Autodesk Design Suite Standard 2012

Autodesk Design Suite Standard software enhances the power of the familiar AutoCAD software design process with easy-to-use visual communication solutions.
The suite helps designers work more creatively, rapidly evaluate designs in context, and effectively communicate and sell ideas to internal and external stakeholders.

Autodesk Design Suite Standard software is for any AutoCAD software user who wants to enhance the design process with easy-to-use visual communication workflows:

• Explore concepts through digital illustration and leverage image assets to create graphic presentations
• Create compelling imagery, movies and real-time, interactive presentations

Autodesk Design Suite Standard includes:

• AutoCAD
• Autodesk SketchBook Designer (formerly Autodesk Alias Sketch)
• Autodesk Showcase
• Autodesk Mudbox

Autodesk Design Suite Standard provides you all the tools you'll need to design and share your work.

Features:

• Leading design and documentation - Design and shape the world around you with AutoCAD, one of the world’s leading CAD design tools. With new and updated tools for 3D conceptual design, model documentation, and reality capture, AutoCAD helps you maximize productivity and quickly drive projects to completion.
• Fully integrated design sketching and graphic communication capabilities - Use Autodesk SketchBook Designer software to sketch concept designs directly into AutoCAD and tap into a unique hybrid paint and vector workflow for creative exploration of design concepts and graphic communication.
• Easy-to-use 3D rendering and real-time presentation tools - Rapidly transform AutoCAD designs into compelling imagery, movies, and interactive presentations for convincing design reviews and sales pitches, with Autodesk Showcase software.
• Digital sculpting and texture painting - Sculpt and paint your design concepts with a higher level of detail with Autodesk Mudbox software, a game and film industry-leading digital sculpting and texture painting application.

Design and Documentation

Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, flexible features in AutoCAD software, one of the world’s leading 2D and 3D CAD design tools.

Autodesk has been bringing efficiencies to your design process for more than 28 years. Used by millions of people globally, AutoCAD® software is a world-leading design and documentation solution. Offering robust 3D free-form design tools and powerful drafting and documentation capabilities, AutoCAD drives design innovation for companies of all sizes in almost all industries.

Explore Your Design Ideas
Create the previously unimaginable. AutoCAD gives you the flexibility you need to explore design ideas in both 2D and 3D. A powerful set of intuitive tools helps you visualize and shape your ideas, bringing innovative concepts to life.

• Autodesk® Inventor Fusion—An easy-to-use tool for direct modeling, helping you flexibly edit and validate models from almost any source.
• 3D Free-Form Design—Use robust surface, mesh, and solid modeling tools in AutoCAD software to investigate and refine your ideas.
• Point Cloud Support—Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects.
• Powerful Visualization Tools—Add impact to your designs.
• 3D Navigation Tools—Quickly and intuitively walk or fly through a model.

AutoCAD delivers the flexibility and power needed to help bring your design ideas to life.

Accelerate Documentation
Speed projects from concept to completion with the powerful documentation tools in AutoCAD. Import 3D models directly into AutoCAD and instantly create intelligent 2D views. Minimize repetitive tasks and accelerate your workflow. No matter your project’s size or scope, you can meet the challenge with AutoCAD software.

AutoCAD offers a broad toolset that helps you drive efficiencies throughout the drafting and documentation process, no matter what industry you are in.

• Model Documentation—Automatically generate intelligent documentation for AutoCAD, Autodesk® Inventor® software, and other models. You can import and document designs from a wide variety of software applications including SolidWorks®, Pro/ENGINEER®, CATIA®, Rhinoceros®, and NX®.
• Parametric Drawing—Define relationships between objects, minimizing the time needed to edit or rework drawings.
• Associative Array—Easily create arrayed objects, like windows on a building or trusses on a bridge. Plus, you can now array objects in 3D or along a specified path.
• Sheet Sets—Organize and manage your drawing sheets efficiently.
• Dynamic Blocks—Save time when using standard, repetitive components.
• Multifunction Grips—Maximize productivity with context-aware, object-specific menus.

Don’t settle for second best. Rely on the drafting and documentation tools in AutoCAD to exceed expectations.

Communicate Seamlessly
Share critical design data securely, efficiently, and accurately with AutoCAD (or online with AutoCAD® WS web and mobile service). Native support for DWG™, one of the world’s most widely used design data formats, helps you keep everyone informed at all times. With presentation-ready graphics, rendering tools, and robust plotting and 3D printing capabilities, AutoCAD helps to bring clarity and impact to all of your design communications.

