Important: If you get rendered views in Layout showing up as mere x-ray faces, you might be having issues with your graphics driver / card. I had to adjust mine so that my GeForce GT 555M would run instead of Intel's SoC GPU, for Layout and SU.
I thought I'd point out some differences off the bat:
- SU 2013 is now on an annual upgrade (support and maintenance fee) cycle.
- The software remains perpetual license (never expires, even if you service and maintenance subscription expires).
- The upgrade price is the same at $95, but the new software price went up from $495 to $590, because in essence it includes a 2-year support and maintenance fee. In that respect, the price is the same, but you pay for two years up front.
- The focus seems to be on easy installs of plugins from within SU.
- Layout has some interesting new functions.
- A new pattern function allows you to add construction document drawings with sand, steel, gypsum board, etc. patterns, to shapes you draw directly in Layout. I guess this is their way of encouraging easy CAD drafting, instead of drawing it inside of SU?
- The new pattern also fills the background of your SU model views, which I suppose there might be some good to it, I just don't know what.
- A quick function to make text "bigger" or "smaller".
- All of the icons in SU have been altered enough to require you to do a double-take.
- Both SU 2013 and Layout 2013 open up faster than SU 8 and Layout 3.
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