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RegappID cleanup utility
It just came to my attention that Autodesk quietly released their own RegApp cleaner a couple of months ago. This still doesn’t do anything to prevent Registered Application IDs from propagating through xrefs and inserts so unless you clean everything that your file might come into contact with, you can count on getting infected with [...]
Running history of new features in AutoCAD which failed to deliver
Ever since AutoCAD went to the one year releases, I’ve been pretty critical of how rushed all of the new features have been. This is a running list of all of the new heavily touted “bullet list” features which failed to deliver.
2005:
New Feature: Hatch Gap Tolerances (HPGAPTOL)
Incomplete implementation: Works in simple figures where users wouldn’t [...]
Unneccessary recompiling of ACAD.MNR
When “automatically save workspace changes” is turned on, ACAD.CUI is saved every time you close AutoCAD, regardless of whether or not you made any changes to your workspace. At the next startup, since AutoCAD.CUI holds a newer filedate, the application needlessly recompiles ACAD.MNR, adding a little more time to a startup process that is already [...]
Background Mask is incompatible with “Lines Merge”
When 2005 was released, we were introduced to a new property for MTEXT entities: background mask. Unfortunately, background masking only works when output devices are set to “lines overwrite.” From an OOP point of view, its easy to guess why it works the way it does out of the box. From a users point of [...]
HPGAPTOL doesn’t “just work”
The new variable HPGAPTOL was supposed to allow the user to specify the maximum size of gaps that can be ignored when creating a hatch. It wowed the crowd in the 2005 demonstration that I went to. In practice, the variable setting rarely works.
Workarounds: Some users have reported that selecting objects (rather than internal points) [...]