generate sequences of random numbers
  10. tab AutoCAD environment variables
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