When the scale of a viewport is changed, all of the annotative objects automatically resize based on the new scale of the viewport. A new button makes it easy to lock or unlock a viewport and new drop-downs make it easy to change the scale of the viewport and to ensure that the annotative scale matches the scale of the viewport.
In addition, when the same annotation is visible in multiple viewports with different scales, users can adjust the position of those annotations independently in each viewport.
Yet any change to the annotation itself, such as editing the text, appears in each viewport — no more creating it twice. Enhanced layer control Another long-time user frustration has been the need to create extra layers just to control the appearance of objects. In the past, if you wanted an object to appear with a particular color or linetype in one view and a completely different color or linetype in another, you had to create the object twice, once on each layer.
AutoCAD adds new layer properties that can be specific to an individual paper space viewport, while the objects retain their original layer properties in model space. For example, users can select any viewport and then specify the color, linetype, lineweight, or plot style for any layers within that viewport. This function also works with named layer states.
But once in AutoCAD, those notes lose much of their formatting and appear as a single long column of text that shoots off the bottom of the drawing. Now they do. In AutoCAD , when you insert text from Word, the text retains virtually all of its original formatting, including paragraph alignment, indentations, and spacing.
In addition, multiline text now supports multiple columns. Text can automatically wrap across multiple columns and users can control the width and length of columns to achieve desired results. This multicolumn capability can also be applied to tables. Users can now split tables into multiple columns and have table titles and headers repeat in each column.
AutoCAD also supports auto-fill capabilities similar to those found in Excel. Should any data change in the XLS file, a bubble notification similar to that for an external reference immediately alerts you to the change and provides a quick way to update the table. You can also push changes in the other direction, so that if you modify data in the AutoCAD table, the data is also changed in Excel. Spell checking has also been improved. Users no longer need to first select text objects; AutoCAD checks the entire drawing by default, and when an error is found, the software highlights and zooms to the misspelled word in the drawing.
You can also include dimension text, attributes, and external references. A new dimension Leaders and dimensions represent another type of object that has long frustrated users.
Leaders — the line and arrow that goes from a note or block to a specific area of a drawing — are often problematic. They were defined as a type of dimension and often did not appear as desired without a lot of additional editing, which often destroyed the link between the line and the note.
AutoCAD introduces a new object called a multileader. The Dimbreak command will create associative breaks in dimension and extension lines. As a bonus, the breaks are associative. If you move a crossing object, the break moves to follow. If you move the object to a position where it no longer crosses, the break heals itself. However, the break will reappear if you move the crossing object back into an overlapping condition.
A new inspection dimension allows users to include an annotation in a dimension that indicates the inspection rate as a percentage of total parts produced. By an amazing coincidence, Inventor also has added this same functionality. If you need to list tabular data in an AutoCAD drawing, you'll love the new tables functionality.
In previous releases you could create only a static, unpopulated table into which you entered data. Tables created this way can be static, or they can be set up as an external reference so that they update if the spreadsheet changes. Even better is the fact that they can be set up to work both ways, so that changes made within the AutoCAD table reflect back to the spreadsheet. In particular, I mean the layer manipulation tools.
As an added bonus, additional layer functionality has been added. A very useful new layer option allows users to assign different colors to layers in different viewports of the same layout. For example, one viewport can emphasize the wiring in a machine while another highlights the hydraulics in the same machine. Each viewport can still display the other objects for reference, but in a greatly subdued color. Both views are derived from the same model-space drawing.
Two layer-management tools will help to ensure compliance with CAD standards. Both are personal favorites. I've always maintained that object properties should almost always be specified by the layer on which they reside.
When Autodesk added the Properties Override toolbar, it claimed that users had total control over object properties. Managers effectively lost any control.
When they do, all selected objects will have any property overrides stripped off so that everything is by layer. This command is so-o-o-o good that it even works down through block insertions, block definitions and nested blocks. It also can be configured so that only selected properties such as color or line weight are removed.
The second new layer functionality is just as good. The first time a drawing is saved, AutoCAD compiles a list of its defined layers. Whenever a new layer is detected during certain operations, an alert balloon pops up to warn users that the new layer isn't in the reconciled list.
This functionality also applies to new layers created by Xrefs. Workspaces were introduced a couple of releases back, and many people wondered why. AutoCAD gave us a hint to the reason with the introduction of the 3D dashboard. AutoCAD now gives users a 2D drawing and annotation workspace, which includes a new 2D dashboard figure 4. In effect, the dashboard is a super toolbar that includes the most commonly used 2D drawing, editing and annotating commands in one convenient location.
Specify the insertion point for the sheet view. The specified view is added to the sheet. The Scale Monitor dialog box is displayed. In the drawing area, move the cursor over the scale area or a viewport and check the Scale Monitor dialog box. A viewport scale will automatically change to fit the entire drawing zoom extents if you double-click on the viewport after a UCS is changed. Check whether the drawing was drawn on model space and with viewports in paper space Layout or without viewports Model alone.
Type properties in command window a tab will pop-up. Choose the required viewport and in the properties tab the scale should be visible under viewport scale attribute. Select the viewport. The Edit Viewport dialog box opens see Modifying Viewports for a description of the dialog box parameters. Click Design Layer and select the design layer to edit from the list.
This layer is automatically generated when a dimension is created in your AutoCAD drawing, this layer stores information about definition points of dimensions. Objects on this layer are visible in drawing area but these objects will not appear when you plot your drawing, plotting is turned off for Defpoints layer.
Solution Go to the layout with the viewport settings you want to copy. Double-click inside the viewport to switch into Model Space.
Exit the Layer States Manager. Switch to the layout to receive the layer states, or make a copy of your first layout. SeniorCare2Share Care about seniors?
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