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Revit Timeline

Before Public release – Charles River Software 0.1 1999 11 (Early Adopter 1) 0.2 2000 01 (Early Adopter 2) Product released to Public – Revit Technology Corporation 1.0 2000 04 2.0 2000 08 2.1 2000 10 3.0 2001 02 3.1 2001 06 4.0 2001 11 4.1 2002 01 Autodesk Revit 2002 04 04 (Autodesk buys Revit Technology Corp) 4.5 2002 05 09 5.0 2002 12 17 2003 04 28 (Zoogdesign Revit Forum goes Live) 5.1 2003 05 5.5 2003 04 01 (pseudo mac release screenshot, April Fool's joke...Author unknown) 6.0 2003 12 22 6.1 2004 03 11 2004 05 26 (Zoogdesign Read Only to Merge with AUGI) 7.0 2004 12 13 Autodesk Revit Building (New Name) 8.0 2005 02 26ish 8.1 2005 08 12 (web release then withdrawn) 8.1 2005 08 23 (Actual release) 9.0 2006 04 12 (Shipping & Web Release) Autodesk Revit Series (Marketing Bundle w/ AutoCAD) 1.0 2003 12 01 (Revit 6.1) 2.0 2004 XX XX (Revit 6.1) 8.0 2005 XX XX (Revit 8.0) 8.1 2005 XX XX (Revit 8.1, AutoCAD 2006) Autodesk AutoCAD Revit Series 9 – Building (Marketing Bundle w/ Aut

20 Ideas for Speeding Up AutoCAD

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I mage credit: Depositphotos 1. Is the slowdown in all files or just one? Start a new drawing by typing .new and see if the resulting  file is ok or not. If ok then the existing file is the problem. Run Recover on that file to see if that  helps, see other tips further down. 2. Once a slow drawing up checks to see what fonts are being used or called. If you don't have one on your system substitute in STYLE for an AutoCAD shx font. Do this for other font names you don't recognize to see if the bits of help speed up the drawing. Change all TTF fonts to SHX to see what difference it might make. 3. Does the drawing contain XREF files? Close the current drawing, open each XREF file and audit and purge each one. Then go back to your drawing. In 2010 you can use the RECOVERALL command to also include XREFs. 4. Check-in layer manager to make sure you don't have 100's of layer filters if so delete them. 5. Check the scale list to make sure you don't

AutoCAD 2014 vs. previous versions

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AutoCAD 2014 vs. previous versions Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2014 connects and streamlines your design workflow like never before. New design feed social collaboration tools drive project stakeholders involvement. Dozens of time-saving enhancements speed your everyday workflow. And with live maps and powerful new reality capture capabilities, AutoCAD connects your design ideas to real world around you. Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Autodesk AutoCAD 2012 Autodesk AutoCAD 2011 Features User interaction Multi-functional grips ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Hide and isolate objects ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Create and select similar objects ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Delete duplicate objects ✓ ✓ ✓ Content explorer ✓ ✓ ✓ Associative arrays ✓ ✓ ✓ Clicka