Lynn Allen

Autodesk Technical Evangelist

AutoCAD 2005

Go Further with the New Standard in CAD Productivity

Problems Managing Your Drawings?

Locate drawings in a project directory

Identify drawings as part of the set

Determine number of the next sheet

Send all drawings to a client

Apply project standards

Let the Sheet Set Manager(SSM) Organize for You!

Simplified: Drawing organization Plotting & publishing Transmittal sets Archiving

Standards compliance

Multi-user access to sheet set information

New DST file format“The use of SSM, fields & tables will improve consistency & accuracy of drawing info…” -Darren Myles, LHT

Keying in the Same Information Over and Over?

Title blocks contain: Project and client information Sheet numbers and dates

Info updated manually per sheet:

Error prone Takes hours of project time

Let Fields Do the Work for You!

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

“Fields…could be a huge time saver for us.” -Joel Roderick, Water Technology, Inc.

DetailDetail Sheet

Tired of Checking and Rechecking?

Manually create: Details Labels Callouts

Manual update required as drawings change

Error prone & time consuming

CalloutDrawing

Reduce Errors with Callouts and Labels!

Drag and Drop detail creation:

Automated labels Automated callouts

Synchronized updates of callout and detail labels

Find details by selecting callouts

Still Drawing Tables Line by Line?

Manually draw tables from lines and text

Hard to position text

Difficult to modify or add rows or columns

Manually create sheet indexes, sheet-by-sheet

Update each time sheet information changes

New Table Objects to the Rescue!

Simple: Table creation Text editing Adding rows and columns

Table styles

Insert symbols in tables

Import/Export Tables

“Tables make me look REAL good! So nice to be able to easily produce what was otherwise a chore.” - Robert Grandmaison, MKM & Associates

Everyday Timesavers

Multiple Copy now the default New OSNAP (keyboard modifier) –

Midpoint between two points (M2P/MTP) Match Properties now matches Polylines,

Viewports and Tables Zoom to Object(s) Pan and Zoom in 3DClip Calligraphy option for REVCLOUD New Express Tool additions (Edittime,

Flatten, Overkill added to menus) XREFTYPE sysvar – set attachment or

overlay as default Open drawings displayed on the windows

taskbar (TASKBAR to 1)

Print It Your Way!

Printable area XY offset values expressed from the lower left corner of the paper border

(Options command)

OLE Works Better Than Ever!

With OLE enhancements, you can:

Specify an insertion point for OLE objects

Insert OLE objects on current UCS with predictable scaling (MSOLESCALE)

Select and edit OLE objects with standard AutoCAD commands including grips

Preassign plot quality based on type of OLE object (Options command)

Tool Palettes are Easier and More Powerful

With Tool Palettes you can:

Create command tools Apply tool properties from existing geometry (dimensions, text, gradient fills)

Drag and drop content from Windows Explorer (raster images, DWGs)

Include macros, LiSP and ARX Organize tool palettes into palette

groups New Auxiliary scale factor for Hatch

patterns and Blocks – use the Dimscale or Plot Scale

TBCUSTOMIZE (disables Customization dialog)

New Custom Menu for easy migration

Save Steps

With Views and Viewports, you can: Assign view categories to named views Store layer visibility with named views Edit view boundaries Associate named layout views with a particular layout Maximize a layout viewport (without changing the scale factor)

Save Time

With DrawOrder and Bhatch, you can:

Assign draworder to hatch objects Hatch an area with a boundary gap Trim a hatch to a new boundary OSNAPHATCH sysvar – determines whether

object snap modes snap to hatch patterns Edit objects without regenerating to see

display order Create new objects that inherit original

draworder

Direct Object Editing is Fast!

MTEXT Just Keeps Getting Better

Apply background mask to Mtext objects also dimension text

Insert symbols as part of Mtext objects

Text Tips

Draw Order settings for all text and/or dimension text (TEXTTOFRONT)

DDEDIT for text, mtext or attributes

MTEXT editor drastically improved – now permits tabs and in-place editing

Word Documents now maintain proper formatting

Layers are Easier to Organize

With the Layer Properties Manager, you can: Provide a description for each layer Apply changes to layer properties (without exiting) Filter layers based on external references (automatically) Filter layers based on layer properties Filter layers based on layer groups

Plotting Giving You a Headache?

Find and plot the individual files that comprise a set of drawing

Wait for AutoCAD to “come back” from a lengthy plot job

Help colleagues debug failed plot jobs

Track what drawings have been plotted for a project

Now Plotting is Easier and Faster Than Ever!

Sheet Set Manager provides: One-click plotting Standardized plot settings

Keep working while job plots in background

Reports of plotted sheets

“When publishing a 200+ sheet job to a plotter, being able to sort sheets into the correct order is a huge need. Thanks for including this improvement in 2005!” - Dave Blaha, Fisher Hamilton LLC

More Efficient Than Paper!

Better workflow management in the review and approval process

Speed decision-making and reduce cycle times

Provide a complete, cost-effective solution

Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer

DWF is Better Than PDF

AutoCAD 2005 integrated markup functionality

Publishing process 1 step multi-sheet No additional cost

Support Object Snap points Scale per view port Model space Gradients Meta data: object properties Named views File size: compressed file format

DWF toolkit free DWF specification is open and published Autodesk DWF Viewer has open API DWF Viewer is an ActiveX control

How Do You Deal with Markups?

Current methods: Incur costly shipping Do not preserve

historical data Manual processing back

into AutoCAD

Improve Teamwork and Efficiency

Autodesk DWF Composer

DWF Composer

Next generation collaboration tool Viewing, markup creation & drawing sheet aggregation Integrated AutoCAD 2005 markup browser feature Available April 2004

DWF Viewer (Free)

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DWF Composer $$

DWF Writer (Free)

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DWF Toolkit (Free)

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Paper viewer Paper manipulator Publisher API’s

•Ubiquitous view & print

•Repro & display

•DWF view, print, markup, query, comment, aggregate, composite

•DWG view, print, and conversion to DWF

•Workflow, dynamic editing, query apps.

•Ubiquitous publishing

•Search, view, convert apps.

•3rd Party apps.

Viewer Product Family

Embed Drawings into PPT!

100 Express Tools

Multiple Redo

Right click Enter customization

Close now works with command in progress

New Styles Toolbar

Status Bar customization

Communication Center

Layer drop-down list wider

QNEW command

Control+0 for Clean Screen

MIRRTEXT set to off

Associative QDIM

Design Center Online

Fillet and Chamfer now repeat

Close the Render Window

PEDITACCEPT system variable

Hidden Line Control

XOPEN command

Automatic XREF notification

Relative and No path option (XREF)

Presentation Graphics

Automatic CAD Standards

Password protection of Drawings

Digital Signatures

Drawing files are nearly half the size (and faster!)

AutoCAD 2004 is filled to the brim with productivity enhancements!

AutoCAD 2004 Features

Migration is a Snap!

DWG-compatible with AutoCAD 2004

Side-by-side install

3rd-party application compatible

Interactive New Features Workshop

Integrated migration tools

User Settings

Customization

Easy Migration of Existing Settings

Smart Drawings!AutoCAD 2005

Go Further and Save!

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lynn.allen@autodesk.com

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