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System Requirements

AutoCAD 2012 32-bit

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
• 2 GB free disk space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
• Install from download or DVD

 AutoCAD 2012 64-bit

Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or
Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology

AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology
AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology

• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free disk space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
• Install from download or DVD

 3D Modeling workflow for 32-bit & 64-bit

Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon
3 GHz or greater; or
Intel or AMD dual-core processor

• 2 GHz or greater
• 2 GB RAM or more
• 2 GB hard disk free space for installation
• 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter 128 MB or greater
• Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater
• Microsoft® Direct3D®-capable workstation-class graphics card

Installation

Click Install

Input Serial Number and Product Key

Select products to install

AutoCAD WS

AutoCAD WS lets you view, edit, and share DWG drawings through a web browser or mobile device

Online tab > Upload panel > Upload
The changes you make to the local version of the drawing are automatically uploaded to the Web server

Use the Manage Uploads tool to control which drawings are included in the automatic upload

Upload Multiple Files types

Autodesk Content Explorer

Quickly find design content based on file objects or text attributes
Content Explorer is built on a Google®-like index, results appear instantaneously across folders containing thousands of files

Plug-ins tab > Content panel > Explore

Content Explorer palette > Search > Design Content Content Explorer palette > Autodesk Seek

Locate specific block references or text strings, block attribute Drag content from the Content Explorer window into your current drawing
Right-click or double-click content > source file

Local Content

Add your own local folders to the Content Explorer index using the Add Watched Folder Or dragging folders from Windows Explorer to Content Explorer
The folders are not moved or copied; they’re simply added to the search index

Autodesk Content Service

Content Explorer can also search one or more network computers

Autodesk Content Service needs to be installed separately on the network computer You can add one or more network folders to be watched
Adding watched folders enables the content service to build an index for the files in those folders

Start menu > All Programs > Autodesk > Content Service > Content Service Console

Autodesk Seek Content

Use the Autodesk® Seek web service to browse and search for online content
Find files by manufacturer or via product specs, and insert files directly into your drawing without navigating to an external website

User Interface

The Home tab includes changes in the Draw and Modify panels

The Insert tab now has Block and Block Definition panels

The View tab includes a new Forward tool and a Rectangular viewport option has been added to the Viewports panel

AutoComplete Command

AutoCAD automatically completes the entry with an AutoCAD command or command alias

If you pause, it displays a list of all the commands whose prefix matches what you’ve typed, enabling you to scroll and select from the list

Multifunctional Grips

Multifunctional grips has been extended to lines, arcs, elliptical arcs, dimensions, and mleaders, as well as 3D faces, edges, and vertices

Using multifunctional grips with dynamic input to edit the object via relevant dimensional values

Elliptical arcs have been updated to support dynamic input for the major and minor axes

Nudge Functionality
Move selected objects a few pixels in an orthogonal direction. Simply press Ctrl and the appropriate arrow key

Group

Home tab > Group panel

Edit Group: Add and remove objects or to rename the group


Group Bound Box: Controls how groups are displayed, a single grip and a bounding box around the group

Purge command support purging of groups that contain no objects

Implied Selection

PICKDRAG=2: Combines both picking two points or picking and dragging PICKAUTO=2: Start a window or crossing selection even when picking on an object

Snap Mode F9

When Snap Mode is on, the cursor no longer snaps to grid points when selecting objects

External Reference Enhancements

Pass the cursor over the edge of an attached image, DWFTM, or PDF file, a selection preview frame is displayed, even when frames are turned off

Viewport Control

New viewport controls enable you to change viewport settings, views, and visual styles directly on the viewport canvas

UCS Enhancements

Use the multifunctional grips, move the origin, and automatically align the UCS with objects, including curved surfaces and solids

3D Associative Array

Use the Level option to specify the number items in the Z direction

Whether you create one- or multiple levels of array objects, you can specify an increment value for row elevation
Default row elevation is Zero, that mean all at the same elevation
Row elevation value can be positive or negative

For path array, you can specify whether the arrayed objects should maintain a vertical orientation (Z direction) or adjust to remain parallel to the path

Creation Preview

Select profiles to create a lofted solid or surface, an updated preview of the resulting object is displayed with each selection Preview with commands: SURFBLEND, SURFPATCH, SURFFILLET, FILLETEDGE, CHAMFEREDGE, and LOFT
Preview displays with a transparency to easily distinguish it from completed objects

Chain and Loop Selection

Detects if there is a set of contiguous edges within a solid or mesh object, or within or between surface The chain may either be open or closed and is available in the SURFPATCH, SURFBLEND, MESHCAP, and FILLETEDGE commands

Chain 

Chain option identifies and fillets edges that have continuity

This part does not have rounded corners so the fillet operation is limited to the selected edge

This part has rounded corners enabling the Chain option to select and fillet all the continuous edges

Loop

A loop is similar to a closed chain
After selecting an edge, you can choose which of the potential loops to use

Offset Edge

Solid Editing panel > Offset Edge

Create an offset curve from a planar face or from a surface where all the edges lie on the same plane
Corner option: Specify sharp or rounded corners for the offset curve

Presspull Functionality

If the bounded area is the face of a solid, the extrusion is added or removed from the solid Presspull has been updated to repeat until you exit the command

Trimmed Surface Properties

A new Trims pane displays trim properties for the selected surface:

• Edge Properties: Cycles through the edges and highlights them
• Associative Trim: Indicates if the current edge is associative

3D Autosnap Marker

With different colors, you can more easily distinguish between 2D and 3D osnaps in the drawing editor

Solid History

Turn off by default
You can directly edit faces, edges, and vertices of solids

3Dconnexion Support

The precision and controllability of 3D mouse movements were further optimized in AutoCAD 2012
In Walk and Fly modes, the navigation speed accelerates as the camera position moves away from the model
With Object mode, a consistent zoom speed is maintained regardless of the model size or position of the camera within the drawing

Autodesk Fusion

Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion adds to the 3D conceptual design capabilities of AutoCAD

When installing AutoCAD 2012, also can install Autodesk Inventor Fusion 2012

You can use this tool to select any of the following 3D objects:

• 3D Solid
• Extruded Surface
• Lofted Surface
• Planar Surface
• Swept Surface
• Revolved Surface
• NURBS Surface

Point Cloud Support

AutoCAD 2012        AutoCAD 2011

Includes an improved indexing algorithm for generating PCG files in addition to optimized viewing at changing zoom levels