Software

• A powerful solution for designers who need full DWG native file format compatibility without 3D capabilities or advanced customization
• Layer dialog box enhancements--working with layers is now easer than ever
• Quick view feature uses thumbnails instead of file names, so you can open the correct drawing file and layout faster

• Access context-sensitive help within the software, searchable, indexed help online, free email and web-based support from the manufacturer, or give them a call to receive free telephone tech support
• Support for 30 of the most popular industry-standard file formats including AutoCAD and Google SketchUp
• Apply light effects and camera views to simulate video fly-through of your finished spaces

• Simplifies daily tasks with full DWG native file format compatibility, annotation scaling, layer properties per viewport, text and table enhancements, and multiple leaders
• Simplified data exchange leads to fast, secure collaboration among team members no matter where they are--because the quicker you share, the quicker you finish.
• Create, collaborate, and deliver more efficiently than ever

Features
No matter what phase of the 2D design process you find yourself in, AutoCAD LT makes it more productive. From drafting to publishing to sharing, new tools and features focus on getting you through your everyday tasks quicker and with fewer errors. Simply put, you'll create, collaborate, and deliver more efficiently than ever.

• Efficient drafting means across-the-board improvements to help ensure that the time-consuming tasks you do every day won't slow you down.
• Simplified data exchange leads to fast, secure collaboration among team members no matter where they are--because the quicker you share, the quicker you finish.
• Painless plotting means you can spend more time on the front end designing and less time on plotting.

AutoCAD LT Features and Benefits
Read more about the full range of new features in AutoCAD LT--as well as the benefits they provide.

AutoCAD LT Features and Benefits (pdf - 62Kb)

Compare Your Version of AutoCAD LT with AutoCAD LT 2008
Wonder what's been added to AutoCAD LT since your last upgrade? See the AutoCAD LT Release Comparison Matrix for a side-by-side comparison.

Compare Your Version of AutoCAD LT with AutoCAD LT 2008 (pdf - 38Kb)

What's New in AutoCAD LT
AutoCAD LT software makes all parts of the 2D design process more productive. From DWG native file format compatibility to dynamic blocks, to annotation scaling and table enhancements, daily tasks are simplified, helping you concentrate on the design instead of the toolset.

	Annotation Scaling AutoCAD LT 2008 introduces the concept of annotation scale as an object property. Designers can set the current scale of a viewport or model space view, and then apply that scale to each object and specify its size, placement, and appearance based on the scale set for the viewport. In other words, annotation scale is now automated.		Layers per Viewport In AutoCAD LT 2008 the layer manager has been enhanced to allow users to specify color, line weight, linetype, or plot style as an override for an individual viewport. These overrides can be easily turned on or off as viewports are added or removed.
	Enhanced Tables Enhanced tables now give users the option to combine AutoCAD LT and Windows Excel tabular information into a single AutoCAD LT table. This table can be dynamically linked so that notifications appear in both AutoCAD LT and Excel as data is updated. Users can then select these notifications, allowing instant updating of information in either source document.		Text & Table Enhancements The enhanced MTEXT editor now provides the ability to specify the number of columns required and flows new text between those columns as users make edits. The space set between each column of text and the edge of the paper is also customizable. All of these variables can be adjusted to specific values in the dialog box, or adjusted interactively using the new multicolumn text grips.
	Multiple Leaders The new multiple leader panel on the dashboard has enhanced tools that automate the creation of multiple leaders and the orientation of the leaders (tail or content first) with the notes.

Efficient Everyday Drafting
Just because you perform certain tasks day in and day out doesn't mean they have to be tedious. AutoCAD LT streamlines day-to-day tasks by improving the functionality of the tools used to perform them.

	Create and edit Dynamic Blocks to save time and help standardize drawings by eliminating the need to redraw standard components again and again, and reduce your cumbersome block libraries in the process.		Use AutoCAD Layer Express Tools for layer management to dramatically increase your day-to-day drafting productivity.
	Create tables painlessly with a one-step process rather than manually drawing each line, and save time by performing calculations directly in your tables. When values are updated automatically, errors go down.		Manipulate text efficiently by viewing, sizing, and positioning text as you type. Adjust text appearance as needed using familiar tools common in other text-editing applications, and easily create multiline paragraphs and bulleted or numbered lists of notes with professional-quality formatting.
	Simplify hatching by creating multiple hatches without repetitious use of the Hatch command, easily place a hatch at your preferred origin point, and quickly calculate both individual and cumulative hatch areas.		Customize tool palettes so you save time by placing frequently used content in one place so you can quickly drag them into your designs.
	Seamlessly interface with your design data and keep your attention focused on your work as you enter command information and get immediate feedback at the graphics cursor.		Dimension with greater ease giving your dimensions exactly the linetype you prefer without exploding and editing them. Avoid time-consuming workarounds to dimension an arc, save time by automating the creation of a jogged dimension line, and flip an individual dimension arrow from inside to outside the dimension line and back.

