Productivity and design improvements including:
- An updated, modern interface for Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD 2015-based products: Helps building designers and civil engineers quickly open new and existing drawings with New Tab, visually access drawing content with Ribbon Galleries, and easily find tool locations with new Help Window functionality
- Integrated 2D & 3D quantification capabilities in Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2015 and Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2015
- Better integration with the cloud: New one-button access to Autodesk BIM 360 from Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2015, Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2015, Autodesk Revit 2015, and Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 helps customers collaborate and manage their BIM project workflow and data
- Enhanced point cloud capabilities include improved control over point cloud datasets and enhanced display settings in AutoCAD 2015-based products, as well as Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2015, Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2015, Autodesk Revit 2015, Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2015, and Autodesk InfraWorks 2015, provide more realistic visualizations and walk-throughs
Building Design
- Apply a hand-sketched, graphic style to models, using the sketchy lines feature
- Include imagery in schedules to better convey graphical information
- Create and manage changes with improved tools to sketch and control revision cloud shapes
- Create more accurate documentation in 3D views using enhanced hidden lines capability
Civil Engineering
- Greater flexibility for designing and displaying corridor models
- More efficient creation of profile layouts
- Better production drafting to create deliverables more efficiently
- More consistency between the AutoCAD Civil 3-D and AutoCAD ribbon/command set
- Simpler ways to create custom subassemblies
- Streamlined geographic location functionality includes ability to capture and embed Online Map Data (e.g. aerial map information) for offline viewing and plotting
- Better interoperability and data exchange functionality for DWG and DGN files
Oil & Gas: Plant Design
- Center of Gravity (COG) functionality to identify and edit COG for piping models, spools or components and produce COG reports
- Fixed-length pipe modeling capability helps route fixed-length piping more easily
- Bill of Materials capability to create tables and linked annotation when composing orthographic drawings
Availability
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