When you begin a rectangular selection it no longer terminates as you pan or zoom to another part of the drawing (off screen)… BOOM!Ģ018 improves the linetype gap behaviour to include support for DGN linetypes, polylines with width, and splines. This provides access to commonly used features without needing to access the dialog. The System Variable Monitor icon within the Status Bar now presents a menu when right-clicked. The Layer Control (aka Layer dropdown) is now an option within the Quick Access Toolbar menu… and it’s about time! If you don’t currently have the Layer Control added to your Quick Access Toolbar drop everything you are doing right now and get-er-done. The Drafting Settings dialog is now resizable.

iDrop is removed due to potential security risksĪll dialogs related to file navigation (open, new, attach, etc) now remember the column sort order.

You can now disable Smooth Line Display, without disabling High-Quality Geometry. You should no large experience visual degradation as you manipulate the view. With the 3D navigation, Autodesk is claiming “significant” improvements with zoom, pan, and 3D orbit. You’ll notice the save improvements in drawings with annotative scaling blocks, Mtext with columns, and multiline attributes. Technology UpdatesĪdded with the 2017.1.1 update (patch), AutoCAD 2018 continues with the support for higher display resolutions and pixel densities, including those on 4K displays.Ģ018 improves the performance of saving and 3D navigation.

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.

AutoCAD 2018 is here! That’s right, it is that time of year again… time for another round of Autodesk upgrades.

Autocad 2018 updates patches