AutoCAD
Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, flexible features found in AutoCAD® design and documentation software, one of the world’s leading 2D and 3D CAD tools. Speed documentation, share ideas seamlessly, and explore ideas more intuitively in 3D. AutoCAD provides the ultimate in flexibility, customized for your specific needs.
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Model Documentation Tools |
| Save time by automatically generating intelligent documentation for AutoCAD, Autodesk® Inventor® software, and other models. Import a wide variety of other formats including SolidWorks®, Pro/ENGINEER®, CATIA®, Rhino, and NX®. Drawing views, edge display, and location are instantly updated when an engineering change is made.
*This feature is only available in full version AutoCAD 2012. |
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AutoCAD WS |
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With access directly from the AutoCAD 2012 interface, AutoCAD® WS web and mobile application for AutoCAD® software allows you to stay connected to your designs over the web or from your mobile device.
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Multi-function Grips |
| The power of multi-function grips has been extended to more AutoCAD objects including lines, arcs, elliptical arcs, dimensions, and mleaders as well as 3D faces, edges, and vertices. |
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Command Line Enhancements |
| AutoCAD 2012 now offers auto-complete options to help you access commands more efficiently. As you type at the command prompt, AutoCAD automatically completes the entry with an AutoCAD command or command alias. If you pause, it displays a list of commands whose prefix matches what you’ve typed enabling you to scroll and select from the list. |
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Autodesk Inventor Fusion |
| Adds to the 3D conceptual design capabilities of AutoCAD and sets a new standard for professional 3D modeling ease of use. It enables you to flexibly edit and validate models from almost any source, helping you further experience the benefits of easy-to-use 3D in the native DWG format. |
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Slash Design Revision Time with Parametric Drawing |
| Dramatically slash your design revision time with parametric drawing. By defining persistent relationships between objects, parallel lines remain parallel and concentric circles remain centered, all automatically. And now, you can infer geometric constraints in real time—as you draw—eliminating the need to manually define all of your object relationships. |
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Save Time with Annotation Scaling |
| Spend less time creating and managing multiple items across multiple layers. With annotation scaling tools, you can create a single annotative-type object that automatically resizes to reflect the current viewport or model-space scale. |
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Dynamic Blocks |
| Save time and standardize drawings with ease. With Dynamic Blocks, you no longer have to redraw repetitive standard components, and you can reduce your cumbersome block libraries in the process. Dynamic Blocks make individual block geometry editable and eliminate the need to define a new block for every variation of shape and size. |
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Organize Sheet Sets |
| Organization isn’t a luxury. The AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager organizes your drawing sheets, reduces steps to publish, automatically creates layout views, links sheet set information into title blocks and plot stamps, and performs tasks across a sheet set so everything is in one convenient place. |
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Quickly & Easily Extract Data |
| Quickly and easily extract property data from objects in drawings (including blocks and attributes) and drawing information with the Data Extraction wizard. The extracted data can then be automatically output to a table or an external file. |
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Send an AutoCAD Model to a 3D Printer |
| Do more than just visualize your designs—make them real. Whatever you’re designing can now be made into a physical prototype through a 3D printer, either your own or through a connected service provider. |
For more information about AutoCAD features, visit:
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| User Interaction |
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| Hide and Isolate Objects |
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| Select Similar Objects |
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| Create Similar Objects |
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| Auto-Complete Command Entry |
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| Delete Duplicate Objects |
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| Project Snap |
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| Design Exploration Features |
| Solid Modeling |
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| Mesh Modeling |
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| Point Cloud Support |
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| Autodesk Materials Library |
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| Associative Surface Modeling |
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| Editable UCS Icon |
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| 3D Associative Array |
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| In-Canvas Viewport Controls |
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| Inventor Fusion |
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| Documentation Features |
| Geometry Measurement Tools |
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| Geometric Constraints |
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| Dimensional Constraints |
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| Object and Layer Transparency |
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| Hatch Preview |
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| Send Hatches to Back |
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| Inferred Constraints |
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| 2D Associative Array |
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| Blend Curves |
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| Copy Array |
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| Model Documentation |
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| Communication Features |
| DGN 8 Import/Export/Underlay |
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| PDF Publish/Underlay |
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| FBX Import/Export |
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| DWG Convert |
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| IGES, CATIA, Rhiino, Pro/Engineer, and STEP Import |
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| AutoCAD WS |
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| Customization Features |
| Action Recorder |
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| CUIx File Format |
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| Online License Transfer |
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| Migration Reset |
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| Multiple Plot File Search Paths |
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