By Miles Nicholson
In the 2024 release, there has been quite a number of new features, quality improvements and general enhancements which are detailed below.
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Schematic Symbol Table
Creates a schematic symbol table from the schematic components as a report.
The schematic report lists the symbols used in the project along with its description in a table. You can also surf through a particular symbol that is used in various locations of the project.
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Wire Type Synchronization
Wire types can now be synchronized for all wires in the same equipotential network with the same signal codes across all drawings.
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Activity Insights
Activity Insights provides an understanding of the past actions that you or others have performed with regard to your drawings. This enables the user, with this information, to have meaningful insights about the workflow and practices.
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Smart Blocks
The new smart block functionality can offer placement suggestions based on where you've placed that block before in the drawing.
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Smart Blocks: Replacement
Replace specified block references by selecting from a palette of suggested similar blocks.
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Markup Assist
This release includes improvements to Markup Assist that make it easier to bring markups into your drawing.
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Trace Updates
The Trace environment continues to improve and now includes the new COPYFROMTRACE command and new settings controls on the toolbar.
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Improvements for Autodesk Docs
- Improved support and performance when viewing large files on Autodesk Docs.
- Improved Desktop Connector resulting in improved performance displaying a drawing in the Start tab and opening a drawing from Autodesk Docs.
- Improved navigation on the Start tab for drawings stored on Autodesk Docs
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Start Tab Updates
New options to sort and search recent drawings. -
Quality Improvements
- PLC Database: Multiple assemblies can now be linked to the PLC modules in PLC Database File Editor dialogue box.
- Connectors: The parent pin of the connector can now be populated based on the catalogue information.
- Symbol Builder: BTESTBLOCK workflow no longer hides the pin wire connections in the Symbol Builder Attribute Editor.
- Surf: The Surf dialogue box for cable markers now displays all characters.
- Components: The CNT value is now synchronized between schematic and panel components.
- MS Access Database Engine: Install Access Database Engine dialogue box no longer displays a false alarm for some scenarios when launching AutoCAD Electrical.
- Symbols: Enhancements in Toggle NO/NC contact workflow.
- Rebuild: Support for large projects in rebuild workflow.
- PDFSHX System Variable: Set PDFSHX to 2 to store text objects that use SHX fonts as hidden text when the drawing is exported to a PDF. This makes the text searchable and selectable in the PDF.
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Graphics Improvements
- 3D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the Shaded (Fast) and Shaded with Edges (Fast) visual styles.
- Support for Map 3D and Civil 3D.
- Large coordinate system support.
- Selection (Fence, Lasso, Polygon).
- Paper space support.
- Point cloud support.
- Line weights.
- Dimming of Xrefs and locked layers.
- General stability, visual fidelity, and performance improvements.
- 2D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the 2D graphics system.
- Pan performance is improved for drawings with raster images or wipeouts.
- Display performance is improved for trace background, Markup Import and Markup Assist, and ViewCube.
- Layout switching performance improvement.
- 3D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the Shaded (Fast) and Shaded with Edges (Fast) visual styles.
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