2019 / March 22, 2018; 4 months ago ( 2018-03-22),,, Available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Polish and Hungarian Website AutoCAD is a and software application. Developed and marketed by, AutoCAD was first released in December 1982 as a desktop app running on with internal. Before AutoCAD was introduced, most commercial CAD programs ran on or, with each CAD operator (user) working at a separate. Since 2010, AutoCAD was released as a and as well, marketed as AutoCAD 360. AutoCAD is used across a wide range of industries, by architects, project managers, engineers, graphic designers, town planners and many other professionals. It was supported by 750 training centers worldwide in 1994.
Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] AutoCAD was derived from a program begun in 1977 and released in 1979 called, also referred to in early Autodesk documents as MicroCAD, which was written prior to Autodesk's (then Marinchip Software Partners) formation by Autodesk cofounder. The first version by Autodesk was demonstrated at the 1982 and released that December.
As Autodesk's flagship product, by March 1986 AutoCAD had become the most ubiquitous CAD program worldwide. The 2019 release marked the 33rd major release of AutoCAD for. The 2014 release marked the fourth consecutive year of AutoCAD for. Version history [ ] The native file format of AutoCAD is. This and, to a lesser extent, its interchange file format, have become, if proprietary, standards for CAD data, particularly for 2D drawing exchange. [ ] AutoCAD has included support for, a format developed and promoted by Autodesk, for publishing Autodesk's logo and, respectively, AutoCAD icons have changed for several versions through the years. Official name Version DWG tag Release OS support Date of release Comments AutoCAD Version 1.0 1.0 1 1982, December DWG R1.0 file format AutoCAD Version 1.2 1.2 2 1983, April DWG R1.2 file format AutoCAD Version 1.3 1.3 3 1983, August DWG R1.3 file format AutoCAD Version 1.4 1.4 4 1983, October DWG R1.4 file format AutoCAD Version 2.0 2.0 5 1984, October DWG R2.05 file format AutoCAD Version 2.1 2.1 6 1985, May DWG R2.1 file format AutoCAD Version 2.5 2.5 7 1986, June DWG R2.5 file format AutoCAD Version 2.6 2.6 8 1987, April DWG R2.6 file format.