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.

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, external references (xrefs) included.

Publish design views of your drawing in a web browser for viewing and commenting.

Compare two versions of a drawing, including 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.

Customize 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.

Create a selection set by filtering object type and property set. For example, you can select all similar objects in a drawing that share the same property set values.

Performance and quality improvements enhance IFC workflows in the AutoCAD Architecture and MEP toolsets.

The Activity Insights captures activities related to renovation mode and provides detailed information for selected activities.

In the Project Navigator, the Expand All and Collapse All options are now available as convenient right-click menu choices.

Support files are now connected, so all drawings and collaborators in an Autodesk Docs project can share one set of support files.

Make use of over 8,800 intelligent architectural components, including multi-level blocks, to support various layer standards. Should one of the pre-existing layer standards not meet the needs of your project, you can create your own by customizing an existing one.

Save time and increase productivity by automatically generating commonly used architectural objects such as floor plans, elevations, sections, and ceiling grids.

Use elements with real-world behavior and construction, allowing for quicker placement in the documents and drawings that you create.

Check out and check in files to maintain versioning, prevent unauthorized modifications, and ensure drawing integrity. Easily revert to an earlier version of your drawing with comments history, and view the drawing name appended with check-in time.

The toolset creates multiple layers according to the current standard, using predefined layer standards and matching layer key styles. This lets you automatically generate layers as needed when you add objects to a drawing.

With the Display System, you only have to draw an architectural object once. The appearance of that object will change automatically to meet the display requirements of different types of drawings, view directions, and levels of detail.

Enhance your design options. Organize reports with spaces, and use zones to structure spaces into various groups, according to different schemes.

Use the Detail Component Manager dialog box to seamlessly navigate between different detail component databases. A hierarchical tree view and a filter feature make it easy to locate individual components within a database.

Display existing, demolished, and new construction in a single drawing. This lets you design and produce renovations more quickly, while avoiding errors typically caused by editing multiple drawings.

By supporting the ISO 1101:2017(E) standard revision, users are able to annotate documents created in AutoCAD Mechanical 2026 using the latest revision. The updated symbols are; Feature Control Frame, Datum and Feature Identifier, and Datum Target.

Support files are now connected, so all drawings and collaborators in an Autodesk Docs project can share one set of support files.

The FIND command can now search and replace the text in AMNOTE, and the find and replace option is added in the Leader Note ribbon contextual tab.

Produce accurate drawings with standard components to support ISO, ANSI, DIN, JIS, BSI, CSN, and GB standards. Create and save custom content through the Content Manager, which enables you to add a part or feature to a content library.

Save time with commands that create mechanical layers—so you don’t have to do it manually.

Use commands to automate mechanical engineering tasks and simplify your work. Gain more control over BOMs, part lists, associative balloons, and part reference.

Pre-configure symbols and save them to the symbol library for reuse. You can also access symbol libraries for welding, surface texture, and more.

Customize drawing borders and title blocks to work with your system. Each of these items exists as separate DWG files, which you can copy and modify to optimize your configuration.

Use intelligent drafting tools made specifically for mechanical design. Boost drawing productivity and efficiency with reusable detailing tools such as Centerline, AMSHIDE, Hole Charts, and Scale Area for Viewports.

Combine automatic part creation with drawing automation to get the best value. Efficiently analyze designs and perform 2D calculations such as FEA, Shaft Calc, and Moment of Inertia.

Access GIS data stored in a file database or an enterprise geodatabase such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL server. After adding the data to the map, you can modify, analyze, and stylize it.

FDO Raster now offers support for select vertical coordinate systems as a tech preview, as well as new horizontal coordinate systems, new first-class vertical coordinate systems, and updates to coordinate system definitions.

Support files are now connected, so all drawings and collaborators in an Autodesk Docs project can share one set of support files.

Work with spatial data from a variety of CAD and GIS data formats and coordinate systems.

Access GIS data stored in a file database or an enterprise geodatabase such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL server. After adding the data to the map, you can modify, analyze, and stylize it.

Perform high-fidelity data conversions using MapImport and MapExport.

Edit data against GIS data sources, such as ESRI SHP, MapInfo, and Oracle with standard AutoCAD commands.

Use coordinate geometry (COGO) input commands to enter accurate geometry when creating objects.

Use drawing cleanup to automate time-consuming corrections for common drafting and digitizing errors.

Use intelligent application modules to efficiently manage a wide variety of infrastructure systems.

Create and manage intelligent industry models by converting GIS data.

Easily update styling using the style editor and use themes to display data to indicate different values.

Create topologies to perform useful calculations, such as identifying customers downstream from a faulty pump.

Use robust functionalities, including buffers, overlay, and spatial queries, to analyze data.

Conduit alignment allows you to move and edit conduits based on either the top or bottom of the conduit. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and precision in managing conduit layouts, making sure that your designs meet specific alignment requirements.

