This one is definitely useful, but also something that should have been included for a while now. Your settings are auto-detected, and you choose which ones to migrate. Migrate your custom settings and files with ease from previous releases. Your reviewers don’t need a login or even an AutoCAD-based product to view your drawings, and they can’t alter your source dwg file. Now you can share your 2D and 3D CAD drawings in the cloud. Basically a mobile slimmed down version of autocad. Simple, AutoCAD 360 Pro is now included with your autoCAD subscription. I’m sure this will be useful for those of you who use or receive files from Navisworks or BIM 360 Glue. I am mostly a civil 3d designer and don’t use Navisworks or BIM 360 Glue, but apparently this feature will allow you to directly attached and view models from either of those software packages inside of Autocad.

I can definitely see this saving me time in the future.

So in no particular order here are the new features for 2017:īasically there is now a box in the annotate ribbon for Centerlines allowing you to quickly add a dynamic center mark or centerline to an object.Meaning if you move/adjust the associated object, your center marks and lines with move with it.Ī similar feature has been available in other software including inventor for a while now and it’s a very welcome addition. If you’re impatient and just want to try it for yourself right now, you can get a free trial download of AutoCAD 2017 here: AutoDesk Autocad 2017 Trial link:

I’m going to focus on a quick breakdown of the 8 New features since new features are typically what would drive me or any designer to upgrade and learn a new version of autoCAD. If you were hoping for a new video tutorial, I plan to have a new one up a little later this week so be sure to check back and follow me on twitter for updates.Īccording to the autodesk website there are 38 features that have been improved or added for the 2017 release of autocad. Brandon here and in todays post I’m going to do a quick recap of what’s new in AutoCAD 2017 as well as which feature I’m most excited for and to try out.

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