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AutoCAD 2016
« on: March 20, 2015, 08:42:40 AM »
http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2015/03/introducingautocad-2016-part-one.html

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AutoCAD 2016 is locked and loaded - coming soon to a reseller near you!  Here is an early look at some of the key features in the next (Awesome) release of AutoCAD!

I can hardly wait
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2015, 08:43:00 AM »
Bug fixes?
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2015, 08:52:50 AM »
Bug fixes?

Probably more bugs than fixes; this is Autodesk we are talking about here.
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2015, 10:45:46 AM »
A whole new set of unimaginable bugs most likely.
But we will get used to them, find our work arounds and muddle on as per usual.
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2015, 02:19:14 PM »
Kean has a little more info
Keans Autocad 2016

He also has some developer info
Keans Autocad 2016 for Developers

Still doesn't justify the cost of a subscription.
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2015, 03:04:28 PM »
Still doesn't justify the cost of a subscription.
The PDF Underlay speed improvement alone is worth it to me. I have one drawing with a number of details from a structural engineer that must be included with our plans. The sheets these are in are extremely slow to work with in 2013-2015. With 2016, I barely notice a difference between the drawings with or without pdf's.

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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2015, 03:08:55 PM »
Still doesn't justify the cost of a subscription.
The PDF Underlay speed improvement alone is worth it to me. I have one drawing with a number of details from a structural engineer that must be included with our plans. The sheets these are in are extremely slow to work with in 2013-2015. With 2016, I barely notice a difference between the drawings with or without pdf's.

I just tested the PDF performance and it's quite a bit better than 2015 :)

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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2015, 04:59:56 PM »

Still doesn't justify the cost of a subscription.

Bear in mind that next year the only way to get Acad is with a subscription, either buy now and get on maintenance subscription to keep a permanent license, of pay by the month to keep operating.

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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2015, 07:07:10 PM »
Not just monthly, the Desktop Subscription/rental-model is available quarterly and yearly as well.  EMA and token users have other options.
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2015, 08:52:17 AM »

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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2015, 12:52:08 PM »
This just came through here at work too.

I'm still gnashing my teeth over the inability to snap to an intersection of a 600x600 square grid hatch without a lot of faff in v2015.

I'll peep at this one over my growing sense of having been done over.... again.
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2015, 10:46:13 AM »
My findings...


Since 2015 the solprof draws the normals of the arcs opposite.

There seems to be a serious precision issue caused regarding plugging in transformation matrices from vb6.

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Function EIGEN_JK(ByRef M As Variant) As Variant

'***************************************************************************
'**  Function computes the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for a real        **
'**  symmetric positive definite matrix using the "JK Method".  The       **
'**  first column of the return matrix contains the eigenvalues and       **
'**  the rest of the p+1 columns contain the eigenvectors.                **
'**  See:                                                                 **
'**  KAISER,H.F. (1972) "THE JK METHOD: A PROCEDURE FOR FINDING THE       **
'**  EIGENVALUES OF A REAL SYMMETRIC MATRIX", The Computer Journal,       **
'**  VOL.15, 271-273.                                                     **
'***************************************************************************

Dim A() As Variant, Ematrix() As Double
Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, iter As Long, p As Long
Dim den As Double, hold As Double, Sin_ As Double, num As Double
Dim Sin2 As Double, Cos2 As Double, Cos_ As Double, Test As Double
Dim Tan2 As Double, Cot2 As Double, tmp As Double
Const eps As Double = 1E-16
   
    On Error GoTo EndProc
   
    A = M
    p = UBound(A, 1)
    ReDim Ematrix(1 To p, 1 To p + 1)
   
    For iter = 1 To 15
       
        'Orthogonalize pairs of columns in upper off diag
        For j = 1 To p - 1
            For k = j + 1 To p
               
                den = 0#
                num = 0#
                'Perform single plane rotation
                For i = 1 To p
                    num = num + 2 * A(i, j) * A(i, k)   ': numerator eq. 11
                    den = den + (A(i, j) + A(i, k)) * _
                        (A(i, j) - A(i, k))             ': denominator eq. 11
                Next i
               
                'Skip rotation if aij is zero and correct ordering
                If Abs(num) < eps And den >= 0 Then Exit For
               
                'Perform Rotation
                If Abs(num) <= Abs(den) Then
                    Tan2 = Abs(num) / Abs(den)          ': eq. 11
                    Cos2 = 1 / Sqr(1 + Tan2 * Tan2)     ': eq. 12
                    Sin2 = Tan2 * Cos2                  ': eq. 13
                Else
                    Cot2 = Abs(den) / Abs(num)          ': eq. 16
                    Sin2 = 1 / Sqr(1 + Cot2 * Cot2)     ': eq. 17
                    Cos2 = Cot2 * Sin2                  ': eq. 18
                End If
               
                Cos_ = Sqr((1 + Cos2) / 2)              ': eq. 14/19
                Sin_ = Sin2 / (2 * Cos_)                ': eq. 15/20
               
                If den < 0 Then
                    tmp = Cos_
                    Cos_ = Sin_                         ': table 21
                    Sin_ = tmp
                End If
               
                Sin_ = Sgn(num) * Sin_                  ': sign table 21
               
                'Rotate
                For i = 1 To p
                    tmp = A(i, j)
                    A(i, j) = tmp * Cos_ + A(i, k) * Sin_
                    A(i, k) = -tmp * Sin_ + A(i, k) * Cos_
                Next i
               
            Next k
        Next j
       
        'Test for convergence
        Test = Application.SumSq(A)
        If Abs(Test - hold) < eps And iter > 5 Then Exit For
        hold = Test
    Next iter
   
    If iter = 16 Then MsgBox "JK Iteration has not converged."
   
    'Compute eigenvalues/eigenvectors
    For j = 1 To p
        'Compute eigenvalues
        For k = 1 To p
            Ematrix(j, 1) = Ematrix(j, 1) + A(k, j) ^ 2
        Next k
        Ematrix(j, 1) = Sqr(Ematrix(j, 1))
       
        'Normalize eigenvectors
        For i = 1 To p
            If Ematrix(j, 1) <= 0 Then
                Ematrix(i, j + 1) = 0
            Else
                Ematrix(i, j + 1) = A(i, j) / Ematrix(j, 1)
            End If
        Next i
    Next j
       
    EIGEN_JK = Ematrix
   
    Exit Function
   
EndProc:
    MsgBox prompt:="Error in function EIGEN_JK!" & vbCr & vbCr & _
        "Error: " & Err.Description & ".", Buttons:=48, _
        Title:="Run time error!"
End Function

This may work to fix them. I have not had success yet.

Other than that, nothing but a waste of time.

ps. Nice to see you all again. :)

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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2016, 09:33:52 AM »
Now that 2017 is just around the corner we finally get 2016!

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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2016, 09:34:45 AM »
What controls the alphabetical order of layer names these day?
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Re: AutoCAD 2016
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2016, 09:35:50 AM »
What controls the alphabetical order of layer names these day?


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