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General — AutoCAD Release R12 AutoCAD Release 12 drawings are compatible with AutoCAD Release 11. The AutoCAD main menu has been eliminated. After initial configuration, AutoCAD displays the graphics screen. The Main menu tasks have been replaced by commands. For…

AutoCAD Release 11    October 1990 The new TILEMODE system variable can be used to enable paper space, where Viewports are entities that display views into "model space" rather than being simple partitions of the display graphics area. The paper…

AutoCAD Release 10    October 1988 The LINETYPE Load command updated to load several linetypes from the library file at once. Restrictions on use of the PURGE command have been relaxed. A binary form of DXF file supported. ZOOM Previous…

AutoCAD Release 9   September 1987 This was the first version of AutoCAD to require an 80×87 math coprocessor in computers based on the Intel® 8086 family of microprocessors. All files produced by this version of AutoCAD made compatible among all…

AutoCAD Version 2.6 (Release 8)   April 1987 The ZOOM, PAN, VIEW, and REDRAW commands allowed to be used transparently. X/Y/Z point filtering added. The AREA command was enhanced to compute the area of specified circles and Polylines, and to keep…

AutoCAD Version 2.5 (Release 7)   June 1986 ZOOMs and PANs usually much faster than in previous versions. Faster menu loading, larger menu capacity, enhanced keyboard access to screen menu. Immediate context-sensitive Help. Most commands enhanced to recover from invalid input…

AutoCAD Version 2.1 (Release 6)   May 1985 Interactive object selection. You can select objects in multiple windows, and add or remove objects from the selection-set before submitting the set to any edit/inquiry command. Directory pathnames are now honored on all…

AutoCAD Version 2.0 (Release 5)   October 1984 Added dot/dash linetype capability (LINETYPE, LTSCALE, and LAYER Ltype commands). Layers extended to have user-chosen names, with no limit to the number of layers in a drawing. Multiple text fonts and Shape files…

Version 1.4 (Release 4)   October 1983 LINE command enhancements (automatic polygon close, start line at end of last line or arc). Alternate arc and circle specifications. ZOOM enhancements (Previous, Extents, magnification relative to current magnification). New ARRAY facility, including circular…

Version 1.3 (Release 3)   August 1983 Configuration facility added. Layer-to-layer move via CHANGE command added. Rubber-band and box cursors implemented. New right-justified text ability. Removed 40-item limit from menus. Adjustment of plot origin and alignment. Typing grid spacing to the…