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AutoCAD® 2012
What’s New
Lucas Wyss
CAD PARTNER GmbH
24.03.2011

AutoCAD 2012: Design and Documentation
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�Explore your ideas more completely with
surface, mesh, and solid modeling tools.
�Create drawings from a variety of design
applications more quickly with model
documentation tools.
�Capture and import as‐built information to
jump‐start your design process.

AutoCAD 2012: New Capabilities
� Model documentation tools
� Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion
software
� Translators for Common MCAD
Formats
� AutoCAD® WS web and mobile
software
� DWG® Convert tool
� Command line enhancements
� Autodesk® Content Explorer TM
� Autodesk® Exchange ‐ AutoCAD®
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� Surface modeling
� Point cloud support
� 3D associative array
� Associative array on path
� Copy array tool
� Blend tool
� Delete duplicate objects
� MLeader enhancements
� Multi‐function grips
� In‐canvas viewport controls
� Simplified migration tools

Model Documentation Tools
� Automatically generate intelligent
drawing views for AutoCAD,
Autodesk® Inventor®, and other
models.
� Instantly update drawing view
entities, edge display, scale, and
location when an engineering change
is made.
� Import models from a wide variety
of applications including:
• Pro/Engineer®
• CATIA®
• Solidworks®
• NX®
• Rhinoceros®
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Autodesk Inventor Fusion
� Experience the benefits of easy‐to‐use 3D in the native DWG format.
� Tight integration enables quick transfer between AutoCAD and
Inventor Fusion environments
� Flexibly edit and validate models from almost any source, including:
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� Pro/Engineer®
� CATIA®
� Solidworks®
� NX®
� Rhinoceros®

Associative Array
� Establish and maintain a set of relationships between arrayed objects,
like windows on a building or trusses on a bridge.
� Array objects along a specified path, rather than being restricted to
rectangular or polar options.
� Array selected objects in 3D space.
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Point Cloud Support
� Bring your 3D scans to life,
streamlining time‐
consuming renovation and
restoration projects.
� Supporting up to 2 billion
points, you can quickly
visualize your scanned
objects directly within your
modeling workspace.
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Multi‐Function Grips
� Grips have been extended to more AutoCAD objects—including lines,
arcs, elliptical arcs, dimensions, mleaders, 3D faces, edges, and
vertices.
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Surface Modeling Tools
� Experience enhanced flexibility and control when designing in 3D.
� Create smooth surfaces and surface transitions more easily.
� Maintain relationships between surfaces with surface associativity.
� Use surface analysis tools to help gain a clear understanding of the
continuity between different surfaces.
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AutoCAD WS
� Stay connected to your designs on the web or from your mobile device.
� Access designs directly from the AutoCAD 2012 user interface.
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AutoCAD 2012: Additional New Tools
� Command Line Enhancements: Now you can access commands more efficiently, with new
auto‐complete options.
� Autodesk Content Explorer: Quickly find your design content based on file objects or text
attributes. Autodesk Content Explorer creates an index of your data based on where you
instruct it to look, helping you quickly access files.
� Autodesk Exchange for AutoCAD: With connected access to tips and tutorials, Getting
Started videos, downloadable plug‐ins, and help content, Autodesk Exchange brings the
content you need directly to your AutoCAD workspace.
� Copy Array Tool: The Copy tool includes a new array option that helps you to create a linear,
non‐associative array.
� Blend Tool: The new Blend tool creates spline objects with options for tangent or smooth
continuity between two curves, speeding documentation time.
� Delete Duplicate Objects: Helping you clean up your drawings by removing duplicate or
unneeded geometry, the Delete Duplicates tool facilitates increased performance –
especially when you are working on drawings with many objects.
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AutoCAD 2012: Additional New Tools (cont.)
� MLeader Enhancements: With more control over your leaders, you can now control the gap
around Mleader text in a text frame. You can also extend the leader line to the text rather
than ending at the text bounding box.
� In‐Canvas Viewport Controls: New viewport controls enable you to change viewport
settings, views, and visual styles directly on the viewport canvas.
� Simplified Migration Tools: New and enhanced tools make it easier to migrate your tool
palettes and custom settings or reset AutoCAD to the default install settings, helping to ease
the transition to AutoCAD 2012 from previous versions.
� DWG Convert: With the DWG conversion tool, you can translate DWG files created with
AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT®, or other AutoCAD‐based applications to any of the
following DWG versions: Release 14, 2000, 2004, 2007, and 2010. Conversion helps make it
easier to collaborate—and since you can convert files in batches, you’ll quickly be able to
bring older file libraries up‐to‐date.
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Windows 7 Optimization
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Optimizations utilize new Windows® 7
functionality.
�Full system requirements:
www.autodesk.com/autocad‐
systemrequirements
�High‐level white paper available:
www.autodesk.com/autocad‐whitepapers

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