Everyone is in the process of discovering what they like and dislike about in the new release of AutoCAD 2015. I have to say I will not miss the Classic Workspace since I long ago adopted the Ribbon but I know those who are gritting their teeth in disgust. I have found some disappointment myself, one being that I cannot change the status icons to text. I will live with it but is was nice especially since I am a bit long in the tooth and my eyesight is not what it used to be.
One difference I really like is the mouse selection routines. All the familiar selection methods are there, pick, pick move left to right for a selection window, pick, move right to left for a crossing window, etc. The additional functionality is pick and drag, holding down the pick button, to get a lasso. Depending on the direction it is a window or a crossing.
Careful, you can get some pretty crazy selection windows! The fun comes when you do one of these lassos and then tap the space bar to cycle the selection method. You can even change a window lasso to a crossing lasso! The fence option is nice too.
If you pick, let go of the left button and start a regular window or crossing the space bar will give you the ability to switch to a window polygon. crossing polygon or a fence.
I think this is a great new feature, what do you think?
I really like the new freehand selection method. After I tried it a few times it hit me that I would love to be able to draw lines and shapes freehand in the same way that I can make a freehand selection. I saw some of the shapes I was creating with the freehand selection tool and it occurred to me how difficult or time-consuming it would have been to draw those shapes.
Posted by: Noel Stalker | 05/01/2014 at 01:44 PM