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System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions)
• Microsoft® Windows Vista® Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium (SP1 or later) (compare Windows Vista versions)
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP2 or later)

For Windows Vista or Windows 7:
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
For Windows XP:
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
2 GB RAM
1.8 GB free disk space for installation
1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or late

Materials

Materials Browser
Browse and search for materials from the Autodesk Materials Library of thousands of materials and user libraries, as well as from the current drawing

A list of the available libraries and their categories is available in the tree at the bottom left of the Materials Browser

Create Own Library
Create and open your own materials libraries directly in the Materials Browser

Create categories within the materials library to organize and manage specific types of materials
Can search on material characteristics, such as blue or ceramic
Add it to the current drawing via the Right-click menu or drag and drop
Materials in the current drawing are displayed in the upper pane of the Materials Browser

Material Editor

Lower-right corner of Material panel or

Lower-right of Material Browser

Offers many settings to modify properties of a material

Mesh Edit

Merge Face

Merge two or more adjacent faces into a single face

Close Hole

Close gaps in mesh objects by selecting the edges of the surrounding mesh edges

Collapse Face

Force vertices of surrounding mesh faces to converge at the center of a selected edge or face

Spin Triangle Face

Modifies the shapes of faces by rotating the edge that joins two triangular mesh faces