1. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
Developer Days 2010
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
® 2010 Autodesk

2. Nondisclosure Agreement
Today’s discussion is covered under your ADN Agreement with Autodesk.
The information we will be providing is highly confidential, and is to be shared within your company on “need to know basis” and to NO ONE outside your company.
Autodesk makes no guarantees that anything presented or discussed will actually appear in the future.
Some of what we will present can and WILL change.
Importance of sharing on a need to know basis.

3. AutoCAD “Ironman”
Experience Ideas Before They’re Real

4. Goal of Ironman
Performance
Fit
Finish
Fix F3

5. AutoCAD Technology Cycle
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Same DWG format
Binary Compatible ObjectARX
Visual Studio 2008
AutoCAD 2010
AutoCAD 2011
AutoCAD 2012
“Ironman”
AutoCAD 2007
AutoCAD 2008
AutoCAD 2009
Same DWG format
Binary Compatible ObjectARX
Visual Studio 2005
VBA?
We plan this to be the last release that supports VBA – and as in the last two releases, one has to download the VBA enabler to run VBA on Ironman

6. Startup performance AutoCAD 2012 | Performance Start-up improvements
Goal: Increase overall performance by 10%, as compared with AutoCAD 2008
Startup performance
Start-up improvements
Cold start: 45  26 sec. (vs. 28 sec. for ACAD 2008)
Warm start: 10  8 sec. (vs. 5 sec. for ACAD 2008)
Jon to update

7. Responsiveness AutoCAD 2012 | Performance
Goal: Increase overall performance by 10%, as compared with AutoCAD 2008
Responsiveness
Improved Ribbon response time
Common direct manipulation issues (e.g., large polylines, hatch, 3D navigation)

8. AutoCAD 2012 | Conceptual Design
Goal: Increase discovery and usage for common 3D tasks
Multi-functional grips
~60% click reduction
Top 10 editing commands
20% of command usage (CIP)
Most frequently used entities - lines, arcs, dimensions, etc.

9. AutoCAD 2012 | Conceptual Design
Goal: Increase discovery and usage for common 3D tasks
Manipulate UCS directly
In-canvas control of UCS – grab and move
Similar to current Gizmo interactions
Reduces load on UI – remove UCS panel

10. AutoCAD 2012 | Conceptual Design
Goal: Reach competitive seats by moving into adjacent workflows
3D Enhancements
Loft Preview
Surface Creation Preview
Edit Bar Enhancements
Periodic Spline/Surface
IGES Import/Export
Blending Curves
Extending Splines
Filleting Splines
JOIN Multi Object Selection
Editing Fit Points on Spline
Kink for Spline
Fusion?

11. AutoCAD 2012 | Conceptual Design
Goal: Democratize use of point clouds among *all* AutoCAD users
Capacity (large point set displays)
Selection optimization
API enhancements
PM to decide if this slide stays or the performance enhancements move to the performance slide

12. AutoCAD 2012 | Documentation
Goal: Best 3D-into-2D experience from *any* 3D model
Bring 3D models into AutoCAD
Perform common actions (e.g., cross sections, annotation, detailing)
Creating and documenting 2D views
Inventor w/ associativity
CATIA, Pro/E, Rhino
Adam to update – Synergy – Amar wants a deep dive…perhaps the prototype, a demo? Be specific about what is in scope for Ironman and what is the long lead i.e. not in scope to deliver for Ironman.

13. AutoCAD 2012 | Documentation
Goal: Increase discoverability and access to commands
Command line
Auto-complete commands and sysvars
Differentiate commands and sysvars
Improve appearance – fonts, color, etc.
First prototyped by one of our DevTech engineers – the same engineers that support you.

