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Download autocad_wish_nominations06102006.txt

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Thank you Brenda and AUGI!

Here is the list of AutoCAD Wish List nominations that you can vote on at www.augi.com/autocad/ballot.asp. Which ones will make the top ten?

A better way to convert 3D drawings to 2D drawings when not using solids.
Submitted By:  Vesna Kriznar   

The ability for core AutoCAD to create exploded views of assemblies.
Submitted By:  Aron Lasky   

The ability to extrude an object along a 3D Spline
Submitted By:  kevin mcleod   

The flatshot command to maintain original layer information
Submitted By:  Charles Silva 

The ability to join plines that are on different planes.
Submitted By:  Martin Kannegieter   

Live section configurable per viewport.
Submitted By:  David Gronow   

To have the name of the view you are currently in visible in the corner of the window.
Submitted By:  antonio frias   

An Osnap that can capture a point on the surface of a sphere, like nearest, but for solids.
Submitted By:  Rodrigo Neves

The ability to project solits to different layers
Submitted By:  Tamás Bendicsek   

The ability to switch which object a block is aligning to with the alignment parameter of dynamic blocks.
Submitted By:  Frank Black
 
Eliminate AutoCAD named blocks
Submitted By:  Brad Crouse   

The ability to apply multiple possible values to an attribute and then provide a pull down box to select the attribute.
Submitted By:  Sal Brusco 

Attributes in a dynamic block to maintain zero degrees of rotation
Submitted By:  Casey Sherred 

The ability to apply a background mask to attributes
Submitted By:  John Vanderwelle   

The ability to format attribute text easier; for example, easier underlining.
Submitted By:  Jared Marble 

For AutoCAD to scale blocks on viewport basis.
Submitted By:  JASON MELANSON   

The ability to override the units in a drawing when inserting a block.
Submitted By:  Scott Wilcox 

Copy a dynamic block using the alignment parameter
Submitted By:  JARROD CURRELL   

A divide action added to dynamic blocks.
Submitted By:  Eric Wing   

For dynamic block action grips and pull downs to be different colors.
Submitted By:  Jeremiah Robker   

When exploding a dynamic block, the entities that are hidden should be erased/purged
Submitted By:  CHRIS NIBBE
 
When editing or creating an attribute, the ability to exit the dialog box by clicking on the drawing, similar to exiting the mtext dialog box.
Submitted By:  Brad Crouse
 
Anonymous blocks created from dyanmic changes to dynamic blocks should be erased.
Submitted By:  Richard Lawrence 

The ability to exclude blocks from the defined blocks list without removing the block definition from the drawing
Submitted By:  James Mc Guiness
 
Option to allow for multiple insertions of a block from a tool palette.
Submitted By:  KaDe King

The ability to nest dynamic blocks and cycle through them to pick which one to modify.
Submitted By:  Daniel Kelley 

A system variable that would allow you to turn text into attributes when using WBLOCK.
Submitted By:  JASON MELANSON

The ability to protect a dynamic block from being changed, specifically their parameters and actions.
Submitted By:  Ricardo Martinez
 
The ability to redefind dynamic blocks and have them overwritten, similar to regular blocks.
Submitted By:  Ricardo Martinez
 
For AutoCAD to remember the last scale factor on a block insertion
Submitted By:  R Moten 

The ability to rename selected blocks in a drawing, without renaming other blocks in the drawing with the same name
Submitted By:  Mohamed Ali Maher   

The ability to add a comment to an entity
Submitted By:  JITHESH NAIR
   
Ability to create Bill of Materials from AutoCAD, including balooning features.
Submitted By:  Rick DiLuca   

The ability to add a break symbol to a dimension line and still maintain the correct dimension.
Submitted By:  Donald Boyer   

The ability to dimension in decimal feet
Submitted By:  chuck cantieny   

The ability to use the dimcontinue command without having to create an original dimension to continue off of.
Submitted By:  Martha Williams   

The ability to dimension radii/diameters on 3D model in paperspace
Submitted By:  Martin Kannegieter 

