The Count feature, designed to automate the counting of blocks or objects, has been enhanced. You can now select a specific area, or the entire drawing, to count instances of objects, reducing the risk of errors in BOM (Bill of Materials) generation. Floating Drawing Windows
This is the killer feature. You can now import a scanned PDF or image with handwritten redlines, and AutoCAD’s AI recognizes text, clouds, and strikethroughs. It creates an intelligent overlay where you can click a markup like “Move door 3ft left” and AutoCAD highlights the object and executes the change. Time savings: ~30% on revision cycles.
Users can add detailed design notes, dimensions, and callouts inside the trace layer, which geometry editors can later promote to the main drawing area. 5. Floating Windows Enhancements
Users can take a photo of a printed drawing with hand-written redlines or export a marked-up PDF, then overlay it directly onto the AutoCAD workspace.
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The Sheet Set Manager is now fully integrated with the Autodesk Cloud. This enables multiple users to manage and open layout sheets simultaneously from the web version, speeding up the publishing and plotting phases of a project. 🛠 Specialized Toolsets Included
The 2023 release focuses on , trace , and count . Here are the headline features every professional must know.
If the software detects that a user repeats a specific sequence of commands, it suggests a customized macro to automate the workflow.