What's New in AutoCAD MEP 2024 Toolset

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

Highlights

AEC3DPRINT

Export AEC elements to an STL file without converting to 3D solids.

Migrating Custom Settings

Improvements have been made to the CUI, tool palettes, and templates to support the migration of custom files and locations.

Activity Insights

Activity Insights provides an understanding of the past actions that you or others have performed with regard to your drawings.

Smart Blocks: Placement

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

Smart Blocks: Replacement

Replace specified block references by selecting from a palette of suggested similar blocks.

Markup Assist

This release includes improvements to Markup Assist that make it easier to bring markups into your drawing.

Trace Updates

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

Autodesk Docs Improvements

Improved performance and navigation on the Start tab for drawings stored on Autodesk Docs.

Start Tab Updates

The Start tab continues to be improved in this release including new options to sort and search recent drawings.

File Tab Menu

Use the new file tab menu to switch between drawings, create or open a drawing, save all drawings, close all drawings, and more.

Layout Tab Menu

Use the new layout tab menu to switch between layouts, create a layout from a template, publish layouts, and more.

Quality improvements

Occasional Crash Fixes: Occasional program crash or freeze in following workflows have been resolved:
  • Working in Project Navigator
  • Opening certain drawings
  • Switching to Shaded (Fast) visual style
  • Selecting Architecture or MEP objects in Shaded (Fast) visual style

Schedule Table: Schedule table now updates correctly for objects with classifications.

IFC Import or Export
  • IFC file no longer increases in size after an IFC export.
  • IFC no longer imports empty drawing in certain situations.

Migration: Custom path in Support File Search can now be migrated successfully from older releases.

Content Browser: Unwanted temporary PNG files are now deleted automatically after exiting a category in the Content Browser.

Project Navigator: Background publishing now plots the updated changes in Project Properties.

Visual Style
  • Cable tray that's placed at a lower elevation from a MV part now displays correctly in 3D visual style.
  • Flange of piping now displays correctly in Shaded (Fast) visual style.

Walls: The wall inside a block definition no longer shows errors after performing a BEDIT.

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.

Sheet Set Manager Improvements (Web): Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the Sheet Set Manager for Web since the previous release.
  • Automatic sheet set lock management
  • Multiple sheet selection for publishing
  • Ability to publish to a multi-sheet PDF or individual PDF for each sheet
  • Control over the PDF name and location
  • Option to overwrite existing files during publish and eTransmit
  • Control over the eTransmit file name and location
  • Control over the location for new sheets
  • Open Sheet Set button added to the palette
3D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the Shaded (Fast) and Shaded with Edges (Fast) visual styles.
  • Support for Map 3D and Civil 3D
  • Large coordinate system support
  • Selection (Fence, Lasso, Polygon)
  • Paper space support
  • Point cloud support
  • Line weights
  • Dimming of Xrefs and locked layers
  • General stability, visual fidelity, and performance improvements
2D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the 2D graphics system.
  • Pan performance is improved for drawings with raster images or wipeouts
  • Display performance is improved for trace background, Markup Import and Markup Assist, and ViewCube
  • Layout switching performance improvement
Note: Turn on hardware acceleration for better performance and responsiveness in AutoCAD.