Lynn Allen

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• Lynn Allen
• Autodesk Technical Evangelist

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Easing the Transition

• DWG-compatible with AutoCAD 2004
• Side-by-side install
• Integrated migration tools
• 3rd-party application compatible
• Interactive New Features Workshop

User Settings Customization
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Easy Migration of existing Settings
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Migration Tools

• www.autodesk.com/migrationtools
• Batch Drawing Converter
• AutoLISP compatibility Analyzer
• Menu and Toolbar Porter
• Command Alias Porter
• Scriptpro
• Layer State Converter

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The Info Palette (Ctrl5)
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Drawing Set Coordination
Problem

• 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

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Sheet Set Manager (DST)
Solution

• Simplified
• drawing organization
• plotting publishing
• transmittal sets
• archiving
• Standards compliance
• Multi-user access to sheet set information

The use of SSM, fields tables will improve
consistency accuracy of drawing info
Darren Myles, LHT
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Drawing Annotation
Problem

• Title blocks contain
• project and client information
• sheet numbers and dates
• Info updated manually per sheet
• error prone
• takes hours of project time

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Go Further with Fields
Solution

• Automatically fill in
• sheet numbers
• project names
• client information
• drawing dates
• any other custom data
• Create tables or text labels using object data
• Automated plot stamping

Fieldscould be a huge time saver for us.
Joel Roderick, Water Technology, Inc.
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Drawing Annotation
Problem

• Manually create
• details
• labels
• callouts
• Manual update required as drawings change
• This is error proneand time consuming

Detail
Detail Sheet
Callout
Drawing
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Go Further with Details and Callouts
Solution

• Drag and Drop detail creation
• automated labels
• automated callouts
• Synchronized updates of callout and detail labels
  
• Find details by selecting callouts

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Drawing Annotation
Problem

• 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

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Go Further with Tables
Solution

• Simple
• table creation
• text editing
• adding rows and columns
• data import/export
• Table styles
• Insert symbols in tables

Tables make me look REAL good! So nice to be
able to easily produce what was otherwise a
chore. Robert Grandmaison, MKM
Associates
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Sheet Set Tips

• Each sheet points to a layout in a DWG file
• Sheets contain additional information (name,
  number, properties, etc)
• Importing a sheet from an existing drawing
• Only imports layouts
• Uses the layout as the sheet name
• Enables you to prefix the sheet name with the DWG
  file name
• Adding a new sheet
• Creates a new DWG file
• Sheet number and name are used to create the file
  name and layout name.
• Removing a sheet does NOT delete the DWG file

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Field Tips

• What are fields?
• A field is updatable text that is set up to
  display data that may change during the life
  cycle of the drawing (date, sheet numbers,
  titles).
• When the field is updated, the latest value of
  the field is displayed Text, Mtext, attributes
• Shortcut menus, ControlF, or FIELD command
• FIELDDISPLAY variable (controls gray background)
• FIELDEVAL (controls when/if evaluated)

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Table Tips

• Table Styles
• Apply different properties for data, column head,
  and title cells
• Tables
• Click table border/grid to select table
• Click inside cell to select cell
• Double-click cell to add Mtext or fields
• Select cell and right-click to insert a block (or
  TINSERT)
• Navigate between cells with Tab, Enter, and Arrow
  keys
• Import from Excel using Paste Special
• MATCHCELL command
• TABLEEXPORT command (csv file)

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Go Further with OLE

• 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)

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Go Further with Tool Palettes

• 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
• Apply common properties without scripting or
  programming
• 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)

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Go Further with Step Savers

• 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)

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Go Further with Step Savers

• 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

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Go Further with MTEXT

• Apply background mask to Mtext objects (also
  dimension text)
• Insert symbols as part of Mtext objects

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Granted Text Wishes

• 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

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Go Further with Time Savers

• 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

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Go further with Timesavers

• 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
• Calligraphy option for REVCLOUD
• DIMTMOVE sysvar position text of new dimensions
• XREFTYPE sysvar set attachment or overlay as
  default
• Open drawings displayed on the windows taskbar
  (TASKBAR to 1)

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In-place editing

• New fast direct object editing!

