The latest update to AutoCAD software focuses on improving designers' ability to quickly and easily document their designs, with a level of control that helps ensure that their drawings look as professional as they require. Key enhancements include more than 35 features in response to customer visits, Autodesk User Group International (AUGI®) top-10 feature wish lists, and feedback forms.

While AutoCAD software offers 2D and 3D design tools, network licensing and deployments, and more, AutoCAD LT® software is wholly focused on 2D drafting productivity for individual users. AutoCAD LT 2008 features the improvements to drafting tasks that are found in AutoCAD 2008.

Purpose-built for building information modeling, Revit® Architecture software mirrors the real world of buildings, so architects and designers work holistically, rather than with isolated elements such as floor plans, sections, and elevations. New features include improved management of linked model information and improved DWF file specification support, a Google Earth™ Plug-In, and better interoperability with Autodesk® 3ds Max® animation software.

This product redefines structural engineering by making it easier for structural engineers, designers, and drafters to design and visualize their structures. Building on the Revit platform's parametric change management technology, the latest release lets structural engineers create building information model and related construction documentation more easily .

This new edition delivers BIM for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering market with improved features to support building performance analysis and better decision making. Important features include fully parametric change management, automated exchange of engineering design information, and integrated building performance analysis .

The best AutoCAD-based design and documentation productivity for architects makes it easier for users familiar with AutoCAD to automate tedious drafting tasks so design documentation can be completed more easily and more quickly.

AutoCAD-based software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, designers, and drafters brings efficiency to AutoCAD-based workflows. The result is greater productivity and accuracy, which also helps minimize coordination errors between architecture and engineering teams.

Autodesk® Inventor™ software is the best choice for designers who want to redefine their product development process and power their workflow with digital prototyping.

This 2D mechanical design and drafting application features standards-based libraries of parts and content, automation tools, and associative detailing of Autodesk Inventor models

Civil 3D® software enables civil engineers redefine design by using proven technology to help eliminate much of the tedious step-by-step development of plans. At the same time, this software helps speed execution of design changes and facilitates evaluation of multiple design scenarios. An enhanced multiuser environment permits work on more complex projects and interoperability for multiple data formats.

A leading engineering GIS platform for creating and managing spatial data, AutoCAD® Map 3D 2008 software includes new FDO features to improve users' ability to access and share data more effectively, regardless of its location or file type. Key enhancements include faster FDO data access, more powerful analysis and visualization for GIS and CAD data, and enhanced interoperability with other AutoCAD-based applications for publication of fully stylized maps.

Easily added to AutoCAD-based products, Raster Design 2008 helps improve the overall productivity of design teams by helping to streamline access to scanned paper drawings, maps, aerial photos, digital elevation models, satellite imagery, and similar digital design data. Using advanced vectorization, raster editing, and analysis tools, designers can make the most of their image archives, improve decision making, and enhance project presentations.

Accelerate design reviews with Autodesk® Design Review, the all-digital way to review, mark up, and track changes to 2D and 3D designs. View popular design files, including DWG, DWF™, and DXF™ files, with accuracy and fidelity, and then measure and annotate the DWF file before round-tripping the markups for revisions. Cycle times, errors, and costs will shrink. Efficiency, however, will soar .

To help organizations improve efficiency and make choices based on comprehensive insight, Autodesk® Topobase™ software builds on AutoCAD Map 3D, Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise, and Oracle® Spatial technology to integrate CAD, asset, GIS, and customer information into a centralized relational database that provides a complete view of infrastructure assets.

Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (Application Program Interface), or one of two integrated scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas.

Bring 3D film effects to the big screen. Generate realistic characters for a top-selling game. Create rich and complex design visualization. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9 3D animation, rendering and modeling software lets game developers, design visualization professionals, and visual effects artists maximize their productivity and tackle challenging animation projects.

Comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution that supports the way architects, designers, engineers, and design visualization specialists approach their projects—from initial concept models to final, cinema-quality presentations.

Take on the most demanding, high-volume animation projects with confidence. Create state-of-the-art animations in record time. Autodesk® Motion Builder software offers a collection of real-time character-centric tools for tasks ranging from traditional key-framing to intensive motion capture editing. The Motion Builder native Autodesk FBX® file format allows you to easily transfer assets to and from Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® Maya® software products, and any other content creation package that supports FBX-making it a complementary package that can enhance any new or existing production pipeline.

mental ray® Standalone software is a high-performance rendering engine for generating photorealistic images. Although mental ray rendering technology is featured in Autodesk® applications such as Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® VIZ, and Autodesk® ImageStudio software, the standalone version is best suited when you have large volumes of data to process. It works independently of your 3D software of choice through a command-line interface. It can also act as the foundation of your distributed rendering solution when used with your Autodesk software.

Bring your imagination to life and get your work done faster with the easy-to-use Combustion® interface, its efficient workflow, and extensive toolset. Autodesk® Combustion® 4 software is an all-in-one professional compositing application designed to meet the needs of the world's most demanding artists .

Master your digital media with Autodesk® Cleaner® 6.5 software for the Apple® Macintosh® platform, the essential video encoder. With over 60 supported media formats, Autodesk Cleaner, specifically designed for the Apple® Macintosh® platform, can now encode to more outputs than ever before, giving you the flexibility you need to deliver results in the formats you need.

Alias SketchBook Pro is a nimble, high-quality paint and drawing application designed specifically for use with a stylus. The product features an artist-friendly, gesture-based user interface built around Alias' patented Marking MenuM technology. With a flick of the stylus you can access any of the software's best-of -class tools: fast, reactive pencils, markers and brushes; pen-driven layers; background templates; a 50-brushstroke “undo/redo” option; and a unique pan/zoom tool.