A First Look at AutoCAD 2020

See the top new features of AutoCAD 2020 demonstrated by Donnie "The CAD Geek" Gladfelter.

Today Autodesk released AutoCAD 2020 and with it many feature-rich enhancements. See each of those enhancements in this first-look demonstration of AutoCAD 2020 including:
- New Dark Color Scheme
- New Block Palette Interface
- Enhanced Drawing Compare Functionality
- Redesigned Purge Command
- Performance Improvements

[deanrobbins]

Wow ... they changed the gui color scheme again ... totally worth the $1, 600/year we pay.

[diwu]

Hi ! I want to import the Dwg. file drawn in CAD 2018/2020 using walls window etc. into Adobe illustrator, but I found the information is all lost because the information is not readable in lower version like CAD2010. What should I do?

[djgregory]

Great Video.
Regarding Block Palette:
Can you specify the Block Insertion Layer?
Is there any SYSVAR or other path customization that can be accessed via LISP for the Block palettes locations? Perhaps in the Files tab of Options?

[jesusgabrie]

is Dropgeom method or command ever be deleted from the autocad's core?... it causes many problems handling blocks and aecc objects in civil 3d and revit

[LinkSX]

Sweet! New changes (specially those) are great!
Thanks for the video!

[Rezaperlawanand]

Please Sulusi How to Change the Display of AutoCAD Architecture into a Classic View

[mountainlion]

Yesterday I downloaded it in Dell i5 5th generation Intel core processor with Windows 8.1 and it is working fine

[belowme]

DID THEY FIX THE MEMORY PROBLEM?? PROBABLY NOT

[deathtool]

Is there a discount for college students? Im a ME major and we have a auto cad license at school but ive been trying to get a license for use at home for personal projects.

[blaketabian]

Thanks for the awesome video!


I have 2 questions:


1. If I have files created using autocad 2019 will these file settings be transferred directly to this LT software? mainly my page layouts etc.


2. Does the UI look the same if you are using a mac or windows?

[Lucca.C]

what did you use to make that yellow circle around your mouse? i've done that too but when i'm on autocad and you have a cross it's gone

[sFde]

have they fixed HATCH command and made it usable?

[nidalsulaiman]

Thanks for this wonderful effort. I would like to ask a question about the timing of the civil 3d release?

[breakingbrian]

Isn't 2020 another year away? Why don't they call this AutoCAD 2019?

[ursumuf]

Why didn't they enhance the block part of the Design Center instead of a new thingy ? Also, the ability to insert a block in exploded form is an encouragement to bad practices !

[southhillfarm]

I can't imagine working with a dark screen. This is for people that started or were formerly taught on AutoCAD. I started years ago on Turbocad and now moved to sketchup pro.

[pavelyankouski]

how much this tool costs ? 2k bucks a year ?

[rory]

You sound like a plane captain before take off...

[robertkent]

only 3 new items than 2019 not good need to add some of the revit style commands

[cadman]

0:16 New GUI colours? Don't care. NEXT
0:48 Gradients on ribbons? Don't care - RIBBONCLOSE is in my acad.lsp. Seriously - who uses the ribbon? Nobody productive. NEXT
1:09 "What about core functionality..." Here we go!
1:29 New Blocks pallette? Nobody uses pallettes except the disorganised. NEXT
2:00 We're still talking about the blocks pallette?
2:23 Repeat placement? I'd just mirror the chairs from the other side of the table or INSERT > COPY (or ARRAY if evenly spaced). Or just ENTER twice. Another Autodesk 'solution' in search a problem.

NEXT!
3:02 New MEASURE command. I already know the measurements of my drawings - I drew them. If someone else drew them, what does it matter what their numerical measurements are? If the space is the wrong size for the purpose (I do mechanical) then make it so it's not. NEXT
4:02 I've never used the drawing compare. What are its limits? Does it highlight changes made to blocks internally? Does it highlight based on just object handle i.e. will a line that replaces another line but was of the exact same length etc. be highlighted as a 'change' which can happen easily, like if you trim the middle of a line then later join the two ends again? I'd rather just XREF > OVERLAY and fade the drawing to compare and look for the differences than be lead down the garden path.
5:19 Let's not conflate OCD with clean though...
6:21 There is literally no point to this 'feature'. If a block is in use, why would you need to find and purge it? Sure, you can get nested invisible blocks (The three AME carry overs from pre- R13 times - I still see them on occasion but just redefine them as empty - sorted). I've been using AutoCAD long enough to remember having to purge one item at a time... NEXT
8:00 When the speed of a program installing is a 'feature' you know you're in trouble. How often are you installing it for a 3 minute time saving to actually matter? NEXT

8:23 Wow it saves half a second faster. Well, why didn't you say so sooner! Shut up and take my money, Autodesk! Yeah, right. Personally, I have ISAVEPERCENT set to 99 and I never even notice file save times and rarely manually save anyway unless it precedes a function that commonly crashes AutoCAD. If I'm emailing a file I'll just do a FULLSAVE, a function I've defined that turns ISAVEPERCENT to 0 then saves and sets ISAVEPERCENT back to 99.
Summary: Nothing here worth a pinch of the proverbial.