Autodesk AutoCAD 2024.3.61.182

AutoCAD 2024 is built to accelerate workflows and seamlessly share your vision with innovations designed to unlock your creative potential.

The AutoCAD Portfolio is flexible to meet your design needs with AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, and our newest offering, AutoCAD Web. From complex designs to making markups in the field, AutoCAD 2024 has something for everyone.

New AutoCAD 2024 features and assistive machine learning technology pave the way for teams to unlock insights and leverage automations—all with the power of the software trusted by millions to draft, engineer, and automate design workflows anywhere, anytime.

Tailor AutoCAD for your business needs and your specific industry through customizations—including APIs, thousands of third-party apps, and seven specialized toolsets with over 750,000 symbols, parts, and detail components.

Autodesk continues to create industry-leading design software—including Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, and Autodesk Docs— to create a truly connected design experience with 

AutoCAD 2024 introduces new machine learning capabilities to push the boundaries of productivity and speed up our customer’s workflows, whether it’s by saving them time in their common tasks or bringing them new ways to work and create,” said Dania El Hassan, Director of AutoCAD Product Management. “With new features like Smart Blocks: Placement and Replacement and new updates to Markup Assist, we are proud of the continuous innovation that we’re able to deliver to our customers.”

Here are some of the new innovations you’ll find in AutoCAD 2024.

What’s New in AutoCAD 2024

Activity Insights

activity Insights provides an understanding of the past actions that you or others have performed with regard to your drawings.

Activity Insights tracks events whenever a drawing file is opened and being worked on in AutoCAD. It can also track some events outside AutoCAD such as a drawing rename or copy in Windows Explorer. When a drawing is opened, past events performed in the drawing are read from the Activity Insights database and displayed chronologically in the Activity Insights palette. At the same time, events are being written to the database as you work in the drawing, which keeps the contents of the palette current.

Note: Events are logged even when the Activity Insights palette is closed. All events are displayed the next time the palette opens.

Changes are written to the Activity Insights Event Location specified in the Files tab of the Options dialog box. The default location for the Activity Insights Event Location is C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Autodesk\ActivityInsights\Common. Change this to a shared location so that any drawing activity is logged in one location regardless of who works on it.

Smart Blocks: Placement

The new smart block functionality can offer placement suggestions based on where you’ve placed that block before in the drawing.

The block placement engine learns how the existing block instances are placed in your drawing to infer the next placement of the same block. As you insert a block, the engine gives placement suggestions close to a similar geometry where you’ve placed that block before.

For example, if you’ve already placed a chair block close to the corner of a wall, when inserting another instance of that same chair block, AutoCAD automatically positions the chair as you move it close to a similar corner. As you move the block, the walls are highlighted, and the position, rotation, and scale of the chair block are adjusted to match the other block instance. You can click to accept the suggestion, press Ctrl to switch to other suggestions, or move the cursor away to ignore the current suggestion. To temporarily turn off suggestions when placing a block, hold Shift+W or Shift+[ while inserting or moving your block.

Smart Blocks: Replacement

Replace specified block references by selecting from a palette of suggested similar blocks.

When you select block references to replace, the product suggests similar blocks for you to select from.

Markup Assist

The previous AutoCAD release included Markup Import and Markup Assist, which use machine learning to identify markups and provide a way to view and insert drawing revisions with less manual effort. This release includes improvements to Markup Assist that make it easier to bring markups into your drawing.
Note: To use Markup Assist, make sure TRACEBACK is on and Markup Assist is on. You can toggle between Trace Front and Trace Back in the Trace Settings toolbar. While TRACEBACK is on, you can toggle Markup Assist on or off.

Trace Updates

The Trace environment continues to improve and now includes the new COPYFROMTRACE command and new settings controls on the toolbar.

Autodesk Docs Improvements

The following improvements have been made to Autodesk Docs:

Improved support and performance when viewing large files on Autodesk Docs.

Improved Desktop Connector resulting in improved performance displaying a drawing in the Start tab and opening a drawing from Autodesk Docs.

Improved navigation on the Start tab for drawings stored on Autodesk Docs.Note: See Start Tab Updates for more information on improvements on the Start tab.

Start Tab Updates

The Start tab continues to be improved in this release including new options to sort and search recent drawings.

Recent Drawings Updates

The recent drawings list uses smaller thumbnails to allow for more drawings to display. You can now sort and search the recent drawings in both the grid and list views.

Sort and Search

To sort on the grid view, select an option from the Sort By drop-down list. To reverse the sort order, click the arrow next to the drop-down list.

File Tab Menu

Use the new file tab menu to switch between drawings, create or open a drawing, save all drawings, close all drawings, and more.

Layout Tab Menu
Use the new layout tab menu to switch between layouts, create a layout from a template, publish layouts, and more.