The second and third in a series of new feature AutoCAD Subscription Bonus Packs are being released to the Autodesk Subscription website.
If you install all three Subscription Bonus Packs your Subscription toolbar in AutoCAD 2009 will appear like the below.
AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 Released in June 2008
The first AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack provides many useful AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) functionality requests, including:
- You can measure the distance, radius, angle, area, and volume of selected objects or a sequence of points.
- SPLINE to PLINE
- Reverse PLINE edit
- Rotating viewport and have the view rotate with the viewport
- Erase unreferenced unnamed objects including PURGE 0-length objects like blank spaces in text etc.
New AutoCAD Subscription Bonus Packs:
Bonus Pack 2 the PDF Bonus Pack.
AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 2 delivers exciting new PDF enhancements.
PDF Underlays
Now you can import PDF files, attaching them as PDF underlays. Once you attach a PDF underlay, you can use a variety of tools to snap to lines and objects, control the display of layers, move, scale, rotate, and clip the PDF underlay.
PDF Output
Key improvements have been made for publishing PDF files. File sizes have been reduced, making it easier to share designs. TrueType font support has been added, giving you control over precisely how your fonts are displayed.
Bonus Pack 3 the 3D Printing Bonus Pack.
The ability to prepare and print a 3D model to an online service and get back a 3D print of the model. I have produced several of these as have other customers and employees. From 3D architectural plans to mechanical parts.
I even printed the laser scanned model of the infamous Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture to preserve it from further damage during its travels around the world including both China and Japan over the past 2 weeks. I hope to retire it at AU in Vegas soon.
Since they were just released after beta testing at http://myfeedback.autodesk.com it may take a few days for them to appear on the Autodesk Subscription website.
AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Packs can only be applied to following products:
- AutoCAD 2009
- AutoCAD Revit® Architecture Suite 2009
- AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2009
Note for Subscription Customers: My coworker and good friend and former Express Tools developer as well as other AutoCAD programming Tom Stoeckel has a new blog only for Autodesk Subscription customers named “Stoeckel on Subs”. You can get to the Bonus Packs and Tom Stoeckel’s blog from the front page on the Autodesk Subscription website.
Update 20 November 2008>>
Bonus Pack 2 the PDF Bonus Pack has been available to subscription download for about a week.
Bonus Pack 3 the 3D Printing Bonus Pack has just now became available for download.
Cheers,
Shaan
Some great tools in the bonus pack. It’s a shame it won’t install with any of the vertical installations of AutoCad, in my case Inventor series.
Hi Shaan,
can we use these bonus packs with autocad verticals like map or civil?
In case it is not possible: I ask “Why?” and “When can costumers of vertical products benefit from the new functions?”
Regards
Sascha L.
Why aren’t these bonus packs available to LT subscribers?
We are talking with the other teams about this feedback.
Thank you,
Shaan
Yeah, I second that opinion. I have civil 3D 2009 and would love to be able to use the bonus packs.
I am a sub. user and its not avail for autocad architecture. its almost like Autodesk is punishing us for not either having the basic, or for not having revit.
I can’t understand why this would be availible to all user on subscription.
Again I can’t login in the subscription center! I have just recieved the login and pasword from the autodesk site, but still I recieve an error…
Joris,
Perhaps your account has a problem and you just need to contact and work with Autodesk Subscription support to resolve it.
Please have a look at http://www.autodesk.com/signin-help
I found the news on Heidi Hewett’s blog first and was a little befuddled when I couldn’t download the bonus pack from the Subscription site. It wasn’t until I came here that I found that it hadn’t ‘officially’ been released yet, or at the very least, isn’t officially available for download yet.
I’m guessing Heidi would probably read a note from you before she’d get to an email from an unrecognized address, so you might want to let her know that it’s not yet available for download. (Because her blog says it’s already available.)
Regards,
Jon G.
Jon,
Both AutoCAD Subscription Bonus Pack 2 (PDF)and Bonus Pack 3 (3D Printing) are available for download and use by AutoCAD Subscription customers. Bonus Pack 2 has been up for download for over a week and Bonus pack 3 just went live in the last 24 hours.
We are also working with other AutoCAD based product teams for supporting the Bonus Packs in the future.
Best Regards,
Shaan
Shaan,
With the packs work with AutoCAD MEP?
If not, will they be made for verticals as well?
Thanks,
Ian
Ian,
The Subscription Bonus Packs are currently only released for AutoCAD. We are working with the other product teams for future support.
Best Regards,
Shaan
Where do I find the correct link for the bonus packs? the Link above dows not work. We have a current up-to-date subscription. I’ve searched the subscription site and can’t find any links to the Bonus packs, any I find just fail.
Bill,
If I go to http://subscription.autodesk.com and login, I then select the Product Downloads from the left side menu and all 3 Bonus Packs are available for download.
Best Regards,
Shaan
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TITLE: Download the Subscription PDF Bonus Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009
BLOG NAME: Between the Lines
The AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus pack PDF enhancements and PDF underlay is now available to AutoCAD Civil 3D Subscription members to install on AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009.
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TITLE: AutoCAD 2009 Bonus Pack 2 PDF Output Quality Improvements and File Size Reductions
BLOG NAME: Between the Lines
In addition to the ability to now use a PDF underlay in AutoCAD 2009 so that you can reference and snap to vector geometry there were other PDF enhancements. One of the big enhancements was quality and file size reductions.
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TITLE: AU2008 Wednesday – AutoCAD Wish List
BLOG NAME: Between the Lines
The following official AutoCAD Wish List was presented onstage by AUGI President Mark Kiker to Autodesk Vice President of the PSEB Platform Products Guri Stark at the AUGI Annual Meeting held at Autodesk University 2008.