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Table of Contents
User interface .......................................................................................................................... 3
File tabs ........................................................................................................................................... 3
Layouts ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Status bar......................................................................................................................................... 4
Ribbon ............................................................................................................................................. 5
Help ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Documentation ....................................................................................................................... 6
Revision clouds ................................................................................................................................ 6
Dimensioning ................................................................................................................................... 8
Text................................................................................................................................................ 10
Geometric Center object snap ........................................................................................................ 11
Isometric line grid .......................................................................................................................... 12
Move/copy enhancement .............................................................................................................. 12
Property preview ........................................................................................................................... 12
Command preview ......................................................................................................................... 13
Selection highlighting color ............................................................................................................ 13
Xref enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 13
PDF enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 14
Plot dialog box ............................................................................................................................... 17
Design ................................................................................................................................... 18
Section object ................................................................................................................................ 18
Point clouds ................................................................................................................................... 19
Render engine ................................................................................................................................ 24
Coordination model ....................................................................................................................... 28
BIM 360 add-in for AutoCAD enhancements .................................................................................. 29
Installation and configuration ............................................................................................... 31
Improved graphics ......................................................................................................................... 31
System Variable Monitor................................................................................................................ 32
Security .......................................................................................................................................... 33
Single service pack ......................................................................................................................... 35
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User in
nterface
File tab
bs
The New Tab
T drawing file tab has been renamed
d to Start and remains perssistent as you
u create and o
open
additional drawings. Th
he NEWTABM
MODE system
m variable has been renamed to STARTM
MODE. When set
to 0 the Start tab is not displayed.
y to contro
ol whether th e Start tab is displayed forr install
A new deployment opttion enables you
ents.
deployme
You can press
p
Ctrl+Hom
me or use the
e new GOTOSSTART commaand to switch
h focus from tthe current
drawing to the Start taab. The new CLOSEALLOTH
C
HER commandd offers comm
mand line acccess to close aall
the open drawings exccept the one in focus.
The Tip off the Day on the
t Learn pagge is updated every 24 houurs. You can u
use the arrow
ws to cycle thrrough
multiple tips
t one at a time
t
and the tips can now contain inlinee images.
3
Layoutss
Layouts now support drag
d
and drop
p to move or copy
c
layouts to positions tthat are hidden in the oveerflow
e selected layo
outs to the rigght or left ed ge of the layo
out tabs theyy automatically
menu. As you drag the
outs into the proper positiion.
scroll, enaabling you to drop the layo
New conttrols in the rigght-click menu enable you to dock the llayout tabs in
n line with thee status bar o
or
above it.
Status bar
b
The Status bar can now
w automatically wrap onto
o two rows w hen there aree more icons than can fit into a
single row
w. At any given time, the model
m
tab and
d at least one layout tab arre always disp
played.
Isolate Ob
bjects and Locck UI have be
een added to the Status baar customization menu.
The Lock User Interface tool on the Status bar en
nables you too check and uncheck multiple UI elements at
one time instead of having to reope
en the flyout each time. Cllick the icon tto enable or d
disable UI locking.
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Ribbon
n
The new GALLERYVIEW
G
W system variable enables you to controol whether Ribbon galleriees are displayyed.
When GALLERYVIEW iss set to 1, thu
umbnail preview images off blocks as weell as dimensiions, mleaderrs,
and tables display in th
he Ribbon.
When it’s set to 0, the Insert dialog box is displayyed to accesss Blocks and ttraditional styyle lists are
eader, and taable styles.
displayed in the Ribbon to access diimension, mle
Help
Improvem
ments to the AutoCAD
A
Help
p system makke it easier too access relevant Help conttent and tools.
Single sig
gn-on
You are automatically signed into Help
H documen
ntation when you sign into
o your A360 aaccount from
mentation ennables you to Like a Help to
opic.
