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Licensing
- Multi-platform Licenses
- Perpetual
- Perpetual + Maintenance
- Subscription
- Network Multi-user
- Volume (Perpetual)
- Academic
Drawings
- Native DWG file format (through AutoCAD 2022)
- Password Protection
- eTransmit
- Sheet Set Manager
- Geographic Location
- Drawing Compare
- Cloud Collaboration
Interface
- Dark and Light Color Themes
- Industry standard commands, aliases, and variables
- Command Line (Autocomplete, Midstring, Clickable options)
- Start tab
- File (Drawing) tabs
- Model and Layout tabs
- Menu bar
- Toolbars
- Ribbon
- Tool Palettes
- Contextual Right-click Menus
- Contextual Quad Menu
- Status Bar
- Workspaces
- Searchable Settings (Variables) Dialog Box
- Lockable Interface
- Clean Screen Mode
- Drawing Explorer
- Customizable User Interface (CUI)
- Structure Browser
Selection, Snap & Track
- Selection Filtering (QSELECT)
- Add Selected
- Select Similar
- Selection Cycling
- Entity Snaps (Osnaps)
- Polar Tracking
- Zintersection 3D snap
- Nearest Distance
- Adaptive Gridsnap
- Real-time boundary detection
- 2D Dynamic UCS
- 3D Dynamic UCS
Drawing Tools
- Line, Polyline, 3D Polyline, Spline, Ray, Xline
- Multiline and Multiline Styles
- Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Eliptical Arc
- Polygon, Rectangle, Region, Donut, Point
- Helix
- 2D Parameters, Constraints
Annotation Tools
- Text, Multi-line Text, Text Styles, Text Editor
- Dimensions, Dimension Styles
- Multi-leaders, Mult-leader Styles
- Single and Multi-line text, Text Styles, Text Editor
- Hatches, Gradients, Hatch/Gradient Editor
- Wipeouts
- Revision Clouds
- Attributes, Attribute Editor
- Tables, Table Styles
- Fields
- Date Extraction
- Data Linking
- Annotation Scaling
- Spell Check
Editing Tools
- Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align
- Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join
- Fillet, Chamfer
- CopyGuided
- Grip Edit
- Properties Panel
- Manipulator (3D Gizmo)
- Draworder
Reference Tools
- Blocks, Block Editor
- Dynamic Blocks
- Camera-facing Blocks
- Blockify
- Associative Arrays
- Dwg (Xref) Attach, Clip, Bind, Edit
- PDF Attach, Clip
- Image Attach, Clip, Adjust, Transparency
- Point Cloud Preprocess, Attach, Crop, Colormap
Visualization Tools
- Layers, Layer States
- Transparency
- Visual Styles
- LookFrom (ViewCube™)
- Match Perspective
- Lights
- Sun Properties
- Materials
- Render
- Animation Editor
- Walkthrough navigation
- ANIPATH command
Modeling tools
- ACIS Modeling
- Solid and Surface Modeling
- Solid Primitives
- Mesh Primitives
- Polysolid
- Union, Subtract, Intersect, Interfere
- Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, Thicken
- Twist
- Fillet, Chamfer
- Slice
- Multi-slice
- T Connect, L Connect, Connect with Nearest
- Extract Edges
- Direct modeling
- Deformable (Freeform) Modeling
- Audit, Simplify, Stitch
- 3D Parameters, Constraints
- 3D Autoparametrize
- 3D Parametric Design Tables
- Section planes
- Drawing Views
Civil Tools
- TIN Surface Modeling
- TIN Volume Surface
- Grading
- Alignments
- Civil 3D Object Enabler
- Architectural Desktop Object Enabler
- CADWorx Object Enabler
Import, Export, Output
- Print/Plot
- Publish/Batch Plot
- CTB & STB Table Files
- PC3 Printer Configuration Files
- Named Page Setups
- PDF Import, Export
- DAE Import, Export
- IFC Import, Export
- 3DM Import, Export
- LandXML Import, Export
- RFA Import
- SKP Import
- DGN Import
- DWF Export
- SVG Export
- FBX Export
- STL Export
- Additional formats available with BricsCAD Communicator
Programming
- ActiveX
- Entity data editor
- Script Recorder
- Full LISP Support (vl, vlr, vla and vlax)
- Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS)
- DCL engine
- COM API
- Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- VBA DVB projects support
- .NET
- BRX (ARX)
- TX (Teigha eXtensions)
- CUI menu files support, with Diesel expressions
Architectural Tools
- BIM features
- Structural Modeling Toolset
- Project Database
- Library Database
- Site, Building and Stories
- Windows and Doors
- Fully Parametric Window Creation
- Rooms (Spaces)
- 3D Rooms
- Quickdraw
- Propagate
Mechanical Tools
- Mechanical Browser
- Parts Library
- Assembly Modeling
- Exploded Views
- Kinematic Analysis
- Bill of Materials
- Sheet Metal
- SMEXTRUDE Command
- SMRIBCREATE Command
- 3D Solids Conversion to Unfoldable Sheet Metal Parts
- Corner Relief for Adjacent Edge Flanges
- Lofted Bends
- Coloring
- Diagnostic for Invalid Sheet Metal Features
- Batch Processing
