{"id":14623,"date":"2024-07-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/?p=14623"},"modified":"2025-01-30T07:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:42:29","slug":"enhance-collaboration-and-save-time-with-autocad-2025-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/enhance-collaboration-and-save-time-with-autocad-2025-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhance Collaboration and Save Time With AutoCAD 2025.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are excited to announce that AutoCAD 2025.1 and AutoCAD LT 2025.1 are now available! This release builds on the innovation introduced in AutoCAD 2025<\/a>, providing further enhancements to improve collaboration and save you time. We\u2019ve made several important updates you\u2019ll want to be sure to check out\u2014and if you\u2019re already eager to dive into these new capabilities that AutoCAD has to offer, go ahead and open the Autodesk Access<\/a> application to start your update while you read this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: The 2025.1 update is automatically included in every new installation of AutoCAD 2025<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Streamlined Collaboration With Autodesk Docs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sheet Set Manager remains one of the most used features by users who include AutoCAD on the web in their workflows, or use Autodesk Docs as their common data environment for DWGs. We’ve introduced several updates to further build on its functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of today, the Sheet Set Manager now supports publishing using custom linetypes that reference SHP and SHX files. Additionally, it will now display detailed publish information, including job errors and warnings to help troubleshoot sheet sets. The upgraded Sheet Set manager also allows multi-selection for moving and removing sheets and prevents importing of sheets from locked drawing files or unlocking locked drawing files when sheets are removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the release of AutoCAD 2025, we introduced several updates designed to enhance collaboration for teams that manage drawings with Autodesk Docs<\/a>. With AutoCAD 2025.1 and AutoCAD LT 2025.1, we\u2019ve made significant improvements to the SHARE command. Prior to the update, the SHARE command provided you with the options to create a view-only link or share a link to for a recipient to edit and save a copy of drawing, which would create a new version of the drawing to be managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the update, you can now quickly share access to drawings managed with Autodesk Docs with the new \u201cCan Edit\u201d link type. This allows collaborators within the same Docs project to share and open the same DWG files directly in AutoCAD on the Web with just one click. This makes collaboration an easier experience and reduces the amount of time spent navigating project folders to find the correct link to share with your team and makes DWG versioning easier to track and manage with Autodesk Docs using Activity Insights. Keep reading to learn more about what\u2019s changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with the recently announced data center location in Australia<\/a>, you now have more options for how you manage your project data using Autodesk Docs<\/a>. Learn more about how you can use Autodesk Docs to manage CAD standards<\/a> over on the AEC Tech Drop blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: The SHARE command updates are not available for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT for Mac.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enhanced Activity Insights Palette with Accelerated Font Display<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Several enhancements have been made to the popular Activity Insights feature which we first introduced in AutoCAD 2024. Activity Insights helps teams bridge the information gap in collaborative workflows by keeping you informed of relevant file changes and access through out a project lifecycle, with detailed event properties and multi-user activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the 2025.1 update, Activity Insights makes your design and collaboration process smoother and more efficient than ever before. And thanks to innovations in Autodesk\u2019s platform, all AutoCAD 2025 and AutoCAD LT 2025 users will be able to experience these changes even before updating to 2025.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever wondered how to use the built-in search function in the Activity Insights palette? You weren\u2019t alone, which is why our team enhanced this feature to help you find information with ease. Whether you’re looking for a specific file name, activity type, trace layer, specific property or value, you can find this now using full or partial search strings. This improved search capability enhances user experience by making it easier to locate specific information quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And if you like keeping track of time and dates, the improved time format has got you covered. While the current day continues to display as “Today”, the Activity Insights palette now uses your operating system\u2019s region format for all other date headers to show the full date, including the year, in a compact format that’s easy to read. Activity timestamps have also been modified to use a compact format, making it easier to read. And these are just a few to start other enhancements have also been made to the following features within Activity Insights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n