Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2011

Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, flexible features found in AutoCAD design and documentation software, one of the world's leading 2D and 3D CAD tools. Speed up documentation, share ideas seamlessly and explore ideas more intuitively in 3D. With thousands of available add-ons, AutoCAD design software provides the ultimate in flexibility, customised to your specific needs. It's time to take design further. It's time for AutoCAD 2011.

FEATURES
Design and shape the world around you with AutoCAD design and documentation software, one of the world's leading CAD programs. Explore ideas more intuitively in 3D, speed up documentation, share ideas seamlessly and customise AutoCAD for your specific needs.

What's New

• 3D Surface Modelling - Demand the utmost in flexibility and control when designing in 3D. Create smooth surfaces and transitions between surfaces easily and maintain strong associativity between surfaces as you revise your models.
• Surface Analysis - Ensure a clear understanding of the continuity between different surfaces.
• 3D Modelling Enhancements - A variety of enhancements to the 3D modelling tools help simplify and streamline design workflows. Live previews as you model, new capabilities to use existing sub-objects, and a new introductory 3D workspace make modelling easier for both new and experienced users.
• Point Cloud Support - Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects. With support for up to 2 billion points, you can visualise and snap to the surface of your scanned objects quickly, directly within your modelling workspace.
• Materials Library - Create striking visual representations of your 3D models. AutoCAD 2011 includes hundreds of visually rich pre-defined surface materials that you can select and edit easily using the new Materials Browser and Editor.
• Parametric Sketching - Building on the Parametric Drawing tools introduced in AutoCAD 2010, the new Parametric Sketching capabilities enable you to infer geometric constraints in real time - as you draw - eliminating the need to define all of your object relationships manually.
• Object & Layer Transparency - Display drawing geometry with more flexibility by applying transparency to layers, blocks or objects.
• Hatch & Gradient Enhancements - Save time with hatch preview, gain more control with expanded object grip functionality and choose from more options for the appearance of hatches with the addition of background colour. Send all hatches to the back of the drawing easily with a single click.
• Polyline Improvements - Edit polylines easily with direct manipulation of grips. Add and remove vertices and even convert between line and arc segments.
• Spline Updates - New Spline options give you more flexibility and control. You can now add and remove vertices easily, edit fit points or control vertices, add kinks and even specify the degree to which a spline should fit a curve.
• TimeSaver Tools - A collection of new tools, a direct result of requests from the AUGI user group, help save critical drafting and documentation time. You can now hide and isolate objects across layers, select similar objects quickly across multiple layers and create new objects based on the properties of existing objects.

Explore

• 3D Free-Form Design Tools - You now have the power to design ideas in almost any form you can imagine. Simply push/pull faces, edges and vertices to model complex shapes, add smooth surfaces and much more. With tools for surface, solid and mesh modelling, AutoCAD 2011 provides the utmost flexibility and control when designing in 3D.
• Surface Analysis - Ensure a clear understanding of the continuity between different surfaces.
• Point Cloud Support - Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects. With support for up to 2 billion points, you can visualise and snap to the surface of your scanned objects quickly, directly within your modelling workspace.
• Walk or Fly Through a Model with 3D Navigation - Walk or fly through a model at the click of a button. Rotate and orient any solid or surface model quickly with the Autodesk ViewCube 3D navigation widget. Pan, centre and zoom on any object with the Autodesk SteeringWheels 3D navigation feature.
• Materials Library - Create striking visual representations of your 3D models. AutoCAD 2011 includes hundreds of visually rich pre-defined surface materials that you can select and edit easily using the new Materials Browser and Editor.

