What are the new features in AutoCAD 2023?

Autodesk has just released AutoCAD 2023, which includes new features and advancements.

Built on decades of ingenuity. Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2023 offers a best-in-class 2D and 3D design experience, as well as enhanced automation for adding markups, incorporating feedback, and more. AutoCAD 2023 aims to help you design better and faster.

“To make sure the time users spend in AutoCAD continues to be efficient and productive,” said Dania El Hassan, Director of AutoCAD Product Management.

Let’s Discover the latest features in AutoCAD® 2023 software, such as industry-specific toolkits, new automation, and seamless connections between devices and Autodesk products.

What’s new in AutoCAD 2023?

This year’s AutoCAD update isn’t particularly ground-breaking, but the changes are sure to improve the workflow of regular AutoCAD users.

Autodesk showcases its use of machine learning to help improve workflows based on how users interact with the advanced CAD software. This is especially visible in the new Macro Advisor feature — an addition to the existing My Insights feature, which used machine learning to help users streamline workflows in previous versions.

Key new features and changes in Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2023.

• Traces

The traces feature on the collaborate tab is a great way to track, and log redline markups.

Add design change notes and markups without modifying your existing drawing using AutoCAD desktop, web, and mobile apps.

You can add a markup to a trace created by another team member in AutoCAD 2023. It simplifies the traces. You can save markups in a single trace.

Traces is an old feature. This feature was first introduced in AutoCAD 2022, but it was enhanced in AutoCAD 2023.

• Markup Import and Markup Assist

Markup import allows users to import paper feedback by simply taking a quick snapshot of written annotations and selecting what they want to become a trace layer using AutoCAD’s mobile app. PDF files can be directly imported and users can change the opacity of the imported annotations to work with feedback added on top as a trace layer.

Markup assist simplifies the process of adding changes and annotations to your design by recognizing written feedback and allowing users to insert it as text into a drawing with a few simple clicks.

When working together with co-workers and reviewers, automatically import comments and incorporate changes into your designs, thereby minimizing additional drawing stages with this AutoCAD 2023 feature

• Macro Advisor

If you haven’t yet created customized macros in AutoCAD to make your life a bit easier, Autodesk is about to do it for you. The My Insights tool in AutoCAD 2023 is being improved, and it will utilize machine learning to recognize when a user is performing repetitive tasks and subtly offer a macro to make it a little easier. The release notes for AutoCAD include a straightforward “copy rotate previous” command example in the context of putting seats round dining room tables.

Autodesk claims that although there is a sizable list of handpicked macros and that it will continue to increase over time, consumers won’t be inundated with it all at once. Instead, only macros that are pertinent to the way the user uses AutoCAD will be displayed to them; for example, those that would simplify frequently pe                rformed tasks. Users may then easily save these macros to a list or the ribbon where they can be immediately used when necessary.

• The AutoCAD LISP API

LISP (list processing) functions are now supported by Autodesk’s AutoCAD Web online DWG editor. Users have the option to modify and download LISP files, load routines to the drawing, and set LISP routines to run at startup. LISP routines in AutoCAD Web can be executed from the command line, much like in AutoCAD desktop.

It’s good to see that AutoCAD 2023 version gives the AutoCAD web app some attention. It’s unclear if the cloud-based DWG application will stop being free to use for non-AutoCAD users. It temporarily means that free users can now access LISP functions.

• Count

Finally, Count now supports text and hatches, and the functionality distinguishes between text and hatches despite having similar geometries.

In terms of what is being counted and how users interact with counted objects, the Count feature has been improved to include selectable functionality. The count feature can now be customized by users, or they can use an existing boundary object to perform it within.

Users can quickly choose any numbered object to make any necessary alterations after it has been completed. Users can pick counted objects in their entirety even after the conversation has ended thanks to the functionality that extends to count tables.

Count automates the counting of blocks or objects in a specific area or across your entire drawing, with a menu to identify errors and navigate through your counted objects.

• Sheet Set Manager

You can now open sheet sets faster than ever before thanks to the Sheet Set Manager. Sending and opening sheet sets to and from teammates are faster and safer when using the Autodesk cloud platform.

• Share

Send controlled copies of your drawings to your team and colleagues, delegating access to those who only need to view and those who need to edit. Share your drawings with AutoCAD and save time.

• Push to Autodesk Docs

Publish your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs from AutoCAD to Autodesk Docs to increase productivity and reduce steps. You can also use the AutoCAD web app to access your DWG files in Autodesk Docs from anywhere.

• Floating Windows

View and edit two drawings in fully functional windows side by side or on multiple monitors at the same time. There is no need to launch another instance of AutoCAD.

• TrustedDWG Technology to safeguard your designs

With TrustedDWG® technology, you can help maintain the integrity of your design data throughout the review process. TrustedDWG, which is built into AutoCAD software, is the original, most efficient, and most accurate way to store and share design data.

• Graphics

AutoCAD 2023 includes updated graphics that allow you to render 3D objects up to ten times faster than before using shaded, shaded edges and wireframe visual styles.

It’s been a long time since AutoCAD received a significant new feature. With Trace and Markup Import, it appears that Autodesk is focusing on team collaboration in this release. It could be relevant because, due to the pandemic, many AutoCAD users have had to work from home in the last two years.

Autodesk is also moving forward on AutoCAD mobile and web.

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