The AUGI Wish list for AutoCAD is now three times a year adding up to a top 30 wish list items for the year. This change from a top 10 for the year to top 30 was described in a previous blog posting LINK. The recent voting in August 2005 has produced the first top ten for 2005 and the nominations for the next voting cycle has now started.
The August 2005 top ten AutoCAD wishlist items after AUGI member voting:
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Multiple Leaders – The ability to have multiple segments from one leader. For example when you have more than one item being called out by a single note. |
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Translucent / Transparent Layers – I think it would be nice to able to have a layer that contains a solid hatch over an image, and see through the hatch. Basically highlighting an area of an image. This would be great for presentation work. |
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Spell Check Improvement – The ability to zoom to the misspelled window in your drawing from spell check. This would help if the entire word is not shown, or not shown in context. |
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3D Dynamic Blocks – Dynamic blocks with 3D Functionality |
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Dynamic Linetype – A dynamic linetype with the ability to modify text that will be placed at reoccurring intervals. |
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Better Tables – I want to be able to design a table, fonts, colors, number of columns, etc… and save it as a style. |
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Manipulating Layouts – Ability to change the layout order simply dragging then and copying using drag + CRTL or SHIFT buttons, and rename then simply double-clicking their names, just like we do with ms excel sheets. |
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Paragraph spacing in MTEXT – I would like to see more text formatting features in general (tab styles & alignments, etc.), but I would also like to set the "paragraph" line spacing (ex. to 1.5). Right now, it can only be set for all the lines. |
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Easier way to add sheets to a sheet set – The ability to right click on a layout tab and add it to the current sheet set. |
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Better dual monitor support. For more details on the results and items that did not make top 10 and their results see Brenda Richardson’s AutoCAD Product Community wish list page. The nominations for the next voting cycle is now opened so get in there and submit your AutoCAD wish list item. |
We on the AutoCAD team are reading and researching these items. You could see them in a future release of AutoCAD due to their popularity after all AutoCAD requirements are driven by the customers. The AUGI wish list is a large part of this customer feedback as is the http://MyFeedback.autodesk.com for Autodesk beta and feedback projects.
Get involved in nominating your AutoCAD Wish List items and then voting. There are many benefits to AUGI membership such a networking with 55,000+ fellow Autodesk product users, nice and informative magazine, some training, and the membership is free so what do you have to lose.
Cheers,
Shaan
