The AutoCAD 2009 group of software was recently announced by AutoDesk Inc. This was done at AutoDesk’s yearly “World Press Days” event. The software announced includes AutoCAD 2009, the new version of the premiere software application for 2d and 3d design, technical drawings and conceptual design, drafting as well as detailing. AutoDesk is the leading company for the development of 2D&3D design software for use by the building and construction, manufacturing, entertainment and media markets. They are the makers of AutoCAD software and various other software tools.
The latest release of AutoCAD has many user interface enhancements to help AutoCAD users develop great design ideas and create compelling presentations. The modern Task-based User Interface of AutoCAD 2009 is intended to improve the efficiency and ease of Design and Drafting. It allows new and expert AutoCAD users to attain higher efficiency. The latest version also has automation tools, which do not require any programming knowledge. There are also new 3D navigation tools. The company says that this line of software will increase the efficiency and productivity of expert users and also will allow beginners to become productive rapidly.
New features and tools
AutoCAD software Integrates drawing and visualization and speeds up tasks. All the updates to each software in the AutoCAD 2009 group of software make routine CAD tasks quicker and make it a lot easier too find the less-common commands. AutoCAD 2009 software has a new ribbon interface which gives users the ability to see operations, which are pertinent to the workspace at hand in one compact place. The new interface is highly customizable and extensible and allows an easy transition from older versions of AutoCAD software. There is also a “classic workspace” option, which provides a conventional toolbar & menu interface. There are also other useful tools like enhanced tool tips that provide much more information on various commands, help and documentation links and “Show Me” animations for guidance. Relevant information is displayed quickly and in a visual manner, thanks to the menu browser, quick properties and quick view.
Apart from various user interface enhancements, there are some exciting new features, which include
- The Action Recorder, which streamlines drafting tasks It does this by allowing a user to automate drafting tasks with no software programming.
- A modeless layer manager which lets a user view any changes to the layer settings without having to leave the Layer Manager.
- 3D navigation is greatly improved in autoCAD2009, thanks to the new SteeringWheels and ViewCube tools.
- AutoCAD 2009 software has been certified for the 32/64 bit Windows Vista operating systems. Microsoft Vista standards for reliability, compatibility and security are met.
A wide variety of software for many different fields
The family of software includes the AutoCAD 2009 range of Industry-specific applications, which are based on AutoCAD technology. Let’s take a look at the many diverse software in the AutoCAD 2009 family, in their glorious 2009 versions.
The family of software includes the AutoCAD 2009 range of Industry-specific applications, which are based on AutoCAD technology. Let’s take a look at the very diverse software in the AutoCAD 2009 family, in their glorious 2009 versions.
- AutoCAD Architecture 2009, which has tools for architectural design and drawing within a well-known AutoCAD workflow
- AutoCAD Civil 3D software gives better surveying, design, construction documentation and analysis for civil engineering within a well-known AutoCAD workflow.
- AutoCAD Electrical is software to design electrical control systems in a fast and accurate manner with automated tasks, comprehensive symbol libraries, plus an electrical-specific workflow intended to aid control engineers.
- AutoCAD P&ID 2009 is a software for users to create, manage and modify piping and instrumentation diagrams. It gets user interface enhancements to help automate the regular tasks and streamline information access in a way that projects can be started easily, carried out better and finished quickly.
- AutoCAD Raster Design is used with various AutoCAD 2009 software applications to provide raster editing, raster data preparation abilities and raster-to-vector conversion, which add to the value of maps, scanned drawings and satellite imagery.
- AutoCAD LT 2009, the best-selling 2D drafting application, has new software features incorporated which are intended to better the productivity of drafting tasks. These include user interface enhancements, streamlined annotation features, improved dynamic blocks, plus improved publishing and data exchange abilities.
- AutoCAD Map 3D acts as a bridge between geospatial information systems (GIS) and CAD information and provides direct access to all data. It also enables the utilization of the latest AutoCAD software tools to maintain a wide range of geospatial and design information.
- AutoCAD Mechanical 2009, which is intended to speed up the mechanical design process, has standards-based symbol libraries, engineering calculators plus a mechanical-specific workflow developed to greatly improve productivity and efficiency of AutoCAD users in the manufacturing field.
- AutoCAD MEP 2009 is the AutoCAD software intended for MEP businesses [mechanical, electrical, plumbing]. It has intuitive system drawing and design tools as well as inbuilt design calculators to help create more efficient and accurate designs.
- AutoDesk Design Review is software that can be downloaded for free at http://www.autodesk.com/designreview-download. It also ships with all AutoDesk design software. It allows members of a team to take part in every digital review process and provides them with various tools to view, revise and mark up designs electronically.
- AutoDesk Impression illustration software, which can be used to create presentation-ready graphics, is provided to subscription customers of AUTOCAD 2009. It enables users to create presentation-ready graphics quickly and easily. These graphics have a hand drawn look and can be created directly from AutoCAD .dwf and .dwg files. With this Impression functionality added to the AutoCAD set of features, an AutoCAD subscription customer can create excellent images and share them with clients as well as members of their design team.
You can get more details and examine various purchasing options for all this software at http://www.autodesk.com/purchaseoptions.