Explore concepts and produce stunning artwork with Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer illustration software. Within its intuitive, creative environment, professional designers and artists from all industries can utilize the hybrid paint and vector workflow for design illustration and graphic communication. Optimized for pen and mouse interaction, the dynamic user interface supports and enhances your freedom of expression.

Engineers can take advantage of SketchBook Designer functionality directly inside of AutoCAD®. Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer for AutoCAD® was built specifically for AutoCAD users to enhance their current workflow. It adds fully integrated illustration, painting, and manipulation capabilities directly into AutoCAD, making it a broader creative tool.

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Top 5 Capabilities

1 Embeddedsketching,painting,andim-agecompositingworkflowsdirectlyinAutoCAD

2 Easycolormanipulation

3 Mixedmediaworkflows—assemblingimages,sketches,curves,and3Ddata

4 Industryuniquedynamictransforma-tiontool

5 Hybridpaintandvectorworkflows*

Explore Concepts and Produce Stunning Artwork with Autodesk SketchBook Designer

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AutodeskSketchBookDesignerUnlike photo-editing or artistic painting applications, SketchBook Designer is a tool geared for creative exploration. It includes an advanced illustration toolset geared for tasks from freehand sketches and tight technical linework to compositing photo and image assets for graphic communication. Whether you are a freehand artist or using a standard mouse configuration, you can produce professional, high-quality artwork, quickly and easily.

IntuitiveUIDesigned to encourage creativity, SketchBook Designer offers a dynamic and scalable UI, which is optimized for both pen- and mouse-based interaction.

HybridPaint/VectorWorkflow*Whether creating freehand sketches, tight technical linework, or compositing photo and image assets, the hybrid raster/vector environment allows lines to be edited at any time, providing users with a high degree of control and flexibility.

PowerfulExplorativeToolsWith powerful tools for exploring shape variations, symmetric design, color variations, and compositions, SketchBook Designer is designed to offer maximum creative freedom.

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Experience creative freedom with the Autodesk SketchBook Designer family of products

AutodeskSketchBookDesignerforAutoCADThis product is especially helpful for AutoCAD users who have a creative part of their job and require multiple products outside of AutoCAD to get their job done. Key functionality includes:

WorkDirectlywithinYourAutoCADEnrich your AutoCAD workflows with integrated painting and image editing capabilities directly within AutoCAD, enhancing how you explore and communicate; without having to learn or use a separate illustration application.

CommunicateviaIllustrationToolsIncluded are numerous painting tools so that AutoCAD users who need to integrate handwritten annotations can now communicate via illustrations versus only a DWGTM file. Included are marking menus, direct on-screen controls, and a collapsible window that lets users maximize screen real estate for increased productivity.

CompositeandManipulateImagesinMinutesUse layers to compose multiple images together. Dynamically transform and manipulate content to create new variations.

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