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2. The Ribbon has been amended and brought up to date. A new ribbon
Hatch Creation from which hatch tools can be chosen when hatching.
3. A new feature - the Navigation Bar has been introduced situated at the
right-hand edge of the AutoCAD 2011 window. The tools in this bar are
frequently used and can be assessed speedily from the navigation bar.
4. The ViewCube is now available in the 2D Drafting and Annotation
workspace.
5. A new workspace 3D Basic has been introduced with its own ribbon
showing basic 3D tools in its panels.
6. Any part of a drawing can be made partly transparent using the new
tool Transparency in the 2D Drafting and Annotation ribbon from
the Properties panel.
7. The buttons in the status bar now include Selection Cycling , Show/
Hide Transparency , 3D Object Snap , Infer Restraints, Isolate
Objects and Hardware Acceleration . Some buttons in previous
releases are no longer included in the status bar.
8. Two new commands - Chamferedge and Filletedge - allow
modifi cations to chamfers and fi llets.
9. 3D materials enhancements. New Materials Browser and Materials
Editor palettes. Materials can be selected for assigning to 3D objects
or can be dragged on the objects for assigning.
10.
A larger number of materials available from several different folders.
11.
Materials can be selected from other Autodesk software such as Maya
or 3D Studio Max .
12.
3D ribbon reorganised in the 3D Modeling workspace.
System requirements for running AutoCAD 2011
Note: There are two editions of AutoCAD 2011 - 32 bit and 64 bit
editions.
Operating system: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional
(
64 Edition), Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000 or Windows
Vista 32 bit, Windows Vista 64 bit, Windows 7.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 .
Processor: Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent.
Ram: At least 128 MB.
Monitor screen: 1024
768 VGA with True Colour as a minimum.
Hard disk: A minimum of 300 MB.
Graphics card: An AutoCAD certifi ed graphics card. Details can
be found on the web page AutoCAD Certifi ed Hardware XML
Database .
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