Now let’s look into the system requirements before installing the AutoCAD. Though this is an expensive application but to reach out every student who wants to minimize the gap between imagination and execution, Autodesk education community is providing all the applications by Autodesk with a 3-year license for free. Every version of AutoCAD is given a code-name and Since 1982, the company released 31 versions of AutoCAD and the latest is AutoCAD 2017, code-named as Nautilus.ĭo you know? Famous shanghai tower, Masdar HQ, Bay bridge, San Francisco (World’s largest suspension bridge) were designed on AutoCAD. Autodesk, headquartered in California, was set up in 1982 by John Walker (co-author of AutoCAD) and the first version of AutoCAD (AutoCAD 1.0) was released in the same year.īy 1986, it gained much popularity and today, it is the most popular CAD software in the world used by almost every automobile and manufacturing firms.

It is the oldest player in the field of computer aided designing. AutoCAD is an application developed by Autodesk inc for 2D and 3D drafting.

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