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Final Output PlottingGo Further with the New
Standard in CAD Productivity
Problem

• 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

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Final Output Plotting / PublishingGo Further
with the New Standard in CAD Productivity
Solution

• 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
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Enhanced Plot Dialogs
Compact dialog
Advanced Plot dialog
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Margin Options
Printable area - XY offset values expressed from
the lower left corner of the paper border
(Options command).
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Transmittal Sets
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Archive

• Take a snapshot of your project data and store it
  within a single file.
• Archive can be accessed via the SSM by right
  clicking a sheet set.

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Updated Publish Dialog
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Share
Why invest in shipping?
Source Autodesk Customer Survey, August 2003
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Create, Manage, ShareImprove Teamwork and
Efficiency

• Better workflow management in the review and
  approval process
• Speed decision-making and reduce cycle times
• Provide a complete, cost-effective solution

More efficient than paper! Better than PDF!
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DWF vs. 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

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Integrated Design Review
Problem

• Current methods
• Incur costly shipping
• Do not preserve historical data
• Manual processing back into AutoCAD

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Improve Teamwork and Efficiency
Autodesk DWF Composer
Introducing the next generation collaboration
tool for viewing, markup creation, and drawing
sheet aggregation, with integrated AutoCAD 2005
markup browser feature.

• Available April 2004
• R1 Localization English, International
  English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Simplified
  Chinese.

DWF Composer
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Integrated Design Review
Autodesk DWF Composer

• Speed up the review process with smart markup
  objects.
• Organize information by combining drawing
  sheets, raster images, multi-sheet DWF.
• Keep track of redlines and markups with
  navigation browser.
• Improve the review process with measure,
  dimension, and stamp tools.

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DWF Markup

• 2. Autodesk DWF Composer
• View and print to scale
• Mark up, measure, annotate
• Manipulate drawing set

• Publish
• Multi-sheet DWGs

• 3. AutoCAD 2005
• View, track and navigate redlines and markups
• Comment
• Make change

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Go Further with DWF Composer
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Viewer Product Family
Paper viewer
Paper manipulator
Publisher
APIs
DWF Viewer (Free)
DWF Writer (Free)
DWF Toolkit (Free)
DWF Composer

• Ubiquitous view print
• Repro display apps.

• 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.

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Go further with added Extras (2004)

• Multiple Undo/Redo
• Create Raster Files (JPEG,TIFF,PNG)
• Right Click Enter AND shortcut menus (Options)
• Design Center Online (thousands of symbols)
• Fillet and Chamfer command can now repeat
• Close even with command in progress
• QNEW command uses default template file
• New Styles toolbar
• Control0 to clean screen
• PEDIT command is smarter (PEDITACCEPT)
• Greater control over the display of hidden lines
  for 3D models
• Render window can now be closed (finally!)

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Go further with Express Tools

• All 9 volumes of the Express Tools are now
  included.
• Nearly 100 productivity tools
• Reset Dim Text Value
• SuperHatch
• Text to MTEXT
• Make Linetype
• Flatten
• Overkill (Deletes Duplicate Objects)
• Layer Delete and Layer Merge
• Change Space/Align Space
• New EditTime Express Tool

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The Release Comparison
The New Standard
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AutoCAD 2005 / AutoCAD LT 2005Go Further with
the New Standard in CAD Productivity
Feature AutoCAD LT
Tables (NEW in AutoCAD 2005)
Layer Enhancements
Tool Palette Enhancements
Publish Enhancements
Drawing Set Management (NEW in AutoCAD 2005)
Fields (NEW in AutoCAD 2005)
Customization (LISP, ARX, VBA)
Presentation Graphics
CAD Standards Management
3D Modeling
Network Licensing
2005
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Go Further with AutoCAD 2005

www.autodesk.com/lynnallen lynn.allen_at_autodesk.com