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AutoCAD enhancements over the years

AutoCAD 2025 is built to accelerate workflows and seamlessly share your vision with innovations designed to unlock your creative potential. New features and assistive machine learning technology pave the way for teams to unlock insights and leverage automations.

AutoCAD over the past 7 years

13

Product updates​

29

New features

97

Enhancements

AutoCAD enhancement timeline

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2024 | 2024.1 featured enhancements for AutoCAD

  • Activity Insights

  • Smart Blocks: Placement

  • Smart Blocks: Replacement

  • Markup Assist updates

  • Trace updates

  • AutoLISP API on the web

  • Batch plot to PDFs on the web

  • Autodesk Docs improvements

  • Start tab updates

  • 2D and 3D graphics improvements

  • New layout and file tab menu

  • Improved install speed

  • Autodesk Assistant​

  • Markup Import and Markup Assist enhancements​

  • Trace updates​

  • Activity Insights updates​

  • File Open performance​

  • Pan and Zoom Performance​

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Can Anabarlilar

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Sr. Product Manager, Autodesk

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Jiacheng Li

Product Management Engineer, Autodesk

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Sr. Product Manager, AutoCAD

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