AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1

The first AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack is available for AutoCAD subscription customers to download from the AutoCAD Subscription Center (www.autodesk.com/subscription). The bonus pack provides the following new and enhanced functionality to help increase your productivity.

• The new MEASUREGEOM command enables you to measure the distance, radius, angle, area, or volume of a selected object or a sequence of points. It performs many of the same calculations as the AREA, DISTANCE, and MASSPROP commands. You can access the MEASUREGEOM command from the new Subscription: Measure toolbar.

• The new REVERSE command enables you to reverse the order of vertices in selected lines, polylines, splines, and helixes. You can access the REVERSE command from the Subscription: Modify Objects toolbar

• The PEDIT command has been updated to include a new Reverse option enabling you to reverse the order of vertices in the selected polyline.

• The new VPROTATEASSOC variable enables you to automatically rotate a view within a layout viewport by rotating layout viewport itself. When VPROTATEASSOC is set to 1 (the default) the view will rotate maintaining its orientation with relation to the viewport. When it is set to 0, the view within the viewport will not rotate even though the viewport itself does rotate.

• The PEDIT command has been updated to allow the selection of a Spline object and automatically convert it to a Polyline object.

• The SPLINEDIT command has been updated to include an option to Convert to Polyline. The SPLINEDIT command is available on the Subscription: Modify Objects toolbar in addition to the typical AutoCAD locations.

• The new PLINECONVERTMODE variable enables you to control the fit method used in converting splines to polylines. When PLINECONVERTMODE is set to 1 (the default), polylines are created with arc segments. When it is set to 0, polylines are created with linear segments.

• The PURGE (and –PURGE) command has been updated to include an option to remove zero-length geometry and empty text objects (including mtext containing only spaces).

• The DELOBJ variable has been updated to support the PEDIT and SPLINEDIT commands. When DELOBJ is set to 0, the defining spline is retained. When set to any other value, it is deleted.