Tuesday, February 21, 2012

AutoCad 2013 / LT shipping March 16th.

In a word: Disappointed.

The differences between AutoCAD LT 2012 and LT 2013 are:

  • Preview of property editing - allowing you to see before you make changes permanent (well, you can always UNDO);
  • Strikethrough in text;
  • Edit multiple selections of hatch instances at once;
  • Autodesk cloud customization synchronization (feels like DRM to me).
That appears to be it...no big leap like LT 2011 to LT 2012.  These new features also are new for the regular AutoCAD 2013, and like the LT software, new features seem to be limited, so some people waiting for AutoCAD 2013 might also be disappointed.

But seriously, no multiline editor for LT, yet?  And you know, I get that they don't want people to downgrade to LT, but come now, why no LISP support?  Most programmers have already moved onto ObjectARX, after all.  And hey, what's with the 3D computer image for LT 2013?  You can't even do 3D in LT.

Suffice to say, expectations fell far short, at least for me.

An aside: Google SU 9 should be released relatively soon (March), no?  If nothing good is coming next month from Autodesk, maybe something good is coming from Google?  :D

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