Autodesk AutoCAD 2025.1 Updates

There’s a lot of new and improved things happening inside of AutoCAD 2025.1 so, let’s jump right in and take a look at some of the new features and improvements!

Share a link to an Autodesk Docs drawing: For drawing files saved in Autodesk Docs, Share URL (SHARE command) now creates a link that allows recipients to make changes to the actual drawing file, instead of creating a new copy of the drawing. Anyone with access to the Autodesk Docs project can open the link using AutoCAD on the web (web.autocad.com) or AutoCAD on mobile. For more information, see the Share a link (URL) to an Autodesk Docs drawing topic in Cross Platform.

Block convert: BCONVERT command now zooms to selected objects. The Convert dialog box also includes the option to assign blocks to layers. Additionally, the new BCONVERTINCLUDEEXISTINGBLOCKS system variable determines whether existing block instances are selected by the BCONVERT command by default.

 

Multileaders: The new MLEADERLAYER system variable assigns new multileaders to the specified layer, overriding the current layer.

 

Annotation Scale:

 

Other New Features:

Activity Insights: The palette has a new refresh button, as well as improved search capability. Xrefs are now linked in the palette, and Shared activities also appear in the palette.

Sheet Set Manager for Web: The following are recent enhancements to the Sheet Set Manager for Web.

  • Configuration of the page setup overrides file and publishing with these overrides.
  • Supports publishing using custom linetypes that reference SHP and SHX files.
  • Displays detailed publish information including job errors and warnings.
  • Allows multi-selection for moving and removing sheets.
  • Prevents importing of sheets from locked drawing files.
  • Removal of sheets does not unlock initially locked drawing files to avoid conflict.

Accelerated font display: A new option in the Graphics Performance dialog box now provides improved control over the display of TrueType fonts in drawings while leveraging GPU acceleration.

Problems Reported Through the Customer Error Reporting Utility

As a result of the detailed information that we received from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, we were able to identify and fix several defects including the following:

Blocks:

Occasional crashes when switching to the Start tab if the block detection is in progress.

External Reference:

Occasional crashes when saving changes made after editing an external reference in-place.

Graphic: 

Occasional crashes when creating some TrueType texts or orbiting with graphics cards that lacked DirectX 12 support but had the GS_DEVICE system variable set to DX12.

Occasional crashes when switching the Accelerated font display option in one drawing and performing an UNDO for the multiline text editing in another drawing.

Hatch:

Occasional crashes when adding a hatch into some drawings with a certain hatch pattern on the tool palettes.

Occasional crashes when creating a hatch and changing the angle properties on the ribbon.

Plot:

Occasional crashes when the plotting of a drawing is completed on Windows operation system with an APAC region and its user name includes double-byte APAC characters.

 

For even more info on what’s new and what’s been fixed in AutoCAD 2025.1, take a look at Autodesk’s What’s New page and the AutoCAD 2025.1 Release Notes!

Thanks for reading!

-Luke