Technical data

Chapter 1 Introduction

What’s New in AutoCAD Land

Development Desktop Release 2

General

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Bug fixes (over 300 deferred defects from R1.0)

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AutoCAD 2000 CAD functionality

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Integrated installation with AutoCAD Map with electronic

registration

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DBX support allows interoperability with other AutoCAD programs

such as 3D Studio Viz

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Migration of R1 style databases (option during installation)

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Migration of drawings/projects to Release 2, from Release 1 and S8

products

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Backward data compatibility with R1

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ActiveX Object Model Interface that you can use to create custom

projects, points, contours, terrain, and alignments commands

Points

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Point Group Manager and List Points display both the FULL and

RAW descriptions

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Point objects can be rotated and leaders can be turned off

Alignments

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Multiple-user alignment database

Grading

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Migration of certain grading commands from the Civil Design

Grading menu to the Points and Terrain menus

Labels

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“Unretired” Building Offset Label added to Labels menu