TABLE OF CONTENTS Autodesk has a sunset policy for lower-cost upgrades from one release to a newer release you must upgrade within a couple of releases to get the lower price. Otherwise, you must pay full price. As a result, most companies don t wait more than two or three releases to upgrade. However, I still find people using releases as early as R14, and many people I work with aren t using the current release.
This section is for those of you who have skipped releases and overlooked certain enhancements as a result. Even if you ve been using a newer release for some time, you may have missed something useful. The following is a release-by-release list of selected new features that you should know about. New features are almost always carried over into subsequent releases.
AutoCAD 2000 was introduced in March 1999. It was the biggest thing to happen to AutoCAD since R12. Although I do industry training occasionally, I don t often do update training for a new release. For release 2000, though, I got so many requests that I developed an eight-hour update training session in response. Four new features in this release prompted me to say in the training, This feature alone is worth the cost of the upgrade.
When the AutoSnap and AutoTrack features were introduced in AutoCAD 2000, they immediately became essential for quick and accurate drafting. I d hate to use AutoCAD without them. If you made the mistake of turning these off, go back and...