AutoCAD and vice-verssa. Signing intto Help docum
5
UI Finder
u click on the Find link for a tool in the Help window
w, an animated
d arrow pointts to the location
When you
of that tool in the Quicck access toollbar and Ribbon. In AutoCA
AD 2016 this functionalityy has been
he Status bar and application menu.
extended to include th
n the Status bar
b but not cu
urrently visibl e, the UI Find
der will point to the
If an icon is available in
b icon.
Customizaation Status bar
Docum
mentation
Revisio
on clouds
The Revision Cloud too
ol is enhanced
d in AutoCAD 2016 to provvide more flexibility. It is aaccessible from the
el and include
es three methods of creatioon: rectangullar, polygonal, and freehan
nd—
Annotate Ribbon pane
in addition to the Command line op
ption to selectt an object. TThe last used ccreation method is
ered the next time the com
mmand is run.. You can set your own default creation
n method usin
ng
remembe
the REVCLLOUDCREATEEMODE system
m variable.
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ectangular, po
olygonal, free
ehand, or objeect revision cclouds, editingg their size an
nd
Whether you create re
shape witth grips is intu
uitive and eassy. The number of grips dissplayed for reevision cloudss has been
significanttly reduced. The
T location and
a behavior of grips is baased on the sh
hape of the reevision cloud. For
example, if the revision
n cloud was generated
g
by selecting a ciircle, it will in
nclude a centeer grip and fo
our
quadrant grips enablin
ng you to edit it like a circle
e. If it was ge nerated by picking polygo
onal points, it will
include ve
ertex and mid
dpoint grips. If you prefer legacy
l
displayy of grips, you
u can set REV
VCLOUDGRIPSS to
Off.
In addition to easier ed
diting with grips, a new Mo
odify option eenables you tto draw new revision cloud
d
elected portio
ons of existingg revision clouuds. This wass the #4 AUGII wishlist requ
uest!
segmentss and erase se
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Dimenssioning
DIM com
mmand enha
ancements
The DIM command
c
is significantly
s
enhanced
e
in AutoCAD
A
20166 and is now accessible fro
om the Annottate
ribbon tab
b. Next to it you’ll
y
find a new dimension
n layer controol. Dimension
ns created using the DIM
command
d are automattically placed on the speciffied layer. If aan appropriatte dimension layer doesn’t
currently exist in the drawing, you can
c quickly crreate one andd apply it to the DIM comm
mand using th
he
m variable.
new DIMLLAYER system
Options within
w
the DIM
M command are
a now displayed at the ccommand linee and in the right-click men
nu,
eliminatin
ng the need fo
or you to rem
member which
h options are available and
d how to enteer them.
However, even the nee
ed to specify Dimension options is sign ificantly redu
uced in AutoC
CAD 2016. Now the
DIM comm
mand automaatically create
es appropriatte dimensionss based on thhe type of objects you select. A
preview as
a you pass th
he cursor over those objects enables yoou to see the resulting dim
mension beforre you
actually create it. For example
e
if you launch the DIM commannd and hoverr the cursor ovver a linear o
object,
a preview
w of the appro
opriate horizo
ontal, vertical, or aligned ddimension is d
displayed. Aftter selecting tthe
object you
u can either place
p
the dimension or hovver the cursoor over anotheer non-parallel linear objeect to
display an
nd place an an
ngular dimension.
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e or an arc objject, a previeew of a diameetric or radial dimension is
If you hovver the cursorr over a circle
displayed and the com
mmand promp
pt offers relevvant options iincluding the ability to swiitch between
Radius and Diameter. Arc
A objects in
nclude the additional optioon to create aan angular dim
mension.
The DIM command
c
furrther simplifie
es creating dimensions by eliminating p
prompts to m
modify the
dimension
n text and angle. Instead, the
t default vaalues are autoomatically ap
pplied. Mtext,, Text, and Teext
Angle opttions are available from the command line and right -click menus if you choosee to change th
he
default vaalues.