14. AutoCAD 2012 | Documentation
Goal: Increase discoverability and access to commands
Associative Arrays
Disruptive dialog elimination
Workflow optimization (5 steps to 2)
In-canvas creation/editing
Path associativity
Parameter driven

15. AutoCAD 2012 | Content Search
Goal: Quickly search for design files, objects, and content
Content Search
Search local and network drives
Search within files for content and objects
In Labs today “Project Snap”

16. AutoCAD for Mac | Native Mac Application
Familiar AutoCAD
Identical command syntax
In-canvas experience identical
Grips and right click menus are exactly the same
Full 2D and 3D productivity
LISP and ObjectARX
Familiar Mac
Multi-touch (e.g., pinch, pull)
Spotlight & expose
Coverflow integration
Overall Mac look-and-feel
Faster install & start up
Not Parallels!

17. AutoCAD for Mac | Global RolloutQ3
Countries*
US/CA
UK/FR
MainEuro
MainEuroTR
Languages*
US English
French Q4
MX/BR
FY12 Q1
Countries
EMEA L-3
Greece
EMEA L-5
Turkey Q2
All of Europe
South Africa
ASEAN
Japan
Korea
LA L-2
Languages
Global Eng
Itallian
German
Spanish
Japanese
Korean
FY13 Q1
APAC L-2
This can and will change! R1 R2 R3

18. Work on your DWGs from anywhere and with anyone
AutoCAD WS
Work on your DWGs from anywhere and with anyone
Mobile
Web
View, Edit, Co-edit
DWG Files
AutoCAD Plug-in
iPhone and iPad today… Android in the future
Lightweight client on each device.
The Cloud takes the DWG and simplifies and compacts it for consumption by the client on these “low power” devices.

19. AutoCAD 2012 | Discover/Learn/Buy
Goal: Leverage community for broader, deeper, and more accurate user assistance
Leverage AutoCAD Exchange for broader, more pertinent and aggregated learning experience
“In Product ”
Web Based Help
Reference, tips & tricks, best practices
Improved search accuracy & performance
Improved search across aggregated content
Local install option
Store

20. AutoCAD 2012 | Store
Goal: Immediate solutions – easy and delightful
Leverage the Exchange Store to increase your capabilities and productivity now
iPhone App Store like experience
Quick, easy, delightful
Free, Trial and Fee based Products
Sell your Products
IN PRODUCT
AT START-UP
The way to get to Help

21. AutoCAD 2012 | Store Reach In Product Experience
Goal: Energize and Delight the Developer Community
Reach
Over 500,000 customers
Over 3 million users
Starting with AutoCAD… then AutoCAD verticals… then Inventor and Revit
Cost of Marketing = Zero
In Product Experience
Not web
Easy download, install, update and migrate
Free, Trial and Fee based Products

22. Marketing Free? Social Trial? Fee? Marketing Revenue Marketing
AutoCAD 2012 | Store
Goal: Energize and Delight the Developer Community
Marketing
Social
Free?
Trial?
Fee?
Marketing
Revenue
Marketing

23. During Beta Later AutoCAD 2012 | Store Experiment and Learn!
Goal: Energize and Delight the Developer Community
During Beta
Experiment and Learn!
No payment processing yet
Autodesk “repackages” Products
Later
Autodesk commission?
More languages
Inventor, Revit…
The Store is Software as a Service
Payment processing is likely to be through PayPal – which means credit card from over 40 countries. How many of you have used PayPal?
Initially Autodesk will be taking no part in the financial transaction – you get 100% of the Sales. Longer term we expect to receive up to a 30% commission – same as the apple App Store – but in these early days, while you are bearing the cost of learning of the Store works for your target customers and your Products, you will keep all the Sales.
When will Autodesk turn on payment processing? Likely in February – and definitely before we release in late March.
Most of you will be able to use the Store to reach half the Autodesk customers in the world that use the English version.

24. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Up in the Cloud
Get some experience with Publishing a product in the Store, getting familiar with the process – and start seeing how your target customers behave. You have a few months in the beta “sandbox” to learn – when making changes is easy. Try Free. Try low cost. Try higher cost.

25. Nondisclosure Agreement
Today’s discussion is covered under your ADN Agreement with Autodesk.
The information we will be providing is highly confidential, and is to be shared within your company on “need to know basis” and to NO ONE outside your company.
Autodesk makes no guarantees that anything presented or discussed will actually appear in the future.

26. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
Developer Days 2010
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
® 2010 Autodesk