DesignCAD 3D MAX V.20

DesignCAD 3D MAX V.20 Review

DesignCAD 3D MAX V.20 Feature

• DesignCAD 3D Max v20 combines easy to learn and use 2D drafting with powerful and precise 3D modeling to unleash your imagination and creativity. Easily design anything from complex architectural and mechanical drawings to simple everyday projects and hobbies including furniture, decks, floorplans, toys and 3D models. Use a complete set of 2D drafting and design tools, including drawing layers, ha

DesignCAD 3D Max v20 combines easy to learn and use 2D drafting with powerful and precise 3D modeling to unleash your imagination and creativity. Easily design anything from complex architectural and mechanical drawings to simple everyday projects and hobbies including furniture, decks, floorplans, toys and 3D models. Use a complete set of 2D drafting and design tools, including drawing layers, hatch patterns and full dimensioning capability - or render 3D models with materials or textures for added impact. Easily import/export editable DXF/DWG files without the risk of data loss or corruption. 2D drafting and 3D modeling have never been easier. Perfect For Architects, Illustrators, Contractors, Builders, Hobbyists, Designers, Educators, Engineers, Students and Others.

AutoCAD LT 2009 [OLD VERSION]

AutoCAD LT 2009 [OLD VERSION] Review

AutoCAD LT 2009 [OLD VERSION] Feature

• A powerful solution for designers who need full DWG native file format compatibility without 3D capabilities or advanced customization
• Updated user interface accelerates routine tasks and makes commands easier to find
• Layer dialog box enhancements--working with layers is now easer than ever
• Efficient everyday drafting, easy file sharing, simplified plotting
• Quick view feature uses thumbnails instead of file names, so you can open the correct drawing file and layout faster

Dramatically increase productivity with AutoCAD LT software, the world's number-one-selling 2D drafting and detailing product. AutoCAD LT is a powerful solution for designers who need full DWG native file format compatibility without 3D capabilities or advanced customization. Increase efficiency with an updated user interface that not only accelerates routine tasks, but also makes commands easier to find, helping new users become productive as quickly as possible. Working with layers is now easer than ever. Move to new highs of productivity with AutoCAD LT software.

Drafting Tools
Across-the-board improvements ensure routine, time-consuming tasks won't slow you down.

Ribbon
The ribbon interface increases overall drafting productivity by decreasing the number of steps to reach a command. The ribbon interface presents command options in a concise visual format, allowing you to quickly select commands based on the work you're doing.

Demonstration/New Features Workshop Learn about new features and enhancements in AutoCAD LT 2009 software.

The ribbon interface increases overall drafting productivity by decreasing the number of steps to reach a command.

The new menu browser interface allows you to browse files and examine thumbnail images and provides detailed information about file size and file creator.

The new layer dialog makes creating and editing layer properties faster and less prone to error.

Menu Browser
Reviewing and working with several files is no longer a tedious and time-consuming process. The new menu browser interface allows you to browse files and examine thumbnail images and provides detailed information about file size and file creator. Plus you can organize recently used files by name, date, or title.

Layer Dialog
The new layer dialog makes creating and editing layer properties faster and less prone to error. Changes are instantly reflected in the drawing as they are made in the dialog. Manipulation of the dialog box is simplified, and columns in the dialog can be individually resized so the contents of that column or its title are not truncated. You can fix individual columns in place so that the rest of the columns can be scrolled through and referenced to a fixed column such as the layer name.

Quick Properties
The easily customizable quick properties menu increases productivity by reducing the steps to access properties information, ensuring that the information presented is optimized for you and your project.

Quick View
The quick view feature uses thumbnails instead of file names, so you can open the correct drawing file and layout faster.

DWF technology is the fastest and easiest way to communicate design information and ensure secure and efficient sharing at every stage of the project lifecycle.

Increase collaboration and the exchange of data with users of older versions of AutoCAD software.

Customers who use Adobe PDF can view and print your design files.

Text Improvements
Manipulate text efficiently by viewing, sizing, and positioning text as you type.

