Where does a great idea go once it hits you?

Where does a great idea go once it hits you?
From conceptual design through drafting and
detailing, AutoCAD® 2007 software helps you
create and explore ideas like never before—
whether you’re working on manufacturing,
building, or civil projects. Now with a single
tool you can design, visualize, document, and
share your ideas. That tool is AutoCAD 2007,
and there’s never been an AutoCAD release
like it.

Give It Shape
An idea is only an idea until you do something
with it, and with AutoCAD 2007, you can take
your ideas to new heights, crafting and creating
until what you’ve imagined is what you see.
Combining your familiar AutoCAD with an
updated conceptual design environment,
AutoCAD 2007 helps you quickly create, edit,
and navigate solids and surfaces. Visualize your
model while you draw with dynamic input,
easily create solids by taking advantage of
familiar 2D design tools, and quickly extrude
2D geometry to produce solids. Whether you’re
creating and editing complex solids or surfaces,
AutoCAD 2007 enables you to design your idea
to match your vision.

Give It Impact
Once you’ve shaped your idea, it’s time to make
it real. AutoCAD 2007 allows you to manipulate
lighting eff ects by quickly and accurately
placing lights in a drawing to see their eff ect on
shadows in real time without having to render
the image fi rst. Drag materials from a predefi
ned library onto any solid face or surface,
which then scale automatically, or edit the
materials to create your own customized library.
You can also create intuitive walk-throughs with
the Walk and Path animation tools, enabling
you to easily explore and fi ne-tune design
alternatives. And by incorporating the mental
ray® rendering engine, the very latest in rendering
technology, AutoCAD 2007 enables you to
communicate your vision clearly and eff ectively
to clients and customers without having to get
technical.

Give It Precision
Use the new Section and Flatten tools to
quickly extract drawing information from your
conceptual model. Create an elevation or plan
view that’s ready to be dimensioned and annotated
as part of the drawing creation process
with the Section tool, or automatically project
your model down to a 2D illustration with the
Flatten tool. You can also access multiple variations
on a single block and dramatically reduce
cumbersome block libraries with Dynamic
Blocks, all while pumping up productivity by
accessing dimensions and command options
right at the cursor with Dynamic Input. When it
comes to documentation delivery, nobody does
it better than AutoCAD 2007.

Give It Life
And what good is a great idea if you can’t share
it? No matter what your business, the new technology
enhancements in AutoCAD 2007 can
help you be more productive by making it easy
to exchange data seamlessly with Autodesk’s
industry-specifi c applications, such as Autodesk®
Revit® Building, Autodesk Inventor®, Autodesk
Map® 3D, and Autodesk® Civil 3D® software
products. AutoCAD 2007 is the perfect way
to get your feet wet before moving on to more
advanced Autodesk 3D modeling applications.
And if you’re looking to share data with the
extended design team, use DWFTM technology—
the perfect way to securely exchange rich 2D
and 3D design information.
So come explore your ideas with the newest
release of AutoCAD. Because in the end, a great
idea is only as good as how you realize it. And
with AutoCAD 2007, you’ve never had a better
partner.