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AUTOCAD 2008 PREVIEW GUIDE 

Working with Xref files 

A new option in the XCLIP command enables you to clip the inverse of a selected boundary. For example, if 

you select the Invert Clip option and then specify a rectangular boundary, everything within the rectangle is 

removed from the display. 

 

Figure 16. Inverted Xref Clip 

Working with Blocks 

Using dynamic blocks is more intuitive with new grip tips!  When you hover the cursor over a dynamic block 

grip, the associated parameter description is displayed as a tooltip. 

 

Figure 17. Dynamic Block Grip Tooltips 

Recovering drawing files 

Enhanced drawing recover functionality enables you to select a corrupted drawing (DWG) file and automatically 

run the recover processes on it and all of its xref files.  You can access the new recover functionality by 

selecting Drawing Utilities>Recover drawings and xrefs from the Files menu or by launching the RECOVERALL 

command. 

 

Figure 18. Drawing Recovery. 

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Summary of Contents for 00128-051462-9340 - AutoCAD 2008 - PC

Page 1: ...AutoCAD 2008 Preview Guide www autodesk com autocad ...

Page 2: ...e User Interface 10 Drawing Management 12 Working with DGN files 12 Working with DWF Files 14 Working with Xref files 15 Working with Blocks 15 Recovering drawing files 15 Managing Layers 16 Managing Layouts and Sheets 21 Drawing Annotation 23 Controlling Annotation Scale 23 Using Multiple Leaders 29 Working with Text 31 Creating Dimensions 35 Working with Table Data 38 Visualization 45 Managing M...

Page 3: ...ce Figure 1 Installation Wizard When you choose to Install Products the Wizard leads you through the default install options requiring a minimal amount of knowledge of the various install components and options Installable applications are displayed and selected in the application list Required applications such as the Autodesk DWF Viewer cannot be deselected A simplified personalization page requ...

Page 4: ...re 2 Product Installation The Create Deployments option enables you to create pre configured deployments for installing products on client workstations The process for creating deployments is similar to that of installing products 4 ...

Page 5: ...AUTOCAD 2008 PREVIEW GUIDE Figure 3 Deployment Wizard The Install Tools and Utilities option enables you to install network license utilities as well as administrative and reporting tools 5 ...

Page 6: ...ds AutoCAD 2008 includes new automated functionality that enables you to contribute to the future development of AutoCAD without doing a thing When you participate in the Customer Involvement Program Autodesk automatically collects anonymous information about your system configuration and how you use the software Periodically this information will be sent to Autodesk However no personal informatio...

Page 7: ...ibility for video cards You can specify Direct3D or OpenGL hardware acceleration in the Manual Performance Tuning dialog box which is accessible using the 3DCONFIG command Regardless of which option you select for hardware acceleration new texture compression enhancements will require less video memory and improve performance when display images and textures Figure 6 Hardware acceleration 7 ...

Page 8: ...g and annotation Figure 7 Workspaces Using the Dashboard The Dashboard which was first introduced in AutoCAD 2007 has been significantly enhanced in AutoCAD 2008 It includes nine new panels that offer easy access to a variety of controls for Layers Annotation Scaling Text Dimensions multiple leaders Tables 2D Navigate Object Properties and Block Attributes Figure 8 New Dashboard Panels In addition...

Page 9: ...ette AutoCAD automatically activates it enabling you to drop the object to the proper location You can customize the icons associated with tools on the tool palette using the new Specify Image menu option available when you right click on a tool If you no longer wish to use the selected image an additional right click menu option enables you to remove it automatically restoring the default image F...

Page 10: ...log box The Command List pane includes a new search tool that enables you to filter command names as you type You can view the macro associated with a command by simply passing your cursor over the command name and you can drag and drop commands from the Command List directly onto a toolbar The CUI customization tree enables you to create a new toolbar based on an existing menu If you drag and dro...

