What's New in AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024

Learn about new features in this release of AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 release. For technical details, see the release notes.

Updates

2024.1 Highlights

Trace

The Traces palette has been updated to make it easier to create a new trace.

Additional enhancements

File Open: Improved file open performance when opening a drawing that contains large numbers of annotation scales. Large numbers of annotation scales can occur when there are lots of drawing references that might pull in additional annotation scales.

Pan and Zoom: General performance improvements when using pan and zoom commands.

2024 Highlights

New Features Overview (Video)

This video shows the key enhancements in this release.

Apple Silicon Support

AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon architectures. The performance is improved significantly when running natively on Apple Silicon machines.

Italian and Spanish

AutoCAD for Mac now supports Italian and Spanish.

Smart Blocks: Placement

The new smart block functionality can offer placement suggestions based on where you've placed that block before in the drawing.

Trace Updates

The Trace environment continues to improve and now includes the new COPYFROMTRACE command and new settings controls on the toolbar.

Additional enhancements

PDFSHX System Variable: Set PDFSHX to 2 to store text objects that use SHX fonts as hidden text when the drawing is exported to a PDF. This makes the text searchable and selectable in the PDF.

2D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the 2D graphics system.

• TrueType font display quality is improved
• Pan performance is improved for drawings with raster images or wipeouts
• Display performance is improved for trace background and ViewCube
• Layout switching performance improvement