Meet the Expert AutoCAD® 2010 Heidi Hewett AutoCAD Technical Marketing Manager
What’s New: Parametric Drawing Dramatically slash your design revision time with parametric drawing. By defining persistent relationships between objects, parallel lines remain parallel and concentric circles remain centered—all automatically.
What’s New: Dynamic Blocks Enhancements Easier block authoring and editing Improved display of action objects Improved highlighting for objects associated with actions New command to test the block without closing the Block Editor
What’s New: Enhanced PDF Support Sharing and reusing designs has never been easier, thanks to a long list of upgrades made to streamline communication. Plot/Publish/Export Smaller file sizes Higher visual quality Include Layer information Preview plotted PDF TrueType fonts PDF Underlay Snap to PDF geometry Clip/Adjust No backwards compatibility.
What’s New: Free-Form Design Design ideas in almost any form you can imagine. Simply push/pull faces, edges, and vertices to model complex shapes, add smooth surfaces, and much more.
What’s New: 3D Printing Visualize your designs—the first step to making them real Print directly to a 3D printer or service provider
What’s New: General Enhancements Drafting Fade the display intensity of xrefs Measurement tools Multileader improvements Purge zero-length or empty text objects Rotate a viewport and the view of the objects rotates simultaneously 3D Streamline editing actions—changes to “Gizmos” and sub-object selections
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