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Whether you’re considering AutoCAD for the first time or use it as part of your everyday workflow, we have information specific to you. Check out this special collection of tips, resources, and simplified guidelines to help you get up and running with your AutoCAD product.
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Top Ways to Customize AutoCAD
You’ve worked hard to customize your AutoCAD and now a new version comes along and you have to start over, right? Not with these quick and easy tips on customizing your AutoCAD.
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From CAD Kid to CADult
Briana Brubaker started working with AutoCAD when she was a kid. Discover why she ended up coming back to it after getting her Master’s.
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AutoCAD Brings Business Back From Ashes
High-end handbag designer Wendy Stevens used to create her metal templates from scratch. After a devastating fire wiped out her career’s work, she learned AutoCAD LT, recreated her designs, and discovered anew way to approach her craft.
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Design Time: Watches of Switzerland
See why a leading architecture firm chose AutoCAD to design one of the world’s largest watch stores. From design firm to elevator manufacturer and other consultants in between, read how this unrivaled emporium came together through the use of AutoCAD.
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Greening the City with AutoCAD
Junfeng Shi’s dream was to bring gardens to China’s urban centers. AutoCAD enabled him to make it a reality.
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Designing guitars and a new career with AutoCAD
Red Layer Guitars founder Jort Heijen found a way to make his lifelong passion a career with AutoCAD.
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Fuso Co.: Thinking Smart About Water
For over 15 years, Japanese waterworks company Fuso Co. have been using AutoCAD products in every step of their process, helping them achieve their aim of “Thinking smart about water”.
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From IT to Interior Design with AutoCAD
Discover how one woman left behind her technology career to pursue a lifelong dream of interior design—all thanks to AutoCAD.
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Remaking a Library With AutoCAD Mobile
A week’s worth of documentation work gets cut down to just four hours–thanks to AutoCAD mobile.
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Webinar: AutoCAD 2018 - Engineered for the Future
Stay at the forefront of design with AutoCAD 2018. Watch the on-demand webinar, presented by Lynn Allen, to learn about new and improved features in AutoCAD 2018.
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Firm Adopts 3D to Avoid Second Place
Civil engineering firm Commonwealth Engineers lost a huge deal—all because they weren’t using 3D. Here’s how they moved to 3D in order to stay competitive.
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AutoCAD Makes a Big Impact on a Tiny House
When Brent Kerr started studying drafting, the tiny house movement didn’t exist. Now, as a teacher, he’s using AutoCAD to help his students join the growing ranks of tiny home revolutionaries.
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Wagemaker Installs Overpass in Four Days
A Civil engineering firm in the Netherlands relied on Civil 3D and Revit for the design and visualization of a railroad overpass. After the experience, it’s now always 3D for every project.
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TDIndustries Puts PDFs to the Test
Learn how TDIndustries has streamlined their workflow with one of AutoCAD's most exciting and useful features: PDF Import.
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Designing a dream ride with AutoCAD
With their use of AutoCAD, Karmic Bikes went from an idea to a 95 percent complete prototype within six months.
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Chefitect Cooks Up Recipes With AutoCAD
Lillian Lin, a trained architect, was inspired to start diagramming recipes in AutoCAD that could be easily and universally understood by everyone.
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Benjamin Pratt: AutoCAD Artist
Every painting Benjamin creates begins in AutoCAD.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Lost Projects Reborn
Spanish architect David Romero creates 3D renderings of unbuilt and destroyed Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. See how he uses AutoCAD to bring history back to life in amazing detail.
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Webinar: Design for the future with AutoCAD®, 3D scanning, and ReCap™
3D scanning technology is quickly becoming more affordable and mainstream. Watch the on-demand webinar to learn how to bring point cloud data into AutoCAD to accurately measure, create, and document your new designs.
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Designing for a Day in the Sun
Alex Anderson lost her sunglasses –and started a company. Find out how she uses AutoCAD to design high fashion, affordable sunglasses.
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Lighting Up a Las Vegas Club with AutoCAD
Towering four stories above the Omnia nightclub dancefloor, where it bathes in beams of rainbow light, the chandelier is a model of “kinetic architecture,” where the rings rise, fall, tilt, and tip in sync with the light and music.
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Brothers Use AutoCAD for Cycling Startup
Identical twin brothers Jon and Chris Thornham both pursued mechanical engineering careers with AutoCAD. Then they started an entirely new business designing rims and wheels for bikes.
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AutoCAD reviews
See what users are saying about their AutoCAD software experience
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Sustainable Engineering in Wine Country
Andy Souza of TEP Engineering has been using AutoCAD to create sustainable infrastructure in Northern California’s famed Wine Country for over a decade.
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Staging a Scene with AutoCAD
Go behind the scenes of London’s National Theatre with Oli Cooper as he uses AutoCAD to design and construct stage sets.
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Piping designer gets creative with T-Shirts
For Bobby Gilbert’s day job as a senior piping designer, AutoCAD is central to his work. But when he wanted to get back to his artistic roots and begin designing t-shirts, he decided to incorporate AutoCAD as part of the process.
Compare 2D and 3D AutoCAD products
AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT? Which is better for my 2D drawings? How can I convince my boss to invest in AutoCAD? You’ve got questions, we’ve got the tools and information to help you get answers. See how Autodesk’s most popular products -- AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD 360 – stack up against each other here.
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Which software to use? Let ROI decide.
So many software options, and so many costs and benefits. How do you decide? How do you convince management to invest? This insightful article by CAD Industry Expert Robert Green shows you the nuts and bolts of calculating ROI and building a case for your software choice.
