Jul 26, 2018 - Specifies the properties that are copied from the select source object to the destination objects. Specifies which basic properties and special properties to copy from the source object to the destination objects. Available for all objects except attributes, hatches, multiline text. Students can get a free copy of the latest version AutoCAD from Autodesk (valid for three years). New commands include Layer, Properties, and MatchProp.
Am being forced to do some work using some old AutoCad drawings.some in metric, some in imperial, and blocks that were not necessarily created on the 0 layer. Needless to say, i'm ready to shoot myself after producing nothing all day due to troubleshooting an endless array of obstacles.haven't used AutoCad to do any design work in a loooong time, just sketchup.hence the epic struggle from pure ease and efficiency to the world of irrationality called AutoCad 2010.WTF is LAYLOCKFADECTL?
The options ranged from restarting the matchprop command, saving and reopening the drawing, exiting Autocad and going back in again, and using the hatch command, then erasing the hatch you created. Since I didn't want to be bothered by opening and closing drawings or autocad, I fiddled around with it for a while (granted, it took longer than.
And what doorknob at Autodesk thinks this 'shortcut' would be useful? I spend 90% of my time correcting for infinite versions of settings that i'll never need and that no one ever should have had access to because they'll screw it up. Yes, i'm venting and i apologize for it.but i do have a question to ask of all you out there.is there anyone who can knows if there's anything like a 2D version of Sketchup available that can do production-level drawings or if there's anything on the horizon that i may not have heard of? I know v2 of Layout is out, but that's more for presentation right? Or is the new version getting close to be a CD tool as well? And don't point me to IntelliCAD based options either as they're all almost as bad and have major file compatibility issues in my experience thx for any input.i wish i had enough money to buy Autodesk and shut them down forever. I'll revisit rhino possibly but Revit is out of my price range for a legit setup.i understand the elegance of it but i'm doing smaller projects and just want to be able to get in an out quickly without too much hassle.
On smaller projects, i find that there tends to be a lag time with technology with consultants and staff as i'm generally ahead of them, even though i'm not at the leading edge, so i'll have to wait for that reason also. Thus my infatuation with sketchup, as most people from entry level on up can handle it, and it seems idiot-proof in that you can't accidentally do too many things to it that aren't easy to fix (other than exploding the whole model) and doesn't require you digging down deep into a an endless vortex of help menus. Am looking at using Layout, as I mostly present conceptual work, but will see if it has the capability to be more when needed.anyone with experience with Layout who has feedback? Both good or bad.
Achensch - is this v2 you're referring to? I've got the mac version, so i'll give that a test drive. Rethinkit - absolutely agree.every year, the UI gets shuffled around, another 20 'shortcuts' for esoteric options get added, yet another method of accessing every command gets added.i'm surprised there aren't any ACAD power users who have found a way to customize the UI by stripping/hiding 90% of the junk out and locking down what's left over.could make a few bucks selling whatever combination of UI customization settings and macros that it would take. I do know how to use autocad.used to be a power user, could do macros and actually even taught it for a while.but when you walk away from it for a few years, so much changes that you get frustrated with the new clutter. It seems like the philosophy is 'as long as we rearrange the deck chairs, and add another 100 useless features each year', we can charge people for another upgrade every year.no different than each time MS office comes out, except Autodesk feels this need to do it every year.and using classic mode just defers the learning process. I work for myself, but i'm working off of legacy drawings of the existing buildings from the client, which were poorly done.so my complaint is more a larger picture one, than a 'what can i do to fix my drawings today' type.ever tried to assemble a drawing with parts from drawings that are a mix of units, dimvars, dimtextsizes, dimarrowsize, linetype scales, line widths, etc? Why is it that so many architects keep buying this crap, when all you need is to be able to export a DXF footprint to something else?
Used to use archicad, but dropped it when i found it tough to get staff who knew it.and vectorworks for some reason i could never pick up no matter how many times i tried.again, the staff issue was there, but less so than archicad. I keep returning to sketchup again and again as being idiot proof because it's so hard to mess it up.and so efficient and intuitive.there has to be some way a simple 2D drafting program can be as robust as this. With so much great software out there, it just blows me away that it's actually possible to make a product less user-friendly with each passing year more than anything else. As i said, looking at layout V2 next, and back to rhino again for the 2D.