Page 11: ... The Button Image pane displays the name of the image file below the icon preview and a tooltip displays the name of each button icon as you pass your cursor over the image Figure 11 Customize User Interface dialog box When you access the CUI dialog box by choosing Customize from the right click menu of a toolbar tool palette or dashboard panel it opens in a simplified state with only the Command ...

Page 12: ...ly referenced files such as images DWG xrefs and DWF underlays You can clip the display area of a DGN underlay using the new DGNCLIP command and you can adjust its properties including contrast fade and monochrome using the Properties palette or through the DGNADJUST command Figure 12 External References dialog box and Properties palette You can import V8 DGN data into your AutoCAD session as a ne...

Page 13: ...xport an AutoCAD drawing to DGN file format AutoCAD displays the Export DGN Settings dialog box You can choose to translate all DWG references to DGN files bind all DWG references into one DGN file or ignore DWG references You have the option to export externally referenced DGN files underlays and you can specify a seed file and units master or sub Specifying a seed file allows you to choose to ex...

Page 14: ...view measure and snap to the vector based data without being able to edit it The DWF underlay functionality is enhanced in AutoCAD 2008 giving you the ability to control the visibility of layers in the DWF file You can control layer visibility by selecting the DWF Layers option from the right click menu with a DWF file selected or by using the DWFLAYER command Figure 15 DWF Layer control 14 ...

Page 15: ...e intuitive with new grip tips When you hover the cursor over a dynamic block grip the associated parameter description is displayed as a tooltip Figure 17 Dynamic Block Grip Tooltips Recovering drawing files Enhanced drawing recover functionality enables you to select a corrupted drawing DWG file and automatically run the recover processes on it and all of its xref files You can access the new re...

Page 16: ...og box accessible from the right click menu enables you to toggle the visibility of multiple columns Figure 19 Right click on column headers A new layer creation option in the Layer Properties Manager enables you to create a new layer that is automatically frozen in all viewports You can access this option from a button as well as from the right click menu Additionally if you right click on an exi...

Page 17: ...and VP Plotstyle When a viewport contains overrides a Viewport Overrides property filter is automatically created and the override properties are indicated with a different background color You can select the Viewport Overrides filter to view all layers that contain overrides A right click menu in the layer list enables you to remove viewport overrides and a new VPLAYEROVERRIDESMODE system variabl...

Page 18: ...Set Bylayer Settings dialog box The Layer States Manager which you can now access outside of the Layer Properties Manager provides powerful features for managing and editing saved layer states Access the Layer States Manager using the new LAYERSTATE command LAS alias or from the Layer panel of the Dashboard as well as from its previous location in the Layer Properties Manager New import options en...

Page 19: ...d to the drawing without your knowledge You can configure the layer settings to automatically evaluate all new layers or only new xref layers and you can choose to display a notification bubble when new layers are detected during various operations including Open Save Attach Reload xrefs Insert and Restore layer state A separate option will display an alert when unreconciled layers are present dur...

Page 20: ...acts as a central location for your Layer tools It includes all of the tools from the Layers toolbar and more Figure 27 Layer Panel on the Dashboard You can access the layer Isolation tools from the Layers panel of the Dashboard The Layer isolate functionality LAYISO command includes a new option for you to lock and fade background layers rather than simply hiding them You can control the amount o...

Page 21: ...utoCAD will create copies or the layouts rather than moving them Figure 29 Drag and drop to move or copy layouts If you are using sheet sets you can easily add a layout from the current drawing to the active sheet set Right click over the layout tab and select the new Import Layout as Sheet option from the right click menu or simply drag and drop the layout tab onto the sheet list Using either of ...

Page 22: ... in the sheet set manager Figure 31 Publish in Reverse Order Two additional enhancements provide greater flexibility when plotting from the Sheet Set Manager When using the Publish using Page Setup Override option to create a DWF file it will honor the Sheet Set Publish Options enabling you to publish to a multi sheet DWF file Also a new system variable PUBLISHCOLLATE allows you to disable homogen...

