Subscribe to Autodesk® AutoCAD® including specialized toolsets and get access to industry-specific functionality, greater mobility with the new web and mobile apps, and the latest feature updates.
Speed up your work with specialized features & libraries for mechanical design, architecture, 3D mapping, and more while working in a familiar AutoCAD interface.
Only AutoCAD, with the new web and mobile apps, gives you the freedom and flexibility to work on anything, anywhere, at any time. Design and draft using the latest features and functionality included in subscriber-only updates.
Industry-specific toolsets
- Speed work with specialized toolsets for architecture, mechanical design, mapping, and more.
- Enhance work quality with standards-based tools.
- Extend workflows across disciplines more effectively.
- Use industry-specific features and functionality, and easily access content libraries.
Why subscribe
- Draft and design with the latest features included in subscriber-only updates.
- Enjoy greater mobility with the new web and mobile apps.
- Access industry-specific toolsets.
- Stay up to date while working in the familiar AutoCAD interface.
The right tools for the job
When you subscribe to AutoCAD including specialized toolsets, you gain access to features and functionality that help you work faster and more efficiently than ever before. Design more-quickly with industry-specific capabilities that let you:
- Access libraries of symbols, parts, and detail components.
- Automate the creation of annotations, layers, and properties.
- Easily create details and views from 3D models, and quickly generate schedules, lists, and tables.
- Use rules-driven workflows to enforce standards.
Architecture toolset
Speed architectural drawing and documentation with building design features and more than 8,000 intelligent architectural objects. Automate floorplans, sections, elevations, and more.
Mechanical toolset
Accelerate product design with specialized mechanical design features and more than 700,000 intelligent manufacturing parts, features, and symbols. Automate tasks, such as generating machine components and creating bills of materials.
Electrical toolset
Boost productivity while designing and documenting electrical controls systems with specialized features and more than 65,000 intelligent electrical symbols. Speed design of panel layouts, schematic diagrams, and more.
MEP toolset
Efficiently draft, design, and document building systems with specialized engineering features and more than 10,500 intelligent mechanical, electrical, and plumbing objects. Easily design ductwork, electrical conduit, and circuiting for building systems.
Plant 3D toolset
Produce P&IDs efficiently, and integrate them into 3D plant design models using specialized plant design and engineering features. Quickly create plant layouts, schematic diagrams, and more.
Map 3D toolset
Improve planning and design by incorporating GIS and CAD data. Manage spatial data more easily with standard data schema, automated business workflows, and report templates.
Raster design toolset
Convert raster images into DWGTM objects with raster-to-vector tools. Easily edit and clean up raster images while transforming them into vector drawings within a familiar AutoCAD environment.
Work anytime, anywhere
Stay on top of projects at client sites, in the office, and on the go. Subscribe to AutoCAD and gain access to the all-new web app and enhanced mobile app features—helping you take designs and workflows anywhere. Work with designs, drawings, and data on any platform and across devices.
AutoCAD web app
New to the AutoCAD family of products, the AutoCAD web app gives you quick, anytime access to the latest plans. View, create, and edit your CAD drawings through a simplified web interface at web.autocad.com.
AutoCAD mobile app
Work with drawings in the field—even offline. View, create, and edit CAD drawings with powerful, easy-to-use tools on any mobile device.
Save to web and mobile
Save drawings from your desktop to be viewed and edited on the web and mobile apps. Use shared access to the latest drawings on the desktop, web, and mobile devices to work on DWG files anywhere.
Get new and enhanced features
DWG compare
Easily identify and document graphical differences between 2 revisions of a drawing or xref. Use color-coded graphics to highlight the differences between the drawing versions.
2D graphics enhancements
Zoom, pan, and change draw orders and layer properties faster. New controls in the Graphics Performance dialog box let you easily configure the behavior of 2D graphics performance.
Shared views
Share designs without releasing original files. Use a shareable link to publish drawing design views in a web browser, and receive comments back directly into AutoCAD desktop.
Views and viewports
Insert named views onto a layout, change the scale of or move a paper space viewport at any time, and quickly create new model views— even while working on a layout.
Protect your designs with TrustedDWG technology
Help retain the integrity of your design
data throughout the review process with TrustedDWGTM technology. Built into AutoCAD software, TrustedDWG is the original, most efficient, and most accurate way to store and share design data.
System requirements for AutoCAD including Specialized Toolsets.
Products and versions covered
AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD MEP, AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Plant 3D, & AutoCAD Raster Design
| System requirements for AutoCAD 2024 including Specialized Toolsets |
| Operating System |
- 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11 and Windows 10 version 1809 or above.
