Autodesk AutoCAD 2027
The drafting application everything else is measured against, with the full 2D documentation toolset, 3D modelling, and the specialised industry toolsets included.
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Drafting, modelling, building information, simulation and architectural rendering. Large packages, long installs, careful write ups.
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The drafting application everything else is measured against, with the full 2D documentation toolset, 3D modelling, and the specialised industry toolsets included.
Direct push and pull modelling with LayOut for documentation, Style Builder, and the whole extension ecosystem available.
Building information modelling across architecture, structure and services, where the model is the drawing set and every view stays coordinated.
Parametric mechanical design from sketch to drawing, with simulation, routing, sheet metal, weldments and the full Premium add in set.
Real time architectural rendering where you load a model, drop it into a landscape and have a finished image in minutes rather than hours.
A real time rendering plugin that lives inside Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, ArchiCAD and Vectorworks, so the render view updates as you model.
The production renderer that drops into SketchUp as a toolbar, bringing full ray tracing, a material library and both processor and graphics card engines to a modeller that shipped without any of it.
Polygon modelling, animation and rendering with the full modifier stack, the particle and simulation systems and a plugin architecture that half the visualisation industry is built on.
AutoCAD with the architectural toolset built in, so walls, doors, windows and stairs are real objects that schedule and annotate themselves instead of being lines you drew.
The general purpose NURBS modeller that will accept, repair and re-export almost any geometry format you put in front of it, with Grasshopper bundled for the parametric side.
The animation and modelling package most large productions are built around, with the full rigging, simulation and rendering stack and the plugin path left open.
Texture painting straight onto the model with a fully procedural layer stack, smart materials that read the mesh geometry, and export presets for every renderer and engine.
Building information modelling where the drawings, schedules and sections are all views of one model, with the whole documentation set updating the moment the model changes.
Digital sculpting with effectively no polygon ceiling, where you work on the form with brushes and worry about topology only when you are ready to.
Parametric mechanical design with full assembly modelling, simulation, tolerance analysis and drawing production, aimed at parts that are going to be manufactured.
The high end integrated design, simulation and manufacturing package used on aerospace, automotive and heavy machinery programmes.
The full platform three configuration of the surfacing and assembly package that most of the aerospace and automotive supply chain still builds against.
AutoCAD with the electrical controls toolset on top, carrying symbol libraries, automatic wire numbering and the report generation that keeps a panel drawing consistent with itself.
Modelling, animation, simulation and rendering in the package motion graphics work is built on, with the full MoGraph toolset and the production renderers included.
A GPU based 3D object and particle renderer that runs inside the compositing timeline, so models, extruded text and replicated geometry render live rather than in a separate application.
Layout, editing and machine control for laser cutters and engravers in one application, so a design goes from vector drawing to a running job without a separate sender.
Garment design with real cloth simulation, where a 2D pattern is sewn and draped on a fitted avatar in real time and the pattern remains the source of truth throughout.
Civil engineering design built on dynamic models, where surfaces, alignments, profiles and corridors update each other so a change to the road grade rewrites the earthwork figures.
A complete 3D pipeline in one application, covering modelling, sculpting, UVs, texturing, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and video editing.
Parametric mechanical design with full history based modelling, assemblies of any size, sheet metal and surfacing, simulation and drawing output, bundled with the complete help centre.
Product rendering built for speed, with a real time raytraced viewport, drag and drop materials and lighting, and direct import from essentially every CAD format in use.
Technical illustration, drafting and documentation in one package, reading CAD geometry directly and turning it into precise, dimensioned, publishable artwork.
AutoCAD with the mechanical engineering toolset switched on, adding standards based parts libraries, generated bills of material and built in calculation tools.
Photorealistic product and packaging visuals built by placing models in a lit scene, wrapping your own artwork onto them and rendering out with layers intact.
Garment creation through real sewing patterns and cloth simulation, producing clothing that drapes, folds and moves correctly on a character or a mannequin.
Parametric modelling, surfacing, sheet metal, assembly, simulation, rendering and toolpath generation in one application that carries a design through to a cut part.
Building information modelling for architectural work, where the model drives the plans, sections, elevations and schedules and they all stay in agreement.
A character authoring pipeline that builds rigged, skinned, morph driven humans and hands them off to game engines and DCC packages with the skeleton intact.
Real time ray traced rendering for architecture and interiors, with live sync from the modelling packages and a large included asset and material library.
Computer aided manufacturing for milling, turning, wire and multi axis work, with dynamic motion toolpaths, full simulation and a large post processor library.
The two dimensional drafting and documentation half of AutoCAD, with the full drawing, annotation and layout toolset and complete file compatibility.
Design and toolpath software for routed and carved work, combining two dimensional layout, relief modelling and machine ready output in one application.