Standards Based Design with AutoCAD Toolsets

Whether you’re hoping to follow international drafting standards or establish standards in your drawings, the toolsets enable you to do just that. Multiply your productivity with tools that help you and your team deliver consistent, standards-based design documentation.

Adhering to a standard environment improves team communication and helps drive consistent production results.

These objects have the geometry needed to represent the 2-dimensional (2D) and

3-dimensional (3D) view. You can create very simple object types that rely on standard settings and add them on the fly. Or you can create complex objects with different components, materials, detailed cleanup information, and contain interferences with other objects.

Architecture toolset: 8,000+ intelligent AEC objects and styles such as walls, doors, and windows.

Electrical toolset: More than 2,000 standards-based schematic symbols and includes support for the NFPA, IEC 60617, AS, GB, IEC, JIC, and JIS standards. This includes devices such as circuit breakers, pushbuttons, PLCs, terminals, and more as well as hydraulic, pneumatic, and P&ID Symbols.

Mechanical toolset: Over 700,000 pre-drawn standard parts and features based on 17 international standards. They include hole features; fasteners; shaft parts and features; steels shapes; and generators.

MEP toolset: 10,500+ of ACE objects, including intelligent ducts, pipes, conduits, and many more.

Map 3D toolset: Organize objects in your drawing by the real-world features that they represent, such as roads, parcels, cables, or pipes. When you create an object using Object Classification, it automatically takes properties and values from its object class, maintaining consistency and establishing standards in your drawing.

Plant 3D toolset:

Allows you to quickly and easily draft piping and instrument diagrams with pre-defined symbols of multiple standards.

Raster Design toolset: Use raster design tools in a specialized toolset to edit scanned drawings and convert raster images to DWG objects.