Update 2018.1.2 available for AutoCAD and AutoCAD verticals

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Update 2018.1.2 for AutoCAD 2018 products (including all AutoCAD verticals) has now been released and is available for download via your Autodesk Account or through the Autodesk Desktop App.

This update should be applied to the following products:

• AutoCAD 2018
• AutoCAD Architecture 2018
• AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018
• AutoCAD Electrical 2018
• AutoCAD Map 3D 2018
• AutoCAD Mechanical 2018
• AutoCAD MEP 2018
• AutoCAD Plant 3D 2018
• Advance Steel 2018

After applying this patch to AutoCAD 2018, the Product Version in the About box will be listed as O.161.0.0 AutoCAD 2018.1.2 Update.

If you use one of the vertical AutoCAD 2018 products, the Built On version will be listed as O.161.0.0 AutoCAD 2018.1.2 Update.

New Feature and Feature Enhancement Summary

• Xref Layer Property Enhancements (New Feature)
  • To provide more flexibility for controlling xref overrides, the Layer Settings dialog box, which is accessed from the Layer Properties Manager, includes new controls for managing Xref layer properties. When the option to retain overrides to xref layer properties is turned on with the VISRETAIN system variable, you can now specify which xref layer properties that you want to reload. The various layer property options are stored in the registry as specified by the new VISRETAINMODE system variable. The Layer Properties Manager also includes a new status icon to indicate when a layer associated with an xref includes overrides.
  • Primary commands and system variables: LAYER, VISRETAIN, VISRETAINMODE, XREFOVERRIDE
• Views and Viewports (New Feature)
  • You can now easily create, retrieve, and place model views together with automatically sized and scaled layout viewports onto the current layout. When selected, layout viewport objects display two additional grips, one for moving the viewport, and the other for setting the display scale from a list of commonly used scales.
  • Primary commands and system variables: MVIEW, NEWVIEW
• High resolution (4K) monitor support (Feature Enhancement)
  • Support for high resolution monitors continues to be improved in the Update. More than 200 dialog boxes and other User Interface elements have been updated to ensure a quality viewing experience on high-resolution (4K) displays.
  • For the best results, use the Windows 10 operating system and a compatible video card.
• 3D Graphics Performance (Feature Enhancement)
  • The 3D graphics performance for the Wireframe, Realistic, and Shaded visual styles continues to increase depending on the content of the DWG files tested. For example, the median value for the frames-per-second performance in the six large benchmark models used increased by 37% in the Update as compared to AutoCAD 2018.
  • Primary commands and system variables: 3DORBIT, ZOOM, PAN, VSCURRENT

Additional information regarding this update can be found in the Readme documentation.