Autocad 2000 Upgrade
Upgrade dilemma:Are you ready for the march to AutoCAD 2004? 1 Aug, 2003 By: It's AutoCAD upgrade time again, and whether you're laboring at Autodesk or at a company that uses AutoCAD, never have the prospects, potential, and pitfalls been more difficult to discern. Companies don't want to spend money on technology, but worry about falling too far behind, especially with something as central to their work as CAD. Autodesk, in its efforts to sell more software, continues to wield both carrots (new features, subscription offers, newfangled discipline-specific applications such as Inventor and Revit) and sticks (upgrade moratoriums on older versions, required subscriptions, no Save as R14 capability in AutoCAD 2004). What's a poor CAD manager to do in these uncertain and confusing times? 2004 HAS MORE Let me start by saying that, apart from the question of whether your company can or will afford an upgrade right now, AutoCAD 2004 is a worthy new version.
Although AutoCAD 2000 through 2002 included plenty of new and changed stuff, it wasn't obvious that a lot of that stuff would help people create better drawings more efficiently. Much of the new stuff in AutoCAD 2004 benefits everyday drafting work and should make your relationship with AutoCAD a happier one. Among my favorites are: • A cleaner, more functional interface, especially when you launch AutoCAD and create new drawings. Watch dilwale dulhania. • Text indents and hanging indents. Taj mahal map.
Finally, we can create numbered and bulleted lists such as this one in AutoCAD (figure 1)! FinallyAutoCAD 2004 brings us hanging indents!
Jun 03, 2014 Here is AutoCAD running on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 -- bit from the link above you can get support to get this program running your 64-bit version of Windows 7/8/8.1 Update 1.
Autocad 2000 64-bit Upgrade
• Numerous xref improvements, including a simple way to open xrefs for editing, more sensible xref search paths, xref change notifications, and a Reference Manager utility. • Better tools for CAD standards compliance. • Automatic file compression, which reduces DWG file sizes by 10%-50% and drawing load times by more modest amounts. • Restoration of the ever-popular Express Tools, which came with AutoCAD Release 14 and 2000 but disappeared from 2000i and 2002. In short, I like AutoCAD 2004 quite a bit.
Autocad 2000 Updates
Unlike the past couple of upgrades, it makes a positive impression right out of the box and continues to impress with the thoughtfulness of most of the improvements. If you've been putting off upgrading, and especially if you've been hanging out with AutoCAD Release 14 for five years now, this is a good time to take the plunge. Of course, I'm passing over the complex question of whether you should stay the AutoCAD course, veer toward a discipline-specific flavor such as Architectural Desktop, or jump ship entirely in favor of a brave new vessel such as Revit or Inventor. My own sense is that AutoCAD, or at least a discipline-specific flavor of it, will remain an essential player in most Autodesk-centric companies for the foreseeable future. THE COST QUESTION 'All well and good,' you say, 'but my company doesn't want to spend money on pricey software upgrades right now. How can I convince them?' Far be it for me to tell other people or companies how to spend their money, especially money they don't have.