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Autocad2016winpreviewguide PDF
Autocad2016winpreviewguide PDF
oCAD
D 2016
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Table of Contents
User interface .......................................................................................................................... 3
File tabs ........................................................................................................................................... 3
Layouts ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Status bar......................................................................................................................................... 4
Ribbon ............................................................................................................................................. 5
Help ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Documentation ....................................................................................................................... 6
Revision clouds ................................................................................................................................ 6
Dimensioning ................................................................................................................................... 8
Text................................................................................................................................................ 10
Geometric Center object snap ........................................................................................................ 11
Isometric line grid .......................................................................................................................... 12
Move/copy enhancement .............................................................................................................. 12
Property preview ........................................................................................................................... 12
Command preview ......................................................................................................................... 13
Selection highlighting color ............................................................................................................ 13
Xref enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 13
PDF enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 14
Plot dialog box ............................................................................................................................... 17
Design ................................................................................................................................... 18
Section object ................................................................................................................................ 18
Point clouds ................................................................................................................................... 19
Render engine ................................................................................................................................ 24
Coordination model ....................................................................................................................... 28
BIM 360 add-in for AutoCAD enhancements .................................................................................. 29
User in
nterface
File tab
bs
The New Tab
T drawing file tab has been renamed
d to Start and remains perssistent as you
u create and o
open
additional drawings. Th
he NEWTABM
MODE system
m variable has been renamed to STARTM
MODE. When set
to 0 the Start tab is not displayed.
y to contro
ol whether th e Start tab is displayed forr install
A new deployment opttion enables you
ents.
deployme
Layoutss
Layouts now support drag
d
and drop
p to move or copy
c
layouts to positions tthat are hidden in the oveerflow
e selected layo
outs to the rigght or left ed ge of the layo
out tabs theyy automatically
menu. As you drag the
outs into the proper positiion.
scroll, enaabling you to drop the layo
New conttrols in the rigght-click menu enable you to dock the llayout tabs in
n line with thee status bar o
or
above it.
Status bar
b
The Status bar can now
w automatically wrap onto
o two rows w hen there aree more icons than can fit into a
single row
w. At any given time, the model
m
tab and
d at least one layout tab arre always disp
played.
Isolate Ob
bjects and Locck UI have be
een added to the Status baar customization menu.
Ribbon
n
The new GALLERYVIEW
G
W system variable enables you to controol whether Ribbon galleriees are displayyed.
When GALLERYVIEW iss set to 1, thu
umbnail preview images off blocks as weell as dimensiions, mleaderrs,
and tables display in th
he Ribbon.
When its set to 0, the Insert dialog box is displayyed to accesss Blocks and ttraditional styyle lists are
eader, and taable styles.
displayed in the Ribbon to access diimension, mle
Help
Improvem
ments to the AutoCAD
A
Help
p system makke it easier too access relevant Help conttent and tools.
Single sig
gn-on
You are automatically signed into Help
H documen
ntation when you sign into
o your A360 aaccount from
mentation ennables you to Like a Help to
opic.
AutoCAD and vice-verssa. Signing intto Help docum
UI Finder
u click on the Find link for a tool in the Help window
w, an animated
d arrow pointts to the location
When you
of that tool in the Quicck access toollbar and Ribbon. In AutoCA
AD 2016 this functionalityy has been
he Status bar and application menu.
extended to include th
Docum
mentation
Revisio
on clouds
The Revision Cloud too
ol is enhanced
d in AutoCAD 2016 to provvide more flexibility. It is aaccessible from the
el and include
es three methods of creatioon: rectangullar, polygonal, and freehan
nd
Annotate Ribbon pane
in addition to the Command line op
ption to selectt an object. TThe last used ccreation method is
ered the next time the com
mmand is run.. You can set your own default creation
n method usin
ng
remembe
the REVCLLOUDCREATEEMODE system
m variable.
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ectangular, po
olygonal, free
ehand, or objeect revision cclouds, editingg their size an
nd
Whether you create re
shape witth grips is intu
uitive and eassy. The number of grips dissplayed for reevision cloudss has been
significanttly reduced. The
T location and
a behavior of grips is baased on the sh
hape of the reevision cloud. For
example, if the revision
n cloud was generated
g
by selecting a ciircle, it will in
nclude a centeer grip and fo
our
quadrant grips enablin
ng you to edit it like a circle
e. If it was ge nerated by picking polygo
onal points, it will
include ve
ertex and mid
dpoint grips. If you prefer legacy
l
displayy of grips, you
u can set REV
VCLOUDGRIPSS to
Off.
