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AutoCAD 2006®
Everyday drafting will never
be the same
Lynn Allen
Autodesk Technical Evangelist
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“I thought AutoCAD was pretty much at the end of its life…
I think Autodesk is now proving that there’s plenty to be added.”
Martyn Day, Editor
AEC Magazine and MCAD Magazine
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Drafting Productivity is Crucial
10
Hours per week
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Mtext to
annotate
drawings
Create and
organize
drawings
Manipulate
blocks
Manipulate
hatch
patterns
Insert and
update
drawings
Text masking
• Saving users over 15 hours per week from 2002 to 2005
* 2002, 2004, 2005 Productivity Studies from Design Practice Group of the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
* AutoCAD 2006 estimated by Autodesk Usability Testing
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AutoCAD 2006 Tips & Tricks booklet
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AutoCAD 2006 is faster!
• Faster operations over a network
• Opening files 30% faster than in AutoCAD 2002
• Saving files 66% faster than in AutoCAD 2002
• Smaller DWG files
• DWG files 52% smaller than in AutoCAD 2002
Example:
A 6.5MB file in AutoCAD Release 14
= 5.2MB in AutoCAD 2000/2000i/2002
= 2.9MB in AutoCAD 2004
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Changes in the UI since AutoCAD 2002
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Look and Feel of Toolbars
Status Bar and Tray customisation
Palettes roll up
New Toolbars (Styles, Workspaces)
Sheet Set Manager
All the UI changes in AutoCAD 2006:
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Window selection
 Rollover highlighting
 AutoComplete
 Smooth Transition Zoom
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Tool Palettes
 Communication Center
 Right Click Enter + Shortcut menus
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Dynamic Input
Command Prompt can follow cursor
Traditional command prompt optional
(Ctrl+9)
Direct input for drawing and editing
(Tab to toggle)
System variable TOOLTIPMERGE
displays command and OSNAP
Arrow key for recent input
F12 – toggle Dynamic Input
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Sheet Set Manager
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Drawing organization
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Plotting & publishing
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Transmittal sets
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Archiving
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Easy Sheet Indexing
 Standards compliance
 Multi-user access to sheet set
information
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Everyday Commands (2004)
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Multiple Undo/Redo
Revision clouds
QDIM is now associative
Create Raster Files (JPEG,TIFF,PNG)
Draworder permanence
Design Center Online (thousands of symbols)
Fillet and Chamfer command can now repeat
PEDIT command is smarter (PEDITACCEPT)
Greater control over the display of hidden lines
for 3D models
Properties palette has attribute information
Render window can now be closed (finally!)
Mirrtext set to 0
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Everyday Commands (2005)
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Multiple Copy now the default
Match Properties now matches Polylines, Viewports and Tables
New OSNAP (keyboard modifier) – Midpoint between two points
(M2P/MTP)
Zoom to Object(s)
Pan and Zoom in 3DClip
DIMTMOVE sysvar – position text of new dimensions
XREFTYPE sysvar – set attachment or overlay as default
New objects retain their Draworder status
No need to exit to see results of Draworder
Control whether or not object snaps work on hatch patterns
Open drawings displayed on the windows taskbar (TASKBAR to 1)
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Everyday Commands (2006)
Undo options in Copy, Offset, Fillet and Chamfer, Trim,
Extend
Rectangle
 Area/length option
 Rotate option
 Stretch
 Multiple Crossing Windows
 Standard Object Selection = Move
Rotate/Scale include Copy Options
 Reference permits any two points
 Remembers last value
Offset
 erase the source object
 specify whether the new object is created on the current
layer or the same layer as the source object
Trim/Extend
 Select All default
 Crossing option added for objects to trim/extend
 Erase Option added (Trim only)
Shift in Fillet/Chamfer to square off corners
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Dynamic Blocks
 Multiple definitions in one
 Cycle through Insertion Points
 Automatically align with existing
geometry
 Edit blocks without exploding
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TimeSavers!
 SCALELISTEDIT – Plot, Page Setup, Vport
toolbar, Properties, etc.
 New Join Command (Glue)
 Join works on plines, lines, arc, elliptical
arcs and splines
 Previous View (Options dialog) Combine Zoom
and Pan for Undo/Redo
 Replace Z Value with Current Elevation for
Osnaps (OSNAPZ system variable)
 Mlines now support Trim/Extend
 New Block options
 Preview in INSERT command
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Step Savers!
