Section and Details View
A new model documentation tab provides easier access to tools for creating Section and Details views. Choose from common section methods including Full, half, offset, and aligned. Specify circular or rectangular boundaries for detail views. Constrain section lines and detail boundaries to key points in the drawing views to help maintain fidelity even as the model or layout change. Maintain consistency across multiple section or detail views with customizable view styles.
Strike-Thru Text
A new strikethrough style is provided for Mtext, Mleaders, Dimensions, Tables and ArcText offering increased flexibility for representing text in your documents.
Property Edit Preview
You can dynamically and instantaneously preview changes to object properties before applying them. For example, if you select objects and then use the Properties palette to change the color, the selected objects dynamically change color as you pass the cursor over each color in the list.
Modern User Interaction
The AutoCAD user interface has been enhanced to provide a more seamless interaction with the software. You’ll find a less intrusive, yet more flexible command line, additional contextual ribbon tabs, and more objects with multi-functional grips. This streamlined interaction with powerful tools, such as associative arrays and hatching help you save time and focus on your design
Autodesk Content Explorer
Quickly find your design content based on file objects or text attributes. Autodesk Content Explorer creates an index of your data based on where you instruct it to look, helping you access files faster.
Model Documentation Tools
Save time by automatically generating intelligent documentation for AutoCAD software, Autodesk Inventor software, and other models. Import a wide variety of other formats including SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, Rhino, and NX. Drawing views, edge display, and location are instantly updated when an engineering change is made.
Associative Array Functionality
Save valuable rework time by establishing and maintaining a set of relationships between arrayed objects, such as windows on a building or trusses on a bridge. Plus, you can now array objects along a specified path (rather than just rectangular or polar options), saving even more time when creating conceptual designs or finished documentation.
Blend Tool
Create spline objects with options for tangent or smooth continuity between two curves with the new Blend tool, speeding documentation time.
Copy Array
The copy tool includes a new Array option that helps you to quickly create a linear non-associative array, saving valuable time when working on designs with multiple arrays.
Delete Duplicate Objects
Clean up your drawings by removing duplicate or unneeded geometry. The Delete Duplicates tool provides increased performance— especially when running on drawings with many objects.
Command Line Enhancements
AutoCAD 2013 software offers auto-complete options to help you access commands more efficiently. As you type at the command prompt, AutoCAD automatically completes the entry with an AutoCAD command or command alias. If you pause, it displays a list of commands whose prefix matches what you’ve typed enabling you to scroll and select from the list.
Multi-function Grips
The power of multi-function grips has been extended to more AutoCAD objects including lines, arcs, elliptical arcs, dimensions, and mleaders as well as 3D faces, edges, and vertices.
Autodesk Exchange for AutoCAD
With connected access to tips and tutorials, getting started videos, downloadable plug-ins, and help content, Autodesk Exchange brings the content you need directly to your AutoCAD workspace.
Slash Design Revision Time with Parametric Drawing
Dramatically slash your design revision time with parametric drawing. By defining persistent relationships between objects, parallel lines remain parallel and concentric circles remain centered, all automatically. And now, you can infer geometric constraints in real time—as you draw—eliminating the need to manually define all of your object relationships.
Hatch & Gradient Enhancements
Save time with hatch preview, gain more control with expanded object grip functionality, and choose from more options for appearance of hatches with the addition of background color. Easily send all hatches to the back of the drawing with a single click.
Object & Layer Transparency
Display drawing geometry with more flexibility by applying transparency to layers, blocks, or objects.
Spline Updates
Spline options give you more flexibility and control. You can now more easily add and remove vertices, edit fit points or control vertices, add kinks, and even specify the degree to which a spline should fit a curve.
Save Time with Annotation Scaling
Spend less time creating and managing multiple items across multiple layers. With annotation scaling tools, you can create a single annotative-type object that automatically resizes to reflect the current viewport or model-space scale.
Organize Sheet Sets
Organization isn’t a luxury. The AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager organizes your drawing sheets, reduces steps to publish, automatically creates layout views, links sheet set information into title blocks and plot stamps, and performs tasks across a sheet set so everything is in one convenient place.
Create & Edit Multiple Leaders
With multileader tools, creating and editing leaders is easier. Define multileader styles to maintain consistency across leaders, add multiple leader lines to a single leader object, and even include bubbles or blocks as leader content. Now you can control the gap around Mleader text in a text frame,and extend the leader line to the text rather than ending at the text bounding box.