What’s New in AutoCAD 2023

What’s New in AutoCAD 2023

by | Apr 7, 2022 | Autodesk

New AutoCAD 2023 features are here to further automate processes and collaboration. Whether you need to add feedback to your drawings, see insights to learn about process improvements, or utilize the LISP API from the web, AutoCAD 2023 delivers.

AutoCAD 2023 was designed with our customers and the changing nature of their work in mind. The new Markup Import and Markup Assist features help you automatically import feedback into your drawings, reducing the risk of errors and saving you time. Add written comments and feedback from Trace layers in just a couple of clicks of your mouse. With My Insights, you can learn about new features or workflows, curated specifically for you based on the way you uniquely use AutoCAD.

With the power of Autodesk’s integrations, you can manage tasks like plotting with fewer hang ups and customization with more flexibility. The LISP API is now available in the AutoCAD web app. You can use it to customize your AutoCAD experience and automate repetitive processes wherever you are, on any computer. In addition, the cloud-first Sheet Set Manager in AutoCAD 2023 now enables you to open sheet sets faster from Autodesk Docs. Using the Autodesk cloud platform, sending and opening from Autodesk Docs sheet sets to and from teammates is quicker and safer.

“We’re excited about the future of the AutoCAD and are committed to addressing our customers’ rapidly evolving modern workflows,” said Dania El Hassan, Director of AutoCAD Product Management. “With Markup Import and Markup Assist and My Insights: Macro Advisor in AutoCAD 2023, both powered by machine learning, we strive to make sure the time users spend in AutoCAD continues to be efficient and productive. The automations and insights we’re developing will continue to leverage the latest technology to guide users toward completely new design outcomes.”

AutoCAD 2023 and the AutoCAD web and mobile apps give you the most comprehensive web and mobile capabilities of any CAD software. You have the flexibility to design, draft, edit, share, and markup drawings in AutoCAD from a desktop, web, or mobile device. With the AutoCAD web app, you can now upload drawing templates, plot styles, and other support files to create DWG files that better meet your company’s drafting standards.

You can also take advantage of seven industry-specific toolsets in AutoCAD with thousands of parts, symbols, and diagrams to help you with electrical, mechanical, architecture, piping, plant designs, and more. For instance, with the Architecture toolset you can quickly place walls, doors, and windows into your drawings with real construction properties. The toolsets are updated for 2023 to help you connect to and retrieve data from the Autodesk platform, import and edit data from spreadsheets, quickly filter files to find projects, repeat projects, and much more to maximize productivity and shorten your project cycles.

Save time implementing feedback with Markup Import and Markup Assist

Markup Import and Markup Assist will help you rapidly send and incorporate feedback into your designs. With Markup Import, you can take feedback from the field on printed paper or a PDF and import them as a trace layer in AutoCAD. AutoCAD detects the markup and converts it to an object. Markup Assist then allows you to add the text or object to your drawing automatically with a click of a button. Markup Import and Markup Assist makes collaboration and revisions simple.

AutoCAD 2023 Markup

Get curated tips to increase your productivity with the My Insights: Macro Advisor

My Insights, the advisory engine that helps you work faster using machine learning algorithms to deliver you curated insights, now provides insights while you work in the form of recommended macros that automate your most frequently repeated workflows. In addition to the dashboard in the start tab where you can view a variety of personalized usage insights, macro insights will appear as a notification at the bottom of the screen as you are working. Clicking on these macro suggestions will take you to a new Command Macro Palette where you can learn more, save a suggested macro, and even tailor the macro to your needs. The My Insights: Macro Advisor is a frictionless guide to provide valuable information to you at the right time and in the right context.

My Insights Macro Advisor AutoCAD 2023

Customize and automate your workflows anywhere with the LISP API for AutoCAD web

Whether you are on the go, at a job site, or anywhere you decide to work, create your own customizations to automate sequences of steps with LISP in the AutoCAD web app. Load or manage LISP files and type in LISP commands just as you would with AutoCAD on your desktop to save time and complete designs faster. This feature is only available to AutoCAD subscribers.

LISP API AutoCAD 2023

Enhancements and improved performance

AutoCAD 2023 also includes several enhanced features to improve the user experience. Many users wanted floating windows to have their own command lines. Now they have them! The command line is available in any active window.

