The following is an overview of the changes made to
AutoCAD Architecture 2019
toolset and
AutoCAD MEP 2019
toolset.
Refreshed Icons
As part of our continuous efforts to provide a great visual experience to our customers,
AutoCAD Architecture 2019
toolset and
AutoCAD MEP 2019
toolset have new 'flat designed' icons in the user interface for Ribbon, Status Bar, Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) and Application Menu.
DWG Compare
With the DWG Compare feature, you can highlight the differences in model space between two revisions of the same drawing or different drawings. Using colors, you can differentiate between the objects that are unique to each drawing and the objects that are in common. You can exclude objects from being compared by turning off their layers.
Support for Industry Foundation Class (IFC) 4
Import and export of IFC4 format is now supported in
AutoCAD Architecture 2019
toolset. This support enables users to export
AutoCAD Architecture or
AutoCAD MEP toolset
toolset drawings in IFC4_ADD1 schema format and import IFC files adhering to IFC4_ADD1 and other IFC4 schemas.
New Content Browser Functionality and Removal of i-drop Method
The i-drop functionality for inserting content from the Content Browser into your current drawing or tool palette is no longer supported in
AutoCAD Architecture 2019
toolset . You can now use the following two new options when you hover your mouse over any content icon in your content browser, such as tool, palette, catalog or package:
- Insert into Drawing
- Add to Tool Palette
Product Quality Improvement
Projects addressing product reliability have resulted in the following improvements:
- AutoCAD 2018 DWG file format option is enabled in -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD command and in the Application Menu.
- Dynamic input tooltip does not freeze on the screen now after the command is terminated.
- ExporttoAutoCAD using bind option now migrates all architecture specific layers.
- Fatal error caused due to unwanted increase in Windows graphic objects during AEC object insertion is rectified.
- IFC Export now supports content or objects with nested blocks.
- Application does not freeze or hang when switching between Layouts and Model Space
- Custom Duct Tag now shows correct duct information related to sizes.
- Viewport layers now stay frozen on MVBlocks and does not thaw on refreshing viewport.
- AEC objects in Xref with display override frozen in viewport does not plot as expected.
- MvBlock inside Xref drawings plot according to the plot settings.
- AEC object components set to display ByLayer in an xref drawing display parent file layer properties.
- A new view can be created from Project Navigator in zero doc state.
- New Plug-ins installed are all grouped under Add-ins Tab in the Ribbon.
- CUIx is updated to cleanup some inconsistences in the Ribbon Tabs.
- Centerlines Panel is enabled within Annotate Tab in the Ribbon.
- Contextual tabs like Block Editor or Text Editor are also migrated from previous release.
- In few cases; Section results which included 2D & 3D objects were not accurate and has now been rectified.
- Detail component and Wall properties dialog box now remembers size and location.
- Image inside Stair Calculation dialog box has been restored.
- Xref drawing can be attached from Project Navigator in zero doc state.
- In some cases,
AutoCAD MEP 2022 toolset crash issues have been rectified during IFC import.