First impressions from demos.
these are the new features as seen in the demo videos and next to them my rating of usefullness
1) Docable palletes (interface feature) 3
2) User Profiles (interface feature) 3
3) Slightly new menu system (interface feature) 1
4) Magnet tool for selection (work feature) 5
5) Create new stories on the fly (work feature) 1
6) Every layer pop-up shows all attributes (work feature) 2
7) Additions in 2d pet pallet such as simultaneous filleting of
all edges of a polygon (work feature) 3
Hatches in slabs zones... (work feature) 5
9) Text orientation in xrefs (work feature) 5
10) Dimensions and user profiles (work feature) 5
11) Grid layout and fixed width autotext in Plotmaker (work feature) 5
12) Full integration of pdf in plotmaker. No printer driver is needed and the layout of each page is read automatically of the layout page (output feature) 5
13) Internal Text Editor (at last) (work feature) 6!
14) Lightworks Rendering engine (work feature) 5.
15) Faster
If this is the full set of new features then i should say that there are no element enchancments except from text.
No wall wishes , no free shape column , no...
The biggest part of the wish list was about elements but i see no improvements there.
So these first demos leave me with mixed felling.
If the waiting for V9 was shorter and the wish list was much smaller maybe a 8.5 release number would seem more appropriate.
So would we have to wait for 2 more years to see actual tool improvements.
these are the new features as seen in the demo videos and next to them my rating of usefullness
1) Docable palletes (interface feature) 3
2) User Profiles (interface feature) 3
3) Slightly new menu system (interface feature) 1
4) Magnet tool for selection (work feature) 5
5) Create new stories on the fly (work feature) 1
6) Every layer pop-up shows all attributes (work feature) 2
7) Additions in 2d pet pallet such as simultaneous filleting of
all edges of a polygon (work feature) 3
Hatches in slabs zones... (work feature) 59) Text orientation in xrefs (work feature) 5
10) Dimensions and user profiles (work feature) 5
11) Grid layout and fixed width autotext in Plotmaker (work feature) 5
12) Full integration of pdf in plotmaker. No printer driver is needed and the layout of each page is read automatically of the layout page (output feature) 5
13) Internal Text Editor (at last) (work feature) 6!
14) Lightworks Rendering engine (work feature) 5.
15) Faster
If this is the full set of new features then i should say that there are no element enchancments except from text.
No wall wishes , no free shape column , no...
The biggest part of the wish list was about elements but i see no improvements there.
So these first demos leave me with mixed felling.
If the waiting for V9 was shorter and the wish list was much smaller maybe a 8.5 release number would seem more appropriate.
So would we have to wait for 2 more years to see actual tool improvements.
Still looking?
