Product Information
Autodesk SketchBook Designer 2013
Target Customers
Creative Professionals (1-9) and
SMBs (<500) across industries
•  Product Designers
•  Industrial Designers
•  Graphic Professionals
•  Architects
•  Commercial Artists
•  Automotive Designers
•  Entertainment and Game Designers
•  Concept Artists
Target Customer Values
•  Create and express ideas
faster, using powerful and
flexible tools that encourage
creative exploration
•  Improve collaborative
communication by integrating
sketching paradigms and image
manipulation throughout the
design process
Used for?
Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer 2013
software is especially powerful for:
•  Pen- and Mouse-Based
Illustration
•  Assembling and Composing Images
•  Graphic Communication
•  Concept Design and Iteration
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Product Description
Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer 2013 illustration software helps you to explore
concepts quickly and easily, iterate in real time, and produce stunning artwork.
With a unique hybrid paint and vector workflow, SketchBook Designer 2013
offers creative professionals tools to transform ideas quickly into compelling
visual communications.
Key Features
Unique hybrid paint and vector environment helps bring ease and agility
throughout the product concept and iteration process
•  Produce complex and intricate designs more easily with powerful vector
workflows while remaining flexible for iteration
•  Simultaneously manipulate paint and vector layer contents
•  Select from a library of brushes that can be used on both paint and vector layers
•  Quickly annotate designs with the text tool
•  Sketch free-form curves on designs and import/export curve data (DWG™ files)
•  Experience a seamless workflow with the AutoCAD® add-in, available with
the enterprise version of SketchBook Designer
•  Save common image formats including JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and layered PSD
Advanced tools for concept exploration and quick iteration
•  Full control of multiple layers, including layer blending, folders, and
dynamic symmetry
•  Interactive fills and gradients give you full control to explore color schemes
and shape definition
•  Dynamic transformation and warping tools
•  Ability to change line thickness, brush styles, shape, and color of vector
curves at any time
•  Shape recognition and interactive smoothing while creating or editing any curve
What’s New in 2013
•  Updated user interface makes the workflow more efficient
•  User-configurable hotkeys speed the design process
•  Texture fills now include support for Substance Smart Textures and user-
adjustable textures; additionally, SketchBook Designer now includes more
than 60 preset textures (brick, concrete, fabric, and natural materials)
•  Color adjustment for layers and layer folders (brightness, contrast, saturation,
lightness, and invert color)
•  User-defined grids for reference and snapping (square, circular, or 2-point
perspective grids)
•  Preference to define default canvas size
•  Color Editor includes the Copic® Color System
•  Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro is now included with SketchBook Designer
•  Export DXF™ formatted files
Also in the SketchBook® Family
•  Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro
•  Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro for
iPad™ and Android™ Tablets
•  Autodesk® SketchBook® Mobile,
available for iOS and Android
Notes
•  Autodesk SketchBook Designer
for AutoCAD 2013 works with
the AutoCAD 2013 release
version, AutoCAD® Mechanical
2013, AutoCAD® Architecture
2013, and AutoCAD® MEP 2013
software products
•  Autodesk SketchBook Designer
for AutoCAD 2013 is currently
available on Windows only
System Requirements
Optimized for both pen-based (freehand) and mouse interactions
Macintosh
•  Mac® OS X 10.6 or greater
•  64-bit Intel Core2® Duo 2.33 GHz or greater CPU
•  2 GB RAM or greater, with 4 GB or more highly recommended 
•  NVIDIA® GeForce® or ATI Radeon graphics card with 512MB or more
dedicated memory
•  Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 with True Color to 32-bit Color
•  5 GB of free disk space
•  Intuos®3 or higher tablet or Wacom Cintiq® active tablet highly
recommended, using a tablet driver of 6.1.2-5 or higher
Windows
•  Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise 32-bit and 64-bit 
•  Microsoft® Windows® 7 Ultimate 32-bit and 64-bit
•  Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional 32-bit and 64-bit
•  Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Later, 32-bit and
64-bit Edition*
*Certain elements of the application will have a different appearance when compared with Windows 7.

•  Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® processor, 3.0 GHz or greater or Intel

Core2Duo or AMD Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz or greater 
•  4 GB or greater system memory
•  DirectX 9.0 capable graphics card with 512MB or greater dedicated video
memory
•  Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 with True Color or 32-bit Color 
•  Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 (included with install)
•  5 GB of free disk space
•  Intuos®3 or higher tablet or Wacom Cintiq® active tablet highly
recommended, using a tablet driver of 6.1.6-7 or higher
•  For Bamboo® users, a tablet driver of 5.2.4-5 is recommended

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