• Adjust text appearance as needed using familiar tools common in text-editing applications, and easily create multiline paragraphs and bulleted or numbered lists of notes with professional-quality formatting.
• Use the MTEXT editor to specify the number of columns required, and quickly flow new text between those columns as you make edits.
• Customize the space between each column of text and the edge of the paper with a simple click of the mouse.
• Adjust all of these variables to specific values using the dialog box or the new multicolumn text grips.

Annotation Scaling
Annotation scale is now automated. AutoCAD LT 2008 introduces the concept of annotation scale as an object property. Designers can set the current scale of a viewport or model space view, then apply that scale to each object and specify its size, placement, and appearance based on the scale set for the viewport.

Automate Multiple Leaders
Use the multiple leaders panel on the dashboard, with its enhanced tools, to automate the creation of multiple leaders and adjust their orientation (tail or content first) with the notes.

Create and Edit Dynamic Blocks
Save time and standardize drawings by eliminating the need to redraw repetitive standard componentsÑand reduce your cumbersome block libraries in the process.

Simplify Hatching
Create multiple hatches without repetitious use of the hatch command. Easily place a hatch at your preferred origin point, and quickly calculate both individual and cumulative hatch areas.

Seamlessly Interface Design Data
Keep your attention focused on your work as you enter command information and get immediate feedback at the graphics cursor.

Dimension with Greater Ease
Give your dimensions the exact linetype you prefer without exploding and editing them. Avoid time-consuming workarounds to dimension an arc, save time by automating the creation of a jogged dimension line, and flip an individual dimension arrow from inside to outside the dimension line and back.

A single dialog box gives you access to regularly used plot controls.

With background plotting, you can continue working in the drawing editor while AutoCAD LT software plots in the background.

Data Sharing
Take advantage of fast and secure collaboration among team members, no matter where they are.

Publish Intelligent Design Data
With DWF technology you can publish intelligent design data and save time by simplifying collaboration with your design team. At 1/10th the size of other file formats, DWF is the fastest and easiest way to communicate design information and ensure secure and efficient sharing at every stage of the project lifecycle.

Read/Write to Past Versions of AutoCAD
Increase collaboration and the exchange of data with users of older versions of AutoCAD software.

Export Files in PDF format
Customers who use Adobe PDF can view and print your design files.

View and Mark Up Designs
Easily coordinate projects during the design review stage by replacing the paper process with a digital one. Review and round-tripping functionality is free* with Autodesk Design Review software. Mark up drawings with comments, sketches, dimensions, text, and stamps before sending them. Workflow is streamlined, fidelity is increased, and jobs are finished faster.

Plotting
Spend more time designing and less time plotting.

Access Frequently Used Plot Controls
A single dialog box gives you access to regularly used plot controls. View a full preview with an enhanced plot user interface that shows how your plot will look once the drawing is plotted.

Reduce Waiting Time
Spend more time drafting and less time waiting for plot jobs. With background plotting, you can continue working in the drawing editor while AutoCAD LT software plots in the background.

Stay on Top of Plot Jobs
Notifications are sent when plot jobs are completed. Autocad LT 2009 SLM

Visual Building Lite [Download]

Visual Building Lite [Download] Review

Visual Building Lite [Download] Feature

• Design 2D Plans and visualize 3D views
• Doors, windows, dormers, stairs and roofs
• Online video tutorials and user forum for your help
• Create stunning photo realistic ray-traced images
• Create clear dimensioned 2D floor plans

Visual Building Lite is a low cost but multi featured home design tool to suit those on a low budget, but still wish to achieve high quality design and visualisation tasks. Visual Building Lite has been specifically designed to allow you to resolve many design problems associated with the design of buildings - residential, commercial, industrial and even agricultural. Visual Building Lite uses the same software technology used by professionals and is 100% compatible with Visual Building Professional and Visual Building Solar Designer. Suitable for use by many types of users: architects, builders, self-builders, property developers, interior designers, planners, real estate. The Project Start Wizard quickly gets you started and interfaces with online tutorial videos and example projects. Draw your plan in 2D and instantly visualize it in 3D. Your 2D floor plans are quickly constructed placing walls into place, either on a grid on relative to existing walls or other features. Dimensions can be in feet / inches or metric. Doors and Windows are then selected from the catalogue and dropped into place. Add your stairs, allowing you to design multiple floors, including attics and basements. The comprehensive roof designer will then help you design the roof suitable for your property, to which you can add roof windows and dormers. Apply carpets, tiles and wallpaper to floors and walls. The extendable catalogue contains many extendible textures and materials. Furnish the interior and exterior with furniture. Landscape the exterior by applying contours and adding plants and trees. Examine the effect of shadows from any location in the world and any time of day / month of the year. Add a background photo of your immediate or distant surroundings. Create a photo-realistic ray-traced image of your project for presentation together with your documented and dimensioned 2D plans.

