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What's New in AutoCAD 2006 - Annotation and Dimensioning

Dtext
Dtext has gotten a small make-over in this release with it now taking advantage of the in-place editor that is used for Tables and Mtext. This also means that Dtext now has access to some of the features of Mtext like some of the tools available via the right-click menu. Since the new in-place editor is used, as you type you actually see what the final result looks like including the justification of the text object.



Mtext
Like the previous releases of AutoCAD, Autodesk has improved the functionality of Mtext further. This release includes a true in-place editor which we first saw with Tables in AutoCAD 2005. You can even find a set of formatting tools on the editors floating toolbar which allows for accessing options that were available on the right-click menu. Along with some editor enhancements, Mtext now supports Bulleted and Numbered Lists too.


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Fields
Fields which were first introduced in AutoCAD 2005 have gotten a little more muscle with AutoCAD 2006. With the introduction of Dynamic Blocks and Formulas for Tables there were bound to be some improvements in this area. Below is a summary of the new Fields that are now available in AutoCAD 2006 over what was already available in AutoCAD 2005.
Field Name Description
BlockPlaceholder A place holder for a value that is populated with the corresponding property after the block has been inserted into a drawing. The Block Reference properties that are available are: Block Unit, Color, Layer, Linetype, Linetype scale, Lineweight, Name, Object name, Plot style, Position, Rotation, Scale X, Scale Y, Scale Z and Unit Factor.
CurrentSheetCategory Returns the category property for the sheet.
CurrentSheetIssuePurpose Returns the purpose property for the sheet.
CurrentSheetRevisionNumber Returns the revision number property for the sheet.
CurrentSheetSetProjectMilestone Returns the project milestone property for the sheet set.
CurrentSheetSetProjectName Returns the project name property for the sheet set.
CurrentSheetSetProjectNumber Returns the project number property for the sheet set.
CurrentSheetSetProjectPhase Returns the project phase property for the sheet set.
Formula A formula in a field is similar to that in MS Excel. You are able to do mathematic operations (add, subtract, multiply...), Sum, Count, Average and reference other Cell values.


Tables
Tables have been improved to display a cell indicator around the top and left sides, much like the column and row names in MS Excel. This is an important new feature if you work with the new formulas that are accessible through the Fields dialog box.



Dimension Style
There have been some easy to handle changes to Dimension Styles in this release. This first thing that you might notice when you run the Dimension Style Manager the first time is that it has been rearranged a little bit. It is actually a little easier to find things now and the changes was necessary to handle some of the new features in this release for Dimensions. The big layout change is around the Lines and Arrows tab in AutoCAD 2005. This tab has been broken out into two separate tabs entitled "Lines" and "Symbols and Arrows".

The Lines tab contains settings that are for Dimension and Extension lines. As you can see from the image below it is nicely laid out and has a nice flow to it. Some of the new settings that are under this tab is the new ability to have different Linetypes for each extension line and one of the other new features of Fixed length extension lines.



The Symbols and Arrows tab contains settings that are Arrowheads, Center marks, Arc length symbol and Radius dimension jog. The two new settings Arc length symbol and Radius dimension jog are used for the two new Dimension commands DimArc and DimJogged. These two new commands are created to support the two new Dimension objects that these commands are used to create. The remainder of the tabs have been left unaltered in this release.



The following image shows the settings to use different Linetypes with each Extension Line and the Fixed Length property in action. Unlike other Dimension Style settings you won’t find any new system variables that will handle these values.



New Dimension Objects
As I mentioned under the Dimension Style section there are two new Dimension Objects introduced in this release. The two Dimension objects are an Arc Length Dimension and a Jogged Dimension. These objects are created using the new DimArc (DAR is the alias) and DimJogged (DJO is the alias) commands.



Flip Dimension Arrows
There is a new option to flip the side an arrow is on a Dimension line. This can be great when you want to force which side an arrow is displayed on. The command is available from the right-click menu when a Dimension has been selected. The command that is responsible for this is AIDIMFLIPARROW and to flip the arrow you just select on the Dimension line near the arrow that you want to flip.

Hatch
There has been some nice new features and enhancements that have been introduced with Hatching in this release. The first thing that is obviously a noticeable change with Hatching in AutoCAD 2006 is the new dialog box layout. There is no longer the three tab design as it has been for the last couple of releases since AutoCAD 2004. The Advanced tab has been removed and the settings have been placed on a roll-out like many of the advanced settings for plotting have been in the Plot dialog box. To display or hide the advanced Hatch settings you simply just click on the button with an arrow on it located in the lower-right corner of the dialog box.


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There are a couple other nice new features for working with Hatch as you might be able to tell already. There is a new option to specify the origin for the Hatch object. This determines how the Hatch pattern fills the boundary. Before you had to modify the system variable SNAPBASE to get this affect and then you had to remember to change it back after while. This can now be done in the Hatch dialog box using the settings in the lower-left corner of the dialog box.



Another nice new feature is the ability to select many different closed areas in the drawing and have AutoCAD automatically create separate Hatch objects for each closed area. This can be great for working on large drawings. The settings are located just above the Draw Order settings.



Another change to the Hatch dialog is when viewing a Custom hatch pattern only the name shows up and not the whole path like it did before. The path is still viewable via a Tool tip. There have been some changes to the commands themselves in this release. Autodesk has mapped the Hatch command to opening the dialog box and not run at the Command Line. The -Hatch command is new to allow you to Hatch in script files or AutoLISP programs, and allows you to have access to many new features that weren’t available at the Command Line before.

Command: -Hatch

Current hatch pattern: ANSI31
Specify internal point or [Properties/Select objects/draW boundary/remove Boundaries/Advanced/DRaw order/Origin]: