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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
What’s New in AutoCAD 2021? Blocks Palette Enhancements
AutoCAD Blog | Autodesk: It’s time for another installment of our series on the key features and enhancements available in AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021! Let’s take a look at what’s new with the Blocks palette.
It's nice to see all these new AutoCAD features popping up in the 2021 update. However, there are a few things that I personally wish were easier to do in AutoCAD. Maybe it's my lack of knowledge of the software which makes me find these things annoyingly difficult but there are a few things I'd like to see included (if they're not already a thing) like tools to make non-regular shapes. I was making a lot of scalene triangles and it would have been nice to have a tool where you could input side lengths or angle measurements. I also would like to see blocks that are easier to work with. It would be nice to be able to edit them without exploding and then reforming into blocks. Is there not an editing mode for blocks? It would also be nice if when importing Sketchup files they did so in scale with everything else existing in your file already. If it's 8 feet in Sketchup, why is it suddenly 100+ feet when I import it to AutoCAD? I also had a lot of frustration with the rotate tool. I was making a 2D net of a geodesic dome covering and rotating each of the triangles was a bit of a hassle. What I wanted to do was connect one corner of each of the two the triangles I want to share an edge then mark the other corner of that edge as a reference point and snap that corner to the corner of the first triangle, however that doesn't seem to be a thing you can do. The rotation pivot point and reference point seem to always be the same. Just a few thoughts from someone very new to the software and wishing for an easier time.
We learned a little bit about blocks in David’s AutoCAD class and I could see how they could become super useful in more complicated draftings that require similar or the same elements as something you may have already drawn. While I do not really have the experience with this, I think that making blocks accessible over the web app is a really convenient function. AutoDesk’s path recently seems like they are moving much more to a cloud based system that can be accessed on any device anywhere. Especially in the current time of at-home work, this is extremely important for virtual collaboration. Being able to access a DWG right online is such an amazing function that I wished we used more at CMU. The server is fine, but the cloud based systems that AutoDesk offer seem so much more efficient and effective to use. I look forward to using this new release of AutoCAD 2021.
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It's nice to see all these new AutoCAD features popping up in the 2021 update. However, there are a few things that I personally wish were easier to do in AutoCAD. Maybe it's my lack of knowledge of the software which makes me find these things annoyingly difficult but there are a few things I'd like to see included (if they're not already a thing) like tools to make non-regular shapes. I was making a lot of scalene triangles and it would have been nice to have a tool where you could input side lengths or angle measurements. I also would like to see blocks that are easier to work with. It would be nice to be able to edit them without exploding and then reforming into blocks. Is there not an editing mode for blocks? It would also be nice if when importing Sketchup files they did so in scale with everything else existing in your file already. If it's 8 feet in Sketchup, why is it suddenly 100+ feet when I import it to AutoCAD? I also had a lot of frustration with the rotate tool. I was making a 2D net of a geodesic dome covering and rotating each of the triangles was a bit of a hassle. What I wanted to do was connect one corner of each of the two the triangles I want to share an edge then mark the other corner of that edge as a reference point and snap that corner to the corner of the first triangle, however that doesn't seem to be a thing you can do. The rotation pivot point and reference point seem to always be the same. Just a few thoughts from someone very new to the software and wishing for an easier time.
We learned a little bit about blocks in David’s AutoCAD class and I could see how they could become super useful in more complicated draftings that require similar or the same elements as something you may have already drawn. While I do not really have the experience with this, I think that making blocks accessible over the web app is a really convenient function. AutoDesk’s path recently seems like they are moving much more to a cloud based system that can be accessed on any device anywhere. Especially in the current time of at-home work, this is extremely important for virtual collaboration. Being able to access a DWG right online is such an amazing function that I wished we used more at CMU. The server is fine, but the cloud based systems that AutoDesk offer seem so much more efficient and effective to use. I look forward to using this new release of AutoCAD 2021.
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