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2D and 3D CAD drafting software
Overview
Summary
Power your teams’ creativity with automation, collaboration, and machine-learning features of AutoCAD® software. Architects, engineers, and construction professionals use AutoCAD to:
- Design and annotate 2D geometry and 3D models with solids, surfaces, and mesh objects
- Automate tasks such as comparing drawings, counting objects, adding blocks, creating schedules, and more
- Create a customized workspace to maximize productivity with add-on apps and APIs
System requirements:
AutoCAD 2024 family of products overview (video: 1:34 min.)
Why use AutoCAD?
Accelerate designs in 2D or 3D
Complete your projects faster with AutoCAD’s automations and customizations.
Collab. across teams & devices
Share and annotate drawings safely and securely across desktop, web, or mobile devices.
Ensure fidelity and compatibility
Only Autodesk has TrustedDWG® technology to ensure fidelity and compatibility for your DWGs.
Included Toolsets
Studies cited by Autodesk have shown that customers increased productivity by 63% on average for tasks completed using a specialized toolset in AutoCAD.
Highlights
Here’s what you can do with AutoCAD.
Unlock more efficient workflows
The newest update in Autodesk AutoCAD increases collaboration and provides insights and automation designed to accelerate your work.
Work anywhere with AutoCAD
Enjoy a connected design experience across devices. Create, view, edit, and annotate drawings with AutoCAD on mobile or on any computer using AutoCAD on the web.
Customize and extend AutoCAD
Complete your work more quickly. Gain access to thousands of parts and additional features with industry-specific toolsets, APIs to automate common processes, and 1,000+ third-party apps.
What's New?
AutoCAD® software includes industry-specific toolsets; improved workflows across desktop, web, and mobile; and a regular array of new features.
Activity Insights
Stay connected with details of multi-user activities in a DWG file. Be informed of relevant file changes and access with an activity log. Activity Insights helps bridge information gaps in your collaborative AutoCAD workflows.
Smart Blocks: Replacement
Quickly find the blocks you need and replace one or more blocks via machine learning-based suggestions, recently used blocks, and manual substitute block selection.
Smart Blocks: Placement
Automatically place blocks in your drawing in the right position and scale based on where you’ve inserted the same ones thus far in your DWG file, reducing the number of clicks required and saving you time in the process.
Markup Import and Assist
Rapidly send and incorporate design feedback. Import feedback from printed paper via mobile or PDFs and add changes to your drawings automatically. Machine learning detects and executes certain instructions in markup text.
Web Functionality
AutoCAD subscribers receive exclusive additional functionality in AutoCAD on the web, including AutoLISP API on the web and batch plot to PDF(s).
Extend AutoCAD with the AEC Collection
The AEC Collection provides designers, engineers, and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools supported by a cloud-based common data environment that facilitates project delivery from early-stage design through to construction.
From design to construction
Integrated workflows from design to construction in the AEC Collection (video: 3:42 min.)
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Extend AutoCAD with the PDM Collection
The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection helps engineers tackle their most ambitious projects with a powerful set of applications that extend the capabilities of AutoCAD and Inventor for end-to-end product development and facility layout.
Product design
Integrate electromechanical models, conceptualize designs, and speed up the creation of manufacturing documentation. (video: 1:38 min.).
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AutoCAD vs AutoCAD LT
Compare the features of AutoCAD® and AutoCAD® LT, and learn which CAD software is the right solution for your design workflow.
APIs and automation
Architecture design
Collaboration
Cloud and mobility
The Micrographics Advantage
We don’t just sell software, we are technical experts who understand your industry. We can help you:
Integrate Business Systems
We develop data sharing solutions to improve and speed up the communication between CAD & business management technologies.
Optimize Business Processes
We do unique assessments of our clients, enabling them to address workflow challenges, identify opportunities & achieve objectives.
Leverage the Power of BIM
By understanding BIM philosophies we can develop & implement BIM solutions for any project or establish BIM standards for any company.
Have Questions About Complex Applications?
Speak to us about your operational requirements or outcomes and we'll tailor a solution best suited to your business.
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