• Added dot/dash linetype capability (LINETYPE, LTSCALE, and LAYER Ltype commands).
• Layers extended to have user-chosen names, with no limit to the number of layers in a drawing.
• Multiple text fonts and Shape files can be used in a drawing.
• Text styles: obliquing, mirroring, and expansion/compression may be applied to a text font (STYLE command).
• Text may be underscored or overscored.
• Up to four tablet menu areas can be defined.
• A separate menu provided for the buttons on multibutton pointing devices.
• Menus may be segmented into submenus that can be invoked to display the options for particular commands.
• Standard colors can be specified by number or by name.
• Traces and Solids now filled even if partially off screen.
• Faster loading of shapes and fonts due to shape/font compiler.
• The area of a digitizing tablet used for screen-pointing now configurable.
• Undo feature added to LINE command.
• The meaning of the PAN command's displacement has been reversed.
• In previous versions, item rotation for a circular array worked only if the only item in the array was a Block. This restriction has been lifted.
• Enhanced script mechanism (SCRIPT and RSCRIPT commands).
• The AREA command extended to display the perimeter.
• The DIST command extended to display the angle and delta-X/Y between two points.
• The LIST and DBLIST commands display length, angle, and delta-X/Y for lines; area and circumference for circles.
• Dimensioning enhanced to provide angular dimensioning, arc/circle diameter and radius, dimension lines at any desired angle, and several other requested features.
• Angles in degrees, minutes, and seconds (UNITS command enhancement).
• Length and angle display of rubber band in status line.
• The parameters used on the HATCH command are remembered and presented as defaults on the next HATCH command. A repeat capability also added; it asks for another area to hatch using the same pattern.
• Hatching of figures bounded by arcs improved.
• Dynamic specification (dragging) for ARC, CIRCLE, SHAPE, INSERT, CHANGE, COPY, and MOVE commands.
• Snap, Grid, and Axis may be rotated, offset, or given differing X and Y spacings. The snap offset can be used to vary the alignment of hatch patterns.
• For some display devices, the screen menu and the text-prompt area can be disabled, by means of the AutoCAD configuration process, to provide a larger area for graphics.
• For some display devices, a SNAPSHOT command is provided to erase menus and prompts from the screen temporarily and center the graphics image for photographic purposes.
• New Attributes feature. Attributes associate textual information with Block Definitions, and prompt for appropriate values at insertion time. The text may be visible or invisible.
• Global or individual editing of Attributes is available.
• Extraction of attributes from the drawing for transfer to a database program allowed.

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