If you atte
empt to creatte a dimensio
on that overlaaps with othe r similar dimeensions, a currsor menu offfers
options to
o automatically move, break up, or replace the existting dimensio
on in addition to simply plaacing
the new dimension
d
on top of the exxisting ones without
w
affectting them.
When using the Baseline or Continu
ue options, yo
ou are autom
matically prom
mpted to selecct the first
n line origin.
extension
Regardlesss of which tyype of dimenssion you creatte, the DIM coommand rem
mains active, eenabling you to
easily placce additional dimensions until
u
you exit the commannd.
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ap in Dimensions
Text wra
When editing dimensio
on text, a wid
dth sizing control is displayyed above thee text, enablin
ng you to speecify
the width for text wrap
pping. This was the #8 AUG
GI wishlist reqquest.
Text
To addresss the AUGI #5 wishlist req
quest, a new Text
T frame prroperty has b
been added to
o Mtext objeccts,
enabling you
y to create a border aro
ound the text..
The Match text formattting button in AutoCAD 20
016 is “stickyy,” so you can apply the properties of th
he
t multiple times within an Mtext object. It's availaable for all ob
bjects that usse Mtext inclu
uding
selected text
mleaders,, tables, and dimensions.
d
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Geomettric Centerr object sn
nap
The #2 AU
UGI wishlist re
equest has be
een granted with
w the addittion of a new
w Geometric C
Center object
snap. Usin
ng the Geome
etric Center object
o
snap yo
ou can snap tto the geometric center off polygons and
closed polylines. It is accessible by entering
e
GCE at the comm
mand line as w
well as from tyypical osnap
controls, including the Drafting Setttings dialog box, Status ba r, and contexxtual menus.
Tooltips distinguish
d
the
e Geometric Center
C
osnap
p from the traaditional Centter osnap.
A new objject tracking glyph distingu
uishes the Ce
enter object s nap from oth
her object snaaps that display
the traditional “+” glyp
ph.
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Isometrric line griid
The isome
etric line grid now updatess when you change the isooplane via thee Isometric Drafting Statuss bar
control, as well as with
h the F5 toggle.
Move/ccopy enhancement
oCAD
When you
u move or cop
py a large num
mber of objeccts together iin the 2D Wirreframe visuaal style in Auto
2016, move function preview
p
is gen
nerated quickkly, enabling yyou to move tthe selected o
objects freelyy
without significant lag..
Property preview
w
Property preview perfo
ormance has been improvved in AutoCA
AD 2016. For eexample, wheen you want to
c
changes for a large se
election set, you
y can movee your cursor freely on thee properties
preview color
palette orr Ribbon conttrols to previe
ew the change.
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Comma
and previe
ew
Command
d preview fun
nctionality has been extended in AutoCCAD 2016 to the BLEND, ER
RASE, STRETC
CH,
ROTATE, and
a SCALE co
ommands, hellping you predict the resullts and minim
mizing the neeed to undo the
operation
n.
Selectio
on highligh
hting colo
or
With hard
dware accelerration turned on in AutoCA
AD 2016, the selection efffect color can be customizeed by
clicking on
n the Selectio
on Effect Colo
or drop-down list on the Seelection tab o
of the Options dialog box.
Xref en
nhancemen
nts
In AutoCA
AD 2016 you can
c now conttrol the displaay of layers foor objects in xxref drawingss that were no
ot set
to “ByLayer,” for layer property upd
dates in the host
h drawing. A new system
m variable, XREFOVERRIDE,
enables you to control the display of
o the xref layyers: set XREFFOVERRIDE=11, and the xref objects will
behave ass if their prop
perties were set
s to “ByLaye
er.”
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l
in hostt drawings—aand because xxref layers cannot
To help diistinguish layers in xref draawings from layers
be selecte
ed in the Prop
perties palette—xref layerrs are no longger displayed in the Properrties palette. Xref
layers are
e still displaye
ed in the Ribbon layers list but are now shown in graay text.
