Autodesk 00128-051462-9340 - AutoCAD 2008

AutoCAD®

2008

Preview Guide

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AUTOCAD 2008 PREVIEW GUIDE

Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................3

Configuration......................................................................................................................................................3

Installing AutoCAD..........................................................................................................................................3

Participating in the Customer Involvement Program.......................................................................................6

Specifying Hardware Acceleration..................................................................................................................7

User Interface .....................................................................................................................................................8

Managing Workspaces...................................................................................................................................8

Using the Dashboard......................................................................................................................................8

Working with Palettes.....................................................................................................................................9

Customizing the 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 Materials ......................................................................................................................................45

Applying Photometric Data...........................................................................................................................47

Previewing Autodesk Impression..................................................................................................................48

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Introduction

Make efficiency a daily part of the job with AutoCAD® 2008 software. The drafting, detailing, and conceptual

design leader is showing the way once again. Meticulously refined with the drafter in mind, AutoCAD 2008

propels day-to-day drafting forward with features that increase speed and accuracy while saving time.

Annotation scaling and layer properties per viewport minimize workarounds, while text and table enhancements

and multiple leaders help deliver an unmatched level of aesthetic precision and professionalism. Always

innovative, the existing AutoCAD tools for conceptual design and visualization work with a new toolset to deliver

virtually instant productivity, making efficiency a daily part of the job.

Configuration

Installing AutoCAD

A new AutoCAD Installation Wizard replaces the previous interface for installing AutoCAD. It has been

streamlined to simplify the installation process enabling you to Install Products, Create Deployments, or Install

Tools and Utilities from a single, consistent user interface.

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 requires information that is common to all applications

which might be installed from this Wizard. After entering the personalization information, you can choose to

install without specifying further options. Accepting the default installation options will install a typical set of tools

that is optimized for most users. However, you can choose to customize the installation by selecting the

Configure button before continuing with the install. For example, you can specify the default text editor

(Notepad or Wordpad), the type of license (Stand-alone or Network), installation type (Typical or Custom), and

optional tools (Express Tools or Material Library). When the install begins, AutoCAD displays a list of the install

components including icons indicating the status of each component. Each of components will be checked off

as it successfully completes its install.

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Figure 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.

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Figure 3. Deployment Wizard.

The Install Tools and Utilities option enables you to install network license utilities as well as administrative and

reporting tools.

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Figure 4. Tools and Utilities.

Participating in the Customer Involvement Program

As a beginner, expert, or someone in between, you can play a key role in helping Autodesk design software to

meet your needs and exacting standards. 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 information will be collected and no one will contact you.

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Figure 5. Customer Involvement Program.

Specifying Hardware Acceleration

AutoCAD 2008 includes support for Microsoft®Direct3D®hardware acceleration providing more flexibility 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.

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User Interface

AutoCAD 2008 offers many enhancements that enable you to create a user interface that maximizes the

drawing area while still providing easy access to the tools you need most!

Managing Workspaces

A new 2D Drafting and Annotation workspace has been added to the list of predefined workspaces. Selecting

one of the predefined workspaces automatically displays the appropriate menus, toolbars, tool palettes, and

dashboard panels for performing 3D modeling or 2D drafting 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 to the new Dashboard panels, improvements have been made to existing panels and you can now

use the Customize User Interface (CUI) tool to customize Dashboard panels. To further automate the user

interface, when you select a tool from the Dashboard the corresponding tool palettes automatically display. For

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example, if you adjust a visual style property on the Dashboard, the Visual Styles palette group will

automatically display.

Working with Palettes

In AutoCAD 2008, you can easily create new tool palette tools based on existing drawing geometry even if the

tool palette to which you wish to add the tool is not initially active. When you drag an object from the drawing to

an inactive tool palette, 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.

Figure 9. Specify Image menu option

You can quickly update a block definition in the current drawing to match a block on the tool palette by selecting

the new Redefine option from the right-click menu of a block tool.

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Figure 10. Redefine drawing block with tool palette block definition

When you modify the location of tools on a tool palette, their order is maintained in the tool catalog (unless the

catalog file is read-only) as well as in the profile. This enables you to share your tool palettes without having to

manually reorganize the tools.

The new TPNAVIGATE command enables you to set a tool palette or tool palette group current using the

command line interface.

Customizing the User Interface

The Customize User Interface (CUI) dialog box has been updated, making it more powerful and easier to use.

Enhancements to pane headers, borders, splitter bars, buttons, and tool tips make it easier for you to

understand and manipulate the controls and data in the CUI dialog box. With the CUI dialog box open, you can

drag and drop buttons directly on a toolbar to rearrange or remove them. In addition, you can Copy and Paste

or Duplicate CUI elements such as commands, menus, toolbars from within the CUI dialog 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

drop a menu element to the top level of the Toolbars node, AutoCAD creates a new toolbar; if you drop it onto

another toolbar, AutoCAD creates a flyout.

A new Dashboard node enables you to customize panels in the AutoCAD Dashboard. Customizing a

Dashboard panel is very similar to customizing toolbars, both within the CUI dialog box and on the Dashboard

itself. In addition, you can create a new row of tools in a dashboard panel by dragging a toolbar from the

Toolbar node to the Dashboard node.

When you select a toolbar or dashboard from the customization tree, a preview pane displays a customizable

representation of the selected element. You can drag commands from the customization tree or command list

directly into the toolbar/panel preview. And you can drag and drop tools in the preview pane to rearrange or

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