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AutoCAD® 2012What’s New

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AutoCAD 2012: Design and Documentation

Explore your ideas more completely with surface, mesh, and solid modeling tools.

Create drawings from a variety of design applications more quickly with model documentation tools.

Capture and import as-built information to jump-start your design process.

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AutoCAD 2012: New Capabilities

Model documentation tools Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion

software Translators for Common MCAD

Formats AutoCAD® WS web and mobile

software DWG® Convert tool Command line enhancements Autodesk® Content ExplorerTM

Autodesk® Exchange - AutoCAD®

Surface modeling Point cloud support 3D associative array Associative array on path Copy array tool Blend tool Delete duplicate objects MLeader enhancements Multi-function grips In-canvas viewport controls Simplified migration tools

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Model Documentation Tools

Automatically generate intelligent drawing views for AutoCAD, Autodesk® Inventor®, and other models.

Instantly update drawing view entities, edge display, scale, and location when an engineering change is made.

Import models from a wide variety of applications including:• Pro/Engineer®• CATIA®• Solidworks®• NX®• Rhinoceros®

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Autodesk Inventor Fusion

Experience the benefits of easy-to-use 3D in the native DWG™ format. Tight integration enables quick transfer between AutoCAD and

Inventor Fusion environments Flexibly edit and validate models from almost any source, including:

Pro/Engineer® CATIA® Solidworks® NX® Rhinoceros®

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Associative Array

Establish and maintain a set of relationships between arrayed objects, like windows on a building or trusses on a bridge.

Array objects along a specified path, rather than being restricted to rectangular or polar options.

Array selected objects in 3D space.

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Point Cloud Support

Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects.

Supporting up to 2 billion points, you can quickly visualize your scanned objects directly within your modeling workspace.

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Multi-Function Grips

Grips have been extended to more AutoCAD objects—including lines, arcs, elliptical arcs, dimensions, mleaders, 3D faces, edges, and vertices.

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Surface Modeling Tools

Experience enhanced flexibility and control when designing in 3D. Create smooth surfaces and surface transitions more easily. Maintain relationships between surfaces with surface associativity. Use surface analysis tools to help gain a clear understanding of the

continuity between different surfaces.

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AutoCAD WS

Stay connected to your designs on the web or from your mobile device. Access designs directly from the AutoCAD 2012 user interface.

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AutoCAD 2012: Additional New Tools

Command Line Enhancements: Now you can access commands more efficiently, with new auto-complete options.

Autodesk Content Explorer: Quickly find your design content based on file objects or text attributes. Autodesk Content Explorer creates an index of your data based on where you instruct it to look, helping you quickly access files.

Autodesk Exchange for AutoCAD: With connected access to tips and tutorials, Getting Started videos, downloadable plug-ins, and help content, Autodesk Exchange brings the content you need directly to your AutoCAD workspace.

Copy Array Tool: The Copy tool includes a new array option that helps you to create a linear, non-associative array.

Blend Tool: The new Blend tool creates spline objects with options for tangent or smooth continuity between two curves, speeding documentation time.

Delete Duplicate Objects: Helping you clean up your drawings by removing duplicate or unneeded geometry, the Delete Duplicates tool facilitates increased performance – especially when you are working on drawings with many objects.

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AutoCAD 2012: Additional New Tools (cont.)

MLeader Enhancements: With more control over your leaders, you can now control the gap around Mleader text in a text frame. You can also extend the leader line to the text rather than ending at the text bounding box.

In-Canvas Viewport Controls: New viewport controls enable you to change viewport settings, views, and visual styles directly on the viewport canvas.

Simplified Migration Tools: New and enhanced tools make it easier to migrate your tool palettes and custom settings or reset AutoCAD to the default install settings, helping to ease the transition to AutoCAD 2012 from previous versions.

DWG Convert: With the DWG conversion tool, you can translate DWG files created with AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT®, or other AutoCAD-based applications to any of the following DWG versions: Release 14, 2000, 2004, 2007, and 2010. Conversion helps make it easier to collaborate—and since you can convert files in batches, you’ll quickly be able to bring older file libraries up-to-date.

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Windows 7 Optimization

Optimizations utilize new Windows® 7 functionality.

Full system requirements:www.autodesk.com/autocad-systemrequirements

High-level white paper available:www.autodesk.com/autocad-whitepapers

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