An option to place all dimensions on a user defined layer, eliminating the need to change layers when dimensioning an object.
Submitted By:  Kirk Crawford   

A new variable that will add the amount specified in that variable to the dimension text.
Submitted By:  Timothy Bose   

The ability to double click on a dimension and have it open in the text editor.
Submitted By:  Ted Wessale
 
The ability to use an equation in a dimension.
Submitted By:  Frank Hessler   

The ability to round down dimensions that end in 5 (.125 = .12, not .13)
Submitted By:  Charles Golden   

Two separate variables; one for gap between text and extension lines and one for gap between text and dimension line.
Submitted By:  Timothy Lane   

Solid arrowheads to stay solid when using hide plot.
Submitted By:  mike perra 

A command to supress extension lines by selecting them instead of creating a new dimstyle or navigating through the object properties dialog.
Submitted By:  John Vanderwelle 

The ability to link text height to your dimscale
Submitted By:  Roger Warnsholz
 
When the text style has an explicit height, this should control the dimension text height and you shouldn’t be able to change it in the dimension style.
Submitted By:  Ralph Sanchez   

The ability to trim and extend leaders
Submitted By:  JEFF SLIEPKA
 
The ability to quickly and easily dimension isometrics without going through many steps to set up dimensions styles.
Submitted By:  Teresa Lambert   

Either add the ability to specify a width to the circle command, or give the ability to speciy a donut by diameter/radius and width
Submitted By:  John Bogie
 
Return the ability to use the number keys as accelerators or keyboard short cuts.
Submitted By:  Charles Parnell   

The ability to have alternate units display when running an inquiry command (distance, area, etc)
Submitted By:  Bill England   

The ability to add annotations to a drawing from a plot preview type of view
Submitted By:  Kenneth Ervin
 
The ability to bind model space with paper space
Submitted By:  David Jenkins
 
The ability to select objects using a circle as opposed to a window, fence, or polygon.
Submitted By:  Mark Scoville

The ability to set a construction line projected from an existing object, or set at an absolute angle
Submitted By:  Simon Ward
   
The ability to copy/paste an object to all layout tabs with one command
Submitted By:  EDWARD BORG   

The ability to select certain commands that wouldn’t be effected when using the undo and redo commands.
Submitted By:  Don Foltz
 
For the DOT linetype to work correctly at widths greater than zero.
Submitted By:  Daniel Jurado 

The ability to draw a circle based on center point and circumference
Submitted By:  Andreas Christodoulou 

The ability to set a drawing scale and use it for dimensions, text, inserting blocks, etc.
Submitted By:  Kevin Pohlgeers 

Improvements to commands while working in isometric views.
Submitted By:  Danny Comsa   

Extract the area of polylines and report on these in Excel.
Submitted By:  Pete Thompson   

The ability to fillet multi-lines
Submitted By:  David Perich   

More functionality with the measure and divide commands, such as scaling blocks, inserting blocks, etc.
Submitted By:  Kenneth Leary 

Improvements to mlines
Submitted By:  David Perich
   
The ability for the insert command to remember the previous scale
Submitted By:  Steve Berry
   
A leader with a customizable balloon.
Submitted By:  Ky Nguyen
 
Use the MATCHPROPERTIES command to copy scales justifications and types between mlines
Submitted By:  Andy Hudson
 
The ability to select borders for hatching that are not visibile on the screen.
Submitted By:  Don Foltz
 
For AutoCAD to use the first pick as the point for rotation when reference option of rotation is chosen.
Submitted By:  Grahame Ede
 
The ability to assign a value to units – inch, millimeter, foot, etc.
Submitted By:  Ward Romberger
   
For the input history to retain relative coordinates instead of translating them to actual coordinates
Submitted By:  Ed Jobe
   
The ability to set a roundoff factor for UNITS
Submitted By:  Greg Smith
   
The ability to save more than one selection set and then recall it when needed.
Submitted By:  Christina Harris   

