AUTODESK AUTOCAD MECHANICAL 2024

What's New in AutoCAD Mechanical 2024 Toolset

• Updated ANSI/ASME standard review for section line symbols
• Updated ISO standard review for taper and inclination symbols
• Taper and inclination: functioning of dynamic automatic calculation 
• Directorial note in Review Assistance New in version 2024
• In-depth activity information
• Smart Blocks: Positioning and Replacement
• Updates on Trace
• Improvements for Autodesk Docs 
• Updates to the Home tab
• File tab menu 
• Layout tab menu

This is a product in Educational Version

Quality Improvements

Geometry control box: adding another directorial segment no longer causes a crash.

Mask file in printing: the mask file can now be added more than once.

AMOFFSET: when performing an undo operation during the AMOFFSET command, object snap settings are no longer changed.

AMSHIDE: moving foreground objects to a hidden layer no longer causes a crash during the AMSHIDE command.

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

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

AMPOWERDIM: the arrowhead in Mechanical symbols now supports the theme in the Properties palette.

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

COPIACLIP: the error indicating that the clipboard copy operation failed is no longer displayed when copying an object from a non-Mechanical drawing.

MTITLE: the error indicating that the Font.shx file was not found is no longer displayed when inserting AMTITLE with a custom border or template.

Standard Content

The ANSI MC/C channel now presents the correct flange tilt.

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

Additional Improvements

TESTOSHXPDF system variable: set TESTOSHXPDF to 2 to store text objects that use SHX fonts as hidden text when the drawing is exported to a PDF file. This way the text can be searched and selected in the PDF.

Sheet Set Manager (Web) Improvements: Below is a list of improvements made to Sheet Set Manager for the Web compared to the previous release.

Automatic management of the sheet set block

Selection of multiple sheets for publication

Ability to publish to a multi-sheet PDF file or a single PDF file for each sheet

Control of the name and location of the PDF file

Option to overwrite existing files during publication and eTransmit

Control of the name and location of the eTransmit file

Control of the location of new sheets

Open sheet set button added to the palette

3D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements made to the Shaded (fast) and Shaded with edges (fast) display styles.

Support for Map 3D and Civil 3D

Support for large coordinate systems

Selection (Fence, Lasso, Polygon)

Support for paper space

Support for point clouds

Line thicknesses

Fading of xref and locked layers

General improvements in stability, visual fidelity, and performance

2D Graphics: Below is a list of improvements made to the 2D graphics system.

Panning performance has been improved for drawings with raster images or covering entities

Display performance has been improved regarding background tracing, revision import, Review Assistance, and ViewCube

Improved layout switching performance

Note: Activate hardware acceleration to improve performance and responsiveness in AutoCAD.

System Requirements for AutoCAD Mechanical 2024:

Operating System Microsoft® Windows® 11 64-bit and Windows 10 version 1809 or later. 

Processor   Minimum: 2.5-2.9 GHz processor (base). ARM processors are not supported.   

Recommended: at least 3 GHz processor (base) or at least 4 GHz (turbo)

Memory Minimum: 8 GB Recommended: 16 GB

Screen Resolution Conventional Displays: 1920 x 1080 with 16.8 million colors

High resolution and 4K screens: Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 (with compatible video card)

Graphics Card Minimum: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s bandwidth and DirectX 11 compatible

Recommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s bandwidth and DirectX 12 compatible

Disk Space 12 GB

.NET Framework .NET Framework 4.8 or later versions