Trace is enhanced so you can create trace layers from AutoCAD desktop in addition to the web and mobile apps. In addition, you can now add to Traces that were created by others further enhancing your ability to collaborate. Safely add design change notes and markups to a drawing directly in AutoCAD without altering the existing drawing.

Count is also enhanced to further automate counting objects, including within an area you select. The Count toolbar’s added functions allow you to select counted objects; use the arrow keys to move to the previous or next counted object; and directly insert a count field to a table or text.

AutoCAD 2023 includes updated graphics for rendering 3D objects up to 10 times faster than before when using the shaded, shaded with edges, and wireframe visual styles.

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Get started today and explore the new features by logging into your Autodesk Account and downloading the latest release. If you are not yet a subscriber, check out free 30-day trials of AutoCAD 2023 and AutoCAD LT 2023, or contact one of our representatives at 201-792-6300

AutoCAD 2023 for Mac and AutoCAD LT 2023 for Mac

AutoCAD 2023 for Mac and AutoCAD LT 2023 for Mac are also now available.

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What is Autodesk Forge and why is it important for Facility Management

What is Autodesk Forge and why is it important for Facility Management

by | Feb 8, 2022 | ARCHIBUS, Autodesk, Facilities Management, Forge

What is Forge?

Forge is Autodesk’s cloud development platform that can be used to build innovative, cloud-powered applications. Veteran AutoCAD users remember the third-party add-on applications that used Autodesk program interfaces (APIs) to boost AutoCAD functionality by creating new features. Based on the same concept, Forge is a cloud-based development platform with numerous application program interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that allow for a wide variety of applications to be created, from viewing 3D models to transforming 2D images into 3D models, helping you connect workflows and enabling data to flow easily across projects and industries.

Check out the video to see what kinds of solutions can be build using the Forge platform, and some examples of how companies are using Forge to streamline and innovate how they work.

 

 

What Can You Do with Forge?

  • Improve existing software or build new custom solutions using industry standard web technologies
  • Accelerate your existing online workflows or create new solutions
  • Helps streamline the complexities of manufacturing, engineering, and construction industries by connecting players, components, and processes
  • Centralize your data and connect it to all points of the industry supply chain, empowering you to transform the manufacturing process
  • Create digital experiences that access any kind of design and engineering data—virtually anywhere, any time
  • Scale as your customers’ needs change or as you innovate

 

Example:  How Resolve uses Forge in BIM Collaboration

Resolve decided to try Forge APIs to make BIM 360 part of its immersive meeting workflows. The BIM 360 API did exactly what Resolve wanted, which was to seamlessly connect its solution to design models stored and shared in the cloud through BIM 360. As the Resolve team dug deeper, they realized that the BIM 360 API would help them quickly add features they’d planned to develop in-house, including integrated issue management and design option support.

The founders of Resolve had a vision: use virtual reality (VR) technology and BIM (Building Information Modeling) to enable immersive design and construction coordination meetings. The idea was to let project teams “gather” in 3D design models to spot issues and collaborate to enhance designs before—or even during—construction. Where others were using VR for client presentations, Resolve created collaborative 3D environments. Many leading design and construction firms have adopted Resolve technology. They find that they can bring all project stakeholders together to work through issues. Plus, it’s easier to identify visual clashes that interference detection tools have difficulty spotting. Users like that Resolve works with sophisticated VR computing systems and standalone viewers, making it easy for any project stakeholder to join a meeting with a minimal equipment investment.

 

Forge highlights include the following:

  • Saving as much as 6 months of development time for issue management and design option support
  • Helping customers launch immersive meetings instantly using the most up-to-date model
  • Speeding the process of addressing visual clashes by making VR coordination part of BIM 360 workflows

 

Forge Integration in Archibus

Building managers responsible for asset reliability and maintenance need access to all asset details that were established in BIM during design and construction. They need to be able to pull up that information online, in one place.

