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User interaction

Multifunctional grips ✓

Associative arrays ✓

Hide and isolate objects ✓

Clickable command line

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options

Property edit preview ✓

Viewport change preview ✓

Intelligent command line ✓

File tabs ✓
Start ✓
Help Find tool ✓
Dark theme ✓
Ribbon gallery ✓
 Improved graphics ✓

Lasso selection ✓

Command preview ✓

Resizable modelspace
✓
viewports

Move/copy performance boost ✓

DESIGN

Solid, surface, and mesh

✓
modeling

Autodesk materials library ✓

In-canvas viewport controls ✓

Surface curve extraction ✓

Context-sensitive press-pull ✓
Import sketchup files (SKP) ✓

ReCap point cloud tool ✓

Point cloud manager,

✓
cropping, and object snaps

3D Orbit Target ✓

Center of polygon object snap ✓

High-fidelity lines and curves ✓

Coordination model ✓

Point cloud dynamic UCS ✓

Point cloud geometry

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extraction

DOCUMENTATION

Parametric constraints ✓
Object and layer transparency ✓

Base and projected views ✓

Section and detail views ✓

Strike-through text ✓

Autobullets and numbering ✓

Mtext match properties ✓

Mtext superscript and

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subscript tools

Caps lock detection ✓

Text Align ✓

Smart dimensioning ✓
Revision cloud enhancements ✓

PDF enhancements ✓

Optimized PDF output ✓

Searchable text in exported

✓
PDFs

Hyperlink support in exported

✓
PDFs

Sheet set links in exported

✓
multisheet PDFs

Simplified, powerful rendering ✓

Override xref layer properties ✓

CONNECTIVITY
 A360 connectivity ✓

Design feed with A360

✓
drawing storage

Design feed with local drawing

✓
storage

Autodesk translation
✓
framework

Geolocation coordinate system

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and online maps

DGN 8
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import/export/underlay

PDF publish/underlay ✓

IGES, CATIA, Rhino,

✓
pro/engineer, and step import

Inventor file import ✓

 CUSTOMIZATION

Action recorder ✓

Online license transfer ✓

Multiple plot file search paths ✓

Customization and support file

✓
sync

Exchange App manager ✓

Featured apps ribbon tab ✓

Secure load ✓
BIM 360 add-in ✓

Autodesk Application
✓
Manager

Performance reporting ✓
 LISP/ARX scripting ✓

Customizable user interface

✓
(CUI)

Selection effect customization ✓

Sysvar monitor ✓
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 Official Name Version

AutoCAD Version 1.0 1

AutoCAD Version 1.2 1.2

AutoCAD Version 1.3 1.3

AutoCAD Version 1.4 1.4

AutoCAD Version 2.0 2

AutoCAD Version 2.1 2.1

AutoCAD Version 2.5 2.5

AutoCAD Version 2.6 2.6

AutoCAD Release 9 9

AutoCAD Release 10 10

AutoCAD Release 11 11

AutoCAD Release 12 12

AutoCAD Release 13 13

AutoCAD Release 14 14
AutoCAD 2000 15

AutoCAD 2000i 15.1

AutoCAD 2002 15.2

AutoCAD 2004 16

AutoCAD 2005 16.1

AutoCAD 2006 16.2

AutoCAD 2007 17

AutoCAD 2008 17.1

AutoCAD 2009 17.2

AutoCAD 2010 18
AutoCAD 2011 18.1

AutoCAD 2012 18.2

AutoCAD 2013 19

AutoCAD 2014 19.1

AutoCAD 2015 20

AutoCAD 2016 20.1

Release Date of release Comments

1 1982, December DWG R1.0 file format introduced.

2 1983, April DWG R1.2 file format introduced.

3 1983, August DWG R1.3 file format introduced.

4 1983, October DWG R1.4 file format introduced.

5 1984, October DWG R2.05 file format introduced.

6 1985, May DWG R2.1 file format introduced.

7 1986, June DWG R2.5 file format introduced.

 DWG R2.6 file format introduced. Last
8 1987, April version to run without a math co-
processor.

9 1987, September DWG R9 file format introduced.

10 1988, October DWG R10 file format introduced.

11 1990, October DWG R11 file format introduced.

12 1992, June DWG R11/R12 file format introduced. Last release for Apple Macin

DWG R13 file format introduced. Last

13 1994, November release for Unix, MS-DOS and
Windows 3.11.

14 1997, February DWG R14 file format introduced.

15 1999, March DWG 2000 file format introduced.

16 2000, July

17 2001, June

18 2003, March DWG 2004 file format introduced.

19 2004, March

20 2005, March Dynamic Block introduced.

21 2006, March DWG 2007 file format introduced.

22 2007, March Annotative Objects introduced. AutoCAD 2008 and higher (includin

Revisions to the user interface

23 2008, March including the option of a Microsoft
Office 2007-like tabbed ribbon.
DWG 2010 file format introduced.
Parametrics introduced. Mesh 3D solid
modeling introduced. PDF underlays.
24 2009, March 24 Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT
2010 are compatible with and
supported under Microsoft Windows 7.
25 2010, March 25 Surface Modeling, Surface Analysis and Object Transparency introd

Associative Array, Model

Documentation. Support for complex
26 2011, March 22
line types in DGN files is improved in
AutoCAD 2012. DGN editing.

27 2012, March 27 DWG 2013 file format introduced.

File Tabs, Design Feed, Reality

28 2013, March 26
Capture, Autodesk Live Maps

Line smoothing (anti-aliasing),

Windows 8.1 support added, dropped
29 2014, March 27
Windows XP support (incl.
compatibility mode) canvas, richer
More comprehensive
design context, and intelligent new
30 2015, March 23 tools such as Smart Dimensioning,
Coordination Model, and Enhanced
PDFs.