In addition to easier ed
diting with grips, a new Mo
odify option eenables you tto draw new revision cloud
d
elected portio
ons of existingg revision clouuds. This wass the #4 AUGII wishlist requ
uest!
segmentss and erase se
Dimenssioning
DIM com
mmand enha
ancements
The DIM command
c
is significantly
s
enhanced
e
in AutoCAD
A
20166 and is now accessible fro
om the Annottate
ribbon tab
b. Next to it youll
y
find a new dimension
n layer controol. Dimension
ns created using the DIM
command
d are automattically placed on the speciffied layer. If aan appropriatte dimension layer doesnt
currently exist in the drawing, you can
c quickly crreate one andd apply it to the DIM comm
mand using th
he
m variable.
new DIMLLAYER system
Options within
w
the DIM
M command are
a now displayed at the ccommand linee and in the right-click men
nu,
eliminatin
ng the need fo
or you to rem
member which
h options are available and
d how to enteer them.
ap in Dimensions
Text wra
When editing dimensio
on text, a wid
dth sizing control is displayyed above thee text, enablin
ng you to speecify
the width for text wrap
pping. This was the #8 AUG
GI wishlist reqquest.
Text
To addresss the AUGI #5 wishlist req
quest, a new Text
T frame prroperty has b
been added to
o Mtext objeccts,
enabling you
y to create a border aro
ound the text..
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Tooltips distinguish
d
the
e Geometric Center
C
osnap
p from the traaditional Centter osnap.
11
Move/ccopy enhancement
oCAD
When you
u move or cop
py a large num
mber of objeccts together iin the 2D Wirreframe visuaal style in Auto
2016, move function preview
p
is gen
nerated quickkly, enabling yyou to move tthe selected o
objects freelyy
without significant lag..
Property preview
w
Property preview perfo
ormance has been improvved in AutoCA
AD 2016. For eexample, wheen you want to
c
changes for a large se
election set, you
y can movee your cursor freely on thee properties
preview color
palette orr Ribbon conttrols to previe
ew the change.
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Comma
and previe
ew
Command
d preview fun
nctionality has been extended in AutoCCAD 2016 to the BLEND, ER
RASE, STRETC
CH,
ROTATE, and
a SCALE co
ommands, hellping you predict the resullts and minim
mizing the neeed to undo the
operation
n.
Selectio
on highligh
hting colo
or
With hard
dware accelerration turned on in AutoCA
AD 2016, the selection efffect color can be customizeed by
clicking on
n the Selectio
on Effect Colo
or drop-down list on the Seelection tab o
of the Options dialog box.
Xref en
nhancemen
nts
In AutoCA
AD 2016 you can
c now conttrol the displaay of layers foor objects in xxref drawingss that were no
ot set
to ByLayer, for layer property upd
dates in the host
h drawing. A new system
m variable, XREFOVERRIDE,
enables you to control the display of
o the xref layyers: set XREFFOVERRIDE=11, and the xref objects will
behave ass if their prop
perties were set
s to ByLaye
er.
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l
in hostt drawingsaand because xxref layers cannot
To help diistinguish layers in xref draawings from layers
be selecte
ed in the Prop
perties palettexref layerrs are no longger displayed in the Properrties palette. Xref
layers are
e still displaye
ed in the Ribbon layers list but are now shown in graay text.
PDF enhancemen
nts
PDF suppo
ort has been significantly enhanced
e
in AutoCAD
A
20116, offering im
mproved perfformance,
flexibility,, and quality. Zooming and
d panning a drawing with PPDF underlayys, even large ones, is
consideraably faster in AutoCAD
A
201
16.
Truetype fonts
f
in Mtexxt and Text witth any formattting options, as well as Po
olygonized texxt (TTF font plotted
as Geome
etry), SHX textt, and Unicode
e characters, are now searrchable in PDFF output files. And PDF plottting
performan
nce for drawings that contain a large am
mount of text,, polylines, an
nd fill patternss is improved..
The Exporrt to DWF/PD
DF Options diaalog box has been
b
split intoo two separaate dialog boxxes; one for D
DWF
and one for PDF. Both are accessible from the Output Ribbonn tab.
PDF Optio
ons now inclu
ude the PDF quality and font handling c ontrols as weell as new con
ntrols for
hyperlinkss and bookmaarks.
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15
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Text that was created as SHX in the AutoCAD draawing can be highlighted, copied, and eeven searched in
ment List.
the Comm
Plot dia
alog box
The defau
ult display forr the Plot dialo
og box in AuttoCAD 2016 iss expanded, ggiving you immediate acceess to
all the plo
ot controls. Yo
ou can collapsse or expand the dialog boox using the ccontrol in thee lower-right
corner.
