Explore the newest features in Autodesk AutoCAD software, including industry-specific toolsets, new automation, and insights.
Build and run AutoLISP with Visual LISP IDE to streamline workflows through automation
Automatically place blocks based on previous placements or quickly find and replace existing blocks
Use conversational AI to quickly access helpful AI-generated support and solutions related to AutoCAD
Complete projects faster with helpful features, macros, and tips personalized for you
Access and track essential design data using detailed multi-user event logs with version history
Consolidate revisions and feedback captured on paper or PDFs to compare, review, and automate updates
Publish your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs directly from AutoCAD to Autodesk Docs
Capture, share, and review ideas on the go with one AutoCAD experience on desktop, web, and mobile
Safely review and add feedback directly to a DWG file without altering the existing drawing
Gain access to thousands of parts and additional features with industry-specific toolsets
Customise AutoCAD with APIs to build custom automations and access 1,000+ third-party apps
Design with 2D drafting tools and model in 3D with realistic lighting and materials to render your ideas
Use AutoLISP to streamline workflows and enforce CAD standards through automation. Leverage thousands of previously written programs created for use in AutoCAD-based programs. Supports file types LSP, FAS, and VLX
Automatically place blocks in your drawing in the right position and scale based on where you’ve inserted the same ones thus far in your DWG file, reducing the number of clicks required and saving you time in the process.
Quickly find the blocks you need and replace one or more blocks via machine learning-based suggestions, recently used blocks, and manual substitute block selection.
View individual or team insights based on AutoCAD usage. Insight content is designed to be informative and actionable—to help complete projects faster with helpful features, macros, and tips personalized for you and your teams.
Automate the counting of block or object instances within a selected area or entire drawing. Navigate, filter, and review based on properties and create fields and tables to display counts on the drawing.
Rapidly send and incorporate design feedback. Import feedback from printed paper via mobile or PDFs and add changes to your drawings automatically. AutoCAD uses Autodesk AI to detect and execute certain instructions in markup text including "MOVE," "COPY," or "DELETE" commands.
Add design change notes and markups without altering your existing drawing from AutoCAD desktop in addition to the web and mobile apps.
AutoCAD subscribers receive exclusive additional functionality in AutoCAD on the web, including AutoLISP API on the web and batch plot to PDF(s).
Create and modify objects in circular or rectangular patterns, or along a path
Create and edit centerlines and center marks that automatically move when you move the associated objects.
Extract information from objects, blocks, and attributes, including drawing information.
Enable simultaneous updates by creating a live link between a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and a table in your drawing.
Create dimensions automatically. Pass the cursor over selected objects to see a preview before you create it.
Add flexibility and intelligence to your block references, including changing the shape, size, or configuration.
Use fields in text objects to display text that can be updated automatically as the field value changes.
Specify the size of your drawing sheet, add a title block, and display multiple views of your model.
Create leaders with a variety of content, including text or blocks. Easily format leader lines and define styles.
Apply geometric and dimensional constraints to maintain relationships between drawing geometry.
Remove multiple unneeded objects at once with easy selection and object preview.
Draw revision clouds around new changes in a drawing to quickly identify your updates.
Apply formulas, link to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and create tables with data and symbols. Automatically import data to tables using features like Count.
Create single or multiline text (mtext) as a single text object. Easily format text, columns, and boundaries.
Save views by name to easily return to a specific view for quick reference or for applying to layout viewports.
Use 3D viewing and navigation tools to orbit, swivel, walk, and fly around a 3D model to showcase your design.
Generate 2D drawings including base, projected, section, and detail views from 3D models.
Attach point cloud files acquired by 3D laser scanners or other technologies to use as a starting point for your designs.
Apply lighting and materials to give your 3D models a realistic appearance and to help communicate your designs.
Render 3D models online without consuming processing power or disk space on your local computer.
Create section planes to display cross-sectional views through solids, surfaces, meshes, or regions.
Create realistic 3D models of your design using a combination of solid, surface, and mesh modeling tools.
Apply visual styles to control the display of edges, lighting, and shading of your 3D model.
Share and reuse data from DGN files by importing, exporting, or attaching them as underlays.
Compare two versions of a drawing without leaving your current window.
Insert geographic location information into a drawing and display a map in the drawing from an online map service.
Attach Navisworks models as underlays to your drawings and import models from other applications.
Share and reuse data from PDF files by importing, exporting, or attaching them as underlays.
View, access, manage, and plot multiple drawings as sheet sets.
Save drawings from your desktop to view and edit in AutoCAD on the web and on mobile, xrefs included.
Publish design views of your drawing in a web browser for viewing and commenting.
Compare two versions of a drawing, including external references (xrefs).
Record commands and input values that can be played back as an action macro.
Control drawings and databases with ActiveX, VBS, AutoLISP, Visual LISP, ObjectARX, JavaScript, and .NET.
Get alerts and install software updates without disrupting your workflow. View tutorials about new features.
Display drawing windows side by side or on multiple monitors within the same instance of AutoCAD.
Define and monitor CAD standards to maintain consistent styles for layers, linetypes, text, and dimensions.
Customise the user interface to improve accessibility and reduce the number of steps for frequent tasks.
Specify security restrictions for running executables in AutoCAD to help protect against malicious executable code.
Reduce the amount of time you spend setting up AutoCAD with faster and customizable installations.
The new AutoCAD Start tab lets you easily access files and other helpful content directly from the home screen.
Monitor current system variables against a preferred list of values. Notification balloons alert you to deviations.
TrustedDWG technology alerts you to a possible incompatibility when a file was not last saved by Autodesk software.
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