Recent updates with Archibus have been focusing on integration with Autodesk Forge. This will enable you to:

  • Visualize system connections
  • Plan maintenance
  • Build digital twin integrations

 

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by | Oct 8, 2021 | AEC, Autodesk

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iOFFICE + SpaceIQ Announces Strategic Investment by Autodesk

iOFFICE + SpaceIQ Announces Strategic Investment by Autodesk

by | Sep 28, 2021 | ARCHIBUS, Autodesk, Facilities Management, IWMS

iOFFICE + SpaceIQ, a leader in the digital transformation of workplace and asset management, today announced a strategic investment by Autodesk, a global technology leader spanning architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. The investment, which follows the recent combination of iOFFICE + SpaceIQ, will provide integrated solutions that give businesses unequaled ability to analyze and optimize all aspects of their real estate and mission-critical assets. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

iOFFICE + SpaceIQ

The pandemic has heightened focus on maximizing value and increasing efficiency of facilities, with executives reporting cost reduction as their top real estate priority in a recent survey by analyst firm Verdantix. However, occupancy and operations workflows are often fragmented, making it difficult to leverage data from siloed systems. Autodesk’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) expertise will help address these challenges by enabling comprehensive visibility needed to strategically plan and manage physical resources during operations.

“Combining design, operational and performance data and workflows in a single platform to improve the comfort, safety and efficiency of building assets has never been more important,” said Nick Stefanidakis, General Manager, Archibus, an iOFFICE + SpaceIQ product. “The strategic investment from Autodesk allows us to deliver the solutions organizations need to meet this demand.”

Archibus Application

iOFFICE + SpaceIQ represent the industry’s most comprehensive solutions portfolio for integrated workplace and enterprise asset management platforms. More than 10,000 customers worldwide leverage these tools to manage more than 2 billion square feet of space valued at more than $64B. The company’s platforms, including widely deployed IWMS Archibus, help 170,000-plus maintenance technicians respond to 1.3M work orders a month. The Archibus platform was one of Autodesk’s first developer partners, and this investment expands the combined capabilities to increase collaboration and scalability.

“Users of both Archibus and Autodesk products will see value in a tighter integration of BIM-based design and construction data with operations insights and workflows to optimize facility performance, comfort and sustainability,” Stefanidakis said. “Owners and occupiers can leverage these operational data to make better, more informed, design and construction choices.”

Autodesk has been a globally recognized leader in BIM design, engineering, and construction solutions for nearly thirty years and recently brought BIM to the world of digital twins, including the launch of Autodesk Tandem™ and the acquisition of Innovyze®. Autodesk views this investment as another strategic step in the company’s efforts to bring BIM, and digital twin technologies, to the full project lifecycle from design through operations and maintenance.

“BIM is at the core of Autodesk’s AEC business and serves as the foundation of the digital transformation now underway in the building industry from design through operations,” added Nicolas Mangon, Vice President, Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry Strategy at Autodesk. “Owners and operators play an increasingly significant role in combatting climate change through improved building efficiency and creating flexible and resilient workplaces when working conditions suddenly change. Our investment in iOFFICE + SpaceIQ recognizes the importance of giving them the tools they need to meet these challenges.”

Autodesk and iOFFICE + SpaceIQ currently offer integrations between Autodesk Revit® and AutoCAD® and Archibus with plans for future integrations with the Autodesk Construction Cloud® and Autodesk’s Forge® platform. Customers, including global housing and construction provider Daiwa House, have already leveraged the existing integration to benefit their businesses.

“Daiwa House has developed a strategy for creating and managing building data so that building owners can make more data-driven decisions while reducing the guesswork of operations and maintenance,” said Takaaki Miyauchi, Senior Manager, Construction Digital Promotion Department at Daiwa House. “Archibus and Autodesk’s BIM-related products have been at the center of our strategy to bring the project model and asset operations together. The investment Autodesk is making in iOFFICE + SpaceIQ will fully bring BIM to building operations, which is so important to the digital transformation of building operations and the future of the built world.”

Robotech’s Services

Robotech CAD Solutions, Inc. is a Software & Services Solution Provider for CAD, BIM and IWMS applications. We offer Autodesk software & services for design automation, and Archibus IWMS suite of products for Corporate Facility Management. Robotech offers full implementation, training and support services for CAD, BIM and IWMS implementation.

Our mission is helping you be successful with your design-automation and facility-management operation using Autodesk and Archibus technology. Our experienced and friendly technical staff consultants, developers, trainers and tech support engineers will help maintaining and improve your CAD, BIM or CAFM operation. Robotech’s customer satisfaction rate is consistently perfect score according to Autodesk’s monitoring analytics.