Autodesk SketchBook Designer 2012

Explore design concepts and produce stunning artwork with Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer illustration software. In addition to the sketching capabilities and quality results that professionals have come to expect from Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro software, SketchBook Designer enables professional designers and artists to use a hybrid paint and vector workflow for concept design illustration and graphic design. Within the intuitive SketchBook creative environment, even new users can be productive within minutes.

SketchBook Designer is especially helpful for:

• Blank screen illustration
• Concept design
• Combining and composing images
• Graphic design and communication

Autodesk SketchBook Designer for AutoCAD
Designers can also take advantage of SketchBook directly within AutoCAD® software. Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer for AutoCAD® adds integrated workflows that allow instant access to illustration, painting, and graphic design manipulation capabilities.

• Leverage freehand drawing techniques with pen-based interaction
• Sketch, mark up and annotate directly on top of AutoCAD content
• Manipulate and composite images to quickly create variations for richer communication

Explore Concepts and Produce Stunning Artwork with Autodesk SketchBook Designer

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.

Top 5 Capabilities:

• Embedded sketching, painting, and image compositing workflows directly in AutoCAD
• Easy color manipulation
• Mixed media workflows—assembling images, sketches, curves, and 3D data
• Industry unique dynamic transformation tool
• Hybrid paint and vector workflows*

Experience creative freedom with the Autodesk SketchBook Designer family of products

Autodesk SketchBook Designer
Unlike 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.

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

Hybrid Paint/Vector Workflow*
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.

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

Autodesk SketchBook Designer for AutoCAD
This 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:

Work Directly within Your AutoCAD
Enrich 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.

Communicate via Illustration Tools
Included 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.

Composite and Manipulate Images in Minutes
Use layers to compose multiple images together. Dynamically transform and manipulate content to create new variations.

System Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium (compare Windows 7 versions); Microsoft® Windows Vista® Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium (SP2 or later) (compare Windows Vista versions); or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later)
• For Windows Vista or Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology; for Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 GB free disk space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
• Install from download or DVD