Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2024 launch day

Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2024 on the way

Today, I did a google search for AutoCAD® 2024® and incidentally found some documents for Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2024 are live.

Free Trial is available:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad/free-trial

System requirement:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-AutoCAD-2024-including-Specialized-Toolsets.html

AutoCAD 2024 online help is available at:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2024/ENU/

New features in AutoCAD 2024:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-3890D5F7-04CB-4F3B-97FF-7A9577D41852

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Backward compatibility:

AutoCAD 2024 release number is 24.3;  minor increment from previous version (AutoCAD 2023 release number is 24.2). Though I can't find any official announcement at the moment, such release number means that no new drawing format is put forward.  The latest drawing format is almost certainly still 2018.  

Document on managed .NET and object ARX compatibility shows that AutoCAD 2024 keeps using the platform from AutoCAD 2021. Third party applications which works with 2021 version are very likely to work in AutoCAD 2024 version, directly.

Here is the list of AutoCAD versions, with release number since 2004:

AutoCAD Release

Release Number

Supported .NET and ObjectARX SDK

.NET Framework

AutoCAD 2024

24.3

AutoCAD 2024,AutoCAD 2023AutoCAD 2022AutoCAD 2021

4.8

AutoCAD 2023

24.2

AutoCAD 2023AutoCAD 2022AutoCAD 2021

4.8

AutoCAD 2022

24.1

AutoCAD 2022AutoCAD 2021

4.8

AutoCAD 2021

24.0

AutoCAD 2021

4.8

AutoCAD 2020

23.1

AutoCAD 2020AutoCAD 2019

4.7

AutoCAD 2019

23.0

AutoCAD 2019

4.7

AutoCAD 2018

22.0

AutoCAD 2018

4.6

AutoCAD 2017

21.0

AutoCAD 2017

4.6

AutoCAD 2016

20.1

AutoCAD 2016, AutoCAD 2015

4.5

AutoCAD 2015

20.0

AutoCAD 2015

4.5

AutoCAD 2014

19.1

AutoCAD 2014, AutoCAD 2013

4.0

AutoCAD 2013

19.0

AutoCAD 2013

4.0

AutoCAD 2012

18.2

AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2010

3.51 SP1

AutoCAD 2011

18.1

AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2010

3.51 SP1

AutoCAD 2010

18.0

AutoCAD 2010

3.51 SP1

AutoCAD 2009

17.2

AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2007

3.0

AutoCAD 2008

17.1

AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2007

2.0

AutoCAD 2007

17.0

AutoCAD 2007

2.0

AutoCAD 2006

16.2

AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2005, AutoCAD 2004

1.1 SP1

AutoCAD 2005

16.1

AutoCAD 2005, AutoCAD 2004

1.1

AutoCAD 2004

16.0

AutoCAD 2004

N/A

Source:  Autodesk AutoCAD 2024 online help

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