What's New in AutoCAD for Mac 2024

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

Updates

2024.1 Highlights

Markup Import and Markup Assist

This release includes improvements to Markup Assist that make markup detection more effective.

Trace

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

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 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.

Markup Import and Markup Assist

Markup Import and Markup Assist use machine learning to identify markups and provide a way to view and insert drawing revisions with less manual effort.

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.

3D Color Background Application Preference Updates

In the AutoCAD Preferences dialog, the Look and Feel tab now has settings to customize the background color for 3D visual styles including both parallel and perspective mode.

3Dconnexion Device Support

You can use a 3Dconnexion device to reorient and navigate a model's view.

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.

3D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the Shaded (Fast) and Shaded with Edges (Fast) visual styles.

• Selection (Fence, Lasso, Polygon)
• Paper space support
• TrueType font support
• Line weights
• Locked layer dimming
• Xref dimming
• General stability, visual fidelity, and performance improvements

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