The ability to set the line width of a revision cloud before drawing the revision cloud
Submitted By:  Eric Hawkins
   
Easier way to select the "correct" line when there are two or more lines existing on top of each other
Submitted By:  Janet Colletti
   
An option to zoom all after changing drawing limits.
Submitted By:  Shane O’Leary   

The ability to use b-splines and ellipses, or parts there-of, in Poly lines for use in generating more realistic/complex 3D shapes.
Submitted By:  Martin Kannegieter

More mesh tools for creating and editing.
Submitted By:  Doug Poehler 

The ability to create geometry from points stored in an excel table.
Submitted By:  Pavel Kotelevets
 
For the fillet and chamfer commands to work on mass elements
Submitted By:  Ben W
 
The ability to draw and offset helixes.
Submitted By:  C Frank Kellogg
 
To be able to use AutoCAD to create lofted shapes.
Submitted By:  Hoge Tyler 

For items that share the same space to change colors to provide a visual alert to the error.
Submitted By:  Paul Records
 
The ability to stretch 3D solids using a crossing or selection window instead of just selecting the grips.
Submitted By:  David Gronow
 
True clipping planes in 3D – for example, drawing a cube around objects would allow you to view only those objects within the 6 clipping planes of a cube.
Submitted By:  Kenneth Ervin   

The ability to hide objects under other objects without having to break and trim the bottom object.
Submitted By:  Michael Carroll
   
The ability to set a draworder to specific layers
Submitted By:  Ted Krush   

The ability to control DWF underlay monochrome color and plotstyle
Submitted By:  Donald Butler 

Allow digital signatures in DWFs
Submitted By:  Henrique Saias
   
Hyperlinks within DWF’s
Submitted By:  Henrique Saias
   
The ability to control layers in while using DWF underlay
Submitted By:  Eric Bogenschutz

Better lighting on DWF files written from AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Randy Van Nostrand
   
The ability to include named views in 3D DWF output.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner   

The ability to turn off redlines that have been completed.
Submitted By:  Young Cho 

The ability to use DWF files like it uses JPG or TIFs
Submitted By:  Henrique Saias   

When using Etransmit, all drawings should be purged and layer filters should be removed automatically.
Submitted By:  Shawn Fidler   

For the status of xrefs and images to be displayed in the file view of etransmit
Submitted By:  Michel Loftus   

The ability to set the width of the pline used for a breakline.
Submitted By:  Corey Gerhardt   

The ability to create a drop-down list for a field, and to be able to lookup fields in other databases to retrieve information.
Submitted By:  Neil Foden
 
When using the field editor, the selected object should be highlighted
Submitted By:  Robert Hall 

A field to provide coordinates relative to the current UCS
Submitted By:  Laurie Gazzard 

Additional fields relating to layout tabs; specifically a field that would display the number of the tab (from left hand side); and one that displays the total number of layout tabls.
Submitted By:  Greg Smith   

A field that could be used to mark up drawings with what XREF’s are attached.
Submitted By:  Pål Dahlström   

Fields for mass and volume of 3D solids.
Submitted By:  Michael Ishman   

The ability to use fields in layout names (tabs)
Submitted By:  Helen Constantine
 
Fields that update if associated with a different object, whether they be copied or moved.
Submitted By:  JASON MELANSON   

The ability to use grips to copy with the same offset by holding the shift key.
Submitted By:  Eric Putnam 

The ability to modify the Z axis via grips.
Submitted By:  Clint Grommett   

The ability to create hatches in AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Alex Guard 

The ability to extend a hatched area.
Submitted By:  JEFF SLIEPKA 

The ability to apply a gradient to hatches, allowing them to go from darker to lighter, but still remain opaque.
Submitted By:  Maziar Sahihi
 
Dynamic scale for hatch, with a setting similar to LTSCALE to adjust the hatch scale.
Submitted By:  Steve hill   

For AutoCAD to maintain hatch settings from one drawing to another.
Submitted By:  Corey Gerhardt 

