Key features of AutoCAD 2023

Quickly 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 construction site or anywhere else, create your own customisations 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 multi-line 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 centrelines and centre 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 modelling 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 customisable 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.

Customise 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.

Customise your software with Autodesk-approved extensions.