Autodesk AUTOCAD 2010 Brochure

Take design further.

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AutoCAD

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Shape Everything

Speed up documentation, share designs accurately,
and explore ideas more intuitively in 3D. AutoCAD®
software provides the ultimate in power and
flexibility, customizable for your specific needs.

From start to finish, I
depend on AutoCAD for
design.

— Eddie Paul

Hollywood special eects and
stunt designer

Autodesk has been focused on bringing eciencies
to your design process for more than 26 years.
Used by millions of people all over the world,
AutoCAD is one of the world’s leading design and
documentation software solutions. From robust
3D free-form design tools to powerful drafting and
documentation capabilities, AutoCAD continues to

lead and drive design innovation.

Speed Up Documentation

Drive projects from concept to completion with the
powerful documentation tools in AutoCAD. Work
faster with automation, management, and editing
tools that minimize repetitive tasks and speed your
time to completion. No matter your project’s size or
scope, you can meet the challenge with AutoCAD—
which has been continuously leading and innovating
documentation for decades.

Sheet Sets
Organization isn’t a luxury. The AutoCAD Sheet Set
Manager organizes your drawing sheets, reduces
the 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.

Annotation Scaling

Spend less time creating and managing multiple
items across multiple layers. With annotation
scaling tools, you can create a single annotative­type object that automatically resizes to reflect the
current viewport or model-space scale.

Text Editing

Now you can easily manipulate text by viewing,
sizing, and positioning text as you type. Adjust
the text’s appearance as needed using familiar
tools common in text-editing applications,
including paragraph and column tools, to achieve
professional-quality formatting.

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.

Save time with parametric drawing tools.

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 reduce the need to define a
new block for every variation of shape and size.

Ecient User Interface

Working with several files doesn’t have to be painful
anymore. The Quick View feature uses thumbnails
in addition to file names, so you can visually find
and open the correct drawing file and layout even
faster than before. Within the Menu Browser you
can also quickly browse files, examine thumbnail
images, and get detailed information about file sizes
and creators.