Missing features

Here’s a list of known AutoCAD features that Project Butterfly does not support… yet.

Polylines thickness:
We don’t support the variable “thickness” of objects which determine the length of the object in 3D.

Dimensions:
Dimension background – We don’t support colored background of dimensions if there is one.
Jogged dimension – We don’t display the jogged part of linear/angular dimensions.

Point Style:
Point is displayed without its style.

Blocks:
Visibility State – We don’t support switching between visibility states, which turns on/off different components in a block.

We don’t support Dynamic blocks.

Block Colors – We don’t support in Color By Layer for a block inside a block.

Xrefs:
Xclip of Xrefs – we don’t support turning Xclip off, and polygon boundary for Xclip.

We don’t support Insert / bind (insert the Xref’s blocks and layers as part of the drawing).

Xrefs inside blocks – we don’t display Xrefs that are located inside a block in the drawing.

Xbind:
We don’t support any kind of Xbind (blocks, layers, styles).

Multiselection:
Multi selection is limited to 30 objects

View:
Only top view is supported. All other views are not supported and will be displayed as Top view.

Layers:
We allow editing on Locked layers and we don’t display indication of locked layer.

Images:
We don’t support Xclip, quality, transparency, frame setting of raster image.

Layouts:
Viewport clip – We don’t support. We display both the Viewport’s special frame (if one was created) and the entire drawing, instead of just what was clipped.

Spline:
We don’t display the spline by the correct control points and we don’t display spline with only 2 points.

Text:

Text properties- we don’t support using %% to set different properties on Single Line text (%%P, %%U,%%C).

Fill Mode:
Fill Mode state for solids and wide polylines – we always display them full.

Wipeout:
Wipeout objects are not displayed.

Draw Order:
Objects order is different than in AutoCAD.

CTB:
We don’t support using Screening and Grayscale CTBs.

OLE:
OLE images are not displayed

Tolerance
Tolerance objects are not displayed

Polygon Mesh
We don’t support polygon mesh that are not of type simple mesh.