So, when performing a ROTATE, a rotation badge is displayed in the direction of the rotation. Cursor display badges showing the state of the current AutoCAD operation.A new “lasso” selection tool that TOTALLY threw me when trying to perform a regular selection window! It allows you to drag a freehand selection boundary around any shape in a drawing.A nice touch, again making the UI look current and cleaner. LINESMOOTHING (a new AutoCAD variable) turns on anti-aliasing of 2D drawings (wireframe) to make 2D objects look smoother.AutoCAD Help now provides an animated arrow tool in the UI, displaying the EXACT location of the tool looked up in the Help screen.

Enhanced visual feedback when using commands such as TRIM, EXTEND, and MATCH PROPERTIES allowing for previews of the changes to be made, giving the user an opportunity to preview any changes before committing to the drafting changes.So if you have inserted a block using Insert Block, you now get a preview of the blocks already inserted via a pop-out preview pane on the ribbon. New ribbon galleries provide preview content from within the ribbon.New Create Page for the creation of new drawings and to open existing AutoCAD DWG’s.Much nicer and more comfortable to look at and makes AutoCAD look cool (not that it wasn’t cool anyway, right?). Plus, being somewhat myopic with my Jasper Conran specs, it reduces eye strain. The new darker interface with more refined icons (reminiscent of AutoCAD for Mac with the Retina display) makes AutoCAD look current. Model data is imported using the new Autodesk Translation Framework (ATF), supporting meshes and curves, as well as colours and layers. Internet messaging (IM) with a CAD twist! Design Feed takes on a display similar to the old MSN Messenger. Associating your Design Feed message with an area on a drawing will display a small bubble which when clicked on, will take you to the relevant Design Feed message. It is now available in AutoCAD 2015 and acts as a messaging gateway to Autodesk 360, allowing you to post messages and images to your team via Autodesk 360. You can also dynamically increase map resolution.įor those of you who attended my Autodesk 360/AutoCAD 360 class at Autodesk University 2013 last December, you will already know how much I LOVE the Design Feed available in both Autodesk 360 and AutoCAD 360. Map data can be captured and plotted, with a map area being embedded in to the drawing with no requirement for internet access.

The Geographic Location tools in AutoCAD 2015 are much slicker, being wizard-driven and are much improved from AutoCAD 2014. Fig.2 – AutoCAD 2015 has an enhanced MTEXT Editor. Also like MS Word, you can now Match Properties within MTEXT and the new TEXTALIGN allows for text alignment of both single-line and multi-line text to other text objects and user-defined points. Other MTEXT enhancements include better Caps Lock handling and column improvements. When using hardware acceleration, you now get complete transparency of the text editing window and some MS Word-like enhancements such as displaying a bullet and numbering menu next to your MTEXT as soon as you add a bullet or start a numbered list. Just wish I had been there to get the editorial first hand!Īfter many faithful years of service, the AutoCAD MTEXT Editor has finally had a facelift. So WHAT exactly is new? Fig.1 – AutoCAD 2015 Splash ScreenĪfter tinkering with AutoCAD 2015 and reading my esteemed AutoCAD Blogger Council colleague’s blogs, I will try to give you an overall heads-up and my apologies for any similarities to any other AutoCAD 2015 blogs out there.

We get the story out there for Autodesk as they work very hard to make the product better for us. I thought I had better get a blog in quickly as the 2015 blogs are coming think and fast and I see this AutoCAD Blogger gig as a team effort. Having just got home, and opened up AutoCAD 2015 at 11pm on a Thursday night, the darker interface (John Evans, take note) is STILL sexy! Now, while my beloved AutoCAD Blogger friends were being wined and dined by Autodesk in the lovely San Francisco (missed you guys!), I was teaching an AutoCAD Electrical 2014 course in the wilds of Yorkshire in the UK. Fig.1 – AutoCAD 2015’s darker (sexier?) interface. However, the new DARKER AutoCAD 2015 interface is, as John Evans (a fellow blogger), put it….sexy! And I have to admit I agree with him. The Dark Side, right? OK, so, you might be thinking Darth and his cosy little relationship with the Emperor, and those aren’t the droids you’re looking for. I love getting my Star Wars quotes in to my articles and blogs, so when I saw the new AutoCAD 2015 interface, I just had to smile.

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