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Review:
In the eighties, if my memory serves me right, there was an expression that came about from a commercial and it went something like this; "Wheres the Beef?"
In the illustration to the right, I show the Whats New in AutoCAD® 2002 Window and the list of New Features and Enhanced Features.  I think the list speaks for itself.  Whats actually surprising to me is that this is being called a "Release".  After having looked it over, I seems more appropriate to called it something like AutoCAD 2000i2 or AutoCAD 2000.5.  This "Release" is very much like like the previous "Release", AutoCAD® 2000i; where we found numerous integrated features from the Express Tools, VIP program and other Beta Products from Autodesks Beta Site.  And, of course, the Internet Tools that put the "i" in AutoCAD 2000i.

In this "Release" we find more integration of features available through other means, like the VIP program; features like the Layer Translator and CAD Standards.  With the other new features, like "True Associative Dimensioning" and Text Scale, this AutoCAD comes across as a Productivity Module.

Surface Appearance
Aside from a few different colors on familiar icons, AutoCAD 2002 looks almost exactly like AutoCAD 2000i. 

Illustrated to the right is AutoCAD 2002 beta with some toolbars that have new features: Modify I, Dimension, Text and CAD Standards.

Also illustrated to the right is an example of more AutoCAD 2002 changes that are not listed in the "Whats New in AutoCAD 2002" list: The AutoCAD 2002 Today Window.  As it turns out, there are actually a lot of changes but most of them are quite subtle.

Though I turn this thing off on every station I work on, the new changes to the AutoCAD 2002 Today Window include Maximize and Minimize buttons for the My Drawings and Bulletin Board panes so you can open up a message from the bulletin board in full wide-screen format.  Also include with this Window is a sample HTML page with Java Scripts that can be used to design Web pages that compress automatically for the Today Window.  We will probably come back and take a look at that in a future publication.

If you dig into this release you will find other interesting new features that hint at things to come; things like making XML drawing files with the Wblock command.  And speaking of Wblock, when is this command going to return to the menu structure? Read more

System Requirements:
Autodesk ended support for AutoCAD 2002 in January of 2006
Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Pentium III or later or compatible
64 MB RAM
300 MB free disk space
1024 x 768 VGA with True Color
Mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device

Screen Shots: Click on the image to view large screen