Page 23: ...hose scales to the selected objects By using annotative scales you can define the size height of annotative objects at the size they should appear on the sheet as opposed to having to figure out how big the object must be created in model space so that it scales down to the correct size when viewed or plotted on a sheet For example if the text needs to be 1 8 on the sheet you create them with a te...

Page 24: ...ation to enable the Annotative property You can use the Properties window to change the Annotative property of any existing annotative type object In addition to the Properties Palette you can change the Annotative property using object specific editors such as the Hatch Edit dialog box Text Formatting Toolbar Block Attribute Manager and Enhanced Attribute Editor Figure 33 Annotative Object Proper...

Page 25: ...e or definition When you enable the Annotative property for an object the object automatically takes on the current annotation scale and a cursor icon indicates that the object is annotative Once the Annotative property has been enabled for an object you can add as many annotative scales as you want However to optimize the drawing file and performance you should only add scales that are necessary ...

Page 26: ... positions using the ANNORESET command Figure 36 Annotative Scale Representations New controls on the status bar enable you to control the annotative scale of the current viewport or modelspace When you select or activate a viewport the status bar includes two scale lists VP Scale and Annotation Scale These scale lists are inaccessible if the viewport is locked However a Lock Unlock Viewport butto...

Page 27: ... system variable Lock Unlock Viewport Viewport Scale Automatically Add Scales to Annotative Objects When the Annotation Scale Changes Annotation Scale Annotation Visibility Figure 38 Annotation Controls on the Status Bar When you select a scale from either the VP Scale or the Annotation Scale list the other scale VP or Annotation will update to match The viewport will zoom to the appropriate scale...

Page 28: ...nnotative object on its own layer The appropriate layers are automatically frozen in each viewport to match the visibility of the original annotative objects in the AutoCAD 2008 based drawing If you choose not to maintain the visual fidelity for annotative objects all annotative objects will be saved based on the annotation scale of the Model tab or its last supported scale Figure 40 Visual fideli...

Page 29: ...ds and the method you specify remains persistent for subsequent Multiple Leaders Figure 42 Multileader right click menu The new Multileader Style Manager MLEADERSTYLE command enables you to control the format and display options of Multiple Leaders using Multileader Styles similar to how you use Text Styles Dimension Styles and Table Styles to define other types of AutoCAD objects You can specify ...

Page 30: ...or right click menu enable you to add or remove leader lines creating a single leader object that points to multiple locations in the drawing And you can easily grip edit different parts of the leader while maintaining associativity between the leader and text Figure 44 Multileader with multiple leader lines The Multiple Leader Align tool MLEADERALIGN command and enables you to quickly align a set...

Page 31: ...y access to text related tools including multline text single line text Find Spell Check text styles and text height Figure 47 Text Panel on the Dashboard When creating or editing multiline text new controls in the Text Formatting toolbar provide more formatting options for your MTEXT objects Figure 48 Text Formatting toolbar New column controls enable you to wrap an MTEXT object across multiple c...

Page 32: ...g box is immediately displayed without first requiring you to select objects The Check Spelling dialog box has a new drop down list from which you can choose where AutoCAD should check for spelling errors The default is to check the entire drawing enabling you to simply choose Start to begin checking the entire drawing for spelling errors Alternatively you can choose to check only the current spac...

Page 33: ... control over the spell checker behavior You can specify whether to check dimension text block attributes and external references Furthermore a list of exclusion options enables you to specify sets of words that should be ignored such as words with numbers or punctuation Figure 52 Check Spelling Settings dialog box 33 ...

Page 34: ...bute Definition dialog box The Multiline Attribute editor is a simplified version of the MTEXT editor enabling you to enter text adjust the width for text wrapping insert fields underline and overline You can use the right click menu to access additional MTEXT editing options such as Import Text Background color and Autocaps When you define a muiltiline attribute an additional control in the Attri...

Page 35: ...the Auto option the breaks will automatically update when the intersection point moves If the objects are moved so that they no longer intersect the break will disappear and if they are moved back the break will automatically return to the proper location The Manual option enables you to specify start and end point of the break You can use the Restore option to remove all the breaks from selected ...

