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I find the yearly updating of AutoCAD very interesting. Every year they come out with a new version that is slightly different from the last. While I see some benefit to this, as regular updates help insure that they stay top of the line performance wise, some of the changes also make older versions obsolete or incompatible. Some of these newer versions also add, get rid of, or change the standard tools that people are used to using. AutoCAD seems to be attempting to bridge this gap by making the newer versions optional download, but that makes me curious about at what point do the newer versions get so fast and optimized, that it renders the old versions impossible to work with? I think that this problem would be better solved by offering the performance updates separately from the updates that change the tools used. I also had a small eye roll when the article mentioned that AutoCAD would be implementing an AI to look at your drawing and turn things into blocks. I'm not sure exactly how useful this could actually be, as if you wanted something to be a block you would probably just make it a block yourself early on.
It’ll be interesting to see if Autodesk AI turns out to be just another case of a company jumping on the AI train too fast just so they can release a shitty feature that I end up accidentally clicking on or if it turns out to be genuinely useful. I’ll be hesitantly hopeful about it. I could see how Smart Blocks: Detect and Convert could either be useful or annoying, but the block suggest feature seems like it will actually probably be useful. The Markup tools also seem like they could be super useful! I can imagine that being something that becomes a common part of TD workflows. It’s also interesting that AutoCAD on Web is a thing. I also find it amusing that we are still using Lisp for automation but also it totally makes sense that a programming language from the late 1950s would remain in AutoCAD workflows to this day. Autodesk, what I really want is you to re-release your Fusion laser slicer with compatibility for Apple Silicon. This 2017 Mac is on the verge of killing itself. Also, your AI is cool but can you please make a way to store dimension settings between drawings on MacOS? Thanks.
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