Document

• Slash Design Revision Time with 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 centred, all automatically. And now you can infer geometric constraints in real time - as you draw - eliminating the need to define all of your object relationships manually.
• Automate Table Creation & Maintenance - Increase your productivity by automating the tedious task of creating and maintaining tables. You can define table styles to apply consistent table formatting with ease including fonts, colours, borders and much more.
• Create & Edit Multiple Leaders - With multileader tools, creating and editing leaders is easy. Define multileader styles to ensure consistency across leaders, add multiple leader lines to a single leader object and even include bubbles or blocks as leader content.
• Manipulate Text Easily - Now you can manipulate text easily by viewing, sizing and positioning text as you type. Adjust the text's appearance as needed using familiar tools and common in text-editing applications, including paragraph and column tools, to achieve professional-quality formatting.
• Organise Sheet Sets - Organisation isn't a luxury. The AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager organises your drawing sheets, reduces 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 that everything is in one convenient place.
• Extract Data Quickly & Easily - Extract property data quickly and easily from objects in drawings (including blocks and attributes) as well as drawing information with the Data Extraction wizard. The extracted data can then be output automatically to a table or an external file.
• Standardise Drawings with Dynamic Blocks - Save time and standardise drawings with ease. With Dynamic Blocks, you no longer have to re-draw repetitive standard components, and you can reduce your cumbersome block libraries in the process. Dynamic Blocks make individual block geometry editable and eliminate the need to define a new block for every variation of shape and size.
• Save Time with Annotation Scaling - Spend less time creating and managing multiple items across multiple layers. With annotation scaling tools, you can create a single annotative-type object that automatically resizes to reflect the current viewport or model-space scale.
• Object & Layer Transparency - Display drawing geometry with more flexibility by applying transparency to layers, blocks or objects.
• Hatch & Gradient Enhancements - Save time with hatch preview, gain more control with expanded object grip functionality and choose from more options for the appearance of hatches with the addition of background colour. Send all hatches to the back of the drawing easily with a single click.
• Polyline Improvements - Edit polylines easily with direct manipulation of grips. Add and remove vertices and even convert between line and arc segments.

Communicate

• Save and Share Files with DWG - Save and share files with confidence. DWG technology from Autodesk is the authentic and accurate way to store and share design data when working with anyone in the industry. Nothing offers more integrity and reliability for your data.
• PDF Support - Sharing and re-using designs has never been easier thanks to robust PDF support within AutoCAD. With TrueType font support, import and underlay capabilities, as well as powerful publishing capabilities, AutoCAD helps ensure clear communication when using PDF.
• Publish & Import DWF Files Within AutoCAD - With built-in tools to publish and import DWF files within AutoCAD, collaborating on projects is more seamless than ever. Autodesk Design Review DWF viewing and markup software is the free, integrated, digital solution for clients or vendors to view, print and mark up designs without needing the original software.
• Send an AutoCAD Model to a 3D Printer - Do more than just visualise your designs - make them real. Whatever you're designing can now be made into a physical prototype through a 3D printer, either your own or through a connected service provider.

Customise

• Action Recorder Automates Repetitive Tasks - Save time and increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks without requiring the assistance of a CAD manager. Now you can record tasks, add text messages and request user input, then select and play back recorded macros quickly.
• Programming Interface for Developing Specialised Applications - Take advantage of our flexible development platform to boost your productivity. With direct access to database structures, the graphics system and native command definitions, you can develop specialised design and drafting applications to fit your needs perfectly.
• Autodesk Partners Provide Thousands of AutoCAD Enhancements - Get a broad range of fully integrated and interoperable solutions for whatever you're designing from thousands of Autodesk software partners around the world.
• Development Support Through the Autodesk Developer Network - If you're creating innovative software built on AutoCAD, you'll want to join the Autodesk Developer Network. Training and support ensure your AutoCAD plug-in or software tightly integrates your workflow with the latest AutoCAD release.
• Customisable & Expandable Ribbon User Interface - Pump up overall drafting productivity with the ribbon interface. The ribbon is both easily customisable and expandable so that it can be optimised for each user and can meet each company's standards.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For 32-bit AutoCAD 2011

• Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional or Home Premium; Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate or Home Premium (SP1 or later); or Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home edition (SP2 or later)
• 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
• 1.8 GB free disk space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true colour
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• Install from download or DVD

For 64-bit AutoCAD 2011

• Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional or Home Premium; Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate (SP1 or later); or Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)
• AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron processor with SSE2 technology, Intel Xeon processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true colour
• Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• Install from download or DVD

Additional Requirements for 3D Modelling (All Configurations)

• Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3 GHz or greater; or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2 GHz or greater
• 2 GB RAM or more
• 2 GB hard disk space available in addition to free space required for installation
• 1280 x 1,024 true colour video display adapter 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Microsoft Direct3D-capable workstation-class graphics card

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