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New and Enhanced: AutoCAD 2020

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AutoCAD 2020 comes with new features that bring your visions to life with best drafting and designing techniques. The AutoCAD subscription comes with specialized toolsets that enable the user to gain access to the industry-specific methods. The innovative features of AutoCAD 2020 provide you the flexibility to access the AutoCAD web and mobile apps. Some of the intriguing features of the latest AutoCAD 2020 are the dark theme for clear visuals, quick display for measurement, improved performance, block palette, and much more.

Dark Theme

AutoCAD 2020 now comes with a dark and fresh look to ease your eyes. The crisp and clean modern structure is designed to provide users a clear vision with sharper icons and contrast improvements.

High Performance

The system continues to provide high performing and a powerful engine to speed up work. Not more than half a second is required to save work each time. AutoCAD users have said that they have saved a lot of time due to its quick response time. A new special feature of AutoCAD has enabled the new generation saving approximately 80 working years collectively. Moreover, the installation time is 50 percent faster which is like a bonus!

Quick Display Measurements

Measuring distances have now become easy with the fresh AutoCAD Quick Measure Tool.

  • Measure 2D designs by just hovering over it
  • Hover your mouse between objects to see dimensions, angles, and distances
  • Site plans, elevations, and floor plans can be seen constantly

Block Palette

You can efficiently insert blocks with the block palette that comes with visual galleries. The feature also helps to find the exact block you are looking for. You can also drag and drop blocks effortlessly from the current drawing to the original drawing or any other drawing tabs. Searching and fixing numerous blocks or recently opened blocks is now easier with the feature of Repeat Placement for saving steps.

Clean Drawings Easily with Purge

The newly redesigned Purge feature is introduced to clean drawings in one go. It helps to get rid of unwanted objects easily and check the removed item with a visual preview section.

AutoCAD Integrates with Box and Microsoft

With the integration of AutoCAD with Microsoft and Box, you can store files or data in OneDrive or Box to get the advantage of streamlined workflows. The concept has paved the way for effortless workflows and enhanced productivity. It reduces collaboration time that benefits in viewing and editing files easily. The AutoCAD subscribers get the liberty of accessing the files anytime, anywhere.

Autodesk Releases Revit 2019

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Autodesk released the latest version of its modeling software, “Revit 2019” on April 11, 2018. The updates in Revit 2019 are a result of the suggestions and feedback provided by the users on the Revit Ideas page. It added some great and lucrative features across three main categories of Design, Optimize, and Connect.

Addition of the “Or” Variable In Filters

The most famous demand or request on the Revit Ideas Page was for “view graphics” with the “or” option added to view filters. This feature gives users flexibility and power over setting up custom views and a better modeling environment with more immersive 3D features.

Double fill patterns

Autodesk Revit 2019 includes many new design features, including new double fill pattern (foreground and background) files and a library of more realistic renderings of textures for materials like carpets, ceilings, concrete, glass, leather, etc.

 

Support for Multiple Monitors

Today, the user works with multiple views open at once and are looking for better ways to manage them.  Therefore, Revit 2019 has new Tabbed Views which deliver a modern experience that lets user maximize their working space. Also, it now allows the user to drag views out of the Revit application window to secondary monitors as a means to adjust user’s working space as per their requirement.

 

Levels in 3D

Revit 2019 supports new levels in 3D views feature, which enables users to visualize building levels in orthographic and perspective 3D views. The user can arrange and organize views exactly as per their requirements. It also adds uncropped perspective to the new version which allows brings them immersive 3D experience without boundaries.

 

 

Split Railings

Revit 2019 incorporates the split tool to split railings with a single click. Users can now have separate path sketches for disparate elements. This new release makes it easier for the users to build complicated railings and pipe networks.

Extended Global Capabilities 

Revit 2019 has an entirely new content library for Architects and Engineers. The main component is new content that facilitates multidisciplinary workflow capabilities. This new feature makes Revit work better for users in DACH countries like Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

In an interview with Architosh, Chris Yanchar, Director, Building Design Products at Autodesk, stated that the continuous user feedback and requests helped Revit 2019 to enhance its designing features and optimize user workflow.

Introducing AutoCAD 2018

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The CAD technology is consistently updating its features to offer you supreme quality designs. The technology will help you to develop aerodynamic bikes, high-speed railways, or energy efficient building. The technology is adding value to the designed products improving the designer’s day to day efficiency. The year 2018 has brought about a lot of features in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT technology. These added features will help designers to create and share precise drawings using the innovative productivity tools. This tool will also save a lot of time and minimize frustration making things simpler. Below are some of the enhanced features the 2018 version will bring about.

