Trace provides a safe space to provide feedback to a drawing without altering the existing drawing.
When a drawing does not contain any traces, the Traces palette has been updated to make it easier to create a new trace or import markup.
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COPYFROMTRACE, which allows you to copy objects from a trace into the drawing, now provides command line feedback about scale factor when copying objects from a trace layout to a viewport.