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Contents

• Introduction
• Configuration......................................................................................................................................................
  • Installing AutoCAD..........................................................................................................................................
  • Participating in the Customer Involvement Program.......................................................................................
  • Specifying Hardware Acceleration
• User Interface
  • Managing Workspaces
  • Using the Dashboard
  • Working with Palettes
  • Customizing the User Interface
• Drawing Management
  • Working with DGN files.................................................................................................................................
  • Working with DWF Files
  • Working with Xref files
  • Working with Blocks......................................................................................................................................
  • Recovering drawing files...............................................................................................................................
  • Managing Layers
  • Managing Layouts and Sheets
• Drawing Annotation
  • Controlling Annotation Scale
  • Using Multiple Leaders
  • Working with Text
  • Creating Dimensions
  • Working with Table Data...............................................................................................................................
• Visualization
  • Managing Materials
  • Applying Photometric Data
  • Previewing Autodesk Impression..................................................................................................................

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.

Figure 3. Deployment Wizard.

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

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.

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

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

remove them. When you select a tool in the preview pane, the corresponding tool is automatically selected in the customization tree and command list. Likewise, selecting a tool from the customization tree automatically highlights it within the preview pane and the command list. The Button Image pane displays the name of the image file below the icon preview and a tooltip displays the name of each button icon as you pass your cursor over the image.

Figure 11. Customize User Interface dialog box.

When you access the CUI dialog box by choosing Customize from the right-click menu of a toolbar, tool palette, or dashboard panel, it opens in a simplified state with only the Command List displayed. You can also access the CUI in this simplified state using the new QUICKCUI command.

can choose to explode text node to text elements (this option maintains the shape of text created along a path) and you can choose to convert the DGN file to AutoCAD units using the DGN file’s Master or Sub units.

Figure 13. Import DGN Settings dialog box.

When you export an AutoCAD drawing to DGN file format, AutoCAD displays the Export DGN Settings dialog box. You can choose to translate all DWG references to DGN files, bind all DWG references into one DGN file, or ignore DWG references. You have the option to export externally referenced DGN files (underlays) and you can specify a seed file and units (master or sub). Specifying a seed file allows you to choose to export the data as a 2D or 3D file using imperial or metric units and master or sub units.

Figure 14. Export DGN Settings dialog box.

Working with DWF Files Beginning in AutoCAD 2007, you could attach a DWF file as an underlay in your drawing enabling you to view, measure, and snap to the vector-based data without being able to edit it. The DWF underlay functionality is enhanced in AutoCAD 2008 giving you the ability to control the visibility of layers in the DWF file. You can control layer visibility by selecting the DWF Layers option from the right-click menu with a DWF file selected, or by using the DWFLAYER command.

Figure 15. DWF Layer control.

Managing Layers The Layer Properties Manager and the new Layer panel in the Dashboard offer many enhancements to simplify the process of creating and managing layers.

You can easily rearrange the display order of layer properties by dragging and dropping the column headings and you can control which layer properties are displayed by turning them on or off from a right-click menu. A new Customize Layer Columns dialog box, accessible from the right-click menu, enables you to toggle the visibility of multiple columns.

Figure 19. Right-click on column headers.

A new layer creation option in the Layer Properties Manager enables you to create a new layer that is automatically frozen in all viewports. You can access this option from a button as well as from the right-click menu. Additionally, if you right-click on an existing layer, you can freeze that selected layer in all viewports. The Rename option in the right-click menu is also new in AutoCAD 2008. However, you can still rename an existing layer by pressing F2 or by clicking twice (slowly) on the layer name.

Figure 20. Right-click on existing layer.

You can display objects differently in selected layout viewports while retaining their original layer properties in model space and in other layout viewports. With layer property overrides, you no longer need to use tedious and error-prone methods such as duplicating geometry on separate layers or making copies of xrefs. Instead, when working in a viewport, you can use the Layer Properties Manager to set overrides for VP Color, VP Linetype, VP Lineweight, and VP Plotstyle. When a viewport contains overrides, a Viewport Overrides property filter is automatically created and the override properties are indicated with a different background color. You can select the Viewport Overrides filter to view all layers that contain overrides. A right-click menu in the layer list enables you to remove viewport overrides and a new VPLAYEROVERRIDESMODE system variable enables you to temporarily ignore the overrides for viewing or plotting.

Figure 21. VP Layer Overrides.

The viewport overrides only affect the display of object properties that are set to BYLAYER. You can quickly change object properties including Color, Linetype, Lineweight, Material, and Plotstyle, of selected objects to

A Settings button in the Layer Properties Manager provides access to the new Layer Settings dialog box where you can enable layer evaluation, apply the layer filter to the layer toolbar, and change the background color for viewport overrides.

Figure 24. Layer Settings dialog box.

The first time you Save or Plot a drawing, AutoCAD 2008 creates a list of reconciled layers based on the existing layer names. The new layer evaluation functionality automatically compares the current layer list with the reconciled layer list to help prevent new layers from being added to the drawing without your knowledge. You can configure the layer settings to automatically evaluate all new layers or only new xref layers and you can choose to display a notification bubble when new layers are detected during various operations including Open, Save, Attach/Reload xrefs, Insert, and Restore layer state. A separate option will display an alert when unreconciled layers are present during a plot operation. In addition to specifying these options in the Layer Settings dialog box, you can use the LAYEREVAL and LAYERNOTIFY system variables.

If a discrepancy between the existing layers and the reconciled layers is detected and notification is enabled, you can select a link in the notification bubble to quickly view the unreconciled layers in the Layer Properties Manager.

Figure 25. Unreconciled Layer Notification.

The Layer Properties Manager automatically creates a layer filter for unreconciled layers. You can review the list of unreconciled layers and then manually select and reconcile layers using the Reconcile option from the right-click menu.

Figure 26. Unreconciled Layers.

The new Layer Panel on the Dashboard acts as a central location for your Layer tools. It includes all of the tools from the Layers toolbar and more!

Figure 27. Layer Panel on the Dashboard.

You can access the layer Isolation tools from the Layers panel of the Dashboard. The Layer isolate functionality (LAYISO) command includes a new option for you to lock and fade background layers rather than simply hiding them. You can control the amount of fading of using a slide bar or with the new LAYLOCKFADECTL system variable. Since objects on a locked layer cannot be edited, their grips are not displayed upon selection.