Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2024.0.1 + Addon

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what is new in AutoCAD MEP 2024

AEC3DPRINT
Export AEC elements to an STL file without converting to 3D solids.

Migrating Custom Settings
Improvements have been made to the CUI, tool palettes, and templates to support the migration of custom files and locations.

Activity Insights
Activity Insights provides an understanding of the past actions that you or others have performed with regard to your drawings.

Smart Blocks: Placement
The new smart block functionality can offer placement suggestions based on where you’ve placed that block before in the drawing.

Smart Blocks: Replacement
Replace specified block references by selecting from a palette of suggested similar blocks.

Markup Assist
This release includes improvements to Markup Assist that make it easier to bring markups into your drawing.

Trace Updates
The Trace environment continues to improve and now includes the new COPYFROMTRACE command and new settings controls on the toolbar.

Autodesk Docs Improvements
Improved performance and navigation on the Start tab for drawings stored on Autodesk Docs.

Start Tab Updates
The Start tab continues to be improved in this release including new options to sort and search recent drawings.

File Tab Menu
Use the new file tab menu to switch between drawings, create or open a drawing, save all drawings, close all drawings, and more.

Layout Tab Menu
Use the new layout tab menu to switch between layouts, create a layout from a template, publish layouts, and more.

Quality improvements

Occasional Crash Fixes: Occasional program crash or freeze in following workflows have been resolved:

Working in Project Navigator
Opening certain drawings
Switching to Shaded (Fast) visual style
Selecting Architecture or MEP objects in Shaded (Fast) visual style

Schedule Table: Schedule table now updates correctly for objects with classifications.

IFC Import or Export

IFC file no longer increases in size after an IFC export.
IFC no longer imports empty drawing in certain situations.

Migration: Custom path in Support File Search can now be migrated successfully from older releases.

Content Browser: Unwanted temporary PNG files are now deleted automatically after exiting a category in the Content Browser.

Project Navigator: Background publishing now plots the updated changes in Project Properties.

Visual Style

Cable tray that’s placed at a lower elevation from a MV part now displays correctly in 3D visual style.
Flange of piping now displays correctly in Shaded (Fast) visual style.

Walls: The wall inside a block definition no longer shows errors after performing a BEDIT.

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): Below is a list of improvements that have been made to the Sheet Set Manager for Web since the previous release.

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: 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