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what is a feature of AutoCAD you discovered years late into your career ?

AutoMarcus — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:26:27 GMT

today someone showed me a drawing they were working on, and said on i put these together using groups...

penny dropped

i've never ever used groups

then i tried it, why haven't i heard of groups before? have i been living under a rock?

was like when i suggested to a colleague that he burst a block rather than explode, he said "whats burst?"

Re: what is a feature of AutoCAD you discovered years late into your career ?

RobDraw — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:23:35 GMT

Polar and object snap tracking.

Haven't used ortho since.

Re: what is a feature of AutoCAD you discovered years late into your career ?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:49:52 GMT

Hi,

there are a lot of functions that are not "transported" to the users knowledge, and there exists a simple reason:

While 20 years ago close to every user invested a day training for new features with or before installing the AutoCAD update. Today close to no user invest in training .. and even worse, migrate settings from previous versions to have the same old classic interface and even don't see any new functionality.

Did not happen just once: when I hold a training class, e.g. Civil 3D, and people in that class tell me they have decades of AutoCAD experience, they are looking to things like grips functionality with bright eyes and "that's new, isn't it" ... no, grips exist since AutoCAD R12 in 1992 and doing copy+rotate or copy+move or copy+stretch (which is asked a lot of times here) is available for a long time now ...

(just one of the "OHHHH, that already existed long time" samples)

- alfred -