Page 36: ... select the dimension and indicate where you want to place the jog You can edit the jog location using grips and you can turn off the jog or edit its height using the Properties window Additionally a new option for linear jog size is included on the Symbols and Arrows tab of the Dimension Style dialog box Figure 58 Jogged Linear Dimensions The new Dimension Space tool DIMSPACE command enables you ...

Page 37: ... place the dimension text outside of the angle being measured You can access the new option Quadrant from the right click menu when prompted to specify the dimension arc line location The Quadrant option asks you to specify the quadrant angle that you want to dimension separate from specifying the dimension arc line location If the dimension arc line location that you specify is outside of the qua...

Page 38: ...d applying table styles extracting drawing data to tables and integrating drawing data with external data files such as Excel spreadsheets AutoCAD 2008 enables you to create a new AutoCAD table based on three different types of data static data externally linked data and object data The tools to create tables for each of these types of data are available as insert options in the Insert Table dialo...

Page 39: ...readsheets or CSV files within an AutoCAD table object taking advantage of AutoCAD fonts colors text styles and all the other table formatting options while maintaining a link to the original Excel data If changes are made to the data in the external file you can quickly update the AutoCAD table to reflect the changes Your drawing can include any number of data links all of which are listed in the...

Page 40: ...a link settings For example you might specify that the cell contents from the AutoCAD table can be written back to the source file Figure 66 Modify Excel Data Link When you create a table from a data link the data is read directly from the linked file If the data in the linked file changes a bubble notification automatically displays and a link within the bubble enables you to quickly update the A...

Page 41: ...ng the Cell Locking option on the right click menu When a cell is unlocked you can edit its contents and even write the new values back to the original spreadsheet Additional right click options enable you to update the data link open the linked file or detach the data link If you detach the data link the table data becomes static and the AutoCAD table behaves just as it would if you had started w...

Page 42: ...arious manufactured parts Using data extraction you can extract the item number and quantity count from the drawing blocks and then link the corresponding item number cost and description from an Excel spreadsheet The process for linking an Excel spreadsheet to extracted data requires you to specify a data link You can view a list of all the available data links using the External Data Options dia...

Page 43: ...e advantage of custom table styles The Table Style dialog box has been updated for increased usability and flexibility It includes a new option to select an existing table as a starting point for defining a new table style Additional format and display options provide greater flexibility for borders and margins of tables and table cells And you can easily save preview and restore combinations of f...

Page 44: ...table regardless of how it was created to fit on a drawing sheet by automatically wrapping it across multiple rows Simply select the table and then adjust it using grips or the new Table break tools in the Properties window Figure 73 Table Wrapping 44 ...

Page 45: ...rial setting without having to access multiple dialog boxes Figure 74 Materials palette In the Material Editor panel you can specify the type of material and select from a wide range of pre defined templates The pre defined templates include appropriate values such as shininess opacity and translucency for common materials Using these templates you can quickly create realistic materials without be...

Page 46: ...ecified maps saving you time and reducing errors The list of supported map types has been increased to include more procedural maps such as Checker and Tiles enabling you to achieve more realistic results than from texture maps alone A button next to the Map Type provides access to map specific properties by replacing the current Materials panels with Map specific panels When you finish customizin...

Page 47: ...ell as adjust the offset and rotation values Figure 78 Material Offset and Preview panel Applying Photometric Data In AutoCAD 2008 you can create realistic rendered images by applying real world photometric properties to light sources For example you can reference the lighting catalog for a specific fixture and then use the candela lumen or lux values to adjust the lamp intensity Photometric prope...

Page 48: ...ple some of the Autodesk Impression pen and pencil tools by automatically importing the current AutoCAD view into Autodesk Impression Figure 80 Autodesk Impression Toolbar After opening a DWG or DWF file in Impression you can add everything from distinctive line types to textured color fills using pre built or custom appearance styles Libraries of styles can be saved and reused allowing you to gen...

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