AutoCAD

Explore design ideas in both 2D and 3D, shape your concepts into reality

Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, flexible features found in AutoCAD® software, one of the world’s leading 2D and 3D design software.

With robust 3D tools that can create almost any shape imaginable, AutoCAD helps you intuitively explore design ideas. It offers innovations that increase design and documentation efficiency, and enables you to more securely, accurately, and seamlessly share those designs with colleagues. And with thousands of available add-ons, AutoCAD provides the ultimate in flexibility because it can be easily customised for your specific needs.

With these capabilities and more, AutoCAD delivers the power and flexibility needed to take documentation and design further.

	Freedom Design The new free-form design capabilities allow the user to do full 3D conceptual design, using easy tools to digitally sculpt ideas. AutoCAD now allows for pushing/pulling of faces, smoothing of edges and surfaces, ultimately allowing you to refine objects to the meet your design standards. Once architectural models are created using the free-form design capabilities in AutoCAD, they can be brought into Revit for more advanced modelling.
	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.
	Enhanced PDF Support Sharing and reusing designs has never been easier, thanks to a long list of upgrades made to streamline communication. Plot/Publish/Export Smaller file sizes Higher visual quality Include Layer information Preview plotted PDF TrueType fonts
	PDF Underlay Snap to PDF geometry Clip/Adjust
	3D Printing Visualise your designs—the first step to making them real Print directly to a 3D printer or service provider
	Dynamic Blocks Enhancements Easier block authoring and editing Improved display of action objects Improved highlighting for objects associated with actions New command to test the block without closing the Block Editor Explore your ideas more With new surface modelling tools and point cloud support Easily create smooth surfaces and surface transitions Surface associativity maintains relationships between surfaces