It has already been an open secret that AutoCAD 2011 is one of the worlds’s leading in 2D and 3D CAD tools. And not only have that, Autodesk also supported in the most famous film to render the visual like Titanic and etc. It offers the flexibility to explore design idea in both of 2D and 3D and have so many tools to make it like a real one. First of all, from the beginning we open AutoCAD 2011 we can see that the user interface looks like the latest release AutoCAD 2009 or 2010. But there are a few differences of this new version: the workspace pull-down menu that will allow to easily switch between 3D, ribbon to classic-style interface, the ribbon pull-down menu, new 3D object snaps are included along the bottom navigation bar, and some others.
One of the new cool additions is the transparency object properties that can be applied to objects or layers. It is really useful and intuitive, but the downside of using transparency is that the processing time during plotting will increase. In this new version of AutoCAD, the 2D parametric drawing controls are improved, by the addition of two functions called Inferred Constraints and AutoConstrain.
AutoCAD 2011 have two new facilities called Inferred Constraints and AutoConstraints that will automatically inferring drawings behavior using geometric relationships established with object snaps.
And for 3D users, AutoCAD 2011 deliver much more functionality for modeling solids, surfaces and meshes, such as better edge selection, converting solids to surface (or vice versa) and surface trimming. The user can now attach point cloud files (in ISD or PCG formats) using Point Cloud dialog box, and can control the display density.
The software has native DWG support, that allowing share critical design data securely, efficiently and accurately. The program also supports other formats such as PDF or DWF, supports Photorealistic Rendering and 3D Printing.
Here are some new features that equipped to AutoCAD 2011:
- 3D navigation tools. The move toward having 3D navigation tools on screen has been completed with the Navigation bar consolidating 3D tools and zoom/pan functions into a single floating panel. Note that these settings can be customized for each workspace so they don't always have to be on.
- Transparency. A new transparency object property has been added, which you'll see in dialog boxes like Layer, Plot, and Properties. Transparency can be applied by object or by layer (just like color or linetype), and the more transparent an object is, the higher the number will be — up to a maximum of 90.
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- 3D object snaps. New 3D object snaps are included along the bottom navigation bar, but the icon looks very similar to the 2D object snap icon that resides right next to it.
- Interface Modifications. AutoCAD 2011's user interface is quite similar to the last couple of releases (2009 and up) in that the out-of-the-box configuration utilizes a ribbon along the top menu bar, as opposed to the toolbar/dashboard approach utilized in AutoCAD 2008 and prior.
- Parametric. AutoCAD 2010 introduced 2D parametric drawing control but, to be honest, it wasn't always easy to understand what was happening as various parametric constraints interacted with each other. In AutoCAD 2011, new functions called Inferred Constraints and AutoConstrain have been added so drawings act more like you'd expect them to by automatically inferring drawing behaviors using geometric relationships established with AutoCAD object snaps. It would require half a dozen issues of this newsletter to fully explain parametric functionality, but suffice it to say that AutoCAD 2011 makes big strides toward usability.
- Point Clouds. Those of you who work in civil engineering, plant and piping, or artistic architecture can finally work with point clouds inside AutoCAD 2011 without any external software. Typically, point clouds are generated by laser-scanning devices and saved to a file that contains all the scanned points; then your CAD software can make decisions about how to create surfaces that pass through the point cloud to give the visual appearance of the original scanned object. You can attach point cloud files (in ISD or PCG formats) much like you'd attach an external reference using the Point Cloud dialog box, and you can control the display density using the Point Cloud ribbon.
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