Autodesk AutoCAD

Autodesk AutoCAD 2025

Trusted 2D and 3D CAD software for drafting,
engineering and automating designs.

What is AutoCAD?

Power your teams’ creativity with automation, collaboration, and
machine-learning features of AutoCAD® software. Architects, engineers, and
construction professionals use AutoCAD to:

• Design and annotate 2D geometry and 3D models with solids, surfaces, and
  mesh objects
• Automate tasks such as comparing drawings, counting objects, adding blocks,
  creating schedules, and more
• Create a customized workspace to maximize productivity with add-on apps
  and APIs
   

Why choose AutoCAD?

Not only that, there are even more tools to advance your capabilities! 
Customers have shown to increase productivity by 63% on average for tasks completed using a specialized toolset in AutoCAD.

• Access our library of 8,500+ architectural components, including multilevel blocks
• Automatically generate floor plans, elevations, sections, and ceiling grids

• Quickly place walls, doors, and windows with real-world construction

• Access our library of 700,000+ standards-based parts, tools, and custom content such as features
• Customize properties of object types and create them on custom layers

• Automate tasks such as creating bills of materials (BOMs)

• Directly access spatial data using Feature Data Objects (FDO) technology
• Directly edit geospatial data

• Manage infrastructure systems with Enterprise Industry Models

• Access our library of 10,500+ intelligent MEP objects
• Optimize your workflow with individual palettes and domain-specific ribbons

• Automatically update drawings, sheets, and schedules when changes occur

• Access a library of 65,000+ intelligent electrical symbols
• Automate numbering of wires and generation of component tags

• Generate and update multiple customized reports automatically

• Collaborate securely in a cloud-based common data environment 
• Speed up and automate P&ID drafting and 3D modeling with in-context commands

• Automatically create piping isometric drawings directly from the 3D model 

• Access tools to enhance image editing and cleanup 
• Edit REM objects using standard AutoCAD commands

• Simplify your workflows with vectorization tools

What's new in AutoCAD 2024?

Activity Insights

• Able to track whenever a drawing file is opened and being worked on in AutoCAD
   

• Able to track some events outside AutoCAD such as a drawing rename or copy in Windows Explorer.
   

• Past events are displayed in the Activity Insights palette chronologically.

Smart Blocks: Placement

• This feature can offer placement suggestions based on where you've placed the block.
   

• You can click to accept the suggestion, press Ctrl to switch to other suggestions, or move the cursor away
  to ignore the current suggestion.
   

• There is also an option to have this feature be temporarily disabled.

Smart Blocks: Placement

• This feature allows you to replace specified block references by selecting from a palette of suggested similar blocks while 

Markup Assist

• Update Existing Text
   

• Strikethrough Text
   

• Markups With Associated PDF Text Comments
   

• Fade Markup - can control the transparency of individual markups
   

• Selecting Markups Within a Boundary
   

• Instruction Text on a Markup

Trace Updates - The new COPYFROMTRACE lets you copy objects from a trace into the drawing.

• Update Existing Text
   

• Overlay Effect. Controls opaqueness of the tracing paper overlay.
   

• Geometry in Trace. Controls the amount of fading of the trace geometry in the background.
   

• Drawing Background. This controls the transparency of the imported markup that is laid over the drawing when a digital markup is active.
   

• Faded Markup. This controls the transparency of faded markups when a digital markup is active.

• 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.

Start Tab Updates

• New Drawing updates such as Sort and Search & Customizing the List View.
   

• The Autodesk Docs tab has beeen renamed to Autodesk Projects.

File Tab Menu

• The new file tab menu can be used to switch between drawings, create or open a drawing, save all drawings, close all drawings, and more. 

Layout Tab Menu

• The new layout tab menu can be used to switch between layouts, create a layout from a template, publish layouts, and more.