Autocad 2009 review Offline#

For those of you who canвЂ™t use online help (or donвЂ™t want it) the help file will be available as a separate download and you can set your preference in the options for online or offline help. The one part of AutoCADвЂ™s operating system that Autodesk is insisting on putting up in the cloud is the help files, which have been re-structured to produce faster results. The two really big new features are in model documentation and cloud computing, but there have been a few other tweaks that are also worth a mention.

I canвЂ™t help but feel that Autodesk are considering a similar model as ProEвЂ™s re-invention as Creo elements вЂ“ but starting from the other direction. If this chameleon-like ability works out, this flexibility will surely make AutoCAD a вЂsafeвЂ™ or go-to tool for any drafting office. Maybe AutoCAD isnвЂ™t as good as some other tools for rendering, organic modelling, or finite element analysis, but if you have AutoCAD you will be able to open, modify, and document 2D and 3D CAD models from almost any source. It is clear that AutoCAD is being developed to become the Swiss Army knife of the Autodesk toolbox, bringing data in from any source and processing it into a DWG file which could be then be used by any of AutodeskвЂ™s other products. Also consider that Inventor Fusion uses the DWG file format, and that Inventor 2013 will be able to open DWG model files directly. If you havenвЂ™t seen the connection yet, consider that Inventor Fusion doesnвЂ™t come with any tools to create drawings from 3D models.

And on top of this you can still do all the 2D drafting you always did! The AutoCAD 2013 release improves upon 2012вЂ™s ability to create associative drawing views from any 3D model that can be opened or referenced by AutoCAD. AutoCAD will now open files from Autodesk Inventor, Microstation Pro/E, Rhino, Solidworks, Solidedge, Catia and 3D studio Max (as well as вЂneutralвЂ™ file such as FBX, STEP, IGES and JT. In fact вЂ“ there has been a lot going on under the hood for AutoCAD over the last few years, and itвЂ™s only when you start to look at the bigger picture that the development path starts to become clear.ДЄutoCAD can now deal with a number of different modelling paradigms, including Nurbs surfaces, solids, meshes and Point clouds.

AutoCAD 2012 has the directly editable UCS Icon and associative arrays. Sure, AutoCAD 2010 gave us freeform design And who can forget 2011вЂ™s multifunctional grips. Where are the fantastic new technologies? Where are the enticing gifts that make installing a new version of AutoCAD as exciting as a shiny new bike at Christmas? You may have been watching AutoCADвЂ™s development over the last few years, wondering where the really big stuff is.