Key features of AutoCAD 2023

Rapidly send and incorporate feedback into your designs. Import feedback from printed paper or PDFs and add changes to your drawings automatically, without additional drawing steps. (video: 1:15 min.)

Learn helpful tips and valuable information at the right time and in the right context to help you complete your projects faster. (video: 2:47 min.)

The AutoCAD LISP API is now available in the AutoCAD web app, exclusively for AutoCAD subscribers. Whether you are on the go, at a job site, or anywhere else, create your own customizations to automate sequences with LISP in the AutoCAD web app.  (video: 55 sec.)

Open sheet sets quicker than ever before. Using the Autodesk cloud platform, sending and opening sheet sets to and from teammates is quicker and safer.

Automate the counting of blocks or objects within a selected area or throughout your entire drawing with a menu to identify errors and navigate through your counted objects. (video: 1:15 min.)

Create single or multiline text (mtext) as a single text object. Easily format text, columns, and boundaries.

Create dimensions automatically. Pass the cursor over selected objects to see a preview before you create it.

Apply formulas, link to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and create tables with data and symbols. Automatically import data to tables using features like Count.

Create leaders with a variety of content, including text or blocks. Easily format leader lines and define styles.

Create and edit centerlines and center marks that automatically move when you move the associated objects.

Draw revision clouds around new changes in a drawing to quickly identify your updates.

Save views by name to easily return to a specific view for quick reference or for applying to layout viewports.

Specify the size of your drawing sheet, add a title block, and display multiple views of your model.

Use fields in text objects to display text that can be updated automatically as the field value changes.

Enable simultaneous updates by creating a live link between a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and a table in your drawing.

Extract information from objects, blocks, and attributes, including drawing information.

Add flexibility and intelligence to your block references, including changing the shape, size, or configuration.

Create and modify objects in circular or rectangular patterns, or along a path.

Apply geometric and dimensional constraints to maintain relationships between drawing geometry.

Remove multiple unneeded objects at once with easy selection and object preview.

Create realistic 3D models of your design using a combination of solid, surface, and mesh modeling tools.

Use 3D viewing and navigation tools to orbit, swivel, walk, and fly around a 3D model to showcase your design.

Apply visual styles to control the display of edges, lighting, and shading of your 3D model.

Create section planes to display cross-sectional views through solids, surfaces, meshes, or regions.

Apply lighting and materials to give your 3D models a realistic appearance and to help communicate your designs.

Render 3D models online without consuming processing power or disk space on your local computer.

Attach point cloud files acquired by 3D laser scanners or other technologies to use as a starting point for your designs.

Generate 2D drawings including base, projected, section, and detail views from 3D models.

Compare two versions of a drawing, including external references (xrefs).

Share and reuse data from PDF files by importing, exporting, or attaching them as underlays.

Share and reuse data from DGN files by importing, exporting, or attaching them as underlays.

Compare two versions of a drawing without leaving your current window.

View, access, manage, and plot multiple drawings as sheet sets.

Attach Navisworks models as underlays to your drawings, and import models from other applications.

Insert geographic location information into a drawing, and display a map in the drawing from an online map service.

Reduce the amount of time you spend setting up AutoCAD with faster and customizable installations.

The new AutoCAD Start tab lets you easily access files and other helpful content directly from the home screen.

TrustedDWG® technology alerts you to a possible incompatibility when a file was not last saved by Autodesk software.

Customize the user interface to improve accessibility and reduce the number of steps for frequent tasks.

Specify security restrictions for running executables in AutoCAD to help protect against malicious executable code.

Record commands and input values that can be played back as an action macro.

Monitor current system variables against a preferred list of values. Notification balloons alert you to deviations.

Define and monitor CAD standards to maintain consistent styles for layers, linetypes, text, and dimensions.

Control drawings and databases with ActiveX, VBS, AutoLisp, Visual LISP, ObjectARX, JavaScript, and .NET.