PDF enhancemen
nts
PDF suppo
ort has been significantly enhanced
e
in AutoCAD
A
20116, offering im
mproved perfformance,
flexibility,, and quality. Zooming and
d panning a drawing with PPDF underlayys, even large ones, is
consideraably faster in AutoCAD
A
201
16.
Truetype fonts
f
in Mtexxt and Text witth any formattting options, as well as Po
olygonized texxt (TTF font plotted
as Geome
etry), SHX textt, and Unicode
e characters, are now searrchable in PDFF output files. And PDF plottting
performan
nce for drawings that contain a large am
mount of text,, polylines, an
nd fill patternss is improved..
The Exporrt to DWF/PD
DF Options diaalog box has been
b
split intoo two separaate dialog boxxes; one for D
DWF
and one for PDF. Both are accessible from the Output Ribbonn tab.
PDF Optio
ons now inclu
ude the PDF quality and font handling c ontrols as weell as new con
ntrols for
hyperlinkss and bookmaarks.
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m the drawingg in the PDF ffile. For example,
The hyperrlinks control enables you to include hyyperlinks from
these mayy include links to sheets, named
n
views, external webbsites, and files. It also sup
pports links frrom
different types
t
of objects such as te
ext, images, blocks,
b
geomeetry, attributees, and fields.. The bookmaarks
control exxports sheets and named views
v
as bookkmarks so thaat you can easily navigate between them
when view
wing the PDF file.
When using the Plot to
ool to create PDF files, you
u can now chooose from fou
ur predefined
d PDF presetss,
o apply differe
ent PDF output options th at meet vario
ous needs. If yyou select an
ny
offering a quick way to
displayed, pro
oviding
PDF pc3 from the Printter/plotter drrop-down list,, a PDF Optioons button is d
nt access to the PDF Optio
ons dialog boxx.
convenien
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DF presets and options con
ntrols are avaailable when ccreating PDF files using thee Export to PDF
Similar PD
and Batch
h Plot tools.
The Sheett Set Manager has also bee
en updated to
o support theese PDF enhancements.
Regardlesss of which off these metho
ods you use to
o create PDF files from Au
utoCAD, viewiing them in a PDF
viewer offfers additionaal advantagess, including enhanced suppport for Unico
ode characters.
Layout naames are auto
omatically dissplayed as pagge labels in thhe PDF file, m
making it easyy to identify sh
heets
when view
wing the PDF.
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Text that was created as SHX in the AutoCAD draawing can be highlighted, copied, and eeven searched in
ment List.
the Comm
Plot dia
alog box
The defau
ult display forr the Plot dialo
og box in AuttoCAD 2016 iss expanded, ggiving you immediate acceess to
all the plo
ot controls. Yo
ou can collapsse or expand the dialog boox using the ccontrol in thee lower-right
corner.
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Design
n
Section
n object
Section ob
bjects, create
ed using the Section
S
Plane tool, providee more flexibiility in AutoCA
AD 2016. Thee
Section Pllane tool creaates a section
n object that acts
a as a cuttiing plane thro
ough 3D objeects, includingg
solids, surrfaces, meshe
es, regions, an
nd now pointt clouds.
The sectio
on object’s tyype can be sett to representt a simple cuttting plane, a bounded areea, or volumeetric
area. In AutoCAD 2016
6, a new Slice type has bee
en added to thhe section ob
bject.
The Slice type
t
generate
es a thin cut through
t
the model
m
that alw
ways contain
ns parallel front and back
section planes. The Slicce type has a slice thickness property a nd cannot co
ontain jogs. W
When switchin
ng to
pe, any jogs in
n the section object are removed.
a slice typ
Some grip
ps have been offset or repo
ositioned to make
m
them e asier to selecct and now op
perate more
consistently regardlesss of the view or whether polar
p
tracking is toggled on
n or off. For example, the fflip
w displayed on
o the side off the plane op
pposite the vissible model i nstead of on the same side as
grip is now
the visible
e portion of the model.