A hatch that masks instead of applies a color.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner 

New fill object with the ability to make items below look screened.
Submitted By:  Robert Good 

The ability to use a graphic as a hatch pattern
Submitted By:  Tim Arheit

When a valid hatch boundary not found error occurs, show why the boundary is invalid so it can be fixed.
Submitted By:  Lisa Cameron   

When using help, the name of the command on the pulldown or tooltip should be listed in help as well as the actual command name.
Submitted By:  Andrea Marchand   

For the HIDEPRECISION system variable to be saved by drawing.
Submitted By:  Donald Boyer   

Allow .sid and .ecw files to be used as images.
Submitted By:  Sheri King-Hicks   

The ability to adjust layer states in viewports on multiple layouts though a dialog box.
Submitted By:  Troy Wanless

The ability to arrange the draworder of layers by arranging the order of them in the layer manager
Submitted By:  Casey Trull   

The ability to automatically apply a layer state to a layout, forcing the layout to redefind the linetypes, plotstyles, lineweights, etc.
Submitted By:  Chris Boyd
 
The option to dim non-selectable (locked) objects.
Submitted By:  Bruce Sheldon 

Place the edge lines of a 3D model on a separate layer
Submitted By:  Randy Van Nostrand
 
For layer descriptions to be available in more places than just the layer manager
Submitted By:  Colin Magner   

The ability to have the layer dialog as a tool palette
Submitted By:  Colin Magner   

The ability to delete multiple layer states at one time in layer manager
Submitted By:  John Hammer
 
For the layer translator to be able to translate layers in multiple drawings at one time.
Submitted By:  Jeff Rives
   
Ability to list layers in a tree format.
Submitted By:  Frank Hessler 

The ability to set the linetype scale in the layer manager, instead of picking objects and then adjusting the linetype scale.
Submitted By:  £ukasz Kamiñski 

Only show STB’s that are loaded in a drawing the the layer properties manager
Submitted By:  Mike Anderson   

Layers purged from an XREF to be purged from the parent drawing.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner 

Ability to rename layers by simply retyping the layer name in a dialog box below the layer list; similar to what was in older versions of AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Joyce Cochran 

The ability to restore an xrefs layer setting to the original state
Submitted By:  Corey Gerhardt
 
For the status icon from the layer properties manager to show in the layer dropdown box
Submitted By:  Chris Chiles   

Layer manager to turn off all layers created after the last save of a layer state
Submitted By:  Jeff Buffie   

When a new layer is created, the ability to set the visibility of that layer per viewport.
Submitted By:  Scott Telthorst
   
The ability to manipulate a drawing while the LAYWALK dialog box is open
Submitted By:  Phillip Bradshaw   

Make dimstyle scale and ltscale be able to be dependant on or related to the vport scale
Submitted By:  Frenette Daniel 

Give the user more flexibility when creating new layouts.
Submitted By:  Jeremiah Robker   

The ability to view thumbnails of all layouts in a layout manager
Submitted By:  Ali Meteni
 
For layout tab names to change on the tabs when they are renamed in the Sheet Set Manager
Submitted By:  Mark Bross   

The option/ability to zoom within a viewport to the extents of all objects that are thawed in that viewport only
Submitted By:  Montana Fox   

Arrowline with an arrow at the end of each line segment.
Submitted By:  James Hall
 
Ability to create more complex custom linetypes
Submitted By:  Jose Hernandez
   
When changing a linetype to one that is not currently in the pulldown, after picking the new linetype, it should automatically be applied to your line.
Submitted By:  Kevin Soeder 

Change the linetype scale appropriately when toggling TILEMODE.
Submitted By:  Ward Romberger
   
The ability to create "smart" linetypes that don’t leave blanks at the end of lines
Submitted By:  Colin Telfer   

For WYSISYG lineweights to display in model space.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner   

I would like the getpoint function to honor the deferred osnaps tan and perp.
Submitted By:  Tim Creary   

