Walk or fly through a model with the click of a button. Quickly rotate and orient any solid or surface model with the Autodesk® ViewCube® 3D navigation widget. Pan, center, and zoom on any object with the Autodesk® SteeringWheels® 3D navigation feature.

You now have the power to design ideas in almost any form you can imagine. Simply push/pull faces, edges, and vertices to model complex shapes, add smooth surfaces, and much more. With tools for surface, solid, and mesh modeling, AutoCAD 2011 provides the utmost flexibility and control when designing in 3D.

Create striking visual representations of your 3D models. AutoCAD 2011 includes hundreds of visually rich predefined surface materials that you can easily select and edit using the new Materials Browser and Editor.

Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects. With support for up to 2 billion points, you can quickly visualize and snap to the surface of your scanned objects directly within your modeling workspace.

Ensure a clear understanding of the continuity between different surfaces.

Dramatically slash your design revision time with parametric drawing. By defining persistent relationships between objects, parallel lines remain parallel and concentric circles remain centered, all automatically. And now, you can infer geometric constraints in real time—as you draw—eliminating the need to manually define all of your object relationships.

Spend less time creating and managing multiple items across multiple layers. With annotation scaling tools, you can create a single annotative-type object that automatically resizes to reflect the current viewport or model-space scale.

Save time and standardize drawings with ease. With Dynamic Blocks, you no longer have to redraw repetitive standard components, and you can reduce your cumbersome block libraries in the process. Dynamic Blocks make individual block geometry editable and eliminate the need to define a new block for every variation of shape and size.

Organization isn’t a luxury. The AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager organizes your drawing sheets, reduces steps to publish, automatically creates layout views, links sheet set information into title blocks and plot stamps, and performs tasks across a sheet set so everything is in one convenient place.

Quickly and easily extract property data from objects in drawings (including blocks and attributes) and drawing information with the Data Extraction wizard. The extracted data can then be automatically output to a table or an external file.

Do more than just visualize your designs—make them real. Whatever you’re designing can now be made into a physical prototype through a 3D printer, either your own or through a connected service provider.

With built-in tools to publish and import DWF™ files within AutoCAD, collaborating on projects is more seamless than ever. Autodesk® Design Review DWF viewing and markup software is the free*, integrated, digital solution for clients or vendors to view, print, and mark up designs without needing the original software.

Save time and increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks without requiring the assistance of a CAD manager. Now you can record tasks, add text messages, and request user input, then quickly select and play back recorded macros.