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extual panel for
f the section
n object has been
b
changedd to a contexttual tab and h
has more con
ntrols.
The conte
It has tools for togglingg Live Section
ning on and offf, changing tthe section tyype, adding jo
ogs, and rotatting
the objectt in 90-degree
e increments. The tab also
o has edit boxxes with spinn
ner controls ffor adjusting tthe
offset of the
t section pllane and the thickness
t
of the
t slice. Thiss is useful for changing theese values wh
hen
grips are not
n accessible
e from differe
ent views. There are also ttools for geneerating sectio
on blocks for ssolids
and for exxtracting secttion lines from
m point clouds.
Point cllouds
AutoCAD 2016
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offers siggnificant enhaancements to make working with point cclouds easier aand more efficcient.
Section planes
p
Point clou
uds now supp
port section planes. A new Section Plan e drop-down list has been
n added to thee
Point Clou
ud contextual Ribbon tab. It enables yo
ou to create seection objectts for the seleected point clo
oud,
either for different orthogonal orientations or byy specifying ppoints. When you create a section object, its
e and position
n is based on the extents of
o the visible 33D objects in the drawing..
initial size
Extract Section
S
Line
es
The new Extract
E
Sectio
on Lines tool enables
e
you to
t generate seection lines frrom a point ccloud when Liive
Sectioningg is turned on
n. It can be acccessed from the section oobject’s conteextual Ribbon
n tab or right--click
menu as well
w as from the
t point clou
ud contextuall Ribbon tab. After selectin
ng the point ccloud from which
to extractt section liness, a dialog boxx enables you
u to adjust thee section linee extraction seettings. Use tthe
Preview result control to see the result and makke desired chaanges before creating the section lines..
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After presssing Create, a progress meter displays on the Statu s bar while processing thee points. The ttime
to processs depends on
n the number of points anaalyzed.
When pro
ocessing is finished, the section geomettry is created .
Transparency contrrol for point clouds
It can som
metimes be diifficult to see geometry cre
eated when ssnapping to o
or tracing over point clouds
since the points can paartially obscure the geome
etry. To help aaddress this p
problem, poin
nt clouds now
w
t
in the prope rties palette aand from thee Point Cloud
support trransparency. You can set transparency
Ribbon tab when a poiint cloud is se
elected.
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es below show
w the point cloud
c
before and
a after trannsparency hass been applieed.
The image
Dynamicc UCS
Point clou
uds now supp
port Dynamic UCS. If an atttached point cloud file includes segmen
ntation data aas
indicated in the Properrties palette, you can begin drawing onn the face of a point cloud without having to
U Simply ensure Dynam
mic UCS is turnned on and alll point cloud object snapss are
manually change the UCS.
turned offf. Then pass the
t cursor over a face of th
he point clou d to begin drrawing.
Point clo
oud object sn
naps
The 3D Ob
bject Snap tab
b in the Draftin
ng Settings diaalog box has bbeen rearrangeed to make ro
oom for additional
point cloud object snap
p modes, including Intersecttion, Edge, Corner, Perpend
dicular to Edgee, and Centerline.
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nes of
The Interssection point cloud object snap enabless you to snapp to the apparrent intersecttion of two lin
a sectione
ed point cloud
d.
The Edge object snap snaps
s
to the edge
e
of two in
ntersecting pplanes and thee Corner objeect snap snap
ps to
er of three intersecting planes.
the corne
The Perpe
endicular to Edge
E
object sn
nap enables you
y to draw pperpendicularr to the edge of two
intersecting planes.
erline object snap
s
enables you to snap to
t the centerrline of a cylin
ndrical shape.
