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Introducing AutoCAD 2012
New and expanded workflows for model documentation, reality capture, and 3D conceptual design help
increase productivity with AutoCAD 2012. Explore your design ideas with powerful surface modeling
tools. Quickly create documents from a variety of modeling formats, helping to reduce manual
documentation workarounds. Capture and import as-built information to jumpstart your design process.
Plus, you’ll find a wide range of timesaving enhancements to the features you use most. AutoCAD 2012
delivers the powerful tools you need to participate in smooth 3D design workflows, helping drive your
projects to completion more quickly than ever before.
User Interaction and Modernization
AutoCAD 2012 enhances the way you interact with the software from concept through completion. With
noticeable improvements to performance, expanded online resources, and fast, intuitive access to
commands and editing tools, you will spend less time focusing on the software and more time advancing
your designs.
Performance Improvements
AutoCAD 2012 offers improved performance in many areas. Enjoy faster startups, particularly when
running on Windows Vista
®
or Windows
®
7. Inside AutoCAD 2012, you’ll discover nearly instantaneous
response as you switch between ribbon tabs. AutoCAD 2012 also offers improved performance when
opening large 3D models with lofts and meshes and when orbiting large 3D models. Additional
performance improvements can be found with selection highlighting, licensing checkout, and when
running LISP routines.
Autodesk Content Explorer
Quickly find design content based on file objects or text attributes. The Autodesk
®
Content Explorer
TM
functionality creates an index of your data based on where you instruct it to look, helping you quickly
access files. You can explore, or browse into, DWG
TM
files in order to access and insert blocks, layers,
linetypes, styles, and more. Unlike the Design Center tool, Content Explorer is built on a Google
®
-like
index, so you can quickly search for design objects across folders containing thousands of files; the
results appear instantaneously. In addition, Content Explorer provides a single interface for browsing and
searching other content sources, such as Autodesk® Seek web service.
Easily access Content Explorer with the Explore tool on the Plug-ins ribbon tab.
In the Content Explorer window, use the Search field to find design content on your local computer, one
or more network locations, and the Autodesk Seek site. A pull-down menu allows you to choose from the
available locations.