Design faster with built‑in AI help, smarter access controls, and precision terrain tools. July focuses on speed, clarity, and confidence across your end‑to‑end solar design workflow.
New Features
- AI Help, right where you work
- Get instant guidance without leaving AutoCAD. Ask, learn, and move on—faster.
- One‑click, privacy‑respecting sign‑in keeps you in the flow.
- Know your numbers at a glance
- New info screen with polyline and area calculations for quick validation during modeling.
- Global‑ready direction mapping
- North/South‑aware processing improves accuracy for projects in any hemisphere.
Improvements
- Smarter access controls (major)
- New entitlement service with flexible parameters and clear upgrade messaging—teams unlock exactly what they need.
- Safer defaults: secure data initialized to prevent edge‑case errors.
- Polished ribbon and cleaner windows
- Clearer labels and grouping help you find tools faster; settings and elevation/layout windows feel snappier.
- Accurate frame setout, fewer do‑overs
- Tracker frame‑setout reliability improved; transactions in section drawings are smoother.
- Richer pile point exports
- Add labels and names, expanded Excel columns, second‑row support, and optional XData for downstream tools.
- Clearer drainage visuals
- Thicker lines, better overlap filtering, improved aspect arrows, and smarter shadow‑length handling.
- More reliable boundary conversion
- Hatch fill and polygon name handling reduce cleanup work after conversion.
- Sharper terrain analysis
- Leveling and contour processing tuned for accuracy and stability in real‑world sites.
Bug Fixes
- More reliable frame setout for trackers in complex layouts.
- Safer view‑model initialization eliminates intermittent null reference issues.
- Smoother AI Help sign‑in for a frictionless first run.
- Smaller cleanup: removed unused interpolation util; tighter error handling across services.