Two highlights of AutoCAD 2008

I found that as the last speaker will have some advantages, because we can use more time to give you the most important Autodesk products, namely AutoCAD. It is not too much to say that AutoCAD is the most important product of Autodesk, because its history is as long as that of Autodesk company, since the first version has been developed for 25 years, in other words, there have been 1/4 of centuries of time, So why is it still a very important product today? I think there are two reasons:

First, AutoCAD has the most extensive user groups, precisely because Autodesk let AutoCAD this product continues to develop, to today AutoCAD already has millions of of users, we just talked about Autodesk Company today's official number of users is 7 million, I think more than half of the users in this room are using AutoCAD to do their daily design. It is precisely because of the popularity of this product, AutoCAD, so that this product and to express the design results of the DWG file, today is the default industrial design language. Just like when we were interviewed here, one of the editors said, "If you're not going to use AutoCAD to tell me you're a designer?" "That explains the problem.

Second, AutoCAD itself because of its continuous development, it is now our many professional products, longitudinal products of the foundation. Everyone look at this speaking table above, we listed the Autodesk2008 products released in the very main products, in which there are usually red-color word of AutoCAD, are based on AutoCAD platform for doing. In other words, they are built on the AutoCAD platform, while they develop along their own professional direction, so that users can get higher productivity in this field. Just like Miss Yan introduced it can be compared with AutoCAD 65% higher design efficiency.

Another point Dr. Wu said, in Autodesk we have 2,500 developers, in these developers there are many developers are AutoCAD as a platform to develop more professional applications. AutoCAD is successful because it is an open platform. Therefore, we have more developers, peripheral partners in the use of this platform for us to develop more professional applications.

So, AutoCAD this product development to today we have so many users, so long history, is not AutoCAD this product has no room for development? The answer is, of course, negative. Now, we have a new version of AutoCAD every year, and each version will give users a new surprise, will solve their daily design process headache problems, those they feel very cumbersome problems, will help them solve.

One of the most important changes in AutoCAD2008 's product is that we're starting to support a real 64-bit version, which means that users can open larger graphics, collaborate better, and get bigger projects done. At the same time, AutoCAD also fully support WindowsVista all versions, is the real support, not only my products on that run just.

Each version of the launch will involve a variety of new features, due to limited time, can not be introduced one by one. I want to talk about a AutoCAD2008 of two things that I think are shining.

First, in the AutoCAD2008 of the concept of three-dimensional design into the concept of two-dimensional design, what is this concept? We imagine a designer with AutoCAD or other design software to express his design concept, the first step is to put this drawing design ideas in AutoCAD, and this expression is only a beginning, he should be in accordance with the norms of cartography, the regulation of its rules for a full expression, The process of using the idea of design as a document is usually a trivial matter and takes time.

Secondly, it realizes the separation of design idea and expression form in AutoCAD2008. To the designer, he felt that he was wasting his time. And in AutoCAD2008, we put the concept of your design, really in the form of a normative expression, the process to a large extent to automate. This drawing is not to say that the previous AutoCAD can not do, but said before in the process of doing is very cumbersome, and very easy to make mistakes. Because you need to copy a few prototypes of your design to complete the presentation, which can be tedious. We introduce a very important concept in our AutoCAD2008, which is to separate the thought and expression of your design.

Finally, I would like to share with you why AutoCAD can achieve sustainable development, and constantly introduce new features? I think there are two main aspects:

On the one hand, AutoCAD has a very large user groups, Autodesk and the user's contact is very close, in the United States, there is a Autodesk user organization, around this product has a lot of AutoCAD products enthusiasts, They will make a lot of suggestions for the development of AutoCAD, each of us can go to their website to the AutoCAD functional improvement proposals to bid, we will be based on the recommendations of these users to the number of users vote the most recommendations to achieve the next version. Just as all of the features we have listed here are from the customer's needs, the solution of these problems is of course of great benefit to improve the productivity of our customers.

On the other hand, AutoCAD itself in the continuous innovation and software, hardware technology development constantly combined, so that AutoCAD after 25 years of time, still continue to develop and innovate.

In short, AutoCAD plays a key role in Autodesk the whole global digital innovation solution.