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Every industry has professional ethics rather than one big annual release, advantages for designers and this is
and standards or codes of practice which is like Christmas coming every where AutoCAD helps them. It ensures
that it abides by. The good thing about month. file compatibility so that designs can be
AutoCAD is that it has incorporated exported to various preferred formats.
those industry specific features and Why do engineers, architects and
intelligent objects into the software; contractors need AutoCAD ? • AutoCAD as industrial
giving full access to the industrial design tool: AutoCAD helps to reduce
professionals to them. The greatest value that this software manufacturing costs as it saves time
has is it’s ability to improve accuracy and efforts required for manual
These are industry specific and and speeding work. Engineers in designing
intelligent objects for architecture, steel industries can use AutoCAD for
mechanical engineering, electrical everything from the technical side of
design and more. drafting, to design and development
and for projects ranging from injection objects for architecture, “
moulded models to steel framing
The software has specialised toolset These are industry
for architecture, electrical, mechanical, specific and intelligent
MEP, MAP 3D, Raster Design and Plant
3D.
mechanical engineering,
AutoCAD Applications electrical design and
• AutoCAD as an architectural
planning tool: It comes with a user- more.
interface with built-in design lay-outs.
The layouts contain numerous templates AutoCAD Features:
specially designed for architectural
planning and building construction. The • Storage and accessibility:
latest versions of AutoCAD come with AutoCAD files can be saved on a
analytical tools. computer or archived in any storage
media. Software files occupy lesser
Ronald Loeto Kenosi • AutoCAD as an engineering storage space as compared storage
Account Manager (Software Sales), drafting tool: You can use AutoCAD space required for keeping manually
Cad-World Solutions (Pty) Ltd to draw accurate 2D drawings for drafted paper drawings.Paper drawings
any engineering domain and also use also need care and protection from
What do these new features permit? AutoCAD to render to 3D models to loss or damage due to floods, fires or
help in visualization of the end product. other calamities and can get damaged
With the industry standards, with over time..The software files can also
AutoCAD; professionals can automate • AutoCAD as a graphic design be stored on any cloud storage, from
the floor plans, sections and elevations; tool: AutoCAD has innate features where they are easily accessible at
draw piping, ducting and circuiting that enable users to plan and map anytime, from anywhere provided
much more quickly with parts libraries; out spaces and take advantage of there is an internet connection.
the software allows for auto generation the space available. It can be used
of annotations, layers, schedules, lists simultaneously with 3D Max and various • 3D View: Although it is
and tables; its within AutoCAD to give other application softwares including possible to sketch 3D drawings
professionals a chance to use a rules animation tools. manually, they are not as effective and
driven workflow to accurately enforce realistic as computer aided drawings.
industry standards. • AutoCAD in 3D Printing: For AutoCAD help model 3D objects with
a 3D print of an object, one has to colors, materials and/or textures
With the genuine and authentic choose the object, get a virtual 3D applied to various surfaces making
AutoCAD software, a lot of the software representation and then feed it to them vivid and easier for the user to
is now updated throughout the year the 3D printer. A 3D print has its own visualize the end product.

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