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Autodesk AutoSketch 9 | 
| From: Autodesk PSG
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $144.95
You Save: $5.04 (3%)
New (13) Used (2) from $119.95
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 579
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.9 x 2.5
MPN: 00309-051408-9000
Model: 00309-051408-9000
ISBN: 1585032115
UPC: 606121560739
EAN: 9781585032112
ASIN: B0002MAG0A
Release Date: August 3, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Comprehensive CAD tools for creating expert-quality drawings | | • | Electrical details, floor plans, conceptual sketches, and more | | • | Straightforward drafting in a Windows XP-like environment | | • | DWG format compatibility for creating and viewing AutoCAD files | | • | Tutorials and wizards for a fast start |
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Product Description
AutoSketch 9 software provides a comprehensive set of CAD tools for creating precision drawings from electrical details to floor plans, from conceptual sketches to product specifications, and much more. Main Features Manufacturer: Autodesk, IncManufacturer Part Number: 00309-051408-9000Manufacturer Website Address: www.autodesk.comSoftware Sub Type: CADSoftware Name: AutoSketch v.9.0 Features & Benefits: Application Wizard: The Application wizard provides a variety of drawing types to help you get started quickly. Whether you are drawing a building, an office layout, or a mechanical part, the Application wizard configures the drawing environment by setting drawing scale, units, and toolbars. In some cases it even starts the drawing. Getting Started Guide: Create professional drawings in no time. More than a dozen two-minute tutorials show you everything from starting a new drawing to moving and rotating entities and adding dimensions. Flexible File Management: Open as many drawings as you want at one time, with multiple windows open for each drawing document. Combined with a variety of ways to open files and AutoSave, this capability helps you easily find the files you want and know that your work is safe. Customizable Toolbars: Customize your workspace by turning on additional toolbars and creating your own toolbars. Add any command to custom toolbars. Toolbars can be docked or floated. When floating in the drawing area, toolbars can also be resized. Customizable Grids: Use customizable rectangular, circular, and isometric grids to easily configure the drawing space to the drawing task. Create isometric views with special drawing tools optimized for the isometric drawing grid. Guidelines: Create geometry by snapping to
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Simple and easy CAD tool June 17, 2005
Everett V. Zurlinden
79 out of 83 found this review helpful
I've used AutoSketch for years. Some mistake this tool for a graphics design tool, which it is not. It is a mechanical or architectural design tool. As such it is simple to use and produces accurate results. We use it in our business daily. I am pleased that they finally solved the printed line weight problem in this new version. If you're expecting a Visio or Adobe replacement, you misunderstand the product. If you are expecting a simplified version of AutoCAD, this is the product to use.
 Who are they trying to kid?? May 26, 2005
Nelson A. Thompson (Houston, TX USA)
36 out of 55 found this review helpful
I am a long user of graphic and drawing programs, including Canvas, MacDraw and Corel. I bought AutoSketch 9 hoping to have a relatively cheap tool for drawing flowcharts, maps, sketches, diagrams and such. AutoSketch was billed as the solution to my needs and easy to use. It is neither.
For example, in most applications, to duplicate an object and align it with the grid-snap takes maybe one key-press and and one click-and-drag. In AutoSketch, it takes eleven steps -- eleven complicated and non-intuitive steps.
Another example. In AutoSketch, you cannot select an object then select a fill color. You must select a filler tool, then go through menus of colors, then click on the object. This may seem only a little more complicated, but your object is NOT filled with color! A new, colored object is created of the same size, and hides the original one. Even the border of the original is hidden.
The simplest actions in AutoSketch are mind-bogglingly complicated and arcane, when you can figure out how to do them at all. Most of the relatively 'easy' operations I learned how to perform came with unintended and undesireable side-affects. Experience in the full-blown AutoCAD application is probably a requirement to get any use at all out of AutoSketch.
This is not a tool for kids. Or even for adults unless they're professional propellor heads who think that memorizing eleven steps to duplicate a rectangle is "kool".
I don't. It's been ten years since I've had a computer application make me this angry and frustrated.
AutoSketch 9 is a total waste of time and money. I'm returning my copy.
 Nice program if u know what it's for November 8, 2005
David A. Crossley (ABQ NM)
30 out of 33 found this review helpful
A-sketch 9 is a good value for the $$. It is NOT an illustrator program, it is for drafting, and if you don't understand drafting conventions get something else. Most of the specific complaints posted other buyers are invalid and caused by their own misuse. I found it intuative, complete and versatile. The improved layer system is a major plus, and it comes with a bigger built-in library than I expected for the money. It won't do 3-D and (sadly) doesn't have a perspective view capability. But hell, it's only a hundred bucks.....
Good value, different look from AutoCAD May 10, 2006
B. Basaj (Milwaukee, WI USA)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
I have been an AutoCAD user for about 13 years. In starting my own business, I wanted an inexpensive tool that would allow me to produce 2-D drawings accurately and efficiently with the skills I already have.
AutoSketch 9 seems to have all the tools I need, like drawing tools, modifying, layers, blocks, object snaps and inquiries, but the icons are often different than ACAD, and less intuitive. Some of the terminology is apparently designed for non-engineers (e.g. "group" instead of "block", "transform" instead of "modify"), so I have to translate from what I'm used to. But essentially, it does the job and fit my budget.
For comparison, I also downloaded a free 30-day trial of IntelliCAD from Autodsys. I liked the look and feel of it better than Autosketch, but the base cost for the standard version is $149, and I paid around $50 for Autosketch through one of Amazon's 3rd party sellers. So I guess I'll stick with what I have, unless I get really annoyed by the icons, or find some other limitation I can't live with.
Added 7/6/06: I wasn't able to enter numeric coordinates in AutoSketch! This is a must for me, so I ordered IntelliCAD and will not go back to AutoSketch.
Autosketch finally gets proper layer management September 26, 2005
Brent L (Los Angeles)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
i just jumped from autosketch 7 to 9. the big thing I notice is layer management has been hugely improved - like in autocad.
I am not certain if version 8 had the upgrade or not, but the jump from 7 to 9 was worth it for this alone.
I am sold on Autosketch 9
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