What’s New
AutoCAD 2010: More Power, More Innovation
With AutoCAD® 2010 computer-aided design software, you can tackle your most challenging problems with ease. Create almost any shape imaginable with free-form design tools, cut revision time and keep everything connected with parametric drawing, share your ideas as PDF, or bring them to life with 3D printing. Nothing takes you from idea to reality faster.
AutoCAD 2010 Screencast
Learn more about the powerful new capabilities of AutoCAD 2010. Watch as AutoCAD guru Heidi Hewett walks through new features, highlighting free-form design tools, parametric drawing, and many more new capabilities.
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Cut Design 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 centered, all automatically.
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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.
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Sharing and reusing designs has never been easier thanks to enhanced PDF support within AutoCAD. Publishing improvements include smaller file sizes and TrueType font support. And new import and underlay capabilities mean you can bring PDF files directly into AutoCAD drawings.
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Do more than just visualise your designs—make them real. Whatever you’re designing can be made into a physical prototype through a 3D printer, either your own or through a connected service.
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Thanks to several enhancements, Dynamic Blocks are now easier to author and edit. With improved display of action objects and improved highlighting for objects associated with actions, Dynamic Blocks tools help save critical time documenting your designs.
Supercharge your design presentations with a hand-drawn look. Autodesk® Impression software lets you create compelling presentation-ready graphics directly from your DWG and DWF files.
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 reviewers to view, print, and mark up designs without the original software. Now with a more intuitive user interface and support for PDF, Autodesk Design Review 2010 is sure to help speed your review workflows.
Additional General Enhancements
- Fade controls for the display intensity of xrefs
- New measurement tools
- Multileader improvements
- Ability to rotate a viewport and have the view of the objects rotate simultaneously
- Enhancements to 3D Gizmos and subobject selections
*Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user licence agreement that accompanies download of the software.