Top 10: What's New in AutoCAD 2005?
1. Sheetsets combine drawings, layouts, and views into sets of sheets. We worry: useful but complex. May become the paperspace of AutoCAD 2005. Has links to the View and Table commands that are useful, along with ballon tags.
2. Tables are like spreadsheets. Cells can contain text, mtext, field text, hyperlinks, and blocks or drawings. Table styles can be created, and then shared through Design Center.
3. Field text is "automatic text," similar to that found in Word and Visio.
4. Draworder has been extended. Text and dimensions can always be on top of overlapping objects. Hatches can be in front or behind their boundary and other objects.
5. Speaking of hatches, they can now be trimmed. And hatch boundaries can have gaps up to 5000 units wide.
6. VpMax maximizes a layout viewport to fit the entire drawing screen, making it easier to edit drawings in small viewports.
7. Layers can now be in groups. That's the good news. The bad news is that the Layer dialog box (written with .Net) is very different, and "hides" many commands in shortcut menus.
8. MText can have a color background, much more convenient than the WipeOut command. Also: access to more symbols, select the language type, and insert field text.
9. New command modifier: m2p snaps to the midpoint between two picked points.
10. Next step to heads-up editing: select an object, right-click one of its handle, and drag the object. Notice the shortcut menu when you let go of the mouse button: move, copy, paste as block, or cancel.
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I would like to query how to link my excel files in acad. for ex. the number of my blocks in the table in excel will be automatically updated when i copied the same block in the drawing area?
Posted by: Ronald Maneja | Mar 29, 2004 at 02:16
I would like to query how to link my excel files in acad. for ex. the number of my blocks in the table in excel will be automatically updated when i copied the same block in the drawing area?
Posted by: Ronald Maneja | Mar 29, 2004 at 02:11
I've been doing item #10 in AutoCAD 2002 for years now exactly as stated.
Posted by: DaveS | Mar 01, 2004 at 11:57
It may sound like grips editing with right-click shortcut menus, but this behavior is different.
Posted by: ralphg | Feb 18, 2004 at 11:22
"10. Next step to heads-up editing: select an object, right-click one of its handle, and drag the object. Notice the shortcut menu when you let go of the mouse button: move, copy, paste as block, or cancel."
What's new here?
Posted by: Ignacio Arrue | Feb 18, 2004 at 10:32