The AutoCAD Blog Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago Can’t join us in Las Vegas for AU 2026? You can still be part of the experience from wherever you are. AU 2026: The Design & Make Conference takes place September 15-17, bringing together the global Design & Make community to build skills, explore new ideas, and discover what’s next. And with the free AU 2026 Digital Pass, you can access a selection of livestreamed and on-demand sessions online. For the AutoCAD community, that means plenty of opportunities to learn without making the trip to Las Vegas. From AI and automation to cloud-connected workflows, collaboration, customization, and tried-and-true drafting techniques, there’s something for nearly every kind of AutoCAD user. Ready to start planning? Register for your free AU 2026 Digital Pass, then check out these 10 AutoCAD and AutoCAD-connected sessions you can watch online. Get your free AU 2026 Digital Pass AEC Roadmap: AutoCAD Want a front-row seat to what’s next for AutoCAD? Join the AutoCAD product team for a look at the latest enhancements and a preview of upcoming capabilities designed to redefine design and drafting. From improved collaboration to AI-powered productivity, you’ll learn more about the product strategy guiding AutoCAD development and see how customer feedback is helping shape what comes next. View the AutoCAD roadmap session. Click the Enroll or star button to add to your schedule. AutoCAD Tips, Tricks, and the Most-Human Drafting Techniques Looking for practical AutoCAD tips you can put to work right away? Autodesk Expert Elite member Donnie “The CAD Geek” Gladfelter returns with another installment of his popular AutoCAD tips session, blending new AutoCAD 2027 capabilities with the kind of real-world expertise that comes from years of hands-on drafting. Explore features including Geometry Cleanup, Smart Blocks, and Checkout, along with workflows designed to reduce repetitive work, speed up drawing delivery, and help you get more from AutoCAD. Expect plenty of useful techniques, productivity shortcuts, and deep-cut tips that go beyond the basics. View the digital session. Click the Enroll or star button to add to your schedule Accelerating Manufacturing Design: Unlocking the Top 10 Hidden Productivity Tools in AutoCAD Mechanical There may be more power hiding in AutoCAD Mechanical than you realize. Join Sridhar Subramani, Sr. Principal Product Owner at Autodesk, to explore 10 productivity features designed to cut repetitive drafting and help manufacturing teams get more from tools already included in their subscription. Through demos and real-world scenarios, you’ll explore intelligent drawing commands, automated hidden-line management, parametric content libraries, power dimensioning, GD&T and welding symbols, integrated BOMs, engineering calculators, associative Inventor documentation, and more. View the digital session. Click the star on the top-right to add to your schedule. AutoCAD and Autodesk Forma: A CAD Manager’s Playbook for Connected Project Data For CAD managers looking to move beyond fragmented file management, this session takes a closer look at connecting desktop AutoCAD workflows with unified, cloud-based project data through Autodesk Forma Data Management. Learn how connected project data can help AutoCAD teams reduce friction, keep shared information organized, and create more integrated workflows without abandoning the desktop tools they rely on every day. This is an especially useful session for teams thinking about the next step in CAD data management. View the digital session. Click the star on the top-right to add to your schedule. Unlock the Power of AI for AutoCAD 2027 Toolsets What can AI mean for everyday AutoCAD workflows? This session explores how AI-powered capabilities such as object recognition and predictive drafting can help make work in AutoCAD 2027 toolsets more efficient. Tune in for a look at how emerging AI workflows can help automate routine work and give designers more time to focus on higher-value decisions and creative problem-solving. View the digital session. Click the star on the top-right to add to your schedule. Building the Digital Thread: Connecting CRM, Vault PLM, MES, and ERP from Order to Delivery What happens when CAD data becomes part of a truly connected digital thread? Christian Gessner and Markus Gundersen of COOLORANGE explore how engineering and manufacturing teams can connect information across sales, design, production, and enterprise systems. Follow the workflow from a customer order through rule-based CAD automation and engineering data management in Vault, then into Autodesk Fusion Manage, Fusion Operations, and ERP. You’ll see how APIs, automation, and AI-assisted processes can help reduce disconnected handoffs and create a more seamless journey from order to delivery. View the digital session. Click the star on the top-right to add to your schedule. From AutoCAD Toolsets to Inventor: Enabling Connected Workflows with Desktop Connector and Forma AutoCAD doesn’t always work in isolation—and neither do the teams using it. This session explores how AutoCAD toolsets, Inventor, Desktop Connector, and Autodesk Forma can come together to support more connected manufacturing workflows. Discover approaches for bringing electromechanical data and factory layouts together while maintaining continuity between AutoCAD and Inventor, helping teams reduce disconnected processes as work moves between 2D and 3D. View the digital session. Click the star on the top-right to add to your schedule. Boosting Autodesk Development Using AI with AutoLISP and C# .NET If you customize AutoCAD, or you’ve been looking for a reason to start, this session brings AI into the development workflow. Explore how AI coding assistants can help accelerate the creation of AutoLISP routines and C# .NET code for AutoCAD. The session offers a look at how developers and technically minded AutoCAD users can use AI to speed up customization and automation while building tools around their own workflows. View the digital session. Click the star on the top-right to add to your schedule. A.I. Without Chaos: AutoCAD and Revit Plugin Development with Spec-Driven Development AI can make coding faster. But speed doesn’t automatically make the resulting code reliable. Fernando Malard, Chief Technology Officer at ofcdesk, LLC, explores Spec-Driven Development as a structured approach to AI-assisted development for AutoCAD and Revit plug-ins. You’ll learn how persistent specifications can serve as a source of truth, how to separate business logic from platform-specific APIs, and how to make AI-generated code more consistent, maintainable, and easier for teams to review. View the digital session. Click the star on the top-right to add to your schedule. Join AU 2026 From Wherever You Are Whether you’re looking to pick up a new AutoCAD technique, rethink how your team manages project data, explore AI-assisted workflows, or go deeper into customization and automation, AU 2026 Digital gives you a way to keep learning from wherever you work. The AU 2026 Digital Pass is free and provides access to a focused selection of livestreamed and on-demand programming. Digital registration is open now. Register for your Digital Pass, explore the digital session catalog, and start building your AU 2026 watch list. We’ll see you online! 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