AutoCAD Architecture Changelog

What's new in AutoCAD Architecture 2024

Mar 31, 2023

8,800+ architectural components:
Make use of over 8,800 intelligent architectural components, including multi-level blocks, to support various layer standards. Should one of the pre-existing layer standards not meet the needs of your project, you can create your own by customizing an existing one.
Automatic object generation:
Save time and increase productivity by automatically generating commonly used architectural objects such as floor plans, elevations, sections, and ceiling grids.
Walls, doors, and windows:
Use elements with real-world behavior and construction, allowing for quicker placement in the documents and drawings that you create.
Drawing version management:
Check out and check in files to maintain versioning, prevent unauthorized modifications, and ensure drawing integrity. Easily revert to an earlier version of your drawing with comments history, and view the drawing name appended with check-in time.
Support for layer standards:
The toolset creates multiple layers according to the current standard, using predefined layer standards and matching layer key styles. This lets you automatically generate layers as needed when you add objects to a drawing.
Display System:
With the Display System, you only have to draw an architectural object once. The appearance of that object will change automatically to meet the display requirements of different types of drawings, view directions, and levels of detail.
Display System window with multiple display options:
Enhance your design options. Organize reports with spaces, and use zones to structure spaces into various groups, according to different schemes.
Detail Component Manager:
Use the Detail Component Manager dialog box to seamlessly navigate between different detail component databases. A hierarchical tree view and a filter feature make it easy to locate individual components within a database.
Architectural renovation:
Display existing, demolished, and new construction in a single drawing. This lets you design and produce renovations more quickly, while avoiding errors typically caused by editing multiple drawings.

New in AutoCAD Architecture 2023 (Mar 31, 2022)

Highlights:
Classification for AutoCAD Objects:
Apply classification definition to AutoCAD objects.
Space Evaluation Report:
Control whether to filter zero value areas in the space evaluation report.
Enhanced Design Center Content:
New MVBlocks and block references are available in Design Center.
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.
Trace:
Building on the initial release of the Trace feature, you can now create traces in desktop and contribute to traces created by others.
Count:
You can now count instances of an object or blocks within a specified area.
Floating Drawing Windows:
Continued improvements to floating drawing windows are included in this release.
3D Graphics:
This release includes the new cross platform 3D graphics system, leveraging all the power of modern GPUs and multi-core CPUs to offer a smooth navigation experience for much larger drawings.
2D Graphics Display:
This release of AutoCAD includes a new graphic engine, which provides a better display effect on some high-end GPUs.
Sheet Set Manager for Autodesk Docs:
Manage sheet sets from Autodesk Docs using the new Sheet Set Manager for Web.
Drawing and Layout Tabs:
Changes to the drawing and layout tabs make it easier to tell which drawing and layout is active. Changes also make it easier to see which drawing is active on the drawing tab overflow menu.
CUTBASE:
The new CUTBASE command copies selected objects to the Clipboard, along with a specified base point, and removes them from the drawing.
Polyline Extend:
A new grip option, Extend Vertex, adds a new vertex to your polyline extending from the selected end grip. You no longer have to reverse the polyline direction.
MLEADER Enhancement:
The MLEADER command now has an option to select an existing mtext object to use for the new leader.
Quality improvements:
Occasional Crashes:
Exporting IFC in some drawings no longer causes a crash.
Selecting a base point for copy operations no longer causes a crash.
Editing column grid workflow no longer causes a crash.
Content Browser:
Content Browser no longer closes silently after adding dynamic blocks to the palette.
When publishing from the Content Browser, the Tool Palette no longer gets locked if the read-only option is not selected.
Detail Component: Certain blocks inserted from the Detail Component Manager can now be edited.
IFC Export: Issues related to objects becoming transparent after IFC export no longer exist.
Shared Views: After publishing a shared view (SHAREDVIEWS command), the Autodesk View no longer displays the property sets that are defined as invisible.
Design Center: Some content is rearranged to the correct folders.
Drawing File Tooltip: When you hover over a drawing file in the File Explorer, the "Created With" tooltip now displays the correct information.
Additional enhancements:
Insert Block: The Block Redefine dialog box provides an option to rename a block when the specified block name already exists in the drawing.
Options Dialog Box: A new task dialog prompts you to either save or discard the changes made when you attempt to close or cancel the Options dialog box.
Isolation Mode: The object selection is now maintained when you exit isolation mode.
New Drawing: Hovering over the New drop-down on the Start tab, displays a tooltip with the name of the drawing template file that will be used.
Customer Error Reporting (CER): Your email address is now automatically filled in when an error report is generated.
Multi-core Background Publishing: The publish option "Include Hyperlinks" is now supported when publishing a Multi-sheet PDF file using background publishing.