Chief Architect Home Designer Landscape and Deck 10

Chief Architect Home Designer Landscape and Deck 10 Review

Chief Architect Home Designer Landscape and Deck 10 Feature

• Software for planning and designing your perfect outdoor living space
• 4,000+ Library items; 3,600+ realistic plants; point-and-click convenience
• Design beautiful landscapes, terrain features, gardens, and more
• Powerful Decking and Patio tools; create plot and perimeter plans
• Get started quickly with easy how-to videos for step-by-step instructions

Plan and design your perfect outdoor living space! Home Designer Landscape & Deck makes it easy to quickly design the virtual look and feel of your backyard, deck, patio, pool or any outdoor project. Just point-and-click to add pre-arranged landscaping beds and any of over 4,000 Library items and over 3,600 realistic plants to your design.

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Plants

Landscaping is easy with over 3,600 botanically accurate flowers, trees and shrubs--from tropical to desert. Create gardens, pathways, hills, valleys, ponds and more for your perfect landscape.

• Choose from over 3,600 realistic plants
• Plant Chooser to quickly locate and learn detailed plant information
• Plant Hardiness Zone maps--North America, Europe and Australia
• Plant Growth slider tool--visualize how your plants will look in 3, 5, or even 20 years from now
• Search for plants based on a variety of attributes: bloom time, water and sun needs, height information, plant type, sub-type, color, and hardiness zone

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Decks and Patios

Powerful Decking and Patio tools allow you to design and visualize your new deck with 3D models and help you easily estimate the costs. Make your new deck or patio look exactly the way you desire.

• Use the Deck Designer tools to quickly design the layout of your deck
• Define the details for your decking--borders, planking direction, overhang and planking gap
• Place and arrange outdoor furniture to correctly size your deck or patio
• Design single or multi-level decks including free-standing, tiered and post-and-beam
• Deck foundations automatically generate to match sloped lots

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Landscaping

Create beautiful landscapes, terrain features, gardens and decks for your perfect outdoor living spaces. It's easy to create the look and feel you desire for your deck, landscaping and outdoor living spaces

• Choose pre-arranged landscaping or flowerbeds for inspiration to jump start your design ideas
• Import digital photos and personalize your designs. Import family photos or backdrops of your lot for realistic 3D views.
• Drag and drop thousands of items from the Library Browser. Choose plants, pavers, windows, doors, outdoor accessories, textures, furniture and more.
• Use the built-in Plant Schedule as a list of plants for your landscaping project--by common or scientific name
• Use the Distribute Plants tool to auto-populate your gardens and flowerbeds

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Terrain

Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregularly shaped or sloped lots. Use a GPS to import or enter elevation data. You will find several terrain tools to create your lot's shape, elevation and contours.

• Ponds & Streams--Create water features for your landscaping projects using the Stream or Pond tool--simply click to place and then resize
• Terraces and Terrain Walls--Use the Terrain Wall Tool to create terraces or divide your Terrain slopes
• Contours and Elevations--Drag elevation lines or set specific elevation points to create your contoured lots
• Use Automatic Build Terrain and Terrain Perimeter tools to create flat, irregular shaped or sloped lots--use a GPS to import or enter elevation data
• Visualize designs with day and night views

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Site Planning

Create any shape lot. Enter elevation data, hills, valleys and flat regions to create your virtual lot. Use Raised, Lowered and Flat Region tools to precisely model your terrain.

