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Tip of the Week: Changing the Background Color

Sep 06

Until now, the default color for your Model space background was black while Layout and the Block Editor had white backgrounds. The latest release of AutoCAD WS lets you choose the color you want for each background so now you can match up the look of AutoCAD WS with your copy of AutoCAD.

When we ran a poll back in May about which colors we should add, the leading alternative to black or white was gray. Now you can choose the precise shade of gray that suits you or any other color you prefer.

To change these you must first open any drawing in AutoCAD WS. Then, in the View tab, click the Select Background Color button. From here you can choose any of the backgrounds you want to change and select a color. You can choose from one of the available colors or enter RGB values for a different color.

For now you can only change the background color from within the web version of AutoCAD WS. Once you have changed the background color, your change will be reflected for every one of the drawings you open in AutoCAD WS on any platform. That means you can change the background to your preferred color on your PC and you will see the same background when you open any of the drawings in your online account from your iPhone or Android phone.

José from Puerto Rico Asked for Layers Support – We Delivered

Sep 01

José Sánchez working hard with AutoCAD WS

We get feedback every day from you, our users. People write us emails (feedback@autocadws.com) or they leave us messages on our Facebook page or our Twitter feed.

It’s important to us to read all the feedback we get and we use it to help decide what we’re going to include with each future release.

José Sánchez is one of several people that wrote to us requesting that we add support for layers to AutoCAD WS. Once we knew that this feature was going to be included in our last release, we wrote back to José to ask him about working with AutoCAD WS and why layers were so important to him.

Name: José Sánchez

Title: CAD Manager/Designer

Company: GC&A Architecs, Engineers and Environmental, San Juan, Puerto Rico

José’s Story

Thank you for a good product. I’d like to tell you that AutoCAD WS is amazing!! I have been talking to friends and co-workers about it.

I have been working with Autodesk products (specially Autocad) for 11 years and I know the importance and advantage of working with layers in Autocad and how they can improve Autocad WS.

I work for a engineering/architecture company where we receive multidisciplinary CAD files and it’s important to note this because this is where layers make my work easier. If I need to show utilties only for a client, I just isolate that layer, without the need of bringing more than one CAD file to the meeting. When you use one xref to insert in both architecture and civil engineering drawings it’s important that civil elements dont show in architecture drawings.

Layers gives control of your work, without it, AutoCAD is not AutoCAD :- )

Even if you dont have a standard for layers in your company, you will use them for individual control of your work. Sometimes you need to lighten areas on your plans (existing structures in a project) to differentiate them from proposed structures. Just make a layer, change it to the color with less screening and magic happens in the middle of a meeting in less than a minute.

I know that AutocCAD WS is a work in progress but I will be more than pleased to use layers in this amazing tool.

If you or your company would like to be featured in a future post, get in touch through any of the usual channels and let us know.

José using AutoCAD WS on his laptop and iPod touch

Наконец доступны на русском языке – AutoCAD WS (Available now in Russian!)

Aug 24

Фантастическая новость!

AutoCAD WS is now available in Russian for the first time.

On the web version of AutoCAD WS (www.autocadws.com), you can select the language from the drop down list in the top right corner.

If you are using the latest version of the AutoCAD WS mobile app, you should have already noticed the Russian support. The app automatically matches its language to the language you have set for the phone or tablet. If you change your languages settings to Russian and restart the app, it will detect the language and present the app in Russian.

The same is true if you’re using the new AutoCAD WS for Mac app. Your Mac computer will identify the language settings you have selected for it and apply them automatically to AutoCAD WS when you open the app.

Let us know if you’re using AutoCAD WS in Russian and what you think of it.

AutoCAD WS has 2M Registered Users (1M+ Android Downloads)

Aug 01

We are thrilled to announce that we have passed two huge milestones in the past week.

First of all there are now over two million registered users of AutoCAD WS. And our users are not just sitting around doing nothing. Since September 2010, you have uploaded over three and a half million drawings to AutoCAD WS.

The second milestone is that we have now seen over one million downloads of the AutoCAD WS mobile app for Android since we launch around three months ago. We always knew that there was huge demand for an Android version of the app, but we never predicted it would be adopted so fast.

But don’t worry, we’re not stopping now. Expect an announcement about the next release of AutoCAD WS in the coming weeks. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to make sure you hear about it first.

Congratulations to the entire AutoCAD WS team who helped achieve these fantastic numbers. Thanks to all of you for being part of this amazing community.