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 | New Landscape Area Tool
There’s no need to draw generic plant groupings or calculate landscape areas. Now, you can specify mixed planting areas that are calculated with specific plants included in your plant lists, gaining you valuable time. Conceptualization and analysis is made easier by subdividing sites for proposed uses—from small residential to large, mixed-use master plans. And, the ability to assign cost to areas will make project budgeting even faster.
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 | Improved Offset Insertion Mode for 2D Symbol Insertion
A new 2D Symbol Insertion mode allows you to specify an exact point on a symbol when offsetting it, and supports angular and linear offsets for objects inserted in round walls.
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 | Duplicate Array Command for Objects in Walls
Now you can insert symbols into straight and round walls with the Duplicate Array command.
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 | Design Layer Viewports: Eyedropper Support for Viewport Attributes
In complex designs, we provide the ability to transfer attributes between design layer viewports.
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 | Unfolding Surfaces
Unfold developable NURBS surfaces (or CSG solids that represent developable surfaces) into a flattened 2D representation.
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 | Create Joist from Poly Command Improvements
Specify the property and attribute sets for the joists and the perimeter framing elements, including the length of joists relative to the perimeter and the desired corner joining for the perimeter framing. Framing member objects are placed directly on the drawing, allowing easy adjustments to their properties after the command has been run.
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 | Automatic Universe Assignment
Lighting devices now automatically handle the assignment of universe and dimmer combinations.
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 | Similar Object Creation
Here’s a handy way to create an object that matches one already in a drawing. With a simple command, the right tool, mode, attributes, and parameters are automatically set to match the source object.
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 | Reference Point Mode for Move by Points Tool
Set the position of a symbol in a wall by using two reference points and a specified offset distance.
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 | Move Command for Objects in Walls
Moving symbols within walls just got more intuitive. You can move symbols within straight or round walls by specifying an offset value. A handy preview image shows the direction the symbols will be moved in the wall, and allows you to flip direction with the click of a button.
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 | Design Layer Viewports: True Referencing of Dash Styles
Dash styles used by referenced objects or resources are no longer imported automatically, so you can keep your dash styles intact.
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Reference Deletion Improvements for Design Layer Viewports
For referenced design layer viewports, when you delete the reference to the source document, you can now optionally keep the referenced layers and resources in the target document; duplicate resources between documents are no longer imported. |
Navigate Back to Design Layer Viewport from Design Layer
Sometimes you need to make a quick change to a design layer from a viewport, so we’ve provided navigation between design layer viewports and design layers. |
Retain Design Layer VP Overrides in Sheet Layer VP
A new option was added to Sheet Layer Viewports to show design layer viewport overrides in your sheet layer viewports. This improves the interaction between design layer and sheet layer viewports, so you can create great presentations. |
Shaft Object Improvements
Create custom threaded shaft segments, where the flatness of both the top and bottom threads can be specified, in addition to the number of starts. You can also specify thread direction for both bearing locknut and Acme threads. |
Roof Framer Improvements
The Roof Framer provides the ability to treat the roof object as a roof deck (where the tops of rafters match the bottom of the roof), specify purlins on top of rafters, or have purlins sloped to match the roof slope. |
Wood Screws
Design Series users can now use 2D and 3D wood screws in detail drawings. A variety of configurations are available. |
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