• Create plot and perimeter plans; automatically generate a 3D model of your actual terrain
• Hill and Valley tools make it easy to add gardens, beds and slopes that automatically appear in 3D views
• Sprinkler Designer tools to easily layout sprinkler zones
• Define Terrain Elevation lines, Elevation Regions and Terrain Breaks for accurate modeling
• Fences, Driveways and Sidewalks follow terrain contours

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Get Started Quickly!

The Quick Startup Options Guide will help you begin with "How-To" tutorials based on the type of your project. You can also choose from over 40 easy "step-by-step" tutorial training videos that will quickly get you started on your next home design project. Live online training webinars are available on a weekly basis and you can access this training via the Internet. Home Talk is a User Forum you can ask question from the community of users. Finally we offer great technical support by qualified in-house professionals.

Chief Architect L100-02-D Home Designer Landscape & Deck 10

AutoCAD LT for Mac 2013 -- Includes a 1 year Autodesk Subscription

AutoCAD LT for Mac 2013 -- Includes a 1 year Autodesk Subscription Review

AutoCAD LT for Mac 2013 -- Includes a 1 year Autodesk Subscription Feature

• Collaborate with others: Create files with genuine DWG technology and share your work with colleagues and clients
• Increase productivity: With a consistent focus on drafting productivity and intuitive interaction, AutoCAD LT is built for efficient design documentation

Document ideas: Document your ideas and designs more accurately with a comprehensive set of 2D drafting and detailing tools

Autodesk Maya 2012 -- Includes 1 year Autodesk Subscription

Autodesk Maya 2012 -- Includes 1 year Autodesk Subscription Review

Autodesk Maya 2012 -- Includes 1 year Autodesk Subscription Feature

• A CG Pipeline in the Box. Autodesk Maya 2012 software offers a comprehensive CG pipeline in the box with powerful modeling, simulation, animation, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing. capabilities.
• Advanced Simulation Capabilities Maya offers extensive simulation tools for creating high-quality, realistic fluid, particle, cloth, fur, hair, rigid and soft-body dynamics.
• Believable Characters Used to help create villains and heroes like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean and the Na?vi from AVATAR.
• 3D Editorial - Maya offers 3D editorial capabilities with the Camera Sequencer, which features a Sequencer Playlist, support for multi-track audio, and interoperability with popular non-linear editing (NLE) applications like Apple Final Cut Pro software
• Performance- Maya is engineered to help handle today?s increasingly complex data sets without slowing down the creative process.
• 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow
• Includes one year of Autodesk Subscription which gives you a wide range of maintenance and support services designed to help you minimize costs, increase productivity, and make the most of your investment in Autodesk software.
• Sequencer enhancements; substance procedural textures; craft animation tools
• Tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, and compositing
• Toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping; improved pipeline integration
• Viewport 2.0 enhancements; node-based render passes; editable motion trails

Autodesk Maya 2012

Autodesk Maya 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Whether you work in film, games, television, or web and multimedia production, Maya offers state-of-the-art toolsets, combined into a single affordable offering designed to meet today's demanding production requirements. Maya 2012 delivers new toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration.

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Convenient node-based render passes.
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Editable motion trails provide a faster and easier way to fine-tune motion animation. View larger.

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Library of 80 Substance procedural textures. View larger.

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Key Features and Benefits

With a high-fidelity, high-performance viewport, the new ability to create node-based representations of render passes, an expanded camera sequencer toolset, and new camera rigs, artists gain new tools to help explore, refine, and present their ideas prior to final production, while editable motion trails offer an enhanced animation experience. Moreover, with new physics solvers, together with further development of the Nucleus unified simulation framework and its modules, artists can create a wider range of convincing effects in less time. And, with single-step interoperability and a more consistent f-curve editor with other Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites products; a redesigned Pythonic API; and added support for vector displacement maps, Maya 2012 is more easily integrated into production pipelines.

Viewport 2.0 Enhancements

The high-performance viewport introduced with Maya 2011 now offers full-screen effects: motion blur, depth-of-field, and ambient occlusion, enabling artists to evaluate their work in a higher fidelity environment and without needing to render or export to a game engine. In addition, Viewport 2.0 now provides component and manipulator display to support modeling workflows, together with batch rendering capabilities, and a high-performance API.

