1. Meet the Expert AutoCAD® 2010 Heidi Hewett
AutoCAD Technical Marketing Manager

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. What’s New: 3D Printing
Visualize your designs—the first step to making them real
Print directly to a 3D printer or service provider

7. 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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