• AutoCAD WS—Enables you to stay connected to your designs over the web or from your mobile device.
• Native DWG Support—Demand native DWG support, not a conversion or a translation.
• PDF Import/Export—Share and reuse designs easily. Import PDF files as an underlay within your workspace.
• Autodesk Exchange—With connected access to tips and tutorials, getting started videos, and help content, Autodesk Exchange brings the content you need directly to your AutoCAD workspace.
• Photorealistic Rendering—Create stunning, visually rich images.
• 3D Printing—Connect online to service providers or print from AutoCAD to a local machine.

AutoCAD is communication at its best.

Customize in Ways You Never Thought Possible
Your job is unique. Your software should be as well. With deep APIs, thousands of available add-ons, and a broad developer community, AutoCAD software can be customized for your particular requirements. Whether you simply want to arrange tools to match how you work or tailor the software for your industry, AutoCAD is flexible enough to fit your needs—perfectly.

• Simplified Migration Tools—New and enhanced tools make it easier to migrate your custom settings.
• Customizable User Interface—Get the tools you want, at your fingertips.
• Programming Interface—Create specialized design and drafting applications.
• Partner Products and Services—Extend AutoCAD software to suit all your needs.

Don’t choose between flexibility and power. With AutoCAD, you can have both.

Experience creative freedom with the Autodesk SketchBook Designer family of products

Autodesk SketchBook Designer
Unlike photo-editing or artistic painting applications, SketchBook Designer is a tool geared for creative exploration. It includes an advanced illustration toolset geared for tasks from freehand sketches and tight technical linework to compositing photo and image assets for graphic communication. Whether you are a freehand artist or using a standard mouse configuration, you can produce professional, high-quality artwork, quickly and easily.

Intuitive UI
Designed to encourage creativity, SketchBook Designer offers a dynamic and scalable UI, which is optimized for both pen- and mouse-based interaction.

Hybrid Paint/Vector Workflow*
Whether creating freehand sketches, tight technical linework, or compositing photo and image assets, the hybrid raster/vector environment allows lines to be edited at any time, providing users with a high degree of control and flexibility.

Powerful Explorative Tools
With powerful tools for exploring shape variations, symmetric design, color variations, and compositions, SketchBook Designer

Autodesk SketchBook Designer for AutoCAD
This product is especially helpful for AutoCAD users who have a creative part of their job and require multiple products outside of AutoCAD to get their job done. Key functionality includes:

Work Directly within Your AutoCAD
Enrich your AutoCAD workflows with integrated painting and image editing capabilities directly within AutoCAD, enhancing how you explore and communicate; without having to learn or use a separate illustration application.

Communicate via Illustration Tools
Included are numerous painting tools so that AutoCAD users who need to integrate handwritten annotations can now communicate via illustrations versus only a DWGTM file. Included are marking menus, direct on-screen controls, and a collapsible window that lets users maximize screen real estate for increased productivity.

Composite and Manipulate Images in Minutes
Use layers to compose multiple images together. Dynamically transform and manipulate content to create new variations.

CAD to real-time 3D presentations, in just a few clicks.

Autodesk® Showcase® 2012 software helps you transform your digital prototypes and architectural designs into compelling imagery, movies, and immersive presentations for interactive design reviews, stunning marketing materials, and convincing sales pitches.

Autodesk Showcase for Manufacturing
Autodesk Showcase 2012 is a highly useful companion to Autodesk® Inventor® and Autodesk® Alias® software because it helps designers, engineers, and marketing teams to evaluate designs in context, more rapidly explore design options, and accelerate the feedback loop by reducing the need for physical prototypes. Showcase now enables you to automatically generate interactive scenes from your Inventor files, complete with Shots, Alternatives, Storyboard, and animated Constraints.

Autodesk Showcase for Architecture
Showcase is an easy-to-use companion to Revit® Architecture and AutoCAD® software because it helps to provide architects, interior designers, principals, developers, and city planners with the tools to visualize their designs in context. They can explore material alternatives and design options with the click of a button, and create their own renderings and real-time presentations to convey design intent at any stage of the project.

