AutoCAD 2012: Take Design Further
AutoCAD^® delivers the powerful tools you need to seamlessly participate in 3D design workflows, helping drive your projects to completion more quickly than ever before, with new and expanded workflows for conceptual design, model documentation, and reality capture. More easily explore, document, and communicate design ideas with a wide range of time-saving enhancements to the features you use most.
Design: With flexible mesh, surface, and solid modeling tools – along with the benefits of Autodesk Inventor Fusion – AutoCAD provides the flexibility to explore design ideas quickly and easily.
Document: New Model Documentation tools enable you to save time by automatically generating intelligent documentation for AutoCAD, Inventor, and other models.
Communicate: Native DWG technology support allows you to effectively collaborate across teams, sharing design data securely, efficiently, and accurately.
Customize: Configure your settings, extend the software, build custom workflows, develop your own application, or simply select an industry-tailored version already available. And new migration tools help ease your transition to AutoCAD 2012 from previous versions.

Design and shape the world around you with AutoCAD® 2012 for Mac® software. Explore your ideas with design tools that can create almost any shape
imaginable. Increase your design and documentation efficiency with DWG technology, helping you to more securely, accurately, and seamlessly share data with colleagues, regardless of what platform they work on. Customize AutoCAD for Mac software with programming tools so you can work the way you want to. With the power, flexibility, and accuracy you expect from AutoCAD in an intuitive, native Mac interface, AutoCAD for Mac helps you take your design and documentation further.

AutoCAD LT® drafting and detailing software is the professional choice for data compatibility, reliability, and productivity. Accurately and efficiently document and share designs with the powerful 2D drawing tools in AutoCAD LT. Create files in the genuine DWGTM file format for stability and compatibility when you collaborate with clients and colleagues. Optimize your software for the way you work, with varied menu and user interface options. Packed with powerful features, AutoCAD LT is built for professional drafting.

Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software delivers powerful new rendering toolsets, enhanced iterative workflows, and an accelerated graphics core that together help increase overall productivity. Featuring the physically accurate iray® renderer from mental images, versatile procedural textures, and stylized rendering capabilities, 3ds Max Design 2012 helps designers present their creative vision more effectively. Moreover, with the Nitrous render designers can more rapidly iterate on their ideas to achieve more compelling end results. And, with new interoperability with Autodesk® Alias® industrial design applications and automated workflows with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, designers can more seamlessly aggregate their CAD data into powerful storytelling visualizations.

AutoCAD® Revit® Architecture Visualization Suite software provides maximum creative freedom for design and advanced visualization. Combining Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012, Autodesk® Navisworks® Simulate 2012, AutoCAD® Architecture 2012, and AutoCAD® 2012 software applications into a single comprehensive solution gives you greater flexibility for understanding and communicating your designs. Enhance the building information modeling process by using precise model data from Autodesk Revit Architecture to evaluate designs and produce clearer, more lifelike visualizations from concept through the final presentation. Reap the rewards of improved project understanding and more predictable outcomes, and help increase client satisfaction through more compelling, persuasive presentations of your creative vision.

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Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis software is a comprehensive concept-to-detail sustainable design and analysis tool, providing a wide range of simulation and analysis functionality to improve performance of existing buildings and new building designs. Online energy, water, and carbon-emission analysis capabilities integrate with desktop tools for visualizing and simulating building performance within the context of its environment. Users can interact with powerful 3D feedback to explore factors such as solar, shadows and reflections, and daylighting. Customers who purchase Autodesk® Subscription for their Autodesk Ecotect Analysis license can access the web-based* technology available through the Autodesk® Green Building Studio® energy analysis service to more quickly evaluate multiple design alternatives for energy efficiency and carbon neutrality.

 Discover the Subscription Advantage - Extend the value of your software investment with Autodesk^® Subscription. You’ll have access to the latest releases and web services that can help improve design workflows, plus additional benefits that enhance productivity like expedited technical support and flexible licensing options. For an annual fee, Autodesk Subscription customers get convenient access to the following benefits*:
Immediate access to the latest technologies - Gain access to the latest software releases and stay current with new product enhancements.
Expedited technical support - Get priority responses within Autodesk forums and faster access to technical support resources.
Improved design workflows - Leverage web services that use the power of cloud computing for design analysis and optimization.
Flexible licensing rights - Allocate previous version and current software releases across multiple territories or for home use.    
^*All benefits are not available for all products in all languages and/or regions. Access to certain benefits could be restricted depending on the user profile and assigned access privileges.

The IES VE-Toolkits are ideal for very early stage indicative feedback, when time is short and answers need to be rapid. A variety of VE-Toolkits offer different capabilities – automatically running the chosen analysis and generating interactive visual and rich-text reports within minutes, and all at the press of just a few buttons. Technical selections are also made straightforward with pre-populated choices. Direct connectivity to SketchUp™, Revit® and ArchiCAD® allows quick, effective feedback direct from early architectural models. A choice of typical building properties eliminates the need for detailed information, while links to global weather files provide real climate data. VE-Toolkit users will build an important understanding of how the proposed design responds to the environment, and what strategies are candidates for further investigation. Answering the question “am I moving in the right direction?” the IES VE-Toolkits help the design team establish the most appropriate sustainable and energy efficient approach – one that can be progressed in detail using VE-Gaia and VE-Pro.

The IES Architectural Suite and Architectural Suite Plus provide the integrated sustainable analysis tools architects need to design for tomorrow, today. The packages incorporates a range of tools designed for use by architects right from the earliest stages of the design process through to detailed design; we have developed a tailored training package including all required sessions which can be purchased alongside the suites, for a special discount. The IES Architectural Suites can help you achieve your green design goals in a cost and time effective way that allows you to differentiate yourself from the competition. Multiple design iterations can rapidly be assessed to help maximize the environmental performance of the final design. All the tools are integrated around a central 3D model that can connect directly with Google SketchUp^TM, Autodesk® Revit® and via gbXML with other 3D design tools - so there is no need to rebuild geometry.

e-SPECS® automates the project specifications by extracting the product and material requirements directly from the project drawings, eliminating many hours of tedious preparation time. For every unique item on the drawings, e-SPECS® links to your favorite master guide specification, presenting only the language required to specify the product or material identified. It can even link to your office masters and create custom office masters "on the fly."

Trelligence Affinity software is an extension of BIM that adds the Program Model into the architectural business process of planning, designing and constructing a building. Affinity focuses on architectural programming and schematic design giving the entire AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Owner/Developer) team a platform for communicating the requirements for a building project. Affinity fast forwards the BIM model into the pre-design phase delivering time and cost savings and more successful and cost-effective project outcomes.

With Solibri Model Checker version 5, identifying design and modeling problems is easier than ever. With the advanced sectioning tools, it is now possible to isolate and address issues, by location. The SMC model can now be updated with new versions of IFC files while preserving previous decisions, remarks, and presentations. SMCv5 also introduces a new collaborative reporting capability to improve the process of resolving issues and verifying corrections. The “Coordination Report” is a quality assurance tool that can be shared with the entire project team to collect proposed solutions and related comments.

Piranesi excels at turning your conceptual 3d models atmospheric, stylised, and persuasive visualizations, with a whole host of effects to allow you to focus the eye and the attention to the key elements of your design.