Enhancements

Improve 2D/3D drawings printing quality via Plot with transparency and Shade plot options. With Display plot styles option you can assign different plot style tables to each layout in your drawings.

The command preview provides you a quick feedback of the active command. It shows you exactly how the objects will look when the Trim, Extend and Hatch command is executed. As you make changes within the command, you can instantly preview the final result.

Ribbon, command line and status bar enhancements provide better user design experience. Show or hide ribbon to increase work space are, type any command and visualize it at command line and select a bunch of drafting options from status bar.

Some hatch related system variables have been implemented: HPANNOTATIVE,  HPISLANDDETECTION,  HPMAXAREAS, HPORIGINSTOREASDEFAUL,  HPQUICKPREVTIMEOUT, HPLASTPATTERN HPLAYER, HPLINETYPE, HPPICKMODE, HPRELATIVEPS.

Now design center offers a quick way to update instances of block. Redefining a block allows you to overwrite each block instance without changing the block name, all while keeping the original block’s position. Alternatively, if you just copy a newer version of a block into your active drawing, the block will not update – it will instead inherent the active drawing’s block definition. By redefining a block, there is no need for deleting, purging, and copying.

Now you can “import” additional drawing layouts into your sheet set file using the Sheet Set Manager. When import layouts as sheets you are creating a new pointer to an existing drawing.

Now Mtext supports check spelling that determines whether as you type spell checking is on or off. If you are typing a wrong word, it will show a red line under the text. In addition, you can correct a word easily by selecting an alternative word from the Suggestions list or type a word in the Suggestions box.