Support files are now connected, so all drawings and collaborators in an Autodesk Docs project can share one set of support files.

Use an extensive library of objects that represent the real-world components in mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems to assist you in your design needs.

MEP-specific workspace environments include individual palettes and domain-specific ribbons to optimize your workflow tasks and save you time.

Drawings, sheets, and schedules can be automatically updated when changes occur, making it easy to minimize errors. You can also match the properties of other objects. Activate or deactivate this feature to your preference and project needs.

Check out and check in files to maintain versioning, prevent unauthorized modifications, and ensure drawing integrity. Easily revert to an earlier version of your drawing with comments history, and view the drawing name appended with check-in time.

Enhance your design options. Organize reports with spaces, and use zones to structure spaces into various groups, according to different schemes.

Incorporate common layer standards into your project standards, customize them, or create your own.

With the Display System, you only have to draw an architectural object once. The appearance of that object will change automatically to meet the display requirements of different types of drawings, view directions, and levels of detail.

Use the Detail Component Manager dialog box to seamlessly navigate between different detail component databases. A hierarchical tree view and a filter feature make it easy to locate individual components within a database.

Use project-wide or drawing-wide wire number updates to update the annotations in panel footprints and terminal block representations, including graphical terminal strips, tabular terminal strips, and jumper charts.

Cable marker symbols in the schematic library for all the existing standards include the RATING2 attribute.

Support files are now connected, so all drawings and collaborators in an Autodesk Docs project can share one set of support files.

Choose from an extensive library of easy-to-use, colorful, and customizable electrical symbols to use in your projects. If an existing symbol doesn’t meet your needs, you can convert symbols or create custom components on the fly using the Symbol Builder tool.

Save time with enhanced automation, allowing for automatic numbering of wires and generation of component tags.

Simplify your workflow and save time by automatically generating and updating multiple customized reports.

In addition to supporting the latest electrical standards, the Electrical toolset continues to provide the JIC and older IEC symbol libraries for legacy support.

Use the Project Manager’s time-saving features to boost productivity and simplify your project. Re-tag components, easily make changes to your file, and access simple export options.

Simplify your electrical design with Circuit Builder. Access pre-populated data to build and annotate a sampling of motor control and power feed circuits.

Save time with SQL catalog database support. When you generate a Bill of Materials in Autodesk Vault, the data from your AutoCAD Electrical drawings will be automatically added to the report, including the details in the catalog database.

Simplify your projects by keeping track of parent/child contacts in real time while Circuit Builder dynamically builds the circuit, assigning each component a component tag.

Speed up your workflow by using a single data file to generate multiple drawings. Define a project’s I/O assignments and generate PLC drawings automatically from a spreadsheet, database, or comma-delimited text file.

The visualization of specific P&ID dialogs has been improved to enhance the user experience. Also, the mapping of child classes from parent classes has been improved for increased ease of use.

Project functionalities see improvements with shared selection lists, a modern project backup and audit interface, and the ability to update project names directly from Project Setup, ensuring consistency and ease of management.

The Spec Editor now features a streamlined design with enhanced customization options for specs and catalogs. The redesign offers a modern, user-friendly style while maintaining the three tabs: Spec, Branch Table, and Catalog.

AutoCAD Plant 3D features new substitution menu options for reducing fittings and equipment nozzles. Enjoy optimized performance with a default visual style adjustment to Shaded. Equipment body previews and better port name displays also improve visualization.

Support files are now connected, so all drawings and collaborators in an Autodesk Docs project can share one set of support files.

Collaborate on plant design models across project teams and maintain compliance requirements—all in a cloud-based common data environment.

Use in-context AutoCAD commands to make P&ID drafting easier. 

The Plant 3D toolset is delivered with standard symbol libraries in the tool palettes. These include PIP, ISA, ISO/DIN, and JIS.

Quickly identify possible errors by scanning P&IDs for data consistency according to user-definable rules.

Quickly create 3D plant models using parametric equipment modeling, structural steel libraries, and project-specific piping specifications using industry standard piping catalogs. 

Create and edit equipment using parametric templates to help you build plant layouts faster.

Lay out structures, stairs, ladders, and railings using industry-standard steel sections including AISC, CISC, and DIN.

Customize piping specifications to meet project-specific requirements. Include industry-standard components as well as customized components.

Extract piping orthographic drawings directly from the 3D model and update them as the 3D model is being updated.

Create industry standard/project-standard piping isometric drawings directly from the 3D model.

Define report formats for the project and automatically populate the data directly from the 3D model.

Work with other industry disciplines to create BIM models for the plant.

Despeckle, bias, mirror, and touch up your images.

Use standard AutoCAD commands on raster regions and primitives. Easily edit raster images, lines, arcs, and circles.

Create lines and polylines from raster images and convert raster files into vector drawings.

Show and analyze geo images in Civil 3D civil engineering software and the AutoCAD Map 3D toolset.