Innovative improvements to the AutoCAD software you know and trust.

With AutoCAD® 2009 software Autodesk has one goal: increasing your productivity. A customizable and extensible user interface has been optimized to boost efficiency by making routine CAD tasks faster and commands easier to find. New timesaving features automate repetitive tasks, helping you move to new highs of productivity.

Autodesk provides a complete set of tools to help designers clearly convey their design vision to clients and then quickly and accurately document that vision so projects are completed on time and within budget. AutoCAD® 2006 software enabled designers to work faster and smarter on a wide range of day-to-day tasks with powerful new drafting features such as Dynamic Blocks and Dynamic Input. AutoCAD 2007 software focused on improving designers’ ability to create, navigate, and edit a conceptual design, clearly present the design to a nontechnical audience, and then easily document it using the powerful AutoCAD software drafting tools. AutoCAD 2008 software focused on improving designers’ ability to document their designs, with a level of control that helped ensure that their drawings looked as professional as they require.

With AutoCAD 2009 software, Autodesk has started a major redesign of the AutoCAD user interface that subsequent releases will build on. This redesign is based on years of detailed customer feedback and usability testing as well as emerging software standards both inside and outside the company. The new interface has been optimized to make routine CAD tasks faster and less common commands easier to find, and to help new users up and running as quickly as possible.

This Features and Benefits guide outlines the key features of AutoCAD 2009 software by presenting problems designers might encounter and by outlining the solutions provided in AutoCAD 2009. This guide also details the bottom-line benefits of this new release of AutoCAD software.