The ability for Script Pro to run in the background, similar to the publish command.
Submitted By:  Fredrik Schlau   

Delete selected vertices from a polyline; double click on pline to add a vertex.
Submitted By:  Steve Smith

The ability to repeat the break at point command with a right click.
Submitted By:  Gamper Stefan
 
The ability to copy an object from a locked layer
Submitted By:  Pete Dibbs   

The ability to use a crossing window to select the objects when using the fillet or chamfer command
Submitted By:  Dan Cole   

The option to add an arc to a pline when adding vertices.
Submitted By:  Sioufi associates
 
The ability to isolate objects in AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Leon Dooijes
 
When filleting lines with different properties, the ability to match the properties of one line to the fillet and the other line.
Submitted By:  Sioufi associates
 
The ability to scale multiple items at once, using individual base points.
Submitted By:  Dave Godber 

For the selection window to be at the same angle as the snapang setting.
Submitted By:  Charles Glaser
   
The ability to have SNAP automatically turn off during the selection of objects.
Submitted By:  Vesna Kriznar
   
The ability to zoom while in the stretch command without losing any of the entities.
Submitted By:  Don Jacobsen   

The ability to set default values for mtext background mask
Submitted By:  Kent Gordon
   
Dynamic Mtext that automatically updates to final printing size, location and rotation.
Submitted By:  M Silvia 

For the mtext offset to be assocated with the actual text and not the mtext boundary
Submitted By:  Shawn Samaniego

The ability to set and save options/preferences for MTEXT
Submitted By:  Craig McGrath

The ability to set the rotation of mtext while editing it.
Submitted By:  John Daniel
   
Stacked fractions to always show horizontal or diagonal, and to show in all text formats, not just mtext
Submitted By:  Frank Hessler
   
Various improvements to Mtext
Submitted By:  Ron Castia   

For the network installation wizard to allow you to define all custom settings.
Submitted By:  Jim Hoselton   

Automatically create a centerline between two lines, including curves and arcs.
Submitted By:  Richard Farmer
   
The ability to offset SPLINES without having them break into segments
Submitted By:  T Koprinski 

The ability to offset an object to a layer
Submitted By:  Pradeep Hebbar   

For Autosave to save in the background, without any indication in AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Brian Myers 

The properties of a drawing should show which version the AutoCAD drawings was produced/saved in.
Submitted By:  Anne Humby   

Increase the size of the preview window in the open file dialog
Submitted By:  Morley Walbaum
 
The ability for more than one user to work on a file at the same time.
Submitted By:  Tim Arheit 

The recover command should proceed automatically without requiring user input.
Submitted By:  Michael Evans   

AutoCAD to automatically recognize the plot scale when a border/area is selected.
Submitted By:  Charles Parnell

Make CTB/STB data available to lisp/vba programs
Submitted By:  Peter Ciganek 

When opening a drawing that has an unrecognized printer, the default printer should be used instead of "none"
Submitted By:  George Drayton 

For the plot style editor to be more like a spreadsheet for ease of creating/manipulating plot styles.
Submitted By:  Mike Anderson   

A plot style table that is linetype dependent
Submitted By:  Mike Cheddar   

The ability to apply a different CTB/STB file to each viewport.
Submitted By:  Ron Wescott   

When plotting to a file, for the plot command to default to the current drawing file location
Submitted By:  Jason Cyr 

The ability to plot multiple projects outside of publish, without waiting for the plot to be finished.
Submitted By:  Brad Crouse   

An option to remember which folder a drawing was last plotted to and save the location within the drawing
Submitted By:  Brian Lessard 

The ability to save the number of copies in a page setup
Submitted By:  Tim Creary   

The ability to set your plot window in the plot preview screen by dragging/rotating a preset window (based on plotting parameters).
Submitted By:  Andy Lumsden   

Improved raster output.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner   

The ability to collate a multi-sheet set of drawings
Submitted By:  Leon Hui
   
The ability to choose a layer state for each sheet.
Submitted By:  Stuart Drake
   
A preview in the publish dialog so you could preview at least one drawing to see it was right.
Submitted By:  Susan Lafleur

