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We're continuously improving the AutoCAD® software you know and trust. From conceptual design through drafting and detailing, AutoCAD software is the industry standard that delivers features to increase speed and accuracy while saving time. AutoCAD—the world's leading customizable and extendable CAD application—delivers virtually instant productivity.
Conceptual Design
- Experience an updated and intuitive 3D user environment.
- Quickly create, edit, and navigate solids and surfaces.
- Explore design alternatives with intuitive walk-through and rendering tools.
- Study alternative lighting effects and real-time shadows on your design.
Drafting and Documentation
- Minimize workarounds with new automated annotation scaling features.
- Improvements to text and leader objects deliver a new level of aesthetic accuracy.
- Manage and edit your blocks easily by using Dynamic Blocks.
Enhanced tables keep your data up-to-date with bidirectional linking to Microsoft® Excel®.
- Use Dynamic Input to access dimensions and command options right at the graphics cursor.
Sharing
- Exchange data seamlessly with Autodesk's industry-specific applications, such as Revit®, AutoCAD® Map 3D, AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, and Autodesk® Inventor™ software.
- Work more efficiently in a mixed CAD environment with support for DGN import/export and underlay.
- Coordinate your projects as an integrated set of drawings with the Sheet Set Manager.
- Exchange information with the extended design team by publishing to DWF™ and PDF formats.
AutoCAD Whitepapers
AutoCAD 2009 Release Comparison Matrix 
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