The CAD Geek: Despite the fact there’s snow on the ground where I live in Richmond, VA, the calendar says it’s spring. That’s important because flowers are as synonymous with spring as new releases of AutoCAD. Today Autodesk announced the release of AutoCAD 2019. While in years past the focus has been on enhancements to the general design and documentation tools AutoCAD is known for; this year is a bit different.
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"AutoCAD is such a useful software package! I generally move pretty slowly when I hand draft, as I struggle to measure in scale by hand. Even before I start, I have to clean my desk, cut the bum wad or vellum, and take it to my desk. With autocad, the hassle of setting up and working on a draft is significantly easier! Not only do I not have to worry about getting my measurements right and my lines straight, but if I make a mistake, I can easily rectify it with a few key strokes. It really interests me to learn about AutoCAD from Boevers, as he always talks about how various features have evolved since the software package was released. As such, it is really interesting to see how the design philosophy surrounding this update differs from those of past years. Instead of offering new features, Autodesk send to be consolidating their past growth into a more unified and streamlined product; Not unlike DC's Infinite Crises, which they use to 'reset' their comic universe every so often. This consolidation seems to take place through something called special tool sets. As the author writes, "The most impactful news related to AutoCAD 2019 is undoubtedly the introduction of Specialized Toolsets. Otherwise known as One AutoCAD, specialized toolsets essentially consolidate the AutoCAD product line into a single product offering. Former vertical products such as AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD Map 3D are now Specialized Toolsets." I can not wait to try out this new design philosophy in the coming years!"
I love the idea to consolidate all the varying toolsets autoCAD has to offer into one, sleek program with variable functionality. I haven’t been well versed in the different toolsets of the different types of autoCAD but maybe it would be easier to access and learn them if they were more easily accessible through a drop down menu in the standard autoCAD layout. Two other option I find appealing in the new autoCAD update are the Drawing Compare tools and the autoCAD Web App. When drawing something very iterative and updating and saving multiple files, I would have killed for the Drawing Compare functionality because it would be like a penultimate version of track changes in word and not only would I get to see what changes I have made, but cross check and make sure every change I expected was there. The Web App feature is just insane since autoCAD is just such a large and complicated program, the idea of having web functionality for it is just really cool.
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