Import a spreadsheet with drawing names into the publish command to create a drawing list to be published
Submitted By:  Talbot Kite 

The ability to run the publish command without loading AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Talbot Kite   

The ability to create a callout that references multiple views.
Submitted By:  Mark Gammon
 
A construction note manager that would work within the sheet set manager.
Submitted By:  Mike Anderson   

The ability to create new sheets through the SSM, instead of creating a sheet and then inserting it in the SSM.
Submitted By:  Mark Fritz   

A custom sheet set property that pertains only a certain sheetset subset
Submitted By:  Robert Masterson
   
Option to format the sheet index table to be horizontal.
Submitted By:  Lindsay Weddle
   
The ability to merge sheet sets together, or break apart sheet sets as a project changes
Submitted By:  BILL PATTEN
   
The ability to have the sheet index table reflect the sheet subsets of the sheet set manager.
Submitted By:  Mike Anderson
   
The ability to use special characters and more than 64 characters in a sheet title.
Submitted By:  Rodrigo Neves   

The ability to use F9-F12 and the number pad keys as accelerators.
Submitted By:  Peter Hilber
   
OSNAPS that ignore locked layers.
Submitted By:  Ryan Purnell
 
A new endpoint, opposite endpoint.
Submitted By:  Mladen Pavlovec
   
The ability to set a priority to OSnaps.
Submitted By:  Timothy Lane   

The ability to set options in AutoCAD and have them locked and/or password protected
Submitted By:  Kevin Walgren   

Automatically create a BOM using block counts
Submitted By:  Anthony Miller
   
The ability to lock table column widths so a refresh does not reconfigure them.
Submitted By:  CHRIS NIBBE

The ability to specify an anchor point for a table so that when additional rows or columns are created, the table shifts in the appropriate direction.
Submitted By:  Dan Murren   

For the spell checker to check all text in a drawing, including overrides in dimensions and non-attribute block text.
Submitted By:  Branden Z
   
Ability to reference a spreadsheet within AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Chris Corsini

A spell checker like that in Microsoft word, that automatically highlights misspelled words.
Submitted By:  Brandon Sumrall
   
The ability to automatically control your text or mtext height or dimscale based on the scale of the viewport
Submitted By:  Roland Mulders
   
For top center justified text to offset similar to bottom center justified text.
Submitted By:  James Jenkins   

A tool like the Content Browser in ADT brought over to AutoCAD, to allow easier organization of tools, blocks, palettes.
Submitted By:  Irit Guttman
 
The ability to allow a lisp program or value to determine the scale a block is inserted at when brought in through a tool palette
Submitted By:  Andrea Andreetti 

Similar to CUI, for Tool Palettes to have a Main and an Enterprise setting.
Submitted By:  Jamie Farrington

The ability to add osnaps for blocks inserted through the tool palette
Submitted By:  Gregory Sipes
 
The ability to dock palettes at the top and bottom of the screen, not just left and right.
Submitted By:  Jeremy Pease 

More settings for the text tool on the tool palette, like text size, rotation, justification.
Submitted By:  Alexander V. Koshman

The ability to change the background color of the tool palettes in AutoCAD.
Submitted By:  Crystal Edmiston   

For the layer pulldown to stretch to show the full layer names
Submitted By:  Robin DeRoo 

For the color part of the properties tool bar to be longer.
Submitted By:  Russell Bell

The ability to change the plot/no plot status of a layer in the layer drop down box.
Submitted By:  Priscilla Mills

The addition of a pull down menu for layer states
Submitted By:  Jessica Ellingson   

Ability to use any font as the command line font.
Submitted By:  Jeff Thompson
   
The ability to use dyanamic input with a midpoint based parameter in a dynamic block
Submitted By:  CHRIS NIBBE

The ability to manage palette groups via a file location in AutoCAD options.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner
 