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Design
n
Section
n object
Section ob
bjects, create
ed using the Section
S
Plane tool, providee more flexibiility in AutoCA
AD 2016. Thee
Section Pllane tool creaates a section
n object that acts
a as a cuttiing plane thro
ough 3D objeects, includingg
solids, surrfaces, meshe
es, regions, an
nd now pointt clouds.
The sectio
on objects tyype can be sett to representt a simple cuttting plane, a bounded areea, or volumeetric
area. In AutoCAD 2016
6, a new Slice type has bee
en added to thhe section ob
bject.
Some grip
ps have been offset or repo
ositioned to make
m
them e asier to selecct and now op
perate more
consistently regardlesss of the view or whether polar
p
tracking is toggled on
n or off. For example, the fflip
w displayed on
o the side off the plane op
pposite the vissible model i nstead of on the same side as
grip is now
the visible
e portion of the model.
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Point cllouds
AutoCAD 2016
2
offers siggnificant enhaancements to make working with point cclouds easier aand more efficcient.
Section planes
p
Point clou
uds now supp
port section planes. A new Section Plan e drop-down list has been
n added to thee
Point Clou
ud contextual Ribbon tab. It enables yo
ou to create seection objectts for the seleected point clo
oud,
either for different orthogonal orientations or byy specifying ppoints. When you create a section object, its
e and position
n is based on the extents of
o the visible 33D objects in the drawing..
initial size
Extract Section
S
Line
es
The new Extract
E
Sectio
on Lines tool enables
e
you to
t generate seection lines frrom a point ccloud when Liive
Sectioningg is turned on
n. It can be acccessed from the section oobjects conteextual Ribbon
n tab or right--click
menu as well
w as from the
t point clou
ud contextuall Ribbon tab. After selectin
ng the point ccloud from which
to extractt section liness, a dialog boxx enables you
u to adjust thee section linee extraction seettings. Use tthe
Preview result control to see the result and makke desired chaanges before creating the section lines..
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After presssing Create, a progress meter displays on the Statu s bar while processing thee points. The ttime
to processs depends on
n the number of points anaalyzed.
When pro
ocessing is finished, the section geomettry is created .
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es below show
w the point cloud
c
before and
a after trannsparency hass been applieed.
The image
Dynamicc UCS
Point clou
uds now supp
port Dynamic UCS. If an atttached point cloud file includes segmen
ntation data aas
indicated in the Properrties palette, you can begin drawing onn the face of a point cloud without having to
U Simply ensure Dynam
mic UCS is turnned on and alll point cloud object snapss are
manually change the UCS.
turned offf. Then pass the
t cursor over a face of th
he point clou d to begin drrawing.
Point clo
oud object sn
naps
The 3D Ob
bject Snap tab
b in the Draftin
ng Settings diaalog box has bbeen rearrangeed to make ro
oom for additional
point cloud object snap
p modes, including Intersecttion, Edge, Corner, Perpend
dicular to Edgee, and Centerline.
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nes of
The Interssection point cloud object snap enabless you to snapp to the apparrent intersecttion of two lin
a sectione
ed point cloud
d.
The Perpe
endicular to Edge
E
object sn
nap enables you
y to draw pperpendicularr to the edge of two
intersecting planes.
Point Clo
oud Manage
er
The Point Cloud Managger now alwaays displays th
he on/off butttons for scan
ns and regionss. Names are
d if necessary to display the
e button, sincce a tooltip a lways displayys the full nam
me when the
truncated
cursor is moved
m
over an
a item.
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Renderr engine
A new ren
ndering engin
ne in AutoCAD
D 2016 replacces the previoous renderingg engine. Thiss physically baased
path tracing renderer provides
p
a sim
mpler way to render in AuttoCAD that caan produce b
better results.. The
new render UI has sign
nificantly fewer settings co
ompared withh the previouss render UI. M
Many of the
previous settings
s
were
e removed as they are no longer valid w
with the new rendering engine.
The Render Ribbon panel on the Vissualize Ribbon tab is upda ted to support the new reendering engine. It
includes a size drop-do
own list where you can quickly select frrom standard predefined rrender sizes o
or
choose More
M
Output Settings
S
to acccess the new Render to Ouutput Settinggs dialog box.
In the Ren
nder to Size Ou
utput Settingss dialog box, you can specifyy the image size and resoluttion. And you can
choose to automaticallyy save the rendered image to
t a file, includding BMP, TGA, TIF, JPEG, aand PNG form
mats.
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R
Prese
ets Manager iss much simpler than the pprevious Rend
der Presets M
Manager. You can
The new Render
create, modify, and de
elete custom render
r
presetts. Specify rennder preset n
name and desscription as w
well as
the duration and accurracy. You can render direcctly from the R
Render Preseets Manager, choosing to
w
the current
c
viewp
port, or a speccified region in the current viewport. W
When
render in the Render window,
er window, a drop-down
d
lisst enables yo u to specify tthe render sizze in addition to
renderingg in the rende
selecting one of the prreset render quality
q
option
ns.
e Environmen
nt control is tu
urned on, you
u can select frrom predefined IBL enviro
onments.
