

You can also import changes from your previous version into the current drawing in real time. The Compare button automatically opens the DWG Compare feature and the differences are displayed right in the current drawing. In the Drawing History palette, you can choose which version to compare your current drawing with filtering by date, user, or minimum time between versions. This is especially helpful if you have multiple people working on the same drawing!ĭrawing files saved to OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box cloud storage maintain previous versions of DWG files that can now be accessed in the new Drawing History palette. In this series, we’ll take a look at a few of the exciting new additions and enhancements to AutoCAD.įirst up is Drawing History! If you access a file saved in OneDrive, Dropbox, or Box, then you can easily compare a drawing with previous versions of that drawing.

We have a lot of computer programs that makes our work so much easier. We have a lot of tools that we can use for drafting like drawing boards and computers. You can use the drafting techniques for Architecture and Engineering. A designer communicates ideas, concepts and facts pictorially so that others can manufacture, fabricate, build or construct from these illustrations.

Drafting uses a strict set of standards and rules, so when a technical picture is created on the drawing board or on CAD, it can be universally understood. Today we may still make maps, but the twenty-first century designer uses his or her technical communication skills by applying an international language of art and graphics to convey information. Ever since man has been building, erecting or fabricating, man has conveyed technical information about the project. Drafting history goes back to 2000 BC, when a fossilized plan was found showing an aerial view of a Babylonian fortress.