For dialog boxes to be non-modal, specifically the layer manager and xref manager
Submitted By:  Tim Arheit
   
The ability to have a toolbar dropdown list oriented vertically and still display the drop down lists.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner

Provide a user interface for setting some of the more obscure settings in AutoCAD, such as MaxHatch abd MaxArray
Submitted By:  R.K. McSwain   

The ability to automatically reload changed xrefs
Submitted By:  SHAUN PUZIO
   
The ability to have xrefs automatically reload when working on the drawing and the xref.
Submitted By:  James Helton

The ability to change the color of objects within an XREF that are not bylayer.
Submitted By:  Brad Crouse
 
Ability to resize xclipped boundaries by using the stretch command or using grips.
Submitted By:  Roger Page 

The ability to make certain xrefs non-selectable
Submitted By:  Gunther Groenestein   

The ability to XREF only a group of layers
Submitted By:  Mark Benner
 
For erase to prompt to detach xrefs when a xref is selected to erase
Submitted By:  Ron McDonald 

Additional functionality within the purge command to remove unreferenced XREFS and Images
Submitted By:  Michel Loftus 

The ability to remember the last view type in the xref manager (list view/tree view)
Submitted By:  Antonio Machado
 
A right click menu for xrefs with the options to reload, unload, detach, etc.
Submitted By:  Darryl Hassell

Editable system variable for the current directory
Submitted By:  Kennet Sjöberg
 
Visretain variable to hold only the layers that have been modified from the original xref file
Submitted By:  Robert Good   

For the XREF Manager to list if an xref is attached to another XREF, and what XREF it is attached to.
Submitted By:  Tony Leggieri   

The ability to resize all dialog windows within AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Chris Eberhard 

The ability to insert word or excel files without having the appearance of them change in AutoCAD
Submitted By:  Sarmad Gorial

The ability to compare two drawings and visibly show the changes between the drawings.
Submitted By:  Jerry Runnels
   
The option to display the crosshairs in the default color of the current layer.
Submitted By:  Phil Tingley
 
More powerful Diagnostic tools to diagnose file corruptions, crashes, etc.
Submitted By:  Brad Crouse 

An easier way to maintain custom settings when migrating to a new release of AutoCAD
Submitted By:  CHARLES L. BAUGHMAN
   
For AutoCAD to support efficient Multi-Threading
Submitted By:  Colin Magner
 
The ability to zoom/pan within a snapshot of a file without opening it.
Submitted By:  Brad Crouse
 
Ability to globally edit attributes easily and quickly.
Submitted By:  Charles Parnell
   
The ability to group/ungroup items via a right click command.
Submitted By:  Robert Tompkins
   
The ability to import postscript files
Submitted By:  Brice Evans
   
The ability to link a forumula across multiple tables.
Submitted By:  Daniel Kelley
 
The ability to manipulate modelspace viewports by dragging them.
Submitted By:  Colin Magner 

For the support file search path to support non user-specific paths.
Submitted By:  Duncan Anderson

The ability to protect items in a template from being purged.
Submitted By:  Daniel Kelley   

The ability to put the command line at the top of the screen and toolbars below it.
Submitted By:  Lewey Stephens

The ability to go back through spell check, one word at a time, when you have accidentally ignored a word you meant to change
Submitted By:  Steve Plancic 

The ability to track when a file was opened/closed
Submitted By:  John Barrus   

AutoCAD to support transparency for all objects.
Submitted By:  Jeffrey Turley
 
The ability to turn the AutoCAD drawing screen transparent, giving you the ability to trace something in the background.
Submitted By:  BASAM YOUSIF   

1 comment

Jim Brennan says:

Dear Hoge,
I hope this gets to you .I’m gratefull for your instruction in autocad back at KSA in Nelson. I now do millwork jobsite supervision and installation. A great blend of the intagibles of real building snd the ridgid designation of product delivery. Sounds big deal but it’s just about assuming responsibility for a project.
Thanks for sharing your passion with computer design
Your student, Jim Brennan

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