Node-Based Render Passes

Create and edit node-based representations of render passes directly within Maya 2012, and render the composited output directly through the mental ray renderer. A powerful tool for verifying and refining render passes prior to handing them to the compositor, node-based render passes also enable artists to perform certain simple compositing tasks without leaving Maya.

Editable Motion Trails

Edit animation directly in the viewport without the need to switch context to the graph editor, with new editable motion trails that provide a faster and easier method for fine-tuning motion animation. Animators can intuitively edit the position and timing of keyframes in relation to the animated object, while viewing the path of motion over time in 3D space, resulting in a smoother, more productive workflow.

Sequencer Enhancements

First introduced in Maya 2011, the Camera Sequencer is now extended to offer a Sequencer Playlist--enabling artists to manage their sequences through a configurable spreadsheet view that provides the ability to reorder clips, edit In and Out points, and change camera assignments--together with support for multi-track audio and the new ability to output multiple shots as a single sequence for easier game cinematic rendering or export to a game engine.

Substance Procedural Textures

Achieve a vast range of look variations with a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures. These dynamic, resolution-independent textures have a tiny disk space footprint, and can be exported to certain game engines via the Substance Air middleware offering (available separately from Allegorithmic SAS). Alternatively, textures can be quickly converted to bitmaps for rendering. Some examples of dynamically editable and animatable parameters are: brick distribution, surface aging, and mortar thickness in a brick wall; pupil size, eye color, and extent of veining in an eye texture; and the age, roughness, curb borders, and lane markings of a street texture.

Craft Animation Tools

Easily create believable, complex camera movements that mimic real-world set-ups, with four new camera rigs from the Craft Director Studio animation tool. Use a joystick to record real-time input while driving the camera; stabilize turbulent or unnatural camera movements; add shakiness to an existing animated camera; or smoothly transition or instantly cut between different camera views and settings. Also included are four pre-rigged models--two cars, and two airplanes--that can be used to simulate complex vehicle motion, including terrain recognition, for previsualization or in-game cinematics.

Enhanced, Consistent Graph Editor

An enhanced Graph Editor takes some of the best features from the f-curve editors within the products of the Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suites 2012, and combines them into a toolset that offers more consistent functionality and terminology--enabling animators to switch more easily between products. Maya users gain a new Auto-tangent type that automatically adjusts tangents when keys are moved, preventing overshooting; the option to sync what's displayed in the Timeline and Graph Editor with what's selected in the Channel Box; an Isolate Selection option that restricts the display to only the selected curves; and a Region Tool for easier scaling of animation keys in time and value.

New Simulation Options

Create compelling dynamic effects in less time, with new simulation options that incorporate industry-leading technology into Maya. Now artists can leverage the multi-threaded NVIDIA PhysX engine* to create static, dynamic, and kinematic rigid-body simulations directly in the Maya viewport, and gain the ability to match a runtime solution. And highly-realistic shattering simulations with multiple interacting materials are more easily achievable, with the help of the newly included Digital Molecular Matter plug-in from Pixelux Entertainment.
*Available with Autodesk Maya 2012 Windows platform only.

Nucleus Enhancements

Further development of the Nucleus unified simulation framework and its associated modules delivers improved liquids simulation with new pouring, splashing, and boiling effects; multi-threaded nParticle collisions and nCloth self-collisions for faster performance; and a range of easy-to-use, customizable effects (fire, smoke, bomb, dust trail, fireworks, laser, melt, snow, sparks, and tears) that can be assigned to an object as easily as assigning a shader.

Other New Features

Autodesk Maya 2012 software also has the following key features:

Single-Step Suites Interoperability

Take better advantage of the full range of 3D tools in the Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite Standard 2012 and the Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012, with new single-step interoperability. Use Single-Step workflows to directly move 3D data between Maya 2012, Autodesk MotionBuilder 2012 software, Autodesk Mudbox 2012 software, and the Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) of Autodesk Softimage 2012 software.

