System Requirements
32-Bit AutoCAD 2013
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions) or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later)
- For Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
- For Windows XP: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- 6 GB free disk space for installation
- 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color (1,600 x 1,050 with true color recommended)
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later web browser
- Install from download or DVD
64-Bit AutoCAD 2013
- Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions) or Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)
- AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- 6 GB free space for installation
- 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color (1,600 x 1,050 with true color recommended)
- Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
- Install from download or DVD
AutoCAD 2013 for Mac
- Apple® Mac OS® X v10.6.8, OS X v10.7.2 or later, OS X v10.8 or later with 64-bit Intel processor
- Apple® Mac® Pro 4.1 or later; MacBook® Pro 5.1 or later (MacBook Pro 6.1 or later recommended); iMac® 8.1 or later (iMac 11.1 or later recommended); Mac® mini 3.1 or later (Mac mini 4.1 or later recommended); MacBook Air® 2.1 or later; MacBook® 5.1 or later (MacBook 7.1 or later recommended)
- 3 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended)
- 2.5 GB free disk space for download and installation (3 GB recommended)
- All graphics cards on supported hardware
- 1,280 x 800 display with true color (1,600 x 1,200 with true color recommended)
- All Mac OS X supported language operating systems
- Apple® Mouse, Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, MacBook® Pro trackpad, or Microsoft-compliant mouse.
- Mac OS X-compliant printer
For 3D Modeling (All Configurations)
- Pentium 4 or Athlon processor, 3 GHz or greater or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2 GHz or greater
- 4 GB RAM or more
- 6 GB hard disk space available in addition to free space required 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
A Welcome Screen is automatically displayed when you launch AutoCAD 2013
Create new drawings as well as open your existing drawings and sample files
A Recent Files list provides easy access to your most recently used drawings
The Learn panel offers an overview of functionality new to AutoCAD 2013
Include video andadditional online learning resources
Extend panel, you can easily download apps from Autodesk® Exchange Apps and connect to Autodesk 360 and AutoCAD social media resources, including Facebook and Twitter
The undocked command line is displayed in a single row that floats above the AutoCAD window
When a command is active, the command name is always displayed on the command line. Clickable options, displayed in blue, offer easy access to options within the active command
You can dynamically preview changes to object properties before applying them
Properties Preview option can be enable on Options dialog box - Selection tab
Rectangular Array
Displayed in a three-row-by-four-column grid
Polar Array
Selected objects are displayed immediately after you specify a center point, in a full circular pattern of six
Path Array
Displayed evenly along the entire length of the path
It is easier to specify the orientation of the arrayed objects relative to the path using the Tangent Direction option during creation
Multifunctional grips on the array objects enable you to dynamically edit relevant properties Use Ctrl key to cycle through grips with multiple options
When the item count toggle is off, an additional grip at the end of the array provides dynamic editing of the item count and total item spacing to array along a portion of the path curve
Layout tab > Layout Viewports panel
View tab > Model Viewports panel
Bold texts and colorful borders in the Quick View Drawings thumbnails help emphasize the current active view
The contextual Hatch Editor ribbon tab is automatically displayed even when you select more than one hatch object
Now you can edit the Saved Path directly in the External References palette and the Found path is displayed as read-only
If Snap Legacy mode is set to yes, the cursor snaps based on the snap spacing, regardless of whether you’re in a command, specifying points, or selecting objects
If Snap Legacy mode is set to no, the cursor snaps based on the snap spacing only when specifying points within a command
The snap spacing is ignored when no command is active and when selecting objects within a command
Point cloud functionality is significantly enhanced in AutoCAD 2013
Insert tab > Point Cloud panel > Create Point Cloud
You can attach and manage point cloud files similar to working with xrefs, images, and other externally referenced files
You can adjust the point cloud density, create and modify clipping boundaries
