Technical information

Introduction

AutoCAD

Land Desktop is based on AutoCAD and

some components of AutoCAD

ΤΜ

Map 3D. Using

AutoCAD Land Desktop, you can create, maintain, out-

put, and analyze all the data in your land development

projects.

This Getting Started guide contains information for

both AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009 and AutoCAD Civil

3D Land Desktop Companion 2009. For both products,

you can refer to chapters 1 through 7 of this guide for

information on the basic Land Desktop product fea-

tures.

If you have AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Compan-

ion 2009 installed, then you automatically have the

civil engineering and survey tool features built into your

product. Chapters 8 through 19 of this guide contain

information on the civil engineering and surveying

tools that are available with the AutoCAD Civil 3D Land

Desktop Companion 2009 product.

In this chapter

■ AutoCAD Land Desktop

■ The Installation Wizard

■ First things to know

■ How to use the

documentation set

■ Finding information