Autodesk is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. Click on the product names to learn more about our software that empowers customers to digitally design, visualize, and simulate their ideas.
Explore—Explore design ideas in both 2D and 3D with intuitive CAD tools that help your concepts become real.
Document—Drive your projects from concept to completion with powerful documentation tools. Work faster with automation, management, and editing tools that minimize repetitive tasks and speed your time to completion.
Communicate—Share critical design data securely, efficiently, and accurately. Experience the benefits of native DWG™ support, one of the world’s most widely used design data formats, allowing you to keep everyone in the loop at all times.
Customize—Customizing AutoCAD is easier than you ever thought possible.
Geographic coordinate systems—Use real-world coordinate systems to more accurately georeference design data.
Direct data access—Directly access spatial data from a variety of data sources, including ESRI® SHP files, Oracle®, and ESRI® ArcSDE® managed databases.
Data exchange—Read, write, and convert data in a variety of CAD and GIS formats.
CAD editing on geospatial data—Edit spatial data with standard AutoCAD commands.
Point clouds—Import and visualize large sets of 3D laser scanning/LIDAR data sets.
Analysis tools—Make decisions about your data by creating thematic maps and performing buffer, tracing, and overlay analysis.
AutoCAD® Mechanical software, the AutoCAD® software for mechanical design and manufacturing:
Mechanical design and drafting productivity tools—Contains a specific tool for almost every aspect of the mechanical engineering and design process.
Standards-based drafting and part libraries—Supports international mechanical CAD drafting standards and includes libraries of more than 700,000 standard parts.
Machinery generators and calculators—Enables you to instantly create and analyze a wide variety of common components.
Documentation and reporting tools—Helps you to easily document, annotate, and report mechanical engineering and design data
Collaboration and data management—Enables workgroups to share accurate 2D CAD design information reliably and securely.
Autodesk® 3ds Max® products for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing—Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design:
Extensive 3D modeling toolset—More than 100 advanced polygonal modeling and freeform 3D design tools.
Shading and texturing—Wide range of texture painting, mapping, and layering options.
Animation—Sophisticated toolset for creating characters and high-quality 3D animations.
Dynamics, effects, and simulation—Production-proven, high-performance toolsets for creating dynamics and effects.
Powerful 3D rendering capabilities
Pipeline integration—Import data from many sources and transfer 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design data across file iterations, software applications, users, and locations.
Collaborative workflows—Collect and share data in complex scenes, enabling multiple users to collaboratively contribute to the workflow.
Concept exploration/integrated sketching—Tools for sketching, illustration, and image editing.
Design modeling—Rapidly iterate, refine, and evaluate product design concepts.
Productivity tools—Rely on a user-friendly, customizable interface tailored for the needs of industrial designers.
Precision surface modeling—Create high-quality surface models, including Class-A surfaces.
Reverse engineering—Incorporate changes made to physical models back to digital prototypes.
Visualization and communication—Evaluate product design options and communicate design intent.
Data integration—Exchange digital design data with industrial design engineering software such as Autodesk® Inventor® 3D mechanical CAD software and other third-party CAD applications.
Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation, modeling, visual effects, rendering, and compositing software for film, games, and television:
Updated user interface—Enjoy a consistent, enhanced user experience on all platforms.
New skinning tools and workflows—Create better skinned characters with more realistic deformations in less time.
New non-destructive retargeting workflow—Reuse, correct, and enhance motion-capture and other animation data faster and more easily with a new non-destructive retargeting workflowthat uses the Autodesk® HumanIK® middleware libraries.
New 3D editorial capabilities—Accelerate pre-visualization and virtual movie-making production.
Enhancements to assets and file referencing—More easily segment, reuse, and exchange data with or without file referencing.