I think the knock i hear against sketchup has been that it limits you to 'blocky' shapes.while you can do a lot with it, blob-itecture it can not.however, there are emerging plug-ins that would surprise a lot of people who haven't seen them and use the traditional lathe, loft, rails, etc. My fixation on Sketchup's UI is that it works for me because it's the closest thing to working with my hands on paper or clay.very rarely do i need to click buttons, select modifiers, etc or even be aware of any of these things because most of the time you are working visually using intuitive mouse motions.the selection and grouping tools are just perfect.why is it that i can not group a simple object in autocad with a one step click? If you look at bonzai 3D, which is a Sketchup-like package from the makers of Form-Z, you might see more of what i'm trying to get at.looking at bonzai, you can tell that it has been influenced by Form-Z in the way you select the commands and type of operations.so the user is conscious of selecting discrete commands.granted, bonzai is more powerful and like sketchup on steroids, but the heritage of the maker shows. For me, autocad and sketchup are as different as working with a DOS system and a Windows/Mac GUI.you could learn DOS commands and become good at it, but why would you when a 5 year old could sit in front of a Windows/Mac GUI and be up to speed in minutes just because it's intuitive. The fact that offices used to (and most larger ones still do) need a full-time Autocad expert to handle all the technical issues and write macros says something - that the software is so removed from a designer's natural intuition, that someone else has to bridge that gap.Revit benefits in that it developed as a separate company and i've followed them from the very beginning, but was crushed when Autocad bought them out. Ahh, that brings back memories of an experience i had years back when a high profile firm i worked at was first switching over to autocad.we started working on base drawings provided to us without knowing there was 3D info on them.so we ended up with things snapping on various Z co-ordinates. This was before there was a 'flatten' command in autocad, or our cad guru didn't know about it.about 6 of us spent a week manually converting the stray points back to zero level by selecting each stray point in the side elevation and typing in each of the desired three co-ordinates.8+ hours each of those days.it may explain my aversion to 'dumb' work.
Wish it was as simple as that 6-step.flattening isn't my major problem with this one, and you have to explode everything to flatten right? Then you'd have to rebuild the all the blocks and make sure the instances weren't rescaled post-insertion too. Part of the problem is in proper teaching of users in making sure there is a theoretical knowledge of why total accuracy is required, but the other part lies in how robust the software is in allowing variation.personally, i'd rather have autocad with 10% of the variables it currently has and lock down the rest so people can't screw it up.
I once met an old-school architect who drew on screen as if it were paper.she'd eyeball it on screen and her rationale was that you barely notice when it's printed out. The biggest issue that is hard to co-ordinate for what i'm working on right now is annotation.i use matchprop a lot, yet with all the slight variations that exist in how people use fonts, spacing, and hidden tweaking (changing things in the properties list) of individual annotations, you end up not being able to cut and paste simple things at all.dims and text get all rescaled and scrambled.
October became a traditional month for a new release of AutoCAD for Mac. Last year it was on October 22, this year the new release is ready even earlier. W hile all are awaiting Apple event in a few days with new Mac OS release,.
This year, developers have done a great job. They added not only new features that have become available in AutoCAD 2015 for PC, but also those features that AutoCAD for Mac still lacks in compare to PC version. So let’s start with those long awaited features.
Dynamic Blocks – yes, AutoCAD for Mac now received an ability to author Dynamic Blocks. AutoCAD 2015 for Mac supports creating and editing Dynamic Blocks that add flexibility and intelligence to block references. You can now insert one block that can change shape, size, or configuration instead of inserting several static blocks. For example, instead of creating multiple interior door blocks of different sizes, you can now create one resizable door block. You can add new visibility states using Visibility States dialog. You can control the way parameters are displayed using the Properties Inspector. When you select a parameter or action in Block Editor space, block properties are listed in the Properties Inspector.
You can edit various properties like assigning labels to parameters, assigning the number of grips to a parameter, controlling the base location, value sets etc. To help AutoCAD users to get comfortable with D ynamic Blocks now theycan find the sample Dynamic Blocks in Content Palette.
All the Dynamic Blocks are sorted in different libraries. You can launch Quick Select: using QSELECT in the command line, from the Edit menu, from the right-click context menu or with Quick Select icon from Properties Palette. The “Where to Select” pane provides you two options to choose from the drop-down menu: “Current Selection” and “Entire Drawing”. Using Selection Rules, you can specify the filtering criteria for selecting objects in your drawing. “Object Type” allows you to specify the types of objects to include as filtering criteria. If the filtering criteria are applied to the entire drawing, the “Object Type” list includes all object types.