HumanIK Enhancements

Working with characters is now easier in both Maya 2012 and MotionBuilder 2012, with an enhanced interface and unified solver for HumanIK technology (formerly implemented as FBIK in Maya). The unified solver offers more consistent workflows--thanks to new Character Controls and graphical Characterization UIs in Maya--and improved interoperability between the products. In addition, customers who use the Autodesk HumanIK 4.5 or 2012 middleware solution will benefit from improved animation consistency between Maya and their game engine.

Vector Displacement Map Support

With new support for Vector Displacement Maps (VDMs) in Maya 2012, artists can use mental ray to render complex high-resolution details created in Mudbox or certain other packages on low-resolution geometry. VDMs can represent directional displacements that do not simply follow the surface normal: for example, forms with appendages, undercuts, folds, and bulges, such as a human ear.

Motion Capture Samples

Leverage the advanced motion retargeting capabilities of Maya 2012, with 70 motion capture samples that provide useful starting points for creating previsualizations and developing character animations. Utilizing the Autodesk FBX 2012 asset exchange format, the samples can be shared between applications in the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites.

Python API Enhancements

Programmers familiar with Python scripting language can now enjoy easier and more powerful ways to extend and customize Maya, thanks to an improved Python API that offers more idiomatic (pythonic) command writing capabilities (for example: MScriptUtils are eliminated, while the Maya array type becomes a fully functional Python sequence), and is up to three times faster.

Top Reasons to Buy Autodesk Maya

1. A CG Pipeline in the Box

Autodesk Maya 2012 software offers a comprehensive CG pipeline in the box with powerful modeling, simulation, animation, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing capabilities. Maya is used by leading artists to help create innovative entertainment, and both Maya and its developers have garnered numerous awards for technological innovation including three Academy Awards.

2. Advanced Simulation Capabilities

Maya offers extensive simulation tools for creating high-quality, realistic fluid, particle, cloth, fur, hair, rigid- and soft-body dynamics. Engineered by leading research scientists, the Academy Award winning Maya Fluid Effects as well as the Maya software's Nucleus Unified Simulation Framework are designed to help make simulations more realistic. In addition, you can now leverage the multi-threaded NVIDIA PhysX engine to create static, dynamic, and kinematic rigid-body simulations directly in the Maya viewport.

3. Believable Characters

Maya features industry-leading tools for creating compelling CG characters. Used to help create villains and heroes like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean and the Na'vi from AVATAR, Maya features highly customizable rigging tools, advanced muscle deformation and skinning tools, full-body inverse kinematics (FBIK) and the ability to more smoothly blend forward and inverse kinematics.

4. 3D Editorial

Maya offers 3D editorial capabilities with the Camera Sequencer, which features a Sequencer Playlist, support for multi-track audio, and interoperability with popular non-linear editing (NLE) applications like Apple Final Cut Pro software. Ideal for editing 3D animation for previsualization or virtual moviemaking, the Camera Sequencer enables you to more precisely manage framing and timing of CG shots and play them back for review.

5. Performance

Maya is engineered to help handle today's increasingly complex data sets without slowing down the creative process. It does this through multi-threading, algorithmic tuning, sophisticated memory management, GPU optimizations, tools for segmenting scenes and 64-bit support for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. Moreover, a high-performance viewport enables you to interact with your scene in a higher fidelity environment, helping you make better creative decisions in context.

6. Improved Pipeline Efficiency

Maya Assets help you better manage large and complex scenes and collaborate more effectively with others. Move 3D assets through your pipeline more efficiently with Autodesk FBX 2012 data exchange technology. And take advantage of single-step workflows with Autodesk Mudbox 2012 software, Autodesk MotionBuilder 2012 software, and the Interactive Creation Environment (ICE) of Autodesk Softimage 2012 software.

7. Highly Customizable

Maya offers multiple avenues for customization for companies wishing to integrate 3D tools more tightly into their pipeline, or to more easily add specialized production tools. It was built from the ground-up with the Maya Embedded Language (MEL) and also offers Python scripting as well as an extensive, well-documented C++ API. Developers can now, also create interface components more easily with Qt Designer.

8. Easy to Learn

From the first-class Autodesk training and documentation that comes with Maya, to the breadth of partner and third-party books, DVDs, tutorials and training facilities, there are numerous resources to match anyone's learning style. Tap into one of the largest online communities of 3D professionals and enthusiasts to share information and knowledge.

