“What is the difference between AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT?” Autodesk provides a comparison matrix that highlights some of the differences. (That particular document compares the 2008 versions).
But there really doesn’t seem to be a comprehensive comparison of what the actual differences are. I imagine many new LT users figure out a command is missing when they go to use a familiar command and it tells them…
Command: XCLIP
Unknown Command “XCLIP”. Press F1 for HELP.
Below I have listed a quick summary of major differences, a quick summary of the new features in LT, and then a list of 323 commands and 175 system variables that are available in AutoCAD, but not available in AutoCAD LT 2009.
General list of what is missing in LT…
Here is a summary of the major features that are not included in LT 2009.
- Sheet Set Manager
- Network licensing
- CAD standards management
- Most 3D tools and commands
- Express tools
- Action recorder
- Support for Autolisp, VBA, .NET and other programming languages.
New for LT 2009…
Besides the normal UI upgrade to match AutoCAD, the following previously unavailable features have been added to LT 2009.
- Image referencing
- Non-rectangular viewports
- Truecolor
- Fields
- 64-bit support
List of unavailable commands in LT 2009
Below is a list of 323 commands that are available in AutoCAD 2009, but not available in AutoCAD LT 2009.
*SCROLL -3DCONFIG -ACTSTOP -ACTUSERMESSAGE -ARCHIVE -DWFADJUST -EATTEXT -INTERFERE -MLEDIT -OPENSHEETSET -PARTIALLOAD -PARTIALOPEN -PUBLISH -REFEDIT -SHADEMODE -VBALOAD -VBARUN -VISUALSTYLES ..ACADSTATUS 3D 3DALIGN 3DARRAY 3DCLIP 3DCONFIG 3DCORBIT 3DDISTANCE 3DDWF 3DDWFPUBLISH 3DFACE 3DFLY 3DFORBIT 3DMESH 3DORBIT 3DORBITCTR 3DRENDER 3DROTATE 3DSIN 3DSOUT 3DSWIVEL 3DWALK ACISIN ADCCUSTOMNAVIGATE ACTRECORD ACTSTOP ACTUSERINPUT ACTUSERMESSAGE AI_BOX AI_CIRCTAN AI_CONE AI_CUSTOM_SAFE AI_DIM_TEXTABOVE AI_DIM_TEXTCENTER AI_DIM_TEXTHOME AI_DISH AI_DOME AI_FMS AI_INVOKENFW AI_MOLC AI_PRODUCT_SUPPORT AI_PRODUCT_SUPPORT_SAFE AI_PSPACE AI_PYRAMID AI_SELALL AI_SPHERE AI_TORUS AI_TRAINING_SAFE AI_WEDGE ALIASEDIT ALIGN ALIGNSPACE ALLPLAY AMECONVERT ANIPATH APPLOAD ARCHIVE ARCTEXT ARX ASSIST ASSISTCLOSE ATTIN ATTOUT ATTREDEF ATTSYNC BACKGROUND BATTMAN BCOUNT BEXTEND BLOCK? BLOCKREPLACE BLOCKTOXREF BORROWLICENSE BOX BREAKLINE BREP BROWSER2 BSCALE BTRIM BURST CAMERA CDORDER CHECKSTANDARDS CHURLS CLIPIT COMPILE CONE CONVERTOLDLIGHTS CONVERTOLDMATERIALS CONVTOSOLID CONVTOSURFACE COPYM CYLINDER DATAEXTRACTION 'DBCCLOSE 'DBCONNECT DBLIST 'DDGRIPS 'DDSELECT DIMEX DIMIM DIMREASSOC DISTANTLIGHT DVIEW DXBIN EATTEDIT EATTEXT EATTEXTEDIT EATTEXTUPDATE EDGE EDGESURF EDITTIME EDITSHOT EXOFFSET EXPLAN EXPRESSMENU EXPRESSTOOLS EXTRIM EXTRUDE FILTERS FINISH FLATSHOT FLATTEN FOG FREESPOT FREEWEB FS FSMODE GATTE GETSEL GIFIN GRADIENT HELIX HYPERLINKOPEN IMAGEAPP IMAGEEDIT IMPRESSION IMPRINT INTERFERE JOGSECTION LAYERP LAYERPMODE LAYOUTMERGE LAYTRANS LAYVPMODE LIGHT LIGHTLIST LIGHTLISTCLOSE LIVESECTION LOAD LOFT LSP LSPSURF MATERIALASSIGN MATERIALATTACH MATERIALMAP MATERIALS MATERIALSCLOSE MENU MINSERT MIRROR3D MKLTYPE MKSHAPE MLEDIT MLINE MLSTYLE MOCORO MOVEBAK MPEDIT MSTRETCH MVSETUP NAVSMOTION NAVSMOTIONCLOSE NAVVCUBE NCOPY NETLOAD NEWSHEETSET NEWSHOT