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So... apparently AutoCAD 2015 has been released. Only yesturday - right?

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Message 1 of 21
MyCADDie
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So... apparently AutoCAD 2015 has been released. Only yesturday - right?

anyone have good links to 'What's new' ?

 

(The only reason I know it's been released is that it showed up on our subscription page available for download.)

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Message 2 of 21
nrz13
in reply to: MyCADDie

Yes, it only showed up yesterday for me as well.  I've got it installed, but I'm still configuring.  There are some videos on the "Learn" screen that cover what's new, but I don't know how to access those videos without installing the program first.  I assume they're being pulled somewhere from the web.

The most immediately noticeable change is the expansion of the dark and light themes (installs dark by default).  Instead of just a couple of things switching per the scheme, it is pretty much all-encompassing.  For instance, the Layers Manager and Properties palettes are black with white text under the dark theme, or white with black text under the light theme (mostly like they used to be).  The interface has also taken some design cues from Windows 8 and Office 2013.

I haven't discovered any actual drafting improvements that would help me much so far, but I'm still getting into it.  They've added a lasso selection window for selecting objects, which I suppose could come in handy in some cases.

I'm guessing the bugs that have been present through version after version have not been fixed, though.  Fixing the bugs is always my biggest feature request, but I've always been disappointed.  It's too early for me to comment on this though; I'm just speculating for now.


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Message 3 of 21
pendean
in reply to: MyCADDie

Autodesk hasn't officially announced it so those that know a lot can't say much or blog much about it yet.
Message 4 of 21
nikolap
in reply to: MyCADDie

Bug No1: missing horizontal scroll bar

Message 5 of 21
pendean
in reply to: MyCADDie

Yep, noticed that too.
Message 6 of 21
GrantsPirate
in reply to: nikolap

I didn't know people still used the scroll bars, interesting.


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Message 7 of 21
pendean
in reply to: GrantsPirate

Old Timer Habit of mine 🙂
Message 8 of 21
scottmoyse
in reply to: pendean

Yup it was announced today at the AutoCAD Blogger Council event in San Francisco. We have a post about it here courtesy of Mike Thomas http://designandmotion.net/autodesk/autocad/why-autocad-2015-is-the-best-release-ever/ 

 

I hope you guys like it.


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Message 9 of 21
nikolap
in reply to: GrantsPirate


@GrantsPirate wrote:

I didn't know people still used the scroll bars, interesting.


Horizontal scroll bar is very useful for adjustment by ploting a lot of drawings with same size successively. And this scroll bar is now missing Smiley Frustrated

Message 10 of 21
GrantsPirate
in reply to: nikolap

Well I would abandon that method if I were you and use multiple layouts.  Or at least use the view command and have all those with named views.  Then you can automate the plotting process very easily.

 

If you have the same size drawings all the time then define the views in your template, saving even more time.


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Message 11 of 21
nrz13
in reply to: nrz13

After spending a couple of days with AutoCAD 2015 and getting over my initial frustration that none of the long-time bugs that I've been tracking have been fixed, I'm enjoying using the updated program.  I've even gotten used to the annoying badges that mimic the Adobe implementation (presumably to help new users).

It seems like a really solid release and here are the features that I already appreciate or think will come in handy in the future:
- Can finally fillet between two polyline arcs
- Hatch selection, especially with MATCHPROP, has been greatly improved
- Improved DIMCONTINUE command
- TEXTALIGN command
- MATCHPROP within a text field for copying formatting
- Greatly improved model space viewports


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Message 12 of 21
UNCWPM
in reply to: nrz13

I think the Mtext editing has a bug.  It is slow....

Message 13 of 21
nrz13
in reply to: UNCWPM

Loading Mtext for the first time is slower, but it has always been slower for the first load.  I'm not seeing any performance difference in Mtext from 2014 to 2015.


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Message 14 of 21
Sonoch
in reply to: MyCADDie

When AutoCAD 2015 support on Windows 8.1?
Message 15 of 21
nrz13
in reply to: Sonoch

AutoCAD 2015 is already supported on Windows 8.1.


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Message 16 of 21

Yes some of us still like to scroll and there are no horizontal or vertical scroll bars.  

Message 17 of 21


@HamptonsDesign wrote:

Yes some of us still like to scroll and there are no horizontal or vertical scroll bars.  


Press the Ctrl key and the scroll wheel at the same time and scroll away. It's multi-directional so you might not keep the same horizontal orientation. I actually sometimes use the -Pan command with Ortho on.

 

Allen



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 18 of 21
pendean
in reply to: AllenJessup

The folks that want the scroll bars use them like the NUDGE feature in AutoCAD, without selecting anything first.

Pan is not a substitution no matter how everyone offering to help describes it 🙂
Message 19 of 21

Sure why keep it simple when something can be further complicated? And why is there a vertical scroll bar but no horizontal?

Maybe I'll go back to an earlier version. Simpler times.

Barbara Feldman Allied AIA CID

Interior Planning and Haute Design
www.HamptonsInteriorDesign.net
BFDesigns@optonline.net
631-329-6722


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Message 20 of 21
CAD-Dude
in reply to: HamptonsDesign

I want my Scroll bar back! lol

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