New in AutoCAD Architecture 2015 (Apr 24, 2014)

New in AutoCAD Architecture 2013 (Mar 19, 2013)

Room Documentation:
The Roombook feature enables multiple finishes to be applied per surface, then calculates these surfaces (walls, floors, and ceilings), as well as room circumference and furnishing elements, for enhanced room documentation. You can create a detail schedule easily within AutoCAD Architecture for each surface and export the data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, or export a DWF file to Autodesk Quantity Takeoff (QTO) software for cost estimating.
Layer Key Component Display:
The Display Properties dialog has the capability to display all components and control the visibility of specific components in a drawing. Set the display component to inherit the layer name from the current Layer Key Style to get a cleaner, more organized set of documentation.
Transparency Integration:
Easy-to-use transparency controls for individual display components enable you to determine how you want to define each component.
Schedule Table Enhancement:
This powerful scheduling feature is now enhanced to enable grouping and subtotaling, so you can organize the schedule table based on your project needs. Group, format, and subtotal similar data at different levels, and export grouped and subtotaled schedules to Microsoft Excel.
Content & Catalog Browser Migration:
The custom settings dialog enables you to more easily migrate the content catalog from previous releases to AutoCAD Architecture 2013 architectural software. Any new settings introduced into the catalogs in the latest release will automatically be added to legacy catalogs when they are migrated.
Hatch Display Components Enhancements:
The hatch display component has a new annotative property that enables the scale of the hatch pattern to respond to the annotation scale.
Industry Foundation Class (IFC) Enhancements:
AutoCAD Architecture 2013 continues to improve on Industry Foundation Class (IFC) file format support, including recertification from buildingSMART for importing and exporting version 2x3 IFC files. Toolkit enhancements make it easier to migrate changes from one release to another.
Geometry Sharing Performance Enhancement:
This enhancement enables you to begin working while the drawing is still regenerating. You can work more efficiently, as you no longer have to wait for the entire drawing to finish regenerating to get started.

New in AutoCAD Architecture 2012 (May 24, 2011)

Improved Performance:
AutoCAD Architecture 2012 offers performance enhancements to improve your experience using everyday functionality and tools. From faster start-up and drawing load times to quicker access to tools and large drawing navigation, the software’s performance has been optimized to help you work.
Point Cloud Support:
Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects. With support for up to 2 billion points, you can quickly visualize and snap to the surface of your scanned objects directly within your modeling workspace. New to this release is support for larger point set displays, the ability to extract shapes, and API enhancements.
Corner Window Tools:
Create corner windows more easily than ever. This release of AutoCAD Architecture makes it a breeze to add a single window in the corner intersection of 2 walls. Corner tools also provide you with the flexibility to design a corner window with or without a frame.
Column Grid Enhancements:
Now you can modify custom column grids and create new custom column grids using previously inputted data. More easily add columns along a grid line by choosing this new option within the user interface.
Productivity Enhancements:
AutoCAD Architecture includes enhancements to improve your drafting and modeling productivity. With this release of AutoCAD Architecture, you can import Autodesk Inventor files and convert models to 3D blocks, and create associative arrays with AEC objects.
3D Design Tools:
The power of multi-functional grips has been extended to more AutoCAD objects including lines, arcs, elliptical arcs, dimensions, and mleaders, as well as 3D faces, edges, and vertices. Access relevant options for the selected object by hovering the cursor over a grip.
Content Search:
Quickly find design files, content, and objects with a new Search panel that allows you to search current drawings, Autodesk® Seek® web service, and local and network drives from within AutoCAD Architecture 2012 software.
IFC Support:
AutoCAD Architecture 2012 software allows you to export drawings in the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) file format, helping you to create, manage, and share data with other members in the design process.
Web-Based Collaboration Tools:
Now you have access to the AutoCAD WS web service through a plug-in for AutoCAD software to support web-based collaboration among team members. View, edit, and share your DWG files on web browsers or mobile devices.