AutoCAD 2009 Offers PDF and 3D Printing Bonus Packs

By DE Editors

At Autodesk University, held in Las Vegas this past week, Autodesk, Inc. (San Rafael, CA) announced the availability of two new bonus packs for AutoCAD 2009 software. The new functionality, available exclusively to customers on Autodesk Subscription, will offer enhanced PDF support and on-demand 3D printing capabilities for AutoCAD.

Autodesk is now offering its customers enhanced ability to use PDF to ease communication with suppliers, clients, and partners with PDF Import and Underlay, and enhanced PDF publishing features. The subscription bonus packs bring on-demand 3D printing capabilities to AutoCAD 2009, allowing users to quickly produce physical 3D models and prototypes more accurately and powerfully than ever before.

With Bonus Pack 3 installed, users can now connect to 3D printing service providers directly from within AutoCAD, or print to their own 3D printer. To this end, Autodesk entered into agreements with two 3D printing manufacturers, RedEye (a business unit of Stratasys and Z Corporation (ZPrints), to make 3D printing available to AutoCAD 2009 users. Connecting online with the selected service provider, AutoCAD users can now have 3D printed models shipped directly to them.

For additional information, visit Autodesk.

For previous DE coverage, see David Cohn’s “Much More to AutoCAD 2009 Than Meets the Eye,” (Oct. 2008).

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.