Upgrade to AutoCAD 2013

AutoCad 2013

Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to AutoCAD 2013

Design More Flexibly—New functionality helps you quickly realize your design ideas. With tools for surface, solid, and mesh modeling, AutoCAD 2013 software now provides the utmost flexibility and control. Powerful Point Cloud tools allow you to import scanned objects with up to 2 billion data points, helping you start your projects with existing environmental data.

Document Faster—Hundreds of enhancements help speed your documentation workflow, including Section and Details View for imported models, Property Edit Preview, and Viewport Change Preview. The updated interface includes a more flexible command line and more multifunction grips. You also can automatically infer constraints in real time as you draw, virtually eliminating the need to define all of your object relationships manually.

Connect More Intuitively—Your entire design workflow is now connected. Quickly import and aggregate models from a variety of applications. Collaborate more easily via cloud-based technologies. Use mobile devices to access and edit designs. And with built-in connections to Facebook and Twitter, you can easily share designs with your social world.

Communicate with Impact—Create striking representations of your 3D models with integrated rendering tools. AutoCAD 2013 also supports 3D printing capabilities, helping you quickly create physical 3D prototypes of your designs.

Customize More Easily—Autodesk offers AutoCAD Apps on Autodesk Exchange that help meet your needs. You can now also share and access your AutoCAD customization preferences, which move with you automatically from one machine to the next. Easily migrate your custom settings or reset AutoCAD software to the default install settings. Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, flexible features found in AutoCAD 2013 software, one of the world’s leading design applications.

System Requirements for AutoCAD 2013

AutoCAD 2013

System Requirements for AutoCAD 2013 32-Bit:

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions) or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later).
• For Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology.
• For Windows XP: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology 2 GB.
• RAM (4 GB recommended) 6 GB free disk space for installation 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color (1,600 x 1,050 with true color recommended).
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later web browser.
• Install from download or DVD

System Requirements for AutoCAD 2013 62-Bit:

• Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions) or Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later).
• AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology 2 GB.
• RAM (4 GB recommended) 6 GB free space for installation 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color (1,600 x 1,050 with true color recommended).
• Internet Explorer 7.0 or later.
• Install from download or DVD

System Requirements for AutoCAD 2013 for Mac:

• Apple® Mac OS® X v10.6.8, OS X v10.7.2 or later, OS X v10.8 or later with 64-bit Intel processor.
• Apple® Mac® Pro 4.1 or later; MacBook® Pro 5.1 or later (MacBook Pro 6.1 or later recommended); iMac® 8.1 or later (iMac 11.1 or later recommended); Mac® mini 3.1 or later (Mac mini 4.1 or later recommended); MacBook Air® 2.1 or later; MacBook® 5.1 or later (MacBook 7.1 or later recommended).
• 3 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended) 2.5 GB free disk space for download and installation (3 GB recommended).
• All graphics cards on supported hardware 1,280 x 800 display with true color (1,600 x 1,200 with true color recommended).
• All Mac OS X supported language operating systems Apple® Mouse, Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, MacBook® Pro trackpad, or Microsoft-compliant mouse. Mac OS X-compliant printer

System Requirements for 3D Modeling

• Pentium 4 or Athlon processor, 3 GHz or greater or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2 GHz or greater.
• 4 GB RAM or more.
• 6 GB hard disk space available in addition to free space required for installation.
• 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Microsoft® Direct3D®-capable workstation-class graphics card

AutoCAD 2013

AutoCAD 2013 software connects and streamlines your design and documentation workflows. New tools to connect with Autodesk® 360 cloud-enabled services help you access and collaborate on designs from almost anywhere. And with a ingle destination to find and install hundreds of different apps, it’s easier than ever to customize your AutoCAD experience.



AutoCAD 2013 software gives you the flexibility you need to explore design ideas in both 2D and 3D. A powerful set of intuitive tools helps you visualize and shape your ideas, bringing innovative concepts to life.

• 3D Free-Form Design—Use robust surface, mesh, and solid modeling tools in AutoCAD 2013 software to investigate and refine your ideas.
• Point Cloud Support—Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects.
• Context-Sensitive PressPull—Extrude and offset curves, creating surfaces and solids, and select multiple objects within a single PressPull operation.
• Surface Curve Extraction—Extract isoline curves through a specified point on a surface or face of a solid to determine the contour lines of any shape.
• Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion—An easy-touse tool for direct modeling within a DWG™ environment, helping you flexibly edit and validate models from almost any source.

AutoCAD 2013 software offers a broad toolset that helps you drive efficiencies throughout the drafting and documentation process, regardless of your particular industry. Some of the new tools for AutoCAD 2013 include:

• Section and Detail Views—A new Layout tab provides easier access to tools for creating Section and Detail views of imported models. 
• Updated User Interaction—The interface now includes a less intrusive, yet more flexible command line, additional contextual ribbon tabs, and more multifunction grips.
• Property Edit Preview—You can dynamically and instantaneously preview changes to object properties before applying them.
• Strike-Through Text—A new strikethrough style is provided, offering increased flexibility for representing text in your documents.

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