Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2012 Upgrade

AutoCAD LT 2012 software is built for professional drafting, delivering genuine DWG compatibility, reliability, and powerful 2D drawing tools designed to boost your productivity.

Experience Productivity
AutoCAD LT drafting and detailing software is the professional choice for data compatibility, reliability, and productivity.
With AutoCAD LT 2012, incremental improvements add up to bigger productivity gains. New and enhanced 2D tools like associative array, multifunctional grips, and transparency and gradient hatch patterns provide greater control and efficiency. Improved PDF and DGN input and output tools, along with new AutoCAD WS for web and mobile sharing, enable powerful collaboration. The addition of AutoCAD features such as the Sheet Set Manager, Quick Dimension tool, Sketch and Align gives you more tools to enhance your productivity. Improved interface responsiveness and faster performance bring it all together in AutoCAD LT 2012.

Document
Use a complete set of 2D drafting and detailing tools to produce precise technical drawings--accurately and efficiently.

• Document in 2D
  Create simple or complex drawings from standard shapes such as lines, arcs, and circles. Modify existing geometry with commands such as stretch, copy, rotate, and scale. Add annotations--including text, dimensions, and tables--to help convey your ideas.
• Be More Productive
  AutoCAD LT is designed with one goal in mind: increasing your productivity. Each release of AutoCAD LT includes feature enhancements and additions that introduce new ways to promote drafting efficiency.

Collaborate
Work easily and effectively with clients and colleagues.

• Get Industry-Leading Reliability and Stability
  Create drawings in the genuine DWG file format and have confidence in data integrity when sharing your work. Maximize productivity by reducing time lost tackling corrupted or incompatible data.
• Enjoy AutoCAD Compatibility
  AutoCAD LT is fully integrated with other Autodesk software products, making it easy for you to share data with others or expand your capabilities.
• Mobile Access
  The AutoCAD WS web and mobile application enables you to edit online, share and collaborate and stay connected to your designs through a web browser or from your mobile device. www.AutoCADWS.com
• Incorporate External Files
  Reuse data and create richer documents by referencing external information from colleagues or clients--such as DWG files, JPG and TIF images, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and DWF and PDF underlays--in your drawings.
• Share Files Electronically
  Electronically publish and distribute drawing sets in a single DWF or PDF file for fast, secure collaboration.

Optimize
Improve efficiency by making AutoCAD LT work the way you do with a variety of user interface options.

• Standardize Drawings
  Save time and standardize drawings by using blocks, adding dynamic properties to accommodate multiple sizes or views in a single block. Get quick access to frequently used content, such as blocks, hatches, and commands with tool palettes.
• Tailor Your Environment
  Quickly find your way around the screen with tools to locate commands, view all open drawings, and navigate between different areas in an open drawing. Optimize your work environment by tailoring the location and appearance of commands to meet your needs and company standards.
• Extend Your Competitive Advantage
  Create drawings in the genuine DWG file format for enhanced compatibility and stability when communicating with clients and colleagues. And get even better performance by optimizing your software for the way you work. Packed with powerful features, AutoCAD LT is built for professional drafting.

What's NEW in AutoCAD LT 2012

• Associative Arrays
  Save valuable rework time by establishing and maintaining a set of relationships between arrayed objects. Array objects along a specified path (rather than just rectangular or polar options), helping to save even more time when creating conceptual designs or finished documentation. Modify existing arrays with grips to change the object count or spacing. Move or replace individual items in the array without affecting other objects, and remove any overrides with the Reset option.
• AutoCAD WS
  With access directly from the AutoCAD LT 2012 interface, the AutoCAD WS web and mobile applications enable you to stay connected to your designs over the web or from your mobile device.
• Autodesk Content Explorer
  Find your design content quickly based on file objects or text attributes. Autodesk Content Explorer creates an index of your data on local and network drives, helping you to access files quickly.
• Autodesk Exchange
  Use an in-product browser window to access a wide variety of resources directly, including:
  • Getting Started videos
  • The online help system
  • Videos and tutorials
  • Discussion forums
  • Blogs
• Auto-Complete Commands
  Access commands more efficiently with Auto-Complete. As you type at the command line or the dynamic input field, AutoCAD LT displays a list with possible command names or aliases. Use the arrow keys to navigate to your choice or use the mouse to select a command from the list.
• Blend Objects
  The new Blend tool creates a spline that smoothly joins two curves. Blend is supported for lines, arcs, elliptical arcs, polylines and splines.
• Combine Objects into Groups
  The Group function has been updated to make it easier to create, modify and use groups. Objects in groups can be selected and edited together or individually as needed. This is different to objects in blocks, which, outside of the Block Editor, can only be selected and edited as a unit.
• Delete Duplicate Objects
  Clean up your drawings by removing redundant geometry with the Delete Duplicates tool. Delete Duplicates also eliminates unnecessary vertices in polylines and combines overlapping or end-to-end lines, providing increased performance.
• Fillet & Extend Spline Objects
  Splines can now be filleted with other objects such as lines and polylines. They can also be extended to meet another object.
• Multi-Functional Grips
  The power of multi-functional grips, previously available for polylines, splines and hatch objects, has been extended to lines, arcs, dimensions and multileaders. Simply hover over a grip to see the relevant commands and options.
• Multileader Enhancements
  You can now extend the landing of a multileader to the edge of its text rather than the edge of the bounding box around the text. Also, control the gap between multileader text and its frame.
• Multiple Locations for Plot Support Files
  The Files tab of the Options dialogue now supports multiple folder locations for Printer Support files including CTB, STB and PC3 files.
• New Layer Management Option
  Freeze a layer in all viewports except the current one quickly with a new option on the right-click shortcut menu in the Layer Properties Manager.
• Copy Array
  The copy tool includes a new Array option that enables you to create a linear non-associative array quickly.
• Nudge Objects
  Move objects a few pixels at a time with the new Nudge functionality. Simply select the objects, then press Ctrl and the appropriate arrow key.
• Preview Fillets & Chamfers
  The Fillet and Chamfer commands now display a preview so you can confirm the radius or distance values before completing the command.
• Reset Settings Tool
  You can return AutoCAD LT to default settings even if you have customised your installation with the option of backing up your customised settings and files for later use.
• Sheet Set Manager
  The Sheet Set Manager organises your drawing sheets, reduces steps to publish, creates layout views automatically, 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.
• Editable UCS Icon
  The UCS (User Co-ordinate System) icon now supports direct manipulation. Select the icon, then use multi-functional grips to move or rotate the current co-ordinate system.

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