NEWVIEW OLDMTPROP OLELINKS OPENSHEETSET OVERKILL PAINTPROP PARTIALOAD PARTIALOPEN PFACE PLANESURF PLJOIN PLT2DWG POINTLIGHT POLYSOLID PRESSPULL PROPULATE PSBSCALE PSELECT PSFILL PSTSCALE PYRAMID QDIM QLATTACH QLATTACHSET QLDETACHSET QQUIT REDEFINE REDIR REFCLOSE REFEDIT REFSET RENDER RENDERCROP RENDERENVIRONMENT RENDEREXPOSURE RENDERUNLOAD RENDERUPDATE RENDERWIN RENDSCR REPLAY REPURLS RETURNLICENSE REVERT REVOLVE REVSURF ROTATE3D RPREF RPREFCLOSE RTEDIT RTEXT RTUCS RULESURF SAVEALL SAVEIMG SECTION SECTIONPLANE SEQUENCEPLAY SETIDROPHANDLER SHAPE SHEETSET SHEETSETHIDE SHELL SHOWURLS SHP2BLK SKETCH SLICE SOLDRAW SOLIDEDIT SOLPROF SOLVIEW SPHERE SPOTLIGHT SSX STANDARDS STATS 'STATUS STLOUT SUNPROPERTIES SUNPROPERTIESCLOSE SUPERHATCH SWEEP SYSVDLG TABSURF TARGETPOINT TBCONFIG TCASE TCIRCLE TCOUNT TEXTFIT TEXTMASK TEXTUNMASK TFRAMES THICKEN TJUST TORIENT TORUS TRACE 'TREESTAT TSCALE TUTCLEAR TUTDEMO TXT2MTXT UNDEFINE VBAIDE VBALOAD VBAMAN VBARUN VBASTMT VIEWPLAY VISUALSTYLES VISUALSTYLESCLOSE VLIDE VLISP VPSCALE VPSYNC VSCURRENT VSSAVE WALKFLYSETTINGS WEBLIGHT WEDGE XCLIP XDATA XDLIST XEDGES XLIST XOPEN XREFCLIP List of unavailable system variables in AutoCAD LT 2009 Below is a list of 175 system variables that are available in AutoCAD 2009, but not available in AutoCAD LT 2009. *_TOOLPALETTEPATH _LINFO _SERVER 3DCONVERSIONMODE 3DDWFPREC ACADPREFIX ACADVER ACIS15 ACISOUTVER APSTATE ASSISTSTATE AXISMODE AXISUNIT BINDTYPE CAMERADISPLAY CAMERAHEIGHT CMATERIAL CMLJUST CMLSCALE CMLSTYLE COMPASS CPROFILE CPUTICKS CSHADOW CURRENTPROFILE DBCSTATE DBGLISTALL DEFAULTLIGHTING DEFAULTLIGHTINGTYPE DEMANDLOAD DRAGVS DWGWRITE DXEVAL ENTERPRISEMENU FACETRATIO FFLIMIT FLATLAND FULLOPEN GFANG GFCLR1 GFCLR2 GFCLRLUM GFCLRSTATE GFNAME GFSHIFT GTAUTO GTDEFAULT GTLOCATION HPASSOC IMPLIEDFACE INTERFERECOLOR INTERFEREOBJVS INTERFEREVPVS LASTPROMPT LAYOUTREGENCTL LAZYLOAD LEGACYCTRLPICK LIGHTGLYPHDISPLAY LIGHTINGUNITS LIGHTLISTSTATE LIGHTSINBLOCKS LINEARBRIGHTNESS LINEARCONTRAST LISPINIT LOFTANG1 LOFTANG2 LOFTMAG1 LOFTMAG2 LOFTNORMALS LOFTPARAM LOGEXPBRIGHTNESS LOGEXPCONTRAST LOGEXPDAYLIGHT LOGEXPMIDTONES LOGEXPPHYSICALSCALE LOGINNAME LONGFNAME MATSTATE MENUCTL MENUNAME NOMUTT OFFSETGAPTYPE OSNAPZ PFACEVMAX PLOTID PLOTTER PLQUIET POPUPS PROJECTNAME PSOLHEIGHT PSOLWIDTH PSQUALITY PSVPSCALE PUBLISHCOLLATE QAUCSLOCK QUEUEDREGENMAX RE-INIT REFEDITNAME RENDERPREFSSTATE RENDERUSERLIGHTS RIASPECT RIBACKG RIEDGE RIGAMUT RIGREY RITHRESH SAVEIMAGES SCREENBOXES SCREENMODE SHADOWPLANELOCATION SHOWHIST SHPNAME SKETCHINC SKPOLY SOLIDCHECK SOLIDHIST SPACESWITCH SSFOUND SSLOCATE SSMAUTOOPEN SSMPOLLTIME SSMSHEETSTATUS SSMSTATE STANDARDSVIOLATION STARTUPTODAY STEPSIZE STEPSPERSEC SUNPROPERTIESSTATE SUNSTATUS SURFTAB1 SURFTAB2 SURFTYPE SURFU SURFV TBCUSTOMIZE TEMPPREFIX TEXTOUTPUTFILEFORMAT UCSDETECT UCSVP UNDOONDISK USERS1 USERS2 USERS3 USERS4 USERS5 VSBACKGROUNDS VSEDGECOLOR VSEDGEJITTER VSEDGEOVERHANG VSEDGES VSEDGESMOOTH VSFACECOLORMODE VSFACEHIGHLIGHT VSFACEOPACITY VSFACESTYLE VSHALOGAP VSHIDEPRECISION VSINTERSECTIONCOLOR VSINTERSECTIONEDGES VSINTERSECTIONLTYPE VSISOONTOP VSLIGHTINGQUALITY VSMATERIALMODE VSMONOCOLOR VSOBSCUREDCOLOR VSOBSCUREDEDGES VSOBSCUREDLTYPE VSSHADOWS VSSILHEDGES VSSILHWIDTH VSSTATE WHIPTHREAD WRITESTAT XFADECTL XREFNOTIFY