Selection rules also include property elements to add to the filtering criteria. This list includes all possible properties for the selected object type.
“Preview” option is turned ON by default and allows you to see selected objects in the Drawing area. Layer States – in AutoCAD 2015 for Mac you can save your layer settings as layer states. The layer states can store information like color, linetype, and also information whether a layer is turned off, frozen or locked. Through the Layer State Manager dialog, you can create and manage sets of layer settings.
You can also restore layer properties using this feature. Through the New Excel Data Link dialog, you can select the sheet from the Excel file. You can now link to a range in the Excel sheet. After you click the OK button, the table is attached to the cursor.
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You can specify an insertion point to insert the table to the drawing. With DATALINKUPDATE command to update to or from an established external data link. You can either update the linked data in a table in your drawing with data that has been changed in the external source file or update the linked data in an external file with data that has been changed in the table in your drawing. Command Preview – the Command Preview feature shows you exactly how the objects would look when the command is executed.
As you make the changes within the command, you can instantly preview the final result. The interactive preview applies to the following commands: TRIM, EXTEND, LENGTHEN, BREAK, MATCHPROP, FILLET, CHAMFER, OFFSET. BTW – MATCHPROP is my favorite one. Lasso Selection – you can click the cursor in a blank area of the drawing and then drag around objects to create a lasso selection. For a traditional rectangular window or crossing selection, click and release to pick each corner of the rectangle.
During Lasso selection, you can press SPACE to cycle Lasso selection options. Create and Edit Enhancements – improved visual feedback when creating and editing objects. For example, during a Move operation, the selected objects are displayed in their original position with a faded deletion effect instead of a dashed selection effect.
Unlike Command Preview which displays a preview of the result of your action, create and edit enhancements provide a view of the old state prior to your action in gray color. Dimension Enhancement – AutoCAD now offers a more intelligent object snap behavior when creating dimensions. When you place dimensions, existing dimension extension lines are ignored to prevent them from being inadvertently snapped to while attempting to pick nearby geometry. When you create continuous or baseline dimensions with the DIMCONTINUEMODE system variable set to 1, AutoCAD inherits the layer in addition to the dimension style of the dimension that is being continued or used as a baseline. Cursor Enhancement – The cursor is enhanced to provide contextual feedback. It includes badges to reflect the state of many common operations. The crosshairs have been removed from the inside of the pick box to make it easier to see what you’re picking.
An inspection badge is displayed when using inquiry tools such as Distance, Radius, Angle, Area, Volume, List, and ID. Rotation badges are displayed when specifying the angle of rotation during a Rotate operation. Relevant badges are displayed for other editing commands including Copy, Move, and Scale. Zoom and Erase/Delete also display relevant badges. FYI: If you don’t like Cursor Badges you can turn them OFF with new CURSORBADGE System Variable, just set CURSORBADGE=1. Model Space Viewports Enhancements – Model space viewports have been significantly enhanced in AutoCAD 2015 for Mac offering more flexibility and greater ease-of-use. After creating multiple viewports in model space, a bright blue boundary clearly identifies the active viewport.
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You can easily resize any of the viewports by dragging the horizontal or vertical viewport boundaries. New “+” icons on the viewport boundaries enable you to easily add more viewports by simply clicking on the icon and dragging to size the new viewport. You can also hold the ‘Ctrl’ key while dragging the boundary to split a model space viewport.
Model space viewports can be e joined or removed by dragging a boundary to the edge. MTEXT Enhancements – the MTEXT editor is updated to offer better visibility and control. The background is now transparent, so you can see drawing geometry even when the editor opens on top of it. A corner resizer offers more obvious and intuitive resizing of columns allowing you to adjust both the height and width at the same time. If you pass the cursor over the bottom or right edges of the text editor, you can change either the height or width individually. Text Alignment – The new TEXTALIGN command enables you to quickly align single and multi-text as well as attribute text. You can do this by selecting the text objects to be aligned and then picking the text you want them to be aligned to or selecting points to manually define the alignment line.
You can also choose from a variety of spacing options including the ability to distribute them evenly, set a spacing value, maintain the current vertical spacing, or maintain the current horizontal spacing.