Simplified Data Exchange
Save time and money by electronically sharing intelligent design data, allowing teams to review, print, mark up, and round-trip changes quickly, easily, and with fewer errors.

	Publish intelligent design data with DWF technology and save time by simplifying collaboration with your design team. At 1/10th the size of other file formats, DWF is the fastest, easiest way to communicate design information while helping to ensure secure and efficient sharing at any stage of the project lifecycle.		View and Mark up designs and easily coordinate projects throughout design review by replacing the paper process with review and round-tripping functionality in free* Autodesk Design Review software. Mark up drawings with comments, sketches, dimensions, text, and stamps before sending them on their way. Workflow is streamlined, fidelity is increased, and jobs are finished--faster.
	Use DWF as an underlay to share design information with other companies on a project. It's the perfect starting point for adding more information to the design.		Read/write to past versions of AutoCAD, increasing collaboration and the exchange of data with users of older versions of AutoCAD software.
	Export files in PDF format so customers who have standardized on Adobe PDF can view and print design files.

*This product is subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of this software.

Painless Plotting
Simplified plotting helps you spend more time on design.

	Access the most frequently used plot controls all in one dialog box, and view a full preview showing how your plot will look once the drawing is plotted with an enhanced plot user interface.		Reduce time waiting for plot jobs and spend more time drafting with background plotting, which enables you to continue working in the drawing editor while AutoCAD LT software plots in the background.
	Stay on top of plot jobs by being notified when a plot job is completed.

• Comprehensive CAD tools for creating expert-quality drawings
• Straightforward drafting in a Windows XP-like environment
• Tutorials and wizards for a fast start

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Main Features

Flexible File Management:

Customizable Toolbars:

Customizable Grids:

Guidelines:

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Interior Design

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• Choose from thousands of colors and textures or create your own materials using a digital photograph
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Glass House View provides a full translucent view of your design.

Choose from over 3,200 plants with the Plant Chooser.

Decks and Landscaping

• Powerful deck and patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and can help you estimate the costs
• Design single or multi-level decks complete with automatic deck framing
• Quickly lay out your deck with stairs and arrange furniture
• Deck foundations automatically generate to match sloped lots
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• Choose from over 3,200 plants with the Plant Chooser
• Plant Hardiness Zone reference maps
• See what your plants will look like in 0-20 years
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3D Models and Virtual Tours

• Design in 2D and 3D. 3D Views are automatic with a point-and-click of the camera tool.
• Glass House View provides a full translucent view of your design
• Doll House View, a 3D overview without the roof, is an effective tool for space planning of furniture placement and traffic flow
• Create a Virtual Tour--draw your record line to Automatically Generate; or record your camera movements
• Visualize your home with day and night views
• Assemble a scale model of your design with Model Maker
• Generate shadows from the sun for realistic 3D views
• Point-and-click to remove wall surfaces, or use 3D Cross-Section Elevation Slider to quickly create a 3D slice of your desired view

Site Planning & Estimating

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• Sprinkler Designer tools to easily layout sprinkler zones
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• Hill and Valley tools make it easy to add gardens, beds and slopes that automatically appear in 3D views. Choose from landscaping style templates or create your own.
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An elaborate animation made up of multiple variations on a six-pointed star is easy to create; the Repeater feature makes it possible to offset variations on a theme. All properties of the shape can also be keyframed.

Layer Styles can transform the look of text with just a few clicks. Here, Outer Glow and a Drop Shadow add visual interest and dimension. Styles can be toggled on and off, even animated.

Just a few examples of what is possible with per-character 3D text.

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Audience benefit

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Video editors and producers--When budgets are tight and clients are on a deadline, Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional offers an intuitive, easy-to-learn interface along with powerful tools to enhance your production values. Tight integration with Adobe's other professional video applications means you can get great results quickly, and when you need to jump-start projects without sacrificing quality you can use the new Brainstorm feature or customize any of hundreds of timesaving, professionally designed presets and templates.

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New in Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional

Shape Layers
Easily create and animate vector graphics with new Shape Layers. Add and animate strokes, fills, gradients, and vector effects. You can convert text into shapes and animate them just like any other shape type.

