Some nice-to-haves especially the performance improvements.

I consider it almost 2017.5, as the majority of “ what’s new” is extending the features introduced with 2017. It’s like buying a new car, gotta love that new car smell! AutoCAD 2018ĪutoCAD is a bit light on the new features this year.

For example, the median value for the frames-per-second performance in the six large benchmark models used increased by 37% in the Update as compared to AutoCAD 2018.AutoCAD 2018 is here! That’s right, it is that time of year again… time for another round of Autodesk upgrades. The 3D graphics performance for the Wireframe, Realistic, and Shaded visual styles continues to increase depending on the content of the DWG files tested. More than 200 dialog boxes and other User Interface elements have been updated to ensure a quality viewing experience on high-resolution (4K) displays.įor the best results, use the Windows 10 operating system and a compatible video card.

Support for high resolution monitors continues to be improved in the Update. Primary commands and system variables: MVIEW, NEWVIEW When selected, layout viewport objects display two additional grips, one for moving the viewport, and the other for setting the display scale from a list of commonly used scales. You can now easily create, retrieve, and place model views together with automatically sized and scaled layout viewports onto the current layout. Primary commands and system variables: LAYER, VISRETAIN, VISRETAINMODE, XREFOVERRIDE The Layer Properties Manager also includes a new status icon to indicate when a layer associated with an xref includes overrides. The various layer property options are stored in the registry as specified by the new VISRETAINMODE system variable. When the option to retain overrides to xref layer properties is turned on with the VISRETAIN system variable, you can now specify which xref layer properties that you want to reload. To provide more flexibility for controlling xref overrides, the Layer Settings dialog box, which is accessed from the Layer Properties Manager, includes new controls for managing Xref layer properties.

Autocad 2018 updates patches