Product Help is available online and is not installed with the product by default.

Yes, an offline version of the AutoCAD-based product Help can be installed when you do not have access to the Internet.

Starting with AutoCAD 2026.1.1, the Sheet Set Manager was updated to open cloud-based sheet sets with the retirement of the Sheet Set Manager for Web.

Right-click on the file tab of the drawing you want to open in another session and click Move to New Session.

Layouts must be initialized before they can be published.

When the COORDS system variable is set to 3, the status bar displays latitude and longitude.

This topic covers the most common reasons why you might not be seeing any Activity Insights.

When you enter a search string, use several specific terms.

If you start typing the name of the command or system variable on the command line, the autocomplete feature displays your choices.

The display of annotative objects is controlled by the current annotation scale of model space and the Annotation Scale property of a viewport.

Expand the Help menu. Enter the name of the command in the search box.

Press Fn-F1 to launch Help. On the Help home page, click Commands or System Variables.

When you create a new UCS from the ViewCube UCS menu, it's created as an unnamed UCS.

The FAQs in this section are provided as a supplement to the general Autodesk Installation and Licensing documentation.

Objects are considered similar if they are set to BYLAYER for properties like color, linetype, lineweight, plot style, material, and transparency.