AutoCAD Mechanical 2024 Toolset

What's New in AutoCAD Mechanical 2024 Toolset:

Feature Control Frame: Adding another leader segment no longer causes a crash.

Mask File in Printing: Mask file can now be added more than once.

AMOFFSET: When performing an undo in the middle of AMOFFSET, object snap settings are no longer affected.

AMSHIDE: Moving foreground objects to a hidden layer no longer causes a crash in AMSHIDE.

AMCSETTINGS: The "Use outer contour objects for foreground" option in AMCSETTINGS now honors the hidden background objects when using a second contour geometry in custom content.

Arrowhead: Arrowhead in Mechanical symbols now supports theme in Properties palette.

AMPOWERDIM: Arrowhead in Mechanical symbols now supports theme in Properties palette.

AMNOTE: The performance is improved when selecting multiple leader note objects and navigating in Properties palette.

COPY CLIP: “Copy to clipboard failed” error no longer displays when copying an object from a non-Mechanical drawing.

AMTITLE: “Font.shx not found” error no longer displays when inserting AMTITLE with a custom border or title block.

Standard Content

ANSI MC/C channel now has the correct flange slope.

JIS B 1602 and JIS B 1603 (new) now support the pressure angle of 45°.

Additional enhancements

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.

Sheet Set Manager Improvements (Web):

• Automatic sheet set lock management
• Multiple sheet selection for publishing
• Ability to publish to a multi-sheet PDF or individual PDF for each sheet
• Control over the PDF name and location
• Option to overwrite existing files during publish and eTransmit
• Control over the eTransmit file name and location
• Control over the location for new sheets
• Open Sheet Set button added to the palette

3D Graphics:

• 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:

• 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