Ethought Online SuperMarket - Autodesk AutoSketch 9

List Price: $149.99
Our Price: $169.99
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Manufacturer: Autodesk PSG

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Autodesk
EAN: 0606121560739
Feature: Comprehensive CAD tools for creating expert-quality drawings
Format: CD-ROM
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Label: Autodesk PSG
Manufacturer: Autodesk PSG
Model: 00309-051408-9000
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Autodesk PSG
Release Date: 2004-08-03
Studio: Autodesk PSG

Features
Comprehensive CAD tools for creating expert-quality drawings Electrical details, floor plans, conceptual sketches, and more Straightforward drafting in a Windows XP-like environment DWG format compatibility for creating and viewing AutoCAD files Tutorials and wizards for a fast start

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Editorial Reviews:

AutoSketch 9 software provides a comprehensive set of CAD tools for creating precision drawings from electrical details to floor plans, from conceptual sketches to product specifications, and much more.

Main Features

Manufacturer: Autodesk, Inc

Manufacturer Part Number: 00309-051408-9000

Manufacturer Website Address: www.autodesk.com

Software Sub Type: CAD

Software Name: AutoSketch v.9.0

Features & Benefits:

Application Wizard:

The Application wizard provides a variety of drawing types to help you get started quickly. Whether you are drawing a building, an office layout, or a mechanical part, the Application wizard configures the drawing environment by setting drawing scale, units, and toolbars. In some cases it even starts the drawing.

Getting Started Guide:

Create professional drawings in no time. More than a dozen two-minute tutorials show you everything from starting a new drawing to moving and rotating entities and adding dimensions.

Flexible File Management:

Open as many drawings as you want at one time, with multiple windows open for each drawing document. Combined with a variety of ways to open files and AutoSave, this capability helps you easily find the files you want and know that your work is safe.

Customizable Toolbars:

Customize your workspace by turning on additional toolbars and creating your own toolbars. Add any command to custom toolbars. Toolbars can be docked or floated. When floating in the drawing area, toolbars can also be resized.

Customizable Grids:

Use customizable rectangular, circular, and isometric grids to easily configure the drawing space to the drawing task. Create isometric views with special drawing tools optimized for the isometric drawing grid.

Guidelines:

Create geometry by snapping to

Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: help
Comment: I discovered my 14yr old son making amazing house plans on our Paint program. He has also designed T-shirts for a BMX bike company.

Which would be an appropriate software program to further his design/architectural interests and talents and not too "over his head" that it would cause frustration and intimadation. Keep in mind he is 14yrs old with no drafting experience.

Thank you,
Mom

Customer Rating:

Summary: Long time with Autosketch
Comment: I have used Autosketch since version 1.0 DOS (some collector?), and have never find something better for that price. Unfortunately it's not allowed to be exported to Mexico (Why Amazon?). My last version is 8.0, and I hope to find V 9.0 on my next visit to US.
I highly recomend it

Customer Rating:

Summary: Great for precision line drawings with solid and hatch fill
Comment: Re: Mr. Thompson's comment
I made a macro to do the transform operation he is referring to. I select the object(s), press the transform macro I created, then hit the first point and second point. Viola! This program is so easy to use. I figured it out in like 2 hours... Of course there were a lot of things I learned as I went along and if you use it every day you get real fast. It is easy to make precision drawings. Adding dimensions is simple. There are a few things that you figure out as you go along that make your life easier. selecting a color and hatch fill are so easy (2 clicks - click fill solid or hatch and the select color) no problem with the border line whatsoever. I figured that I knew this program so well I could figure out Auto CAD easy enough.... not so... AutoCAD is definitely more complicated. It makes line drawings very well. It has simple 3D effects (basically orthogonal, parallel and perspective extrusions) but not any kind of 3D modeling. A great program. If that's all you need don't waste you money on something more like AutoCAD.

Customer Rating:

Summary: VISTA
Comment: i have Vista on my computer and im having trouble installing it.....i havnt had a chance to get online to see if theres a patch or fix for my problem

Customer Rating:

Summary: Clumsy and difficult to learn
Comment: I bought this product to do 2D mechanical drawings. I work at a research center that has a small machine shop and in which I do quite a bit of work. I've used AutoCAD in the past and thought that this would make AutoSketch easy to learn.

I was wrong. I found it to be clumsy and slow and difficult to learn. Ultimately, I purchased AutoCAD LT and I still haven't found anyone at the center who wants AutoSketch for free.

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