PDF Import Enhancements

The PDF import features, as indicated by the design professionals will help them save a lot of money. The AutoCAD 2018 let you use the SHX text recognition tool to quickly convert the imported PDF geometry to text and Mtext objects. The improvised text and Mtext tools, in turn, lets you convert a combination of single and multi-line text objects into a single multi-line text object automatically predicting the formatting.

Object Selection

The AutoCAD 2018 lets you begin with a selection window in one part of your drawing. You can then pan the zoom to another part while maintaining a selection of the off-screen objects.

External Reference Path Enhancements

The broken reference issue is resolved in the enhanced AutoCAD 2018 version. The new version helps to reduce this issue by saving time and minimizing the frustration. The new integrated tools help you to easily replace the paths of one or more missing references with a new path.

High Resolution (4K) Monitor Support

The 2018 version is enhanced to support high-resolution monitors to ensure the best possible viewing experience. The enhancement will make it possible to view objects and figures on a 4K display or higher versions. To make this possible, the new AutoCAD 2018 has a possibly scaled up user surface elements such as the Start tab, Palettes, Command line, Toolbars, Dialogue boxes, ViewCube, Grips and Pick pox. These elements are appropriately scaled and displayed as per the Windows settings.

 

The AutoCAD 2018 has some promising features to help you develop your designs in the way never imagined before. The new version brings a new set of capabilities to improve the graphics and performance while ensuring the Trusted DWG technology you always have been relying upon. The DWG format is updated to improve the efficiency of open and save operations.

AECOsim Vs Revit Architecture

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Many organizations have been using Building Information Software (BIM Tools) across teams of engineers, project managers as well as cost consultants in designing infrastructures. Revit and AECOsim are two renowned BIM tools in the market. Choosing one among the two is a difficult task.

 

Why Revit? Why AECOsim?
  • Revit is easy to use and thus to master it takes a short time.
  • The “seamless” interaction has made Revit an industry standard.
  • With a good customer support, Revit is often ahead of AECOsim.
  • Being an industry standard, Revit holds more employment opportunities.
  • AECOsim is more robust and has more capabilities compared to Revit.
  • Coordination with navigator becomes easier with AECOsim.
  • The software and training expense are cheaper than Revit.
  • Unlike Revit, AECOsim is more interoperable and scalable.

 

Both the products have been designed to offer supreme designing capabilities. However, when it comes to market reach, they have their own strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the selection of the right tool depends on the field of work and the requirements.

Autodesk’s NavisWorks – Illustrating Project Solution’s Features and Benefits

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Autodesk Navisworks allows reliable sharing, combining, and reviewing of the detailed 3D design model from several file formats. The software solution helps in project design, engineering, construction, and manufacturing professionals to unite all the possible contributions in a single model or building. The software contains clash detection tools to find a mistake, helps in the validation of design and reduce waste.

Features

Autodesk’s Naviswork seems to gain control over projects in the following ways:

MODEL FILE AND DATA AGGREGATION: The feature enables combining design, construction, and other project data into one single integrated project model. The software scans file format read intelligent data from original design files, and imports from external databases and display within the model.

NWD AND 3D DWF PUBLISHING: It is possible to publish the entire project for the whole project view. The project model can be stored and published in an NWD or DWF file and that too, in much smaller size in comparison to original files.

PHOTOREALISTIC VISUALIZATION: It will be good to use Autodesk Naviswork advanced visualization features to develop compelling 3D animations for a better projects view to stakeholders. Enables customizing light, background and other materials to create a realistic look.

Usage

The Autodesk Naviswork family of products offers helps architecture, engineering, and construction people to improve the outcome of the project. The Naviswork Solutions detailed design models can be reviewed by the project stakeholders and render competitive advantage of BIM to users. With the software, users can easily combine the design data built in applications such as Autodesk Revit-based applications, AutoCAD software and from other design tools in any file format no matter what is the file size. Furthermore, Autodesk Naviswork offers products as the means to collaborate, coordinate, and communicate. The products are Autodesk Navisworks Manage, Autodesk Navisworks Simulate, and Autodesk Navisworks Freedom.

Conclusively, the software provides complete project view for better design decisions, accurate construction papers and gets appropriate information related to performance and planning.
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