Saturday, April 11, 2015
AutoCAD 2016: Text
AutoCAD Insider: To address the AUGI #5 wishlist request, a new Text frame property has been added to Mtext objects, enabling you to create a border around the text.
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Sometimes the nice things in life are very simple. Being able to put a border around your text is one of those nice simple things that I’m a little surprised took until 2016 to add to AutoCAD. As relatively new user to the program, I have discovered that you can pretty do just about anything, and then you can do that 3 or 4 different ways. The AutoCAD class taught to the freshmen during studio craft is geared towards teaching the the most efficient and cleanest way to do the things that we want to do with the program. Right now, it’s pretty clean and efficient to insert your text and to then just put a rectangle around it, that way you can adjust it based upon your style and preference, and so I hope this function is also an efficient tool to do the same thing. Honestly, what I would much rather prefer is for Autodesk to add object snaps to the corner of the page in layout view so you could make clean orders around the page.
This is great, it never made sense to me why a widely used program like CAD was not able to even have the simple formatting options in Microsoft word. I can now change different texts to ones I've loaded onto my computer for things like adobe photoshop or word. What i hate about most of these programs is that for industries using them, and it being known that these are widely known to but used with each other, why haven't they incorporated more of the elements of each other into each other. Why is it not simpler to import a cad drawing into anything? why cant I draw something in illustrator and then dimensions it in auto cad? I think designers and tech designers alike would produce not only better looking drawings but more commutative drawings if they were able to articulate their ideas more clearly.
It is fun tot think AutoCAD and how it has made its way into our theatrical industry. The software was created for drafting buildings and other fantastic things. When updates come out every year I am just reminded how little of AutoCAD I am actually using to do my projects and school work. I do not know how to in three dimensions, so all of those updates are kind of useless to me (unless I learn how to draft in three dimensions). I have not downloaded AutoCAD 2015 yet, but I can tell you that the only big difference between AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD 2014 is that there is not watermark for students in AutoCAD 2014. Otherwise I could not find anything different. As I said before, I know very little about all the thousands of things that AutoCAD can do, but I am able to do what I need to do, so I am happy. I am sure it would be fun to learn all about the things I don’t know!
This is a really great addition to AutoCAD’s text tools. I have a lot of feelings about text in AutoCAD, and when to use which type why, but I’m not going to get into that again (although I could copy and paste that as filler, but I’m pretty sure DB would be suspicious). I don’t normally put boxes around my text, and I’ve seen a need to, but now that there’s an easy way to do it and deciding to do it is as simple as changing a setting, I think I would consider it while playing around in paper space. I’ve seen them in other draftings, and although they don’t really match my aesthetic and I’m perfectly satisfied with well-placed text that is free to do its own thing, I can see how this function can come in handy when draftings begin to get messy. This article inspired me to download the new version of AutoCAD, which I guess it was supposed to do, so as I’m typing this I’m downloading the new version and am looking forward to playing will all of the new functions.
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