AutoCAD® 2012 FOR DUMMIES®

The Internet and AutoCAD: An Overview

As with all things Webby, the Internet features in AutoCAD are a hodgepodge of the genuinely useful, the interesting but still somewhat immature or difficult to use, and the downright foolish. In this chapter, I steer you toward features and techniques that are reliable and widely used today, and away from features that (to put it kindly) might not be ready for prime time. On the other hand, a few of today's questionable features may become the reliable, commonplace ones of tomorrow. I give you enough context to see how everything works and where it may lead. Table 20-1 summarizes AutoCAD's Internet features and tells you where in this book (or the online help) to find more information.

Table 20-1 AutoCAD 2012 Internet Features

The new SHARE command (in both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT) offers access to a new online service called AutoCAD WS via the Ribbon's new Online tab. AutoCAD WS lets you share drawings via a secure Web site. You upload drawings from your local computer or network to the AutoCAD WS site, and can then review them on any Internet-connected ...