Autodesk Subscription customers today can download the new Autodesk Subscription Bonus Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2009. This Bonus Pack can be downloaded via the Subscription Center. This Subscription Bonus Pack is currently available in English for the 32-bit and 64bit AutoCAD 2009. The download is about 80MB.

AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack – Customer Wishlist Enhancements
Extend the capability of AutoCAD® 2009 with this bonus pack that offers some highly requested AUGI wishlist items before the next AutoCAD release.

The AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack provides many useful AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) functionality requests, including:

• New measurement capabilities You can measure the distance, radius, angle, area, and volume of selected objects or a sequence of points.

• SPLINE to PLINE

• Reverse PLINE edit

• Rotating viewport and have the view rotate with the viewport

• Erase unreferenced unnamed objects including PURGE 0-length objects like blank spaces in text etc.

The following commands and system variables have been added or updated for AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1:

Commands

• MEASUREGEOM
• PEDIT
• PURGE
• -PURGE
• REVERSE
• SPLINEDIT

System Variables

• DELOBJ
• PLINECONVERTMODE
• VPROTATEASSOC

Notes:

• AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 can only be applied to AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD Revit^® Architecture Suite 2009, and AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2009. It cannot be applied to other products.
• AutoCAD 2009 Update 1 is required in order to run AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1. It will be installed with AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 if it has not already been installed.
• In AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1, new and updated functionality (commands, system variables, options, and warning messages) displays in English only. If you install this bonus pack on a non-English product, all new and updated functionality displays in English.

Cheers,
Shaan

(note: I am wondering why the blackout of any recent coverage or crediting of my blog postings and news by some in the online CAD “press”, pundits, or CAD news aggregators…Perhaps they are censoring me for some obscure reason or perhaps less insidiously they just don’t have the updated RSS feed)