February 8, 2012

AutoCAD 2012: Inventor Fusion and AutoCAD WS plugin are now in the box

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Now we have two Autodesk products in AutoCAD box. Fusion extends the 3D modeling capabilities. AutoCAD WS allows you to collaborate with your partners online!

AutoCAD 2012: Object selection improvements

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Object selection in AutoCAD 2012 is also improved. There are several new enhancements to allow you select objects easier. So you can have more than 10 ways to select objects now. PICKDRAG and PICKAUTO There are two new variables in object selection. This may not how AutoCAD users usually do to select objects, but it [...]

AutoCAD 2012 minor modification enhancement: grip and nudge

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Here are more minor AutoCAD 2012 enhancement. Now we have more options for grips. New nudge command is also available.

AutoCAD 2012: Ability to import most manufacturing files

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There are so many new capabilities in AutoCAD 2012. They are not really new, have been there for years, but we just have it in AutoCAD. If you go out there and talk to fellow AutoCAD users, they will be excited too. But if you talk associative array to Inventor users, they won’t think it’s [...]

AutoCAD 2012: new array commands

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Array in AutoCAD 2012 is a huge change. You can see Steve Johnson opinion about array in AutoCAD 2012 here. In my opinion the biggest changes are: Associativity It’s now associative object. We can edit the settings anytime easily. The best thing about it is, now we can use parameter in it. See later (at [...]

New Autodesk certified hardware list

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Autodesk now launch new certification list for hardware. Check this out before you bought a new workstation!

AutoCAD 2012: AutoComplete

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AutoComplete will let you know what commands are available just by typing some character. A small enhancement in AutoCAD 2012.

AutoCAD and Revit 2012 are here!

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The truth is all Autodesk products for 2012 version are ready in the near future. But as we here are talking about AutoCAD and Revit (for Autodesk product) then I will focus on these two. If you follow some other CAD bloggers on Twitter, then you must see how excited they are and your timeline [...]