Autodesk Autocad

Autodesk Autocad Features

• User Interface

  Ribbon:Access your favourite tools—when you need them—with the AutoCAD ribbon. Tool palettes: Easily access frequently used content and tools with customisable tool palettes. Command window:Launch commands and respond to prompts via simple keystrokes, right at the command line. Object grips: Easily reshape, move, or manipulate geometry with grip editing. Workspaces: Save and restore workspaces with customised menus, toolbars, palettes and ribbons. Shortcut menus: Display a shortcut menu for quick access to commands that are relevant to your current activity. Object and layer transparency: Control the transparency for selected objects or for all objects on a layer. Object selection and isolation: Find and select all objects that match the properties of an object. Hide or unhide the selected objects.

• 3D Modelling

  Solid, surface and mesh modelling: Create realistic 3D models of your design using a combination of solid, surface and mesh modelling tools. 3D navigation (orbit, ViewCube, wheel): Use 3D viewing and navigation tools to orbit, swivel, walk and fly around a 3D model to showcase your design. Visual styles: Apply visual styles to control the display of edges, lighting and shading of your 3D model. Section planes: Create section planes to display cross-sectional views through solids, surfaces, meshes, or regions. Rendering: Apply lighting and materials to give your 3D models a realistic appearance and to help communicate your designs. Point clouds" Attach point cloud files acquired by 3D laser scanners or other technologies to use as a starting point for your designs. Model documentation: Generate 2D drawings including base, projected, section and detail views from 3D models. Print Studio: Print Studio provides the tools needed to prepare models for supported 3D printers and materials.

• Customization

  TrustedDWG technology: TrustedDWG™ technology alerts you to a possible incompatibility when a file was not last saved by Autodesk software. CUI customisation: Customise the user interface to improve accessibility and reduce the number of steps for frequent tasks. Secure load: Specify security restrictions for running executables in AutoCAD to help protect against malicious executable code. Action recorder: Record commands and input values that can be played back as an action macro. Multi-user (network) licence sharing: Pool licences on a server to reduce costs when not all licences are in use at the same time. System variable monitor: Monitor current system variables against a preferred list of values. Notification balloons alert you of deviations. CAD standards checker: Define and monitor CAD standards to maintain consistent styles for layers, linetypes, text and dimensions. Application Programming Interface (API): Control drawings and databases with ActiveX, VBS, AutoLisp, Visual LISP, ObjectARX, JavaScript and .NET. Autodesk App Store: Customise your software with Autodesk-approved extensions. Autodesk desktop app: Get alerts and install software updates without disrupting your workflow. View tutorials about new features.

• Annotations

  Text settings: Create single or multi-line text (mtext) as a single text object. Format the text, columns and boundaries. Dimensions: Create dimensions automatically. Pass the cursor over selected objects to get a preview before you create it. Leaders: Create leaders with a variety of content, including text or blocks. Easily format leader lines and define styles. Centrelines and centre marks: Create and edit centrelines and centre marks that automatically move when you move the associated objects. Tables: Create tables with data and symbols in rows and columns, apply formulas and link to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Revision clouds: Draw revision clouds around new changes in a drawing to quickly identify your updates. Views: Save views by name to easily return to a specific view for quick reference or for applying to layout viewports. Layouts: Specify the size of your drawing sheet, add a title block and display multiple views of your model. Fields: Use fields in text objects to display text that can be updated automatically as the field value changes. Data linking: Enable simultaneous updates by creating a live link between a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and a table in your drawing. Data extraction: Extract information from objects, blocks and attributes, including drawing information. Dynamic blocks: Add flexibility and intelligence to your block references, including changing the shape, size, or configuration. Arrays: Create and modify objects in circular or rectangular patterns, or along a path. Parametric constraints; Apply geometric and dimensional constraints to maintain relationships between drawing geometry. Express tools: Extend the power of AutoCAD with a collection of productivity tools.

• Collaboration

  PDF files: Share and re-use data from PDF files by importing, exporting, or attaching them as underlays. DGN Files: Share and re-use data from DGN files by importing, exporting, or attaching them as underlays. DWG references: Attach DWG files to your current drawing as externally referenced files. Image references: Attach image files to your current drawing as externally referenced files. Sheet sets: View, access, manage and plot multiple drawings as sheet sets. Model references and import: Attach Navisworks models as underlays to your drawings and import models from other applications. Geographic location and on-line maps: Insert geographic location information into a drawing and display a map in the drawing from an on-line map service.