Publisher's Description:
From Autodesk
Features
AutoCAD software lets you design, visualize, and document your ideas clearly and efficiently. With AutoCAD 2009, Autodesk has one goal: increasing productivity. New features accelerate tasks, allow commands to be easily found, and help rapidly train new users.
Features
Solid and Surface Modeling and Visualization
Robust modeling capabilities enable you to shape and visualize your ideas unlike ever before. The redesigned interface uses a single, easy-to-learn environment for creating both solids and surfaces. Users can now create solid objects that have faces defined by complex surfaces. Applying materials to a model is a simple task. Just drag materials from a predefined library onto any solid face or surface defined in their model.
Users can now make highly accurate, photorealistic rendered images available for any purpose. Use these images to win contracts, meet planning requirements, or study the effects of changes on the design.
User Interface
With the ribbon interface, overall drafting productivity is increased as the number of steps to reach a command is decreased. The ribbon is both customizable and expandable so that it can be optimized for each user and can meet each company™s standards.
Action
Changes:
With AutoCAD 2010 software you can tackle your most challenging problems with ease.
* Explore your ideas in almost any shape imaginable-With new 3D free-form design tools, AutoCAD provides the capabilities to shape, expand, and visualize your ideas unlike ever before.
* Document designs quickly and efficiently-Work faster with parametric drawing tools, keeping everything aligned automatically, and saving you time and energy for bigger challenges.
* Communicate quickly and easily-New PDF enhancements help you publish with better visual quality and smaller file sizes, and enable importing and attaching PDF files to a drawing as an underlay.
* Customize AutoCAD for your unique requirements-Customizing your CAD system to meet your unique needs is easier than you ever thought possible. Configure your settings, extend the software, build custom workflows, and develop your own application or leverage one already built.
Requirements:
For Windows Vista or Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology; for Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor,
1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
2 GB RAM
2 GB free disk space for installation
1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
Install from download or DVD