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AutoCAD 2005

Fit and Finish Feature List

contains over 25 “fit and finish” features. Derived predominantly from direct customer feedback and requests, these features and usability improvements enhance many commonly used ds and processes

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Feature Descriptio

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atches trimmed by other objec around details.

Hatch fuzz factor AUGI Wishlist #7 2002

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text to be read more clearly in complex drawings.

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Improves the trimming of hatches

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images to drawings. ge drawings or move

projects to new locations, relative paths to images do not get

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Edittime Express Tool Tracks the amount of time (in hours) that you spend editing a drawing.

Facilitates the process of tracking design time for billable hours on a project.

Osnap enhancements - midpoint between two points

Using the right-click osnap menu, customers can now find the midpoint between any two points on the screen.

Makes it easy to place a center line in the middle of walls or to place objects in the middle of two points.

Change text draw order Finds all of the text or all of the dimensions in a drawing, and then changes the drawing order to place them on top of all objects.

Ensures that text will not be obscured by other drawing objects.


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Hatch pattern draw ode

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Reduces the numb

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Gradient fill supTool Palette

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a library of frequently used gradient fills for later use.

or Drag-and-drop gradient fillfrom the drawing

directly Quickly create

Tool Palette usabilityenhancement

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rotation angle.

as it is ol palette. When inserting blocks by

a tool palette, you are nowthe scale and

electing from prompted for

Easily scale or rotate a block inserted from the to

Blocks search in Qses

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name in a drawing for editing purposes. lect Qselect has the option to name in order to f

elect a block instances o

Quickly find all the

that block in a drawing.

Attribute dialog usability The attribute dialog now you do not specify an inenhancements

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an attribute you are creating.

m making a common ses them to recreate

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Prevents users fromistake, which cau

Attributed editing usability enhancement

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ddedit dialog appears. If yo t an edit d

es look similar, it is w which

command you should use to edit text. inates this confusion.

Use the ddedit commaattributes. Whe

edit text or ected, the u selec

As text and attributoften confusing to kno

attribute, the attribute appear.

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errors.

Two new options addeddialog

the Xref When attaching

an xref should be attaSecond, the ability to specscale.

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options.

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Toolbars now maintain utoCAD ual video

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you want to include xrefs in blocks – such as in a title block.

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This is handy if

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Zoom to object oo

, and repeatable way bject for editing.

Set your zoom level to zspecific object.

m in on a This is a fast, easyto zoom in on an o

Property Palette UI usability improvemen

Property palette has a new location.

The new location for the Pickadd option is easier to use and helps to reduce

Xref dialog UI usability improvements

to : First, the option to remember if

chedi

xrefs, this provides a convenient way to save common

Improved dual monitoposition on the n A

ons on dual monitor, dcard machines.

Toolbars will not need to be en AutoCAD

l monitor machines.

Removing the NODE snap on text objects

In AutoCAD 2005, the “node” osnap will not snap to the corners of text. (In AutoCAD 2004, the “node” snap was modified to allow snapping to the corners of text.)

Simplifies snapping, which, in turn, saves you time.

Purge Registered Applications tables

Purges irrelevant registered applications from the RegApp table in DWG files. This option is available in the PURGE command.

Reduces drawing file size. In some instances, third-party applications have used the RefApp table as a storage area and caused drawing size to grow unnecessarily.




MRU list ll now persistent een sessions of AutoCAD when

Enables you to disable the MRU list. The MRU list setting wibetwset to 0 files.

ate In the Hyperlink dialog brelative path for hypeactive and checked b

, the “use checkbox is

Improves the abilit

“Convert DWG hyperlink tcheckbox was also adde

DWF” to DWF™ files.

Drawing Path in WindPrint Spooler

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w appear in Improves tracking of plotti

when plotting a drawing.

DIC Color Guide® e ed ort Japanese color standards.

Supports Japanese color standards Two new color books havto supp

been add

Hyperlink GUI - ActivRelative path

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y to share drawings with hyperlinks and ensure that hyperlinks will function when published

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Changing the position of dimension text

It’s now possible to position the text of new dimensions using the DIMTMOVE system variable.

Supports Chinese dimensioning standards

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