The Cente
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oud crop sta
ates
Point clo
The Cropp
ping panel on
n the Point Clo
oud Ribbon taab includes n ew tools thatt enable you tto save and
restore naamed croppin
ng states. The
e cropping staates maintainn the croppingg boundary of the point clo
oud
as well as the visibility of the scans and regions as
a they’re dis played in thee point cloud manager. You
u can
ew POINTCLO
OUDCROPSTA
ATE command
d to list and d elete crop staates.
use the ne
Point Clo
oud Manage
er
The Point Cloud Managger now alwaays displays th
he on/off butttons for scan
ns and regionss. Names are
d if necessary to display the
e button, sincce a tooltip a lways displayys the full nam
me when the
truncated
cursor is moved
m
over an
a item.
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Renderr engine
A new ren
ndering engin
ne in AutoCAD
D 2016 replacces the previoous renderingg engine. Thiss physically baased
path tracing renderer provides
p
a sim
mpler way to render in AuttoCAD that caan produce b
better results.. The
new render UI has sign
nificantly fewer settings co
ompared withh the previouss render UI. M
Many of the
previous settings
s
were
e removed as they are no longer valid w
with the new rendering engine.
The Render Ribbon panel on the Vissualize Ribbon tab is upda ted to support the new reendering engine. It
includes a size drop-do
own list where you can quickly select frrom standard predefined rrender sizes o
or
choose More
M
Output Settings
S
to acccess the new Render to Ouutput Settinggs dialog box.
In the Ren
nder to Size Ou
utput Settingss dialog box, you can specifyy the image size and resoluttion. And you can
choose to automaticallyy save the rendered image to
t a file, includding BMP, TGA, TIF, JPEG, aand PNG form
mats.
The Render Presets listt on the Visuaalize Ribbon tab
t includes aadditional opttions, enablin
ng you to control
the rende
er quality by setting
s
either the number of levels to reender or how
w much time tto render. Too
oltips
assist you
u in making an
n appropriate
e choice.
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R
Prese
ets Manager iss much simpler than the pprevious Rend
der Presets M
Manager. You can
The new Render
create, modify, and de
elete custom render
r
presetts. Specify rennder preset n
name and desscription as w
well as
the duration and accurracy. You can render direcctly from the R
Render Preseets Manager, choosing to
w
the current
c
viewp
port, or a speccified region in the current viewport. W
When
render in the Render window,
er window, a drop-down
d
lisst enables yo u to specify tthe render sizze in addition to
renderingg in the rende
selecting one of the prreset render quality
q
option
ns.
posure palettte offers pow erful new imaage-based ligghting (IBL)
A new Render Environment and Exp
n access it fro
om the Rende
er panel of thee Visualize Ribbon tab.
environments. You can
e Environmen
nt control is tu
urned on, you
u can select frrom predefined IBL enviro
onments.
When the
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nvironments automaticallyy apply lightin
ng effects. Soome of them iinclude 360-d
degree
The IBL en
backgroun
nd images thaat emulate a realistic environment as yyou orbit arou
und the modeel. The viewport
must be in
n a perspectivve view and you
y must rend
der to see thee IBL environment.
A control in the Render Environmen
nt and Exposu
ure palette ennables you to
o use a custom
m background
d
ustom imagess are static an
nd do not emu
ulate a realisttic 3D environ
nment as you
u rotate.
image. Cu
Additionaal controls in the
t Render En
nvironment and
a Exposure palette enab
ble you to adjust the Expossure
and White
e Balance.
The Expossure slides be
etween Brightt and Dark.
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e Balance slid
des between Cool
C
and Warrm.
The White
The new render
r
windo
ow displays th
he current ren
nder process and enables you to save a snapshot, zo
oom
in and outt while rende
ering, and prin
nt the rendered image. Reender history is displayed in the expand
ded
section off the render window.
w
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Coordin
nation mo
odel
AutoCAD 2016 has add
ded support for
f attaching coordination
c
models to a drawing. A co
oordination m
model
us trades throough the pre--construction
n and construcction
is a model used for virttual coordinaation of variou
phases off a project. Co
oordination models
m
are not displayed inn the 2D Wireeframe visual style.
