I am sure many of you that are new to AutoCAD take many of the features of AutoCAD for granted, but those feature weren't always there. Just like things that will come in the future are here yet. If you know what I mean.
For example - some milestones that look pretty primitive right now:
Version 1.2 (Release 2) April 1983
A Dimensioning facility added as an extra-cost option.
Yep - you had to pay extra to be able to dimension!
Version 1.3 (Release 3) August 1983
Layer-to-layer move via CHANGE command added.
Before this you would have to erase and redraw in the correct layer
Version 1.4 (Release 4) October 1983
ZOOM Previous added
But, you only got one!
Version 2.0 (Release 5) October 1984
Added dot/dash linetype capability (LINETYPE, LTSCALE, and LAYER Ltype commands).
Layers extended to have user-chosen names, with no limit to the number of layers in a drawing.
Version 2.5 (Release 7) June 1986
Setting of color and linetype per entity, independent of the entity's layer added.
This seems like it you couldn't live without it, now
Version 2.6 (Release 8) April 1987
The ZOOM, PAN, VIEW, and REDRAW commands allowed to be used transparently.
Before this you have to end a command to Zoom - think about that for a moment.
Release 9 September 1987
The MULTIPLE command modifier added.
The new DDATTE command added to permit Attribute editing to be done using a dialog box.
Crossing object selection boxes drawn as dotted lines.
This was the first release to use dialog boxes! But they were clunky DOS ones. Windows was not yet out.
Release 10 October 1988
This was the first release to use a 386 computer
Release 11 October 1990
Release 11 was crappy
More tomorrow!
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