Updates were made to the Reference Guide to include the new members introduced in this release ( and ).Historical list of changes from AutoCAD 2000 through AutoCAD 2018 can be used to identify potential problems in existing programs( ).
The following outlines the changes that were made to the AutoCAD APIs: General Updates Some of the developer documentation (AutoLISP and ActiveX), can also be found while searching in the AutoCAD product documentation: The AutoCAD developer documentation can be found at: I do plan on covering some specific changes in future articles though. In this article, I simply highlight the changes that were introduced and don't go into any great depth you can find out specifics about the API changes in the developer documentation itself. The AutoCAD application programming interfaces (APIs) this release has seen some changes, based on your usage of certain areas the changes might feel minor while to others they might be major. For me, this release marks a special milestone that I have been pushing towards for several years now and that is the merging of the AutoCAD platform developer documentation. Prior to joining Autodesk, I was a developer for a fairly large company and an ADN member that lived and died by the AutoCAD developer documentation. AutoCAD 2018 marks for me the 11th product release that I worked on, it is hard to believe that I started working with the AutoCAD team about 12 years ago now (2 years as a consultant and going on 10 years as an employee).