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AutoCAD is used primarily for drafting and design purposes, but other applications are also available. It is used by some engineers and architects for site planning, structural engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. AutoCAD's design tool is primarily based on standard drawing conventions, but it also allows many additional tools, such as features for viewing, editing, annotating, and arranging drawings. The software's usage is supported by a library of thousands of third-party application programming interfaces (API), or applications programming interface, which are available to provide additional drawing functionality.
The AutoCAD license includes the use of four concurrent sessions with AutoCAD.
More than 250 million AutoCAD documents have been created over the years.[1]
History [ edit ]
AutoCAD's early history dates back to the 1980s, when development of the product was led by two co-founders, Eduard Mirny and Boris Maisuradze. They were assigned the task of developing a fully feature-equivalent vector graphics and drafting tool on computers with internal display chips. When designing the initial CAD platform, they relied on experience from their previous development work, and the project's original aim was to build a 3D CAD system with the functionality of a pen-based drawing system, as it was then more widely used in the industry.
Development started in late 1980 and a beta version was first released in early 1983, while the official version was released on December 1, 1982, to some 600 beta users. Development was completed by the end of 1984, and the price of the first AutoCAD license, which was bundled with a math coprocessor, was about $25,000.
The original name of the product was "AutoCAD," which stands for "Automatic Computer Aided Design." The original desktop design was created by Stanley Prusiner (in the former Soviet Union). The product's name changed to "AutoCAD R14" in 1991, then to "AutoCAD LT" in 1994.
In 1998, Autodesk acquired the development assets and intellectual property for AutoCAD from its previous owner, Transitive, Inc., which was founded by John T. Rosenberg. (see Transitive Inc.) In 2000, Autodesk was acquired by private equity firm, Bain Capital, and is now owned by private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, LLC. The name of the
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2D vector graphics (2D) (i.e. lines, text and shapes) can be placed, connected, closed, converted to AutoLISP, and manipulated using the standard keyboard commands and mouse.
AutoCAD Free Download also supports 3D shapes, including rectangles, cubes, cylinders, hemispheres, and polygons. These shapes are defined by collections of points and face orientation. The 3D shapes are manipulated by standard keyboard commands for movement and rotation, and by standard mouse commands for selection and manipulation of individual vertices.
History 
AutoCAD was originally developed and released in 1985 by Arthur Brunius, John Branson, Steve Looker, and Doug Ritter. Autodesk continued to support the original product by enhancing it, modifying it for use with AutoCAD 2000, and developing many add-ons.  Subsequent versions of AutoCAD from version 12 on have been compatible with previous version-specific add-ons.
The original development team included many other programmers, with Chris Todd as the lead programmer. Many of the original programmers now work at Autodesk.
Version history 
AutoCAD 1.0: First official release.
AutoCAD 1.1: Update to fix bug where perspective command had broken and new feature of Rotation-Translation.
AutoCAD 1.2: Fix bug where the graphic display was chopped off at the edge of the screen in landscape mode.
AutoCAD 1.2 SP1: New feature of Annotating, Offset, Zorder commands.
AutoCAD 1.3: Update to include new features like a hyperlink control.
AutoCAD 1.4: The first version to support Windows NT.
AutoCAD 1.5: Supports more 3D commands (Create/Convert 3D), a new Rotate command, and incremental redraw for raster images.
AutoCAD 1.5 SP1: New feature of Physical Dimensions.
AutoCAD 1.6: Update to provide better compatibility with CGM2.
AutoCAD 1.6 SP1: More improved UI and faster rendering of 3D geometry
AutoCAD 2.0: Upgrade to Mac OS 9 and Windows 95
AutoCAD 2.0 SP1: New feature of Extrusion.
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