2015

AutoCAD 2015: Complete Guide to What’s New

Layer sort

Layer lists are now displayed using natural ordered sort. For example, the layer names 1, 4, 25, 6, 21, 2, 10 are sorted as 1, 2, 4,

6, 10, 21, 25 instead of 1, 10, 2, 25, 21, 4, 6. Natural ordered sort applies to all layer lists including the Hatch Editor Ribbon tab

and Quick Select just to name a few. You can restore the ASCII sort used in previous releases by changing the new SORTORDER

system variable to 0.

Isometric drafting environment

A new tool on the status bar provides one-click access to set an isometric drafting environment. Turn on isometric drafting by

selecting one of the options from the status bar ﬂyout menu: Isoplane Left, Isoplane Top, Isoplane Right. The status bar tool

displays colored axes indicating it’s in iso drafting mode. Click the icon to quickly turn off iso drafting mode as indicated by the

icon with white axes.