When the
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e Balance slid
des between Cool
C
and Warrm.
The White
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Coordin
nation mo
odel
AutoCAD 2016 has add
ded support for
f attaching coordination
c
models to a drawing. A co
oordination m
model
us trades throough the pre--construction
n and construcction
is a model used for virttual coordinaation of variou
phases off a project. Co
oordination models
m
are not displayed inn the 2D Wireeframe visual style.
Navisworks supportt
AutoCAD 2016 supportts attaching Autodesk
A
Naavisworks fil es, in either tthe NWD or N
NWC file form
mat.
nce files, inclu
uding the Attaach
You can attach them using the same tools you use to attach oother referen
tool and the
t External References
R
Manager.
M
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ordination mo
odel is not sup
pported on 322-bit systemss. To attach co
oordination
NOTE: Atttaching a coo
models, you
y need a 64
4-bit system, and
a hardware
e accelerationn must be turrned on.
BIM 360 add-in for AutoCAD
A
en
nhancements
The BIM 360
3 TM add-in is enhanced so
s that you caan attach singgle or merged
d models from
m BIM 360 TM
Glue software to Auto
oCAD drawings. The new Attach
A
tool is accessible frrom the BIM 3
360 Ribbon taab.
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Installa
ation and
d configurration
Improv
ved graphiics
The appeaarance of line
eweights (for continuous liinetypes) andd curves (circlles, arcs, ellip
pses, and ellip
ptical
arcs) has been enhanced in AutoCA
AD 2016. To se
ee these imprrovements, yyour graphics hardware mu
ust
X 11-capable
e and you mu
ust have hardware acceler ation turned on. A new co
ontrol in the
be DirectX
Graphics Performance dialog box en
nables you to
o take advant age of improved graphics for capable
devices. You
Y can accesss Graphic Perrformance fro
om the Statuss bar icon.
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System
m Variable Monitor
The new System
S
Variab
ble Monitor (SYSVARMON
NITOR commaand) enables yyou to quicklyy identify and
d edit
system vaariables that dont
d
conform
m to your stan
ndards. The SSystem Variab
ble Monitor iss prepopulateed
with a listt of AutoCAD system variables that are often inadve rtently modiffied. The status indicates w
which
variables deviate from their defaultt settings and the table dissplays the preeferred and current valuess of
those variables. You caan click on values in the Prreferred colum
mn and edit tthem to confo
orm to your
standardss. You can use
e the Reset Alll tool to quicckly reset the current valuees of all the d
deviant variab
bles
back to th
heir preferred
d values.
Easily add
d and remove
e variables by editing the list.
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Securitty
In AutoCA
AD 2016 the Security
S
contrrols on the Syystems tab of the Options dialog box haave been renaamed
from Execcutable File Se
ettings to Seccurity Optionss. The new Seecurity Option
ns dialog boxx offers a slideer
control to
o adjust the se
ecurity level and
a you can browse,
b
add, and remove trusted foldeers for executable
files. Addiitional contro
ols enable you
u to specify whether
w
to incclude or exclu
ude the Start In or drawingg
folders wh
hen searchingg for executable files. Thesse controls arre also accesssible by the new
LEGACYCO
ODESEARCH system
s
variab
ble. Youll find
d similar secuurity controls in the CAD M
Manager Control
Utility and
d Deployment wizard.
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d
box is accessible
a
via the commannd line using tthe SECURITYYOPTIONS
The Securrity Options dialog
command
d. The digital signature con
ntrols that we
ere previouslyy located in th
he Security O
Options dialogg box
are now accessible
a
via the new DIGITALSIGN com
mmand.
AutoCAD will warn if apps (including Exchange Apps)
A
are loadded from proggram data or user data. It will
not warn if unsigned apps are installed under program files.
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Single service
s
pack
With the AutoCAD
A
201
16 release, yo
ou can access your AutoCA
AD platform uupdates more quickly, even
n if
you are using an AutoC
CAD-based ve
ertical producct. AutoCAD sservice packs created for A
AutoCAD 2016
6 can
be installe
ed on any AuttoCAD 2016-b
based vertical product, so you dont haave to wait for your verticaal
product to
o integrate th
he AutoCAD service
s
pack changes.
c
To h elp you identtify which verrsion you havve
installed, the About bo
ox is enhanced to provide information aabout the verrsion level forr both the
d the AutoCAD
D verticals.
AutoCAD platform and
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