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| Processor |
Basic: 2.5–2.9 GHz processor (base) ARM Processors are not supported
Recommended: 3+ GHz processor (base), 4+ GHz (turbo) |
| Memory |
Basic: 8 GB
Recommended: 32 GB |
| Display Resolution |
Conventional Displays:
1920 x 1080 with True Color
High Resolution & 4K Displays:
Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 (with "Recommended" display card) |
| Display Card |
Basic: 2 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Recommended: 8 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 12 compliant
DirectX 12 with Feature Level 12_0 is required for Shaded(Fast) and Shaded with edges(Fast) visual styles. Please be sure to use the latest video card manufacturer drivers from their website.
Note: AutoCAD uses your computer's display card for a variety of essential graphics operations including but not limited to view manipulation, line smoothing, and text/linetype generation. It is recommended that you have a display card with dedicated VRAM to support these operations at optimal speeds. |
| Disk Space |
10.0 GB |
| Pointing Device |
MS-Mouse compliant |
| .NET Framework |
.NET Framework Version 4.8 or later |
| System requirements for AutoCAD for Mac |
| Operating System |
Apple® macOS® Ventura v13
Apple macOS Monterey v12
Apple macOS Big Sur v11 |
| Model |
Apple Mac® computers compatible with macOS Big Sur or above
Recommended: Apple Mac models supporting Metal Graphics Engine |
| CPU Type |
64-bit Intel CPU
Apple M series CPU |
| Memory |
Basic: 4GB
Recommended: 8GB or higher |
| Display Resolution |
Basic: 1280 x 800 display
High Resolution: 2880 x 1800 with Retina Display |
| Disk Space |
6 GB free disk space for download and installation |
| Pointing Device |
Apple-compliant Mouse, Apple-compliant Trackpad, Microsoft-compliant mouse |
| Display Card |
Recommended: Mac native installed graphics cards |
| Disk Format |
APFS, APFS(Encrypted), Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)
|
| Additional Requirements for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling |
| Memory |
16 GB RAM or more |
| Disk Space |
6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements |
| Display Card |
3840 x 2160 (4K) or greater True Color video display adapter; 12GB VRAM or greater; Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater; DirectX-capable workstation class graphics card. |
Specialized Toolsets (Windows Only)
| Toolset |
Additional Requirements |
| AutoCAD Map 3D |
Disk Space: 20GB
Memory: 16GB
Database & FDO Requirements (see below) |
| AutoCAD Electrical |
Disk Space: 20GB
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable (x64) (16.0.5044.1000) or later, unless Microsoft Office 2016 (x64) or later is already installed. |
| AutoCAD Architecture |
Disk Space: 20GB
Memory: 16GB |
| AutoCAD MEP |
Disk Space: 21GB
Memory: 16GB |
| AutoCAD Plant 3D |
Disk Space: 12GB
Memory (recommended for 3D modeling): 32GB |
| AutoCAD Mechanical |
Disk Space: 12GB |
| AutoCAD Raster Design |
Disk Space: 1GB |
AutoCAD Map 3D Additional Requirements (Windows Only)
| FDO Provider Requirements |
| FDO Provider |
Certified With |
Notes |
| Microsoft SQL Server |
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard and Enterprise Editions
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard and Enterprise Editions |
Industry Models also support the versions of Microsoft SQL Server listed on the left.
This provider requires the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server (v17.10.2) to be installed.
Driver can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. |
| Oracle 12c Release 2 |
Oracle 12.2.0.1.0
Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition 2 |
Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left. |
| Oracle 19c |
Oracle 19.3
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 |
Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left. |
| Oracle 21c |
Oracle 21.3
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 |
Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left. |
| Raster |
DEM, JPG2K, DTED, MrSID®, ECW, PNG, ESRI® Grid, TIFF, JPEG, ESRI® ASCII |
|
| Autodesk SDF |
3.0 |
|
| ESRI ArcGIS |
ArcGIS® 10.8.1
ArcGIS 10.7.1
ArcGIS 10.6.1 |
This Provider requires ESRI licensed components (ArcGIS Engine/ArcGIS Desktop) to be installed on Map 3D installed system. |
| MySQL |
8.0 |
|
| ODBC |
The FDO ODBC provider has been tested with corresponding versions of ODBC drivers that are shipped with the relevant supported operating systems version. |
|
| OGC WMS |
WMS 1.3.0 |
|
| OGC WMTS |
WMTS 1.0.0 |
|
| OGC WFS |
WFS 2.0.0 |
|
| SQLite |
SQLite 3.27.2 |
|
| PostgresSQL |
PostgreSQL 13.9 + PostGIS 3.0 |
| ODBC Drivers |
Tested Versions |
| Microsoft® Access® Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb) |
Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English) 16.00.4999.1000 |
| Microsoft® Excel® Driver (*.xls, *xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb) |
Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English) 16.00.4999.1000 |
| MySQL® ODBC 8.0 Driver |
8.00.31.00 |
| SQL Server® |
10.00.22000.01 |
| Oracle® in OraClient21Home1 |
21.00.00.00 |
