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Part I ✦ AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Basics
✦ Surveying and Civil Engineering
✦ Facilities Management
✦ Electrical/electronic
✦ Multimedia
However, AutoCAD has many other lesser-known uses, such as pattern making in the garment
industry, sign making, and so on. In this book, I try to provide examples from many fields. The
world of AutoCAD is very broad, and you can learn from seeing the many approaches that
AutoCAD makes possible.
Comparing AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
AutoCAD LT’s advantages are its lower cost and its compatibility with AutoCAD. The pro-
gramming code that is used to create AutoCAD LT is a subset of the code used in AutoCAD.
Here are the major differences between AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT:
✦ AutoCAD includes features that enable CAD managers to hold drawings to certain
standards, such as for layer names and text styles. AutoCAD LT doesn’t contain these
features.
✦ AutoCAD LT is not as customizable as AutoCAD, which is both programmable and fully
customizable.
✦ AutoCAD LT includes minimal options for 3D; AutoCAD includes a full-featured 3D
capability.
✦ AutoCAD LT has fewer presentation features than AutoCAD, which includes gradient
fills, true color display, and 3D rendering.
✦ AutoCAD LT is deployable on a network but does not have AutoCAD’s network license
management feature that includes reporting and flexible licensing.
✦ AutoCAD LT does not offer database connectivity; AutoCAD does.
✦ AutoCAD LT does not include AutoCAD’s quick-dimensioning feature, which allows you
to quickly insert a number of dimensions, one after the other.
✦ AutoCAD LT does not come with Express Tools, a set of additional routines that ship
with AutoCAD.
✦ AutoCAD LT does not include sheet sets and fields, two features that were introduced
in AutoCAD 2005.
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT have a few other minor differences, as well. Some of these differ-
ences are only in the user interface, so that you can accomplish the same task but the proce-
dure is slightly different.
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