Other updates include “Share Design Views”, which lets you share designs without sharing the files themselves, plus new icons and better 2D graphics performance.
This allows you to identify the differences between two revisions of a drawing, including the ability to view clashes, changes, and to systematically check details in a file. Updates to the actual functionality of AutoCAD are less prominent here, but one key change is the introduction of DWG Compare. There’s also an AutoCAD mobile app to join other iOS and Android CAD offerings. This sees AutoCAD join many of its competitors in making a foray into CAD in the cloud. This program won’t feature as a specialized toolset instead, it will become a standalone program, retitled Autodesk Civil 3D.Īnother key change is the launch of the AutoCAD web app. You may notice that one AutoCAD product is missing from the list: Civil 3D. What used to be separate products are now “specialized toolsets”: all under one roof. Now, that’s changed-the new tagline is “Only One AutoCAD”.
Before, AutoCAD was a suite of products, with separate licenses for programs such as AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Mechanical, and so on. The key change that’s being made here is less one of increased functionality, and more one of packaging. Autodesk did not disappoint this month, with AutoCAD 2019 hitting the market on March 22nd. Though the exact release date always remains under wraps, the CAD community now eagerly awaits the latest version of AutoCAD right as spring rolls around, making it one of the most anticipated events of the CAD calendar. In every year since 2003, Autodesk has chosen to release its latest version of AutoCAD in March.