With the flurry of interest that ‘s been generated by AU 2010 in Las Vegas, we thought it would be nice to give you a sneak peak at the new functionality that is coming with AutoCAD WS 1.1.

Here’s the quote from the full press release:

“AutoCAD WS has been overwhelmingly embraced by users,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president, Autodesk Platform Solutions and Emerging Business. “In just eight weeks, over 410,000 users have registered, 430,000 drawings have been uploaded and the mobile application has been downloaded from Apple’s App Store over 560,000 times. With the update to AutoCAD WS, we are directly responding to user feedback. We have added requested features, including the ability to access designs while offline. This will encourage even more designers to start using this free and groundbreaking product.”

Without question, the largest number of requests we have had since launching AutoCAD WS less than two months ago, has been for users to work with their drawings even when they are not connected to the internet. we are happy to announce that AutoCAD WS 1.1 will allow users to download their online drawings and save them locally to their iPad or iPhone for viewing and editing offline.

AutoCAD WS 1.1 will be available in the App Store very soon.

Check out the video we made showing off the new Offline function: