AutoCAD® 2008 software adds features to help make everyday tasks easier. Annotation scaling and control of layers by viewport minimize workarounds, while text enhancements, multiple leaders, and improved tables help deliver an unmatched level of aesthetic precision and professionalism.
The tools in AutoCAD 2008 will propel day-to-day drafting forward with features that increase speed and accuracy while saving time. The new features will allow you to create all your drawing data one time, minimizing redundancy and greatly reducing errors.
With the new scaling tools, you will never have to re-create text, leaders, dimensions, hatches or blocks to ensure that they display and plot correctly across viewports with varying scales. One-time creation means one-time updates reducing wasted plots due to errors and allowing you to spend project review meetings on more critical design changes.
Emphasize a particular element of your design or simply change color in order to get your lineweights correct in a viewport. New tools allow you to override color, linetype, lineweight, or plotstyle layer properties for any viewport. You never have to rename your xrefs again, unnecessarily duplicating your drawing data. Make updates in one location, minimizing errors that result from data redundancy.
True bi-directional data linking between Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets and AutoCAD tables allow you to work on your schedules, bills of materials, or notes in whichever application you are most comfortable so that your updates are appropriately reflected. Enhance your productivity by allowing a non-CAD user in your firm or company to create your tables in Excel and have these tables appear up-to-date and current in your AutoCAD drawing files. In addition, table styles have been greatly enhanced allowing you greater control over the appearance of your tables in AutoCAD.
AutoCAD 2008 has a number of timesaving, drafting productivity tools. These tools range from enhanced leaders that allow for easy alignment and a host of creation options enabling greater flexibility and control, to MTEXT enhancements that allow for column spanning and greater control over formatting in an MTEXT object, to the ability to create multi-line attributes, to the ability to toggle layers on/off for DWF™ Underlays.
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