Customize your software with Autodesk-approved extensions.

• Access to industry-specific toolsets, including:
  • Architecture
  • Mechanical
  • Electrical
  • Map 3D
  • MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing)
  • Plant 3D, including P&ID functionality
  • Raster Design

• AutoCAD web app: View, create, and edit AutoCAD drawings from any computer with no software install required.*
• AutoCAD mobile app (US Site): View, create, and edit AutoCAD drawings via iOS and Android devices.
• Integrated workflows: Work smoothly across desktop, web, and mobile devices.*
• Cloud storage connectivity: Access any DWG file in AutoCAD with Autodesk’s cloud, as well as with leading cloud storage providers.

• Markup Assist and Markup Import: Import feedback and incorporate changes to your drawings automatically.
• My Insights: Learn valuable tips and new features to help you work faster.
• APIs for the AutoCAD web app: Automate processes with the LISP API in the AutoCAD web app.
• Trace: Safely review and add feedback directly to a DWG file without altering the existing drawing.
• Count: Automate counting blocks or geometry with the COUNT command.
• Share: Send a controlled copy of your drawing to teammates and colleagues to access wherever they are.
• Push to Autodesk Docs: Push your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs to Autodesk Docs from AutoCAD.
• Drawing history: See changes made to your drawing over time.
• Xref Compare: Compare two versions of an external xref and implement changes without leaving your current drawing.
• Blocks palette: Insert blocks efficiently from the Libraries tab on desktop or in the AutoCAD web app.
• Quick measure: Quickly display all nearby measurements in a drawing, including areas and perimeters, by hovering your mouse.
• Trim and extend (enhanced): The default Quick mode now automatically selects all potential boundaries.
• Purge (redesigned): Remove multiple unneeded objects with easy selection and object preview.
• DWG™ Compare: Compare two versions of a drawing or xref without leaving your current window.
• Attach/extract point cloud data: Attach point cloud files acquired by 3D laser scanners or other technologies.
• PDF import: Import geometry (SHX font files, fills, raster images, and TrueType text) into a drawing from a PDF.
• AutoCAD anytime, anywhere: Access AutoCAD from your desktop, web, and mobile devices.*
• Save to web and mobile: Save drawings and their associated xrefs from your desktop to view and edit in the AutoCAD web and mobile apps.
• New views and viewports: Easily add saved views to your layouts.
• High-resolution monitor support: View your designs on 4K- and higher-resolution displays.
• Off-screen selection: Selected objects stay in the selection set, even if you pan or zoom off screen.

• Floating windows: Pull away drawing windows to display them side by side or on multiple monitors without opening another instance of AutoCAD.
• Sheet Set Manager: Plot your sheet sets more quickly with the Autodesk platform.
• Save in half a second: Shave one second off each save on average.
• Speedy install time: Up to 50% faster for solid state hard drives.
• New dark theme: Modern blue aesthetic with contrast and sharpness improvements.
• User interface: Flat-design icons and intuitive dialog boxes and toolbars.
• 2D graphics: Better stability, fidelity, and performance.
• 3D navigation performance: Up to 10x faster.
• Save, move/copy performance boost with new 2018.dwg file format.
• Autodesk App Store with 1,000+ AutoCAD apps.
• The TrustedDWG® file format.

• Technical support
  • Autodesk support specialists: Schedule a call,^† chat online (limited availability), or email us.
  • Remote desktop assistance: Get secure, hands-on troubleshooting.^†
  • Online resources: Access our knowledge base for help documentation, tutorials, training videos, and community support forums.

• Access to the latest software: Instantly access the newest releases and updates.
• Access previous versions: Download and use previous releases.
• Flexible term lengths: Subscribe monthly, annually, or for 3 years.*
• Administrative tools: Easily manage software licenses, seats, and usage from your Autodesk Account.

*Not available to maintenance plan customers.
^†Available to maintenance plan customers with Advanced Support.