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	.NET Framework	.NET core
AutoCAD 2026	25.1	4.8(*)	8.0
AutoCAD 2025	25.0	4.8(*)	8.0
AutoCAD 2024	24.3	4.8
AutoCAD 2023	24.2	4.8
AutoCAD 2022	24.1	4.8
AutoCAD 2021	24.0	4.8
AutoCAD 2020	23.1	4.7
AutoCAD 2019	23.0	4.7
AutoCAD 2018	22.0	4.6
AutoCAD 2017	21.0	4.6
AutoCAD 2016	20.1	4.5
AutoCAD 2015	20.0	4.5
AutoCAD 2014	19.1	4.0
AutoCAD 2013	19.0	4.0
AutoCAD 2012	18.2	3.51 SP1
AutoCAD 2011	18.1	3.51 SP1
AutoCAD 2010	18.0	3.51 SP1
AutoCAD 2009	17.2	3.0
AutoCAD 2008	17.1	2.0
AutoCAD 2007	17.0	2.0
AutoCAD 2006	16.2	1.1 SP1
AutoCAD 2005	16.1	1.1
AutoCAD 2004	16.0	N/A

(*) - .NET core 8.0 is backward compatible with .NET Framework 4.8.  However, not all .NET Framework plug-ins can run smoothly in AutoCAD 2025+

Source:  Autodesk AutoCAD 2026 online help