System requirements for AutoCAD 2021 including Specialized Toolsets (Windows)

Operating 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 8.1 and Windows 10. See Autodesk's Product Support
System Lifecycle for support information.
Basic: 2.5–2.9 GHz processor
Processor Recommended: 3+ GHz processor
Multiple processors: Supported by the application
Basic: 8 GB
Memory
Recommended: 16 GB
Conventional Displays:
1920 x 1080 with True Color
Display
Resolution High Resolution & 4K Displays:
Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 supported on Windows 10, 64-bit systems (with
capable display card)
Basic: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Display Card
Recommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Disk Space 7.0 GB
Deployment via Deployment Wizard.

The license server and all workstations that will run applications dependent on
network licensing must run TCP/IP protocol.

Network Either Microsoft® or Novell TCP/IP protocol stacks are acceptable. Primary login on
workstations may be Netware or Windows.

In addition to operating systems supported for the application, the license server will
run on Windows® Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server
2019 editions.
Pointing
MS-Mouse compliant
Device
.NET
.NET Framework version 4.8 or later
Framework

System requirements for AutoCAD for Mac 2021

Apple® macOS® Big Sur v11 (requires Update 2021.1)
Operating Apple® macOS® Catalina v10.15
System Apple macOS Mojave v10.14
Apple macOS High Sierra v10.13
Basic: Apple Mac Pro® 4.1, MacBook Pro® 5.1, iMac® 8.1, Mac mini® 3.1,
MacBook Air®, MacBook® 5.1
Model
Recommended: Apple Mac® models supporting Metal Graphics Engine
Apple Mac models with M series chip are supported under Rosetta 2 mode.
64-bit Intel CPU
CPU Type
Recommended: Intel Core i7 or higher
System requirements for AutoCAD for Mac 2021
Basic: 4GB
Memory
Recommended: 8GB or higher
Display Basic: 1280 x 800 display
Resolution High Resolution: 2880 x 1800 with Retina Display
Disk Space 3 GB free disk space for download and installation
Pointing Device Apple-compliant Mouse, Apple-compliant Trackpad, Microsoft-compliant mouse
Display Card Recommended: Mac native installed graphics cards
APFS, APFS(Encrypted), Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended
Disk Format
(Journaled, Encrypted)

Additional Requirements for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling

Memory 8 GB RAM or more
Disk
6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements
Space
Display 1920 x 1080 or greater True Color video display adapter; 128 MB VRAM or greater;
Card Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater; Direct3D®-capable workstation class graphics card.

Specialized Toolsets (Windows Only)

Toolset Additional Requirements
• Disk Space: 16GB

AutoCAD Map 3D • Memory: 16GB

• Database & FDO Requirements (see below)

• Disk Space: 12GB

AutoCAD Electrical
• Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable (x64)

AutoCAD Architecture Disk Space: 12GB

AutoCAD MEP Disk Space: 12GB
AutoCAD Plant 3D Disk Space: 10GB
AutoCAD Mechanical Disk Space: 7GB
AutoCAD Raster Design Disk Space: 1GB

AutoCAD Map 3D Additional Requirements (Windows Only)

FDO Provider Requirements
FDO Provider Certified With Notes
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard and
Enterprise Editions Industry Models also support
Microsoft SQL
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard and the versions of Microsoft SQL
Server
Enterprise Editions Server listed on the left.
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard and
FDO Provider Requirements
FDO Provider Certified With Notes
Enterprise Editions
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard and
Enterprise Editions
Industry Models support the
Oracle 11g Oracle 11.2.0.4.0
same Oracle versions as
Release 2 Oracle Express, Standard, and Enterprise Editions
listed on the left.
Industry Models support the
Oracle 12c Oracle 12.2.0.1.0
same Oracle versions as
Release 2 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition
listed on the left.
Industry Models support the
Oracle 18.3
Oracle 18c same Oracle versions as
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
listed on the left.
Industry Models support the
Oracle 19.3
Oracle 19c same Oracle versions as
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
listed on the left.
DEM, JPG2K, DTED, MrSID®, ECW, PNG,
Raster
ESRI® Grid, TIFF, JPEG, ESRI® ASCII
Autodesk SDF 3.0
ArcGIS® 10.7.1 This Provider requires ESRI
ESRI ArcGIS ArcGIS 10.6.1 licensed components to be
ArcGIS 10.5 installed on client system.
MySQL 8.0
The FDO ODBC provider has been tested with
corresponding versions of ODBC drivers that are
ODBC
shipped with the relevant supported operating
systems version.
OGC WMS WMS 1.3.0
OGC WMTS WMS 1.0.0
OGC WFS WFS 2.0.0
SQLite SQLite 3.27.2
PostgresSQL PostgreSQL 9.5 + PostGIS 2.2

ODBC Drivers Tested Versions

Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English)
Microsoft® Access® Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)
16.00.4513.1000
Microsoft® Excel® Driver (*.xls, *xlsx, Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English)
*.xlsm, *.xlsb) 16.00.4513.1000
MySQL® ODBC 8.0 Driver 8.00.13.00
SQL Server® 10.00.18362.01
Oracle® in OraClient19Home1 19.00.00.00