Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture 2019

Unleash your creative potential and streamline your architectural design process with the AutoCAD Architecture 2019 Toolset. Tailored for architects and building professionals, this specialized toolset offers a comprehensive suite of tools and features that integrate seamlessly into the AutoCAD environment, enhancing productivity and precision.

Save To AutoCAD Web & Mobile

You can now open and save drawings online with Autodesk Web & Mobile from any remote location in the world with internet access, and on any device--desktop, web, or mobile. Access your online drawing files with the new commands, Save to Web & Mobile and Open from Web & Mobile.

After you install the app when prompted in AutoCAD, your drawings become accessible for viewing and editing from any of your internet-connected devices, such as a tablet when you're in the field or using a desktop computer in a remote location. Subscribing to AutoCAD provides you with editing capabilities from web and mobile devices.

New features

• DWG Compare - Support was added for industry-specific objects created with the Architecture toolset.
• Performance - Performance has been improved with respect to how efficiently AutoCAD handles external files, such as xrefs, font files, and other ancillary files when they're in locations with slow access or if they're absent.
• Shared Views - Support was added for extracting turned off and frozen layers in layouts for sharing.
• Help System - The UI Finder was added to most dialog box topics. This makes it faster to locate the command associated with the dialog box in the UI. Simply click the command icon at the top of a dialog box topic in the Help system to locate the originating command. For example, you can find the location of the INSERT command from the Insert Dialog box topic.
• Quality Enhancements - A substantial number of software defects were evaluated and fixed.

Cyber Security

Potential security exploits are continuously being researched, identified, and closed. For AutoCAD 2019-based products, a new system variable, SECUREREMOTEACCESS, is introduced, which can be set to restrict access to files from internet or remote server locations.

Due to persistent and accelerating cyber security threats, the AutoCAD Security feature team continues to strongly recommend that you install all AutoCAD-based product updates as they become available.

Performance Initiative

For this release, Autodesk invested the software engineering resources equivalent to a new AutoCAD feature dedicated to improving software performance. Additional work continues to improve 2D and 3D graphics performance. Performance gains vary significantly depending on your system resources and the size and content of the drawing.

For example, here are some typical results in one of our test drawings that included a number of attached images. The time required for commands that changed the color, layer, or linetype properties in the drawing was reduced from around 4 seconds to around 0.6 seconds, QSAVE in that same drawing was reduced from 1.4 seconds to around 0.5 seconds, and a REGEN was reduced from about 0.7 seconds to 0.1 seconds. While performance varies in each situation, it's more crisp overall. Additional investment in fixing customer-reported defects also contributed to increasing product quality.