The Green Tick simply ends the highlighting of the Blocks. The horizontal arrows, when selected, will Zoom into each individual Block sequentially. A blue boundary appears around the Graphics window and a count toolbar appears top centre of the view. When the name of the Block is selected, those specific blocks are instantly highlighted. When the new Count Palette is enabled it lists all the names of the inserted blocks and the number of insertions for each. Although there are alternative methods of counting the number of Blocks within a drawing, this new feature is very quick and provides some additional functionality. CountĪnother new feature that Autodesk has released in the 2022 new versions is the Count feature. To learn more about the Trace feature and see a demonstration of it being used, please watch our video review here. Yes, there are other methods available like Autodesk Design Review alongside TrueView and Autodesk Viewer, but the new Trace tool makes the process that little bit easier.

So, in summary, by adding the Trace tool, AutoCAD 2022 has introduced a quicker method of adding and reviewing mark-ups to a drawing. There are also a number or new Trace related System Variables which have been added and worth investigating. Traces can quickly be moved to the back of the draw-order to make visualising the drawing elements easier so modifications can be made. Also, the palette enables the renaming and deletion of Traces. It provides the ability to open or close the Traces, in other words, show or hide them. The palette lists the available Traces, indicating when the Trace was created and by whom as well as when it was modified. In desktop AutoCAD, within the Collaborate Tab, there is a new Traces Palette. When the draughtsperson opens the drawing, within desktop AutoCAD, a notification bubble appears in the bottom right corner of the screen, indicating, “Design feedback is ready for review and a trace was added or modified.” Within this notification will be a link at the bottom, when clicked upon, it will reveal the Trace elements. They can also be revisited to be modified, if required. A drawing can have multiple Traces assigned to it and each one opened independently. These elements can be placed upon their own assigned layer and are added onto the equivalent of electronic `Tracing Paper’. In this blog, we are going to outline 3 new features and updates in AutoCAD 2022: TraceĪutoCAD 2022 has introduced an alternative method of collaborating with others with regards to notification of essential modifications or rework to a drawing.Īn AutoCAD drawing file (.DWG) is opened from a Cloud Storage provider (Dropbox, box, Google Drive, etc.) in either the AutoCAD Web App or AutoCAD Mobile App and with the introduction of the new Trace tool, notes and elements are then added, as an overlay (Traces), to communicate to the draughtsperson, what changes are required within the drawing.

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