Puppet tool
This new, fast, and intuitive animation tool lets you squash and stretch images or text to bring it to life as an animated character. Use Motion Sketch to record the position and speed of your puppet movements, the Starch tool to stiffen areas of the character, and the Overlap tool to control the depth of elements of your puppet.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended integration
Enjoy a streamlined workflow with support for importing layered Photoshop images that include video layers. Sophisticated Photoshop Layer Styles can be easily modified or animated within After Effects. Import Vanishing Point data from Photoshop into After Effects to build 3D compositions automatically.

Tight integration with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Work more efficiently to create and edit Flash animations. Preserve vectors from animations created in After Effects for lean and clean delivery, and create Flash Video more easily. Import SWF files as vectors with alpha channels preserved, and batch render Flash videos with embedded cue points.

Per-character 3D text animation
Explore new text animation possibilities by making individual characters in your text--or an entire phrase--move and rotate in 3D space.

Brainstorm
Jump-start animations with Brainstorm, a new user interface that offers variations on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to explore, and Brainstorm will propose animated variations.

Complete color management workflow
Enable color management simply by selecting a Project Working Space. Doing so helps ensure the color accuracy of imported files as they are displayed and rendered and allows you to preview how footage will look on other devices.

Adobe Clip Notes
Streamline the review and approval process. Render your work into an Adobe PDF file that enables anyone with Adobe Reader software to make timecode-accurate comments. When you import the comments into After Effects, they appear as markers on the Timeline.

Enhanced performance
Harness your computer's processing power with new multicore and graphics acceleration plus disk caching so you can spend less time waiting and more time creating. Distribute rendering across your entire network to maximize output performance.

3D compositions from Vanishing Point
Export Vanishing Point data from Photoshop Extended, and then import into After Effects to automatically build a 3D composition from the 2D Photoshop image.

A single Shape Layer containing a compound shape makes it possible to control what appear to be multiple shapes with a single set of controls.

Color management can benefit any artist who needs consistent color, whether the target medium is feature film, broadcast television, a handheld device, or all of these and more.

Clip Notes ensures that everyone really is on the same page.

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Additional Features

Innovative compositing and animation tools
Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating virtually any aspect of each element.

Text and vector graphics creation and animation
Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.

Extensive visual effects
Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, shatter, and time remapping. Create grids, radio waves, 3D particles, film grain, fractal noise, and more.

Timesaving tools
Start projects quickly with animation presets and behaviors when creating common animation elements, such as animating text in and out, creating synthetic backgrounds, and more. Use new Brainstorm to quickly experiment and refine designs using parameters you define. Learn fast with Tool Tips and training resources in the box and on the web, and streamline your review process with Clip Notes to create and import comments.

Comprehensive masking and keying tools
Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing, manipulating, and animating masks; flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results. Key bluescreen and greenscreen mattes with the Academy Award-winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools.

Powerful motion controls
Animate graphics and text using the Puppet tool. Apply motion blur to produce more realistic animations, or use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Precisely match the motion of source footage using Motion Tracker, and get the look of a locked-off shot using Motion Stabilizer.

Enhanced performance
Harness your computer's processing power with new multicore and graphics acceleration plus disk caching so you can spend less time waiting and more time creating. Distribute rendering across your entire network to maximize output performance.

Professional results for every media type
Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for virtually any media, from the web and mobile devices to film and broadcast. Plus, After Effects CS3 Professional introduces color management tools to help make the color-correction process more predictable and preserve color fidelity.

High-fidelity color
Use standard color management tools with enhancements for film and video workflows.

32-bit 2D and 3D compositing and animation
Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating virtually any aspect of each element. Freely work with high dynamic range imagery in a color-managed workflow.

Per-character 3D text animation
Explore new text animation possibilities by making individual characters in your text--or an entire phrase--move and rotate in 3D space.

Complete color management workflow
Enable color management simply by selecting a Project Working Space. Doing so helps ensure the color accuracy of imported files as they are displayed and rendered and allows you to preview how footage will look on other devices.

Project templates
Use included project templates for DVD motion menus and motion graphics backgrounds.

Nondestructive vector painting
Paint nondestructively on layers to clean up footage, draw masks, clone elements, and create animations.

32-bit audio tools
Import 32-bit audio files mixed and mastered in Adobe Soundbooth or Adobe Audition software. Fine-tune audio levels precisely using VU meters with peak and clip indicators on the Audio panel.

Color accuracy
Take advantage of an end-to-end color management workflow to ensure color accuracy throughout your production pipeline.

Powerful masking and keying tools for creating video transparency
Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing, manipulating, and animating masks. Key bluescreen and greenscreen mattes with Academy Award-winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools to rival those available in any other application. Flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results.

Video for mobile
Use new rendering options and preview in Adobe Device Central CS3 to help ensure your video will look great on an array of supported mobile devices.

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