9. Make the Most of Your Mac

With Maya, Mudbox and now Autodesk Smoke 2012 for Mac OS X software all optimized for Apple's 64-bit OS, you can get the most out of your Mac. Autodesk offers a set of high-end digital production tools for creative professionals from digital sculpting through 3D animation to high quality editorial and creative finishing.

10. A Global Community

The extensive Maya online community, including the AREA, provides an invaluable resource for everyone--from students learning the application to artists looking for some expert advice for a challenging project. Visit AREA at area.autodesk.com.

Autodesk Maya 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Whether you work in film, games, television, or web and multimedia production, Maya offers state-of-the-art toolsets, combined into a single affordable offering designed to meet today’s demanding production requirements. Maya 2012 delivers new toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities; and improved pipeline integration.

AutoCAD LT for Windows 95- The CAD Standard- Autodesk

AutoCAD LT for Windows 95- The CAD Standard- Autodesk Review

Whether you're making that first move from the drafting table to the PC or you're already a seasoned CAD expert, AutoCAD LT software is the right choice for powerful design and drafting. Join the more than 250,000 professionals using AutoCAD LT for everything from floor plans and electrical wiring, to mechanical assemblies and circuit-board design.

Punch! Home and Landscape Design Professional, Version 2 - Old Version

Punch! Home and Landscape Design Professional, Version 2 - Old Version Review

Punch! Home and Landscape Design Professional, Version 2 - Old Version Feature

• New tools that help you design even faster, including pre-drawn professionally designed, zone sensitive landscape beds with simple drag and drop placement.
• Pre-designed furniture groupings allow you to drag and drop, then fine tune to your style. Turn your design into a self running virtual video to share with clients, friends, and family.
• Want to ?Go Green?, just hit the Going Green Button for ideas on how to save energy and money with our integrated design tips, objects and included and energy efficient materials.
• 30,000 drag and drop design and object selections, insert furniture groupings, plants that grow in your own zip code, or change paint colors with ease. Drop in a pool and watch your design come to life in 3D
• Advanced stair options, custom trim libraries, unique door and window choices, advanced ceiling designer and many more extras allow you to make your design your own.
• Advanced stair options, custom trim libraries, unique door and window choices, advanced ceiling designer and many more extras allow you to make your design your own. 
• Feature and design a house in 60 seconds, choose from editable home templates, floor plan trace or scan in a photo to add landscaping to an existing house or change the paint color of an existing room.
• Want to "Go Green", just hit the Going Green Button for ideas on how to save energy and money with our integrated design tips, objects and included energy efficient materials.

Professional Results Made Easy: New tools that help you design even faster including pre-drawn professionally designed zone sensitive landscape beds with simple drag and drop placement. 4 easy ways to get what you need fast. Use our QuickStart feature and design a house in 60 seconds choose from editable home templates floor plan trace or scan in a photo to add landscaping to an existing house or change the paint color of an existing room. Pre-designed furniture groupings allow you to drag and drop then fine tune to your style. Turn your design into a self running virtual video to share with clients friends and family. One click on-line and video tutorial help with our new Training Center!!Design It Your Way: Want to Go Green just hit the Going Green Button for ideas on how to save energy and money with our integrated design tips objects and included eco friendly and energy efficient materials. Create blueprints manual framing custom roofing one of a kind pool designs and much more. 30000 drag and drop design and object selections insert furniture groupings plants that grow in your own zip code or change paint colors with ease.  Drop in a pool and watch your design e to life in 3D.Serious Features for Serious Designers: Advanced stair options custom trim libraries unique door and window choices advanced ceiling designer and many more extras allow you to make your design your own. Choose from thousands of modern objects in our library or you can design edit download or insert your own CAD objects! Features for today's home;  home security home theatre fence designer plant editor site planner are just a start into the options you have to bring even the most advanced designs to life!   Create blueprints manual framing custom roofing one of a kind pool designs and much more. Superior rendering with NEW reflections!  Flexible controls for real-world lighting including reflection rendering technology all