New Features in AutoCAD 2025 Update 1

[dan908]

If you have not installed the new AutoCAD 2025 Feature Update it is available for install now. Check out the added feature improvements:

Activity Insights: For activity insights feature now you can refresh the page using the new refresh button. Searching and the time format is improved. The event of opening a drawing is now named “opened” instead of “viewed”. You can now open XREFs from the activity insight pallete. And the version of the drawing is merged with the saved information.

Smart Blocks: Now you can zoom to the selection during the BCONVERT command. Converted blocks can be assigned to a layer. Blocks can be filtered from the blocks and non-block objects. Updates have been made to the dialog and command prompts.

GPU Text: GPU text is an improvement to text performance. This is turned on by default with the Update 1. Update 1 also resolves defects for this text display. UI has been added to the Graphicsconfig dialog to switch on and off GPU Text.

Share: Updates have been made to the Share dialog for files saved on ACC Docs for AutoCAD Web including new API definitions on Desktop. 

A new Share access point to the context menu of Autodesk Projects on App Home page allows a user to click the "Share a link..." and a dialog will pop up to allow user to have the share link handy to share with the team members. 

Publish: When publishing on a separate machine the licensing dialog will not prevent publishing if additional instances of AutoCAD are opened on other computers.

Annotation Scale inherited for DIMCONTINUE and DIMBASELINE: The original selected dimension’s annotation scale will be inherited by the continued or baseline dimension.

MLEADERLAYER sysvar: Similar to other annotative objects now MLeaders can have a layer for creating new MLeaders.

3d Wireframe (Fast) Frozen Layers: As the Fast graphics of GSF improve, the frozen layer display in 3d Wireframe is now not showing frozen layers.

Long Web Addresses for Proxy Dialog: Due to the fixed width of the Proxy Graphics Dialog box it was difficult to read long web addresses.

Check out how to install the new update here 

[dan908]

I wanted to highlight one additional thing. MLEADERLAYER is set to current layer by default. It applies to new MLEADERs and editing MLEADERs. But, we have gotten feedback that the editing of MLEADERs is not the workflow people want. Much like DIMLAYER, you can set MLEADERLAYER to the layer you typically use for your MLEADERs or you can set the current layer before editing. We do appreciate the feedback requesting to change this and will take it seriously.

[rgrainer]

I'm sorry, but this unacceptable. Please, put it back the way it was as it has severely impacted my workflow. You have to give us the option of using or not using this so called feature. 

Not all of my mleaders are on the same layer and now if I go to add a leader to an existing mleader callout flag, it puts on the current layer. Worse, the MLEADERLAYER setvar does not give me the ability to suppress doing something to the layer of the existing mleader. This is wrong on so many levels, it's two steps backwards. I don't want, and shouldn't need to set to the layer of the leader to make an addition leader edit.

Who dreams up these so called ideas?
Please put it back the way it was.

[pendean]

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@dan908 wrote:

...But, we have gotten feedback that the editing of MLEADERs is not the workflow people want. ... We do appreciate the feedback requesting to change this and will take it seriously.

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https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2025-update-1-has-defect-fixes/m-p/12960620#M1136523 

[rgrainer]

Why are these three comments marked as solutions?
There are no solutions presented. 
Please mark this post as not having a solution.
What's going on Adesk? Have you been hacked?

[cwitzel5NL5H]

Same issue.

GOOD to have the option to insert a mleader on a layer, BAD to move an edited mleader to that layer.

I will handle my layer control, thank you.

[cwitzel5NL5H]

And at least make it consistent!!

Deleting a leader does not change the layer.

[rgrainer]

When is this problem going to be fixed?

[rgrainer]

finally fixed.

[ВeekeeCZ]

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@rgrainer wrote:

finally fixed.

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False alarm. They tried... It did not work out. Seems too difficult to figure out what users want.

[rgrainer]

It worked for me. It's the first thing I tried after the update.

[rgrainer]

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/new-features-in-autocad-2025-update-1/td-p/12956396 

Looks like I was sort of wrong. They fixed one aspect of it (editing does not change to current layer), but adding an mleader forces you to pick a layer for it to automatically be on.

You are right it is not fixed.

[apjones]

Have you installed the latest update? It appears to be working correctly for me. (ACAD 2025.1.1)

[dan908]

I am tracking the comments and I feel that the concerns raised to us were corrected but there are probably a few other things related that should also be addressed. Please let us know on this thread or through the feedback portal (if you participate in Beta) areas we should still improve. Help us understand the workflow by being as clear as possible. Suggestions on what to do are great too - like is there a need for an on/off sysvar for this?

The goal was to build it to work like the Dimension Layers, but the "forces you to pick a layer" that does not quite match, so please let us know on this thread.

[ВeekeeCZ]

At this point, the biggest issue is that AIMLEADEREDITADD is still affected by MLEADERLAYER (and shouldn't be). 

The workaround is to use MLEADEREDIT instead. 

Edit: I've fixed it myself by simple CUI edit: replacing AIMLEADEREDITADD with just MLEADEREDIT (yes, remove those 5 extra letters).