Navisworks supportt
AutoCAD 2016 supportts attaching Autodesk®
A
Naavisworks® fil es, in either tthe NWD or N
NWC file form
mat.
nce files, inclu
uding the Attaach
You can attach them using the same tools you use to attach oother referen
tool and the
t External References
R
Manager.
M
Navisworks files are lissted among th
he other supp
ported file typpes.
ew CMATTACCH command (-CMATTACH
H for the command
You can also attach Naavisworks filess using the ne
on).
line versio
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ool you use to
o attach a Navvisworks file, the Attach Co
oordination M
Model dialog box
Regardlesss of which to
is displaye
ed. In here yo
ou can specifyy typical controls includingg Path type, In
nsertion poin
nt, Scale, and
Rotation, as well as Dissplay options that are speccific to Navisw
works files. Iff your drawingg is part of th
he
ou can hide that part of th
he model wheen it is attached. Just makee sure Show
coordinattion model, yo
current drrawing geometry in model is not checked. That wayy your drawingg geometry iss not duplicatted in
the mode
el. You can alsso automaticaally zoom to the
t coordinattion model wiithin the draw
wing.
Controls on
o the Coordiination Mode
el contextual Ribbon tab m
make it easy to
o differentiatte between th
he
drawing geometry
g
and
d attached coo
ordination models. Color FFading contro
ols the amoun
nt of black
blended on
o all attached coordinatio
on models. Op
pacity Fadingg controls the amount of dimming throu
ugh
transpare
ency for all atttached coordination mode
els.
Color and opacity fadin
ng are set to 0 in the image on the left (below), makking it difficultt to differentiate
the drawing geometry from the attaached coordination mode l. In the imagge on the righ
ht, both controls
erentiate the drawing from
m the model.
are set to 50, making itt easy to diffe
ordination mo
odel is not sup
pported on 322-bit systemss. To attach co
oordination
NOTE: Atttaching a coo
models, you
y need a 64
4-bit system, and
a hardware
e accelerationn must be turrned on.
BIM 360 add-in for AutoCAD
A
en
nhancements
The BIM 360
3 TM add-in is enhanced so
s that you caan attach singgle or merged
d models from
m BIM 360 TM
Glue® software to Auto
oCAD drawings. The new Attach
A
tool is accessible frrom the BIM 3
360 Ribbon taab.
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or BIM 360 Glue, you can access
a
your p rojects directtly from Auto
oCAD by signin
ng
If you havve a license fo
into your A360 accoun
nt and selectin
ng the projectt host. You caan select whicch model or m
merged modeel you
wish to atttach and then specify its location withiin the currentt drawing.
You can select the attaached model to
t access the Coordinationn Model conttextual Ribbon tab where yyou
d opacity fadiing.
can adjustt its color and
If a model from BIM 36
60 Glue is attached to a DW
WG TM drawinng and the drawing is saveed, when the
drawing iss re-opened, the latest verrsion of the attached mod el is automattically loaded.
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Installa
ation and
d configurration
Improv
ved graphiics
The appeaarance of line
eweights (for continuous liinetypes) andd curves (circlles, arcs, ellip
pses, and ellip
ptical
arcs) has been enhanced in AutoCA
AD 2016. To se
ee these imprrovements, yyour graphics hardware mu
ust
X® 11-capable
e and you mu
ust have hardware acceler ation turned on. A new co
ontrol in the
be DirectX
Graphics Performance dialog box en
nables you to
o take advant age of improved graphics for capable
devices. You
Y can accesss Graphic Perrformance fro
om the Statuss bar icon.
When enaabled, you can display perffect curves in
n the 2D wirefframe visual sstyle and they will be smo
ooth
at any zoo
om level.
Two new variables offe
er additional control over the display w
when high-quaality geometrry is enabled. Turn
NG on to auto
omatically fad
de geometry as you zoom into dense drawings. The
LINEFADIN
LINEFADIN
NGLEVEL variable enables you to contro
ol the amounnt of fading beetween 1 and
d 3.
