The New Standard in CAD Productivity

Productivity. It’s a mission-critical component for any industry that creates, consumes, or manages design information. A new standard in CAD productivity began with the AutoCAD® 2004 software release, giving users measurable productivity gains of up to 70 percent.*

Now AutoCAD® 2005 builds on the dramatic power and speed of AutoCAD 2004 with new tools that eliminate tedious drafting tasks and ensure maximum efficiency throughout your process.

Coordinating Sets of Drawings

Organizations using AutoCAD software may have hundreds or even thousands of drawing files for a specific project. During the course of a project, team members can spend a significant amount of time collating sheet sets, renumbering sheets, and updating sheet index information.

With the new Sheet Set Manager, you can efficiently create, manage, and share entire sets of related drawings from a single location.

Drawing and Creating Tables
 

Tabular data such as lists, schedules, and legends is a fundamental part of many sheet sets. Manually creating or updating table data using basic AutoCAD objects such as lines and text requires many steps and is often time-consuming.

With AutoCAD 2005, you can instantly generate data tables with a single command and then easily modify table content as in standard word-processing software.

Annotating Drawings
 

Text-based information, such as page numbers and title block data, is repeated throughout an entire drawing set. Tracking changes and making updates to this text can be a tedious and error-prone process.

The new Field command simplifies the task of creating, placing, and editing text throughout your drawings and sheet sets. Updates are made automatically, saving you time, and ensuring the accuracy of your data.

Publishing Sheet Sets
 

Whether you are preparing hard-copy plots for a client meeting, distributing partner-specific sheet sets to team members, or sending Design Web Format™ files (DWF™ files) to suppliers, you need to know that the correct information is being collected, published, and shared in an efficient manner.

Plotting from the Sheet Set Manager and a simplified plot user interface enable you to easily plot a complete set of drawings to paper or publish them to DWF. And with background plotting, you don’t have to stop working while you plot or publish your drawings.

Integrated Design Review
 

Design is an iterative process. Every project goes through numerous review cycles that, in turn, require drawing modifications and subsequent approvals.  Often these communications are made with pen and paper.

Using Autodesk® DWF™ Composer with AutoCAD 2005, you can now electronically round-trip redline markups back into your AutoCAD drawings.  The adoption of a digital design workflow helps you reduce costs, errors and cycle times. Learn more about Autodesk DWF Composer.

*Measurement is a preliminary indicator based on automation testing over a controlled network. Results are approximate and are subject to error and change. Product information and specifications are subject to change without notice. Autodesk provides this information “as is,” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.

What’s New in AutoCAD 2005
 

As design evolves, so does design technology. AutoCAD® software is still the world’s leading customizable and extendable CAD software. And now AutoCAD 2005 takes productivity to the next level, not just in terms of speed and power, but also in terms of more effective ways of creating and managing the project information that is encapsulated in your final documentation. The benefits—dramatic time savings, better coordinated documentation, and lower risk.

• Manage drawing sets more efficiently with tools for controlling, from one location, the content in related drawings.

   

• Create drawings more quickly with productivity tools that build data tables using a single command, provide instant access to frequently used content, and generate compelling presentations.

   

• Share data more simply with collaboration tools that enable you to share single drawings or sets of drawings via plots, eTransmit, or DWF™ files.

Read a full list of AutoCAD 2005 features and benefits.

AutoCAD 2005 Features and Benefits (pdf - 320 Kb)

Sheet Set Manager Best Practices
 

Read the papers in the Sheet Set Manager Best Practices Series to learn more about using one of the most powerful features in AutoCAD 2005.

Fit and Finish Features
 

AutoCAD 2005 software contains more than 25 “fit and finish” features. Derived predominantly from direct customer feedback and requests, these features and usability improvements enhance many commonly used commands and processes. To learn more, download the PDF file below.

AutoCAD 2005 Fit and Finish Feature List (pdf - 151 Kb)

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