AutoCAD LT 2025 is here! We’re excited to share the new enhancements for best-in-class 2D drafting with the latest performance improvements. All you need to do is open the Autodesk Access application to start your update. Keep reading to learn more about some of the latest capabilities in AutoCAD LT 2025.
With the introduction of AutoCAD 2025, we announced the significant improvements that have been made to reduce the time it takes to open files. And we’re excited to let you know that this extends to files opened in AutoCAD LT 2025 as well, an important step to increase productivity for all AutoCAD users.
AutoCAD LT 2025 also shares the convenient updates to the familiar HATCH command—a tool designed to quickly add texture and clarity to your drawings using patterns, solid fills, and gradient fills. Previously Hatch required you to use pre-defined closed boundaries to then fill a space. With the 2025 release, you can now add hatch patterns with custom boundaries after initiating the command—including the ability to draw hatch textures along paths.
First introduced in AutoCAD LT 2024 with the Placement feature, Smart Blocks represents just one of the ways AutoCAD continues to leverage Autodesk AI to improve the core 2D drafting experience. AutoCAD LT 2025 now introduces the new Smart Blocks: Search and Convert feature that can be used to quickly organize geometry into blocks. This tool enables you to search drawings by selecting geometry and highlighting all matching objects found on the canvas, providing options to convert them into instances of a block with the help of Autodesk AI.
“Search and Convert allows for a more efficient workflow within AutoCAD. Blocks can get lost or be challenging to work with, and this feature allows for a more efficient approach, saving time and quickly creating new blocks from elements within the drawing.”
—Joe VanderPluym, Design Associate
New to AutoCAD LT 2025, Activity Insights is designed to be the one stop for users to track and compare DWG versions with file comparison capabilities. Merging features from the previous DWG History tool, Activity Insights can be viewed using the new palette while working on a drawing, or directly from the Start Tab without having to open a drawing.
Now in AutoCAD LT 2025 you can underlay one of five ArcGIS® Basemaps from Esri to ground projects with real-world geographical information. Using the GEOLOCATION command, access high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, OpenStreetMaps, Streets, dark gray, and light gray monochrome map styles.
Get started with the Autodesk Access application on your desktop. And if you’re not yet a subscriber, test out these new features and more in the free trials of AutoCAD 2025, AutoCAD LT 2025, and AutoCAD Web.
To explore these features and enhancements in detail, along with more updates included in AutoCAD 2025 and AutoCAD LT 2025, take a look at the following pages in the Help section:
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Jonathan Hand
Industry Community Manager | AEC (Architecture & Building)
As I said earlier I cope with that. VPMAX is a great way to do that but sometimes I have to work only in the model space and this behavior of AutoCad is annoying.
It is also weird that if these blocks with text are inside of the other block like an bigger part/element - AutoCad doesn't add the 1:1 scale to them when inserted from the Tool Pallete. It is just messy and seems like a bug.
But again, thank you for trying to help.
@kubaszymanski wrote:...AutoCad doesn't add the 1:1 scale to them when inserted from the Tool Pallete. It is just messy and seems like a bug.
If you think there is a bug in the program, you alone will need to report it to Autodesk through the Support link on your Autodesk Accounts page. Tell us end users like you around here is pointless.
Thanks for the DWG file: looks like an easy fix to me, are you expecting and wanting 3/4" and 1-1/2" to be on display in modelspace at the same time? that's unusual and as far as I know you only get it accidentally but rarely as default action in AutoCAD/LT
Yes, sometimes I want to display all - in every scale. I believe this is why they implemented ANNOALLVISIBLE
And if you take a look again at my .dwg you will see that the blocks (red rectangles) are displaying properly in 3/4" scale whatever CANNOSCALE is set and until ANNOVISIBLE is 1. However the text is in 1:1.
Attached is the sample created in Autocad LT 2024. It didn't add 1:1 scale while inserting from Tool Palette.
I'll drop the line the support team.
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