Key Features:

ENHANCED Interactive Raytracing
With RapidRT raytracing functionality, users can now switch on the fly between a GPU-powered viewport and full raytracing, without the need to change materials, lighting, or environments. The RapidRT raytracing engine renders the scene progressively, directly in the viewport. With Showcase 2012, RapidRT raytracing has been accelerated by a factor of up to 10x.

ENHANCED Interoperability
Autodesk Showcase 2012 supports Autodesk Materials, which are now automatically imported from AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Revit Architecture and 3ds Max® Design. In addition, the interoperability with Autodesk® Maya® and 3ds Max Design through the Autodesk® FBX® data exchange tool has been improved and now includes support for cameras. Showcase imports more than 15 third-party CAD file formats*.

NEW Import Templates
Save time when working with Inventor software data. You can now automatically create a Showcase scene from an Inventor file, complete with Materials, Shots, Alternatives, Storyboard, and animated Constraints.

Easy-to-use Camera and Animation
Add narrative to your design with cinematic camera motion and animation features. The Orbit shot allows you to move the camera 360 degrees around a center of interest, while keyframe animation techniques and triggers add greater interactivity to your presentations. Import 3ds Max and Maya camera animations directly into Showcase shots via the Autodesk FBX data exchange tool.

Storyboard and Movie Creation
Storyboard enables you to orchestrate the story of your design in a familiar, slide-based metaphor. The Storyboard slides can be played back in sequence, or one at a time. Also, you can share work with colleagues or customers who do not use Showcase by more quickly and easily exporting slides as movies or rendering Showcase scenes to interactive Adobe® Flash® files.

NEW Automatic Real-time Shadows
Create highly realistic imagery by automatically simulating ambient shadows for polygonal objects and adding real-time, geometry-casted shadows.

NEW Non-photorealistic Effects and Styles
Create a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects that help simulate artistic styles created by hand. The Styles user interface aggregates all rendering styles in one view, making it quicker and easier to explore options.

NEW Smart Navigation
Use Autodesk® Steeringwheels® to walk naturally around architectural scenes. Navigate up or down stairs, or remain on the ground level; avoid walls and other obstacles. Showcase now supports 3Dconnexion input devices for total motion control.

NEW Quick Start Wizards
Users who are new to Showcase can now be productive almost immediately. The new Quick Start wizards guide users through common workflows in two to six steps, helping them accelerate time to completion and reach a successful finish every time.

NEW Language Packs
Showcase now ships in English, French, German, and Japanese.

Autodesk Showcase Product Family

Autodesk Showcase 2012 Viewer
Autodesk® Showcase® 2012 Viewer software is a free** application that enables anyone to view and navigate Showcase scenes. Autodesk Showcase 2012 Viewer is particularly useful when sharing your designs with customers. The free viewer can be downloaded at www.autodesk.com/showcase-viewer.

Autodesk Showcase 2012
A free** 30-day trial of the standard version of Showcase 2012 can be downloaded at www.autodesk.com/showcase-trial.

Autodesk Showcase Professional 2012
Autodesk® Showcase® Professional 2012 software is designed for specialized display environments involving multiple-screen displays, high-speed raytracing clusters, stereoscopy, and remote session sharing. Autodesk Consulting can help design and implement the right Showcase Professional software solution for your specific needs.

System Requirements:

32-Bit Autodesk Design Suite Standard 2012 for Windows

• Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium, Professiona, Ultimate, Enterprise. Vista (SP2) Home basic, Home Premium, Enterprise, Ultimate. XP Professional (SP3)
• Processor Intel Pentium 4 (SSE2), Intel Xeon, Intel Core, AMD Athlon (SSE2), AMD Opertron (SSE2)
• RAM 4GB
• Available Hard Disk Space 40GB
• Display 1280 x 1024
• Graphics DirectX 9, 256MB memory or higher
• Internet Connection Required Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later

64-Bit Autodesk Design Suite Standard 2012 for Windows

• Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise. Vista (SP2) Home basic, Home premium, Enterprise, Ultimate. XP Professional x64 (SP2)
• Processor Intel Pentium 4 (SSE2), Intel Xeon, Intel Core, AMD Athlon 64 (SSE2), AMD Opertron (SSE2)
• RAM 4GB
• Available Hard Disk Space 40GB
• Display 1280 x 1024
• Graphics 256 MB DirectX 9 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3
• Internet Connection Required Internet Explorer 7.0 or later