tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10425945.post-51234786612938737602008-02-13T08:10:00.000-02:002008-02-13T08:22:01.483-02:00Hello,<br /><br />Yesterday, February 12th, <strong>Autodesk</strong> has officially announced its <strong>2009 product line</strong>.<br />Read more about here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.worldpressdays08.com/pages/page.cfm?action=products&amp;sub1=1">http://www.worldpressdays08.com/pages/page.cfm?action=products&amp;sub1=1</a><br /><br /><strong>AutoCAD 2009</strong> (codename <strong>Raptor</strong>) will implement several new features like these major ones:<br /><br />- View Cube (easy 3D view);<br />- Steering Wheel (easy 3D navigation);<br />- Office like Ribbon interface;<br />- Menu Browser;<br />- Action recorder;<br />- Geographic location;<br />- Modeless Layer manager (works now like a toolpallete);<br /><br />There are much more and you may find these detailed features soon at Autodesk website.<br /><br />My friend, Shaan Hurley, have a more detailed list at his Blog:<br /><a href="http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2008/02/the-2009-produc.html">http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2008/02/the-2009-produc.html</a><br /><br />Regarding to programming aspects, <strong>AutoCAD 2009</strong> is backward compatible with 2007 and 2008. This way an application compiled with <strong>ObjectARX 2007</strong> will be able to run inside all these 3 versions.<br /><br />Actually, AutoCAD 2009 was built using <strong>VS2005 Service Pack 1</strong> but if you plan to keep your project backward compatible it is recommended to <strong>use VS2005 without Service Pack</strong>.<br /><br />Probably the next version of AutoCAD will break the binary compatibility with 2007,2008 and 2009 and will use <strong>VS2008</strong>. Autodesk seems to be aligned with Microsoft Visual Studio evolution and will try to make only binary compatibility break on every 3 releases.<br /><br />Cheers!Fernando Malardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09852061806995998594noreply@blogger.com