ACAD 2010 New Features

At my company we are starting to transition to AutoCAD 2010. I'm one of the employees taking it for a test run before we deploy it to everyone. I haven't seen a lot of information out there for what the pro's and con's are for 2010 so he's my two cents (briefly..details later)

What I like:
- there are LOTS of automatic thumbnail previews (file open, attaching xrefs)
- the new "quick view" feature
- hatch editing with grips
- you can finally insert pdf's!

What I don't like:
- the new ribbon interface seems to take longer than just toolbars; maybe it just takes some getting used to
- I'm not adjusted to the layer manager as a palette yet, so far I don't like it
- I'm having system memory errors a few times daily and I can't pinpoint why

More detail and screencaps later...

Carlson and Revit Images

As a follow up to my previous post on Carlson and Revit compatibility, below are pictures of the results of exporting 3d faces and 3d polylines from Carlson and importing them into Revit. The first two images are from Carlson and the last from Revit.

Carlson and Revit

I went through quite a bit at work today to try to answer this question: are Carlson and Revit compatible?

Not knowing a damn thing about Revit, I spoke with our company's Revit guru and learned that Revit pretty much just takes 3D geometry, namely 3D polylines and 3D faces. It couldn't be that simple, right? What about all of that intelligent data that Carlson stores? Sounds like Revit won't take that data. There is currently an email out to a guy at AutoDesk to confirm this. So it IS that simple. Have Carlson draw 3D faces and/or 3D polylines and import that into Revit. Hopefully this post ends up in someone's Google search and helps. Leave a comment if you need details.