What's New in AutoCAD Mechanical 2024 Toolset

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

Highlights

ANSI/ASME Standard Revision Update for Section Line Symbols

The section line symbol within AutoCAD Mechanical now support the AWS Y14.3 - 2012 standard revision.

ISO Standard Revision Update for Taper and Slope Symbols

The taper and slope symbol within AutoCAD Mechanical now support the ISO 3040:2016(E) standard revision.

Taper and Slope: Dynamic Auto-Calculation Behavior

Auto-calculate the taper and slope symbols dynamically when you create or edit a symbol.

Leader Note in Markup Assist

Markup Assist now supports Mechanical leader note (AMNOTE).

Markup Assist

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

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.

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.

More features

Content Library: JIS B 1603

The new JIS B 1603 replaces JIS B 1602 in AutoCAD Mechanical 2024 toolset.

Mechanical File Formats in Activity Insights

In addition to AutoCAD file formats, the Saved to Different Format event in Activity Insights supports Mechanical file formats.

Quality improvements

Feature Control Frame: Adding another leader segment no longer causes a crash.

Mask File in Printing: Mask file can now be added more than once.

AMOFFSET: When performing an undo in the middle of AMOFFSET, object snap settings are no longer affected.

AMSHIDE: Moving foreground objects to a hidden layer no longer causes a crash in AMSHIDE.

AMCSETTINGS: The "Use outer contour objects for foreground" option in AMCSETTINGS now honors the hidden background objects when using a second contour geometry in custom content.

Arrowhead: Arrowhead in Mechanical symbols now supports theme in Properties palette.

AMPOWERDIM: Arrowhead in Mechanical symbols now supports theme in Properties palette.

AMNOTE: The performance is improved when selecting multiple leader note objects and navigating in Properties palette.

COPYCLIP: “Copy to clipboard failed” error no longer displays when copying an object from a non-Mechanical drawing.

AMTITLE: “Font.shx not found” error no longer displays when inserting AMTITLE with a custom border or title block.

Standard Content
  • ANSI MC/C channel now has the correct flange slope.
  • JIS B 1602 and JIS B 1603 (new) now support the pressure angle of 45°.

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.