New Filters command
LAYERFILTERALERT (Set to 3)
Preview merged objects
Imageframe displayed but not
plotted
Find permits wildcards
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The AutoCAD Express Tools
All 9 volumes of the Express Tools are now included and part of the
install program.
Nearly 100 productivity tools
 Reset Dim Text Value
 SuperHatch
 Text to MTEXT
 Make Linetype
 Overkill (Deletes Duplicate Objects)
 Layer Delete and Layer Merge
 Change Space/Align Space
EXPRESSMENU to load menus and toolbars
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Fields
Automatically fill in:
 Sheet numbers
 Project names
 Client information
 Drawing dates
 Any other custom data
Create tables or text labels using object
data
Can be used with text, Mtext or attributes
Automated plot stamping
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Tables
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Table creation
Text editing
Adding rows and columns
Table styles
Insert symbols/formulas into tables
Import/Export Tables with formulas
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Hatching
Hatch boundaries don’t need to be closed
 Trim to a hatch pattern
 Assign draworder to hatch
 Add/Remove/Recreate existing boundaries
 Create separate hatch objects
 Control the Hatch Origin
 Entire boundary no longer needs to be
visible
 Calculate Area of a hatch (and cumulative
areas)
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Layers
 With the Layer Properties Manager, you can:
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Provide a description for each layer
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Apply changes to layer properties (without exiting)
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Filter layers based on external references (automatically)
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Filter layers based on layer properties
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Filter layers based on layer groups
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XREF improvements
New XOPEN command
Automatic notification when
changes are made
Simplified xref management and
sharing
New Reference Manager for
existing XREF issues
New Relative and NoPath
Options
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Tool Palettes (easy and powerful)
With Tool Palettes you can:
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Create command tools
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Apply tool properties from existing geometry
(dimensions, text, gradient fills)
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Drag and drop content from Windows Explorer
(raster images, DWGs)
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Include macros, LiSP and ARX
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Organize tool palettes into palette groups
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Auxiliary scale factor for Hatch patterns and
Blocks – use the Dimscale or Plot Scale
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Notes and Separators in Tool Palettes (Great
for task based activities)
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Edit multiple tool properties at a time
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Export Palette Groups
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QuickCalc (Ctrl+8)
 Derived from the Geometric Calculator
(‘cal)
 Units Conversion
 Perform a full range of calculations
 Scientific panel for more advanced
functions
 Pass values to Command or Properties
 Set Variables for use across AutoCAD
drawings and sessions
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Text Improvements
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MTEXT now supports tabs and in-place
editing, bullets, numbering
Text masking (also on dimension text)
MTJIGSTRING
Symbols
Draw Order settings for all text and/or
dimension text (TEXTTOFRONT)
Word Documents now maintain proper
formatting
True in-place text editing
DTEXT is also WYSWYG
Set DTEXTED to 1 for legacy behavior
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Dimensioning Improvements:
Varying dimension linetypes
Fixed-length extension lines
Dimension arc lengths (DIMARC)
Jogged dimensions (for large radii)
Flipping dimension arrows
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Powerful Table Enhancements
Enhanced Attribute Wizard
outputs to a Table object
 Works across an entire sheet
set
 Right click to sort
 Text in table linked to attribute
data
 Tables can contain formulas
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Customizing has never been easier!
One filetype (CUI)
still have a .mnr and .mnl files
Simple migration of existing menus
Easy to customize menus, toolbars,
mouse buttons, keyboard shortcuts,
etc.
Edit the Custom menu for easy
migration
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AutoCAD 2006 is Subscription Aware!
Now it’s easy to take advantage of your subscription benefits…
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Drawing Recovery is More Efficient
(hopefully you’ll never find out!)
Easy to rename backup (BAK)
and automatic Save file (sv$).
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DWF and Composer!
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Now supports 3D!
Precision Display
DXF File Format Support
Custom Symbols for markups
Completed markups change to yellow
New Snapshot Tool
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AutoCAD 2006 will make you more
productive than ever!
[email protected]
www.autodesk.com/lynnallen
www.autodesk.com/au
Lynn Allen
AutoCAD 2006
Autodesk
Technical EvangelistC
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