You are no longer requ
uired to perfo
orm a manuall regen when zooming or p
panning as far as possible. The
REGENAU
UTO system vaariable autom
matically perfo
orms the regeens as needed.
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URSORBADGE system variable enables you
y to contro l the display o
of cursor bad
dges. When it is set
A new CU
to 2, curso
or badges are
e displayed. When
W
it is set to 1, they aree not.
System
m Variable Monitor
The new System
S
Variab
ble Monitor (SYSVARMON
NITOR commaand) enables yyou to quicklyy identify and
d edit
system vaariables that don’t
d
conform
m to your stan
ndards. The SSystem Variab
ble Monitor iss prepopulateed
with a listt of AutoCAD system variables that are often inadve rtently modiffied. The status indicates w
which
variables deviate from their defaultt settings and the table dissplays the preeferred and current valuess of
those variables. You caan click on values in the Prreferred colum
mn and edit tthem to confo
orm to your
standardss. You can use
e the Reset Alll tool to quicckly reset the current valuees of all the d
deviant variab
bles
back to th
heir preferred
d values.
Easily add
d and remove
e variables by editing the list.
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Controls in the System
m Variable Mo
onitor (SYSMO
ON system va riable) enablee you to display notificatio
ons
when a syystem variable has changed from its pre
eferred settinng. If the conttrol to Notify when these
system vaariables changge is turned off,
o you will re
eceive no nottification. If itt is turned on,, a notificatio
on will
display at the comman
nd line and on
n the Status bar
b icon. If thee additional o
option to Enable balloon
notificatio
on is turned on,
o a balloon notification will
w display froom the Statuss bar icon.
Securitty
In AutoCA
AD 2016 the Security
S
contrrols on the Syystems tab of the Options dialog box haave been renaamed
from Execcutable File Se
ettings to Seccurity Optionss. The new Seecurity Option
ns dialog boxx offers a slideer
control to
o adjust the se
ecurity level and
a you can browse,
b
add, and remove trusted foldeers for executable
files. Addiitional contro
ols enable you
u to specify whether
w
to incclude or exclu
ude the Start In or drawingg
folders wh
hen searchingg for executable files. Thesse controls arre also accesssible by the new
LEGACYCO
ODESEARCH system
s
variab
ble. You’ll find
d similar secuurity controls in the CAD M
Manager Control
Utility and
d Deployment wizard.
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d
box is accessible
a
via the commannd line using tthe SECURITYYOPTIONS
The Securrity Options dialog
command
d. The digital signature con
ntrols that we
ere previouslyy located in th
he Security O
Options dialogg box
are now accessible
a
via the new DIGITALSIGN com
mmand.
AutoCAD will warn if apps (including Exchange Apps)
A
are loadded from proggram data or user data. It will
not warn if unsigned apps are installed under program files.
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Single service
s
pack
With the AutoCAD
A
201
16 release, yo
ou can access your AutoCA
AD platform uupdates more quickly, even
n if
you are using an AutoC
CAD-based ve
ertical producct. AutoCAD sservice packs created for A
AutoCAD 2016
6 can
be installe
ed on any AuttoCAD 2016-b
based vertical product, so you don’t haave to wait for your verticaal
product to
o integrate th
he AutoCAD service
s
pack changes.
c
To h elp you identtify which verrsion you havve
installed, the About bo
ox is enhanced to provide information aabout the verrsion level forr both the
d the AutoCAD
D verticals.
AutoCAD platform and
Autodesk, the Autodesk loggo, AutoCAD, BIM
M 360, DWF, Glu
ue, Navisworks, and TrustedDW
WG are registered
d trademarks or
bsidiaries and/or affiliates in thee USA and/or other countries. A
All other brand n
names,
trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its sub
mes, or trademaarks belong to th
heir respective holders. Autodessk reserves the right to alter product and servicees
product nam
offerings, an
nd specificationss and pricing at any
a time withou
ut notice, and is not responsible for typographiccal or graphical eerrors
that may ap
ppear in this document.
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