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 | Pre-Selection Indication
Highlight the objects you may wish to select before you ever click the mouse. You’ll know which objects will interact with your selected tool. Highlighting appearance can also be customized.
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 | PDF Snapping
You can snap to imported PDF files and use them more effectively as a basis for your designs.
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 | Improved Snapping
Keep it snappy. With a first-class snapping system that provides feedback from your cursor, you can draft and model with more precision and greater accuracy. New preferences allow the appearance of snapping elements to be customized.
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 | Pre-set worksheet Zoom levels and Drag and Drop
Now even easier to use, worksheets have pre-set levels of magnification, as well as the ability to move copies of rows and columns by dragging and dropping them.
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 | Workspace Usability Improvements
The Workspace Editor lists all new, changed, or legacy tools and menus for each new release, to help you more easily identify how to modify your custom workspaces. User-defined palette preferences are now stored, so your palettes remain exactly how and where you want them.
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 | Worksheet Rows/Columns Drag and Drop
Now even easier to use, worksheets have pre-set levels of magnification, as well as the ability to move copies of rows and columns by dragging and dropping them.
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 | Resource Browser Improvements
Resources in a drawing can be located in the Resource Browser with a context menu command, and referenced symbols can be edited from the Resource Browser. You can also preserve folder hierarchy when symbols are created, imported, moved, (and, for Design Series users, exported) . Finally, you’ll have better control over the symbol thumbnail view and render modes.
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| Improved Snapping
Keep it snappy. With a first-class snapping system that provides feedback from your cursor, you can draft and model with more precision and greater accuracy. New preferences allow the appearance of snapping elements to be customized.
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 | Editing Mode Improvements
Groups, symbol instances, solids, and viewport groups can now be edited relative to other related drawing objects. You can view and snap to other objects outside of the group, and switch between stacked and non-stacked layer view while editing, making it easier for you to make edits within the drawing context.
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Improved Send Forward and Send Backward Commands
The commands have been modified to consider overlapping objects in the stack position and to send objects all the way to the front or back of the stack in a single step. |
Improved Usability in Revision Cloud object
The object has been modified so that you can more intuitively set the parameters by billow height and billow variability. |
New Data Bar Options
We now offer options for auto-cycling to non-displayed fields on the floating data bar and the ability to turn off the instant data bar activation, giving you greater control of your data input preferences. |
Improved Drawing Label Object
Drawing label ruling lines can be fit to the longest line of text above or below the line, or adjusted by a new control point. The distance of text above and below the ruling line can also be adjusted. |
New Worksheet Functions
Eight new formula functions enhance the calculation capabilities in your worksheets. |
Object Info Palette Enhancements
Singly-selected objects that have been assigned a name now display the name at the bottom of the Shape tab. The object position locator now matches the rotation of a singly-selected rotated rectangle. And, a new command provides a shortcut key combination to switch the focus from the drawing to the first editable field of the Object Info palette. |
Add Nut and Washer Options to J-Bolt
Add a washer, lock washer, and nut to the 2D J-Bolt, and show threads on the 3D J-Bolt. |
Improved 3D Bevel Gear Object
3D bevel gears can now be drawn with teeth, and a spiral angle can now be specified for 3D spiral bevel gears. |
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