AutoCAD® Architecture 2011

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Introduction
AutoCAD Architecture is designed to enhance productivity for architects familiar with AutoCAD. It automates drafting tasks, reduces errors, and increases efficiency, allowing architects to create drawings, documentation, and schedules faster with minimal training.

Immediate Productivity
The software is purpose-built for architects, automating tedious tasks and allowing users to discover new features at their own pace. It facilitates smooth collaboration by enabling easy sharing of designs and project information with clients and team members.

Key Features

Familiar User Environment: Streamlined interface for easy access to tools and commands.
Details: Comprehensive library of detail components and keynoting tools to automate documentation.
Walls, Doors, and Windows: Tools for drawing and documenting building elements with automatic updates.
Spaces: Automatic tagging and updating of room areas.
Sections and Elevations: Generate 2D sections and elevations with material hatching.
Renovation Documentation Tools: Tools for creating representations of existing, new, and demolition plans.
Scheduling: Customize and link schedules directly to designs for easy updates.
Rendering: Integrated rendering tools for client presentations.
Dimensioning: Flexible dimensioning standards with automatic updates.

Success Story
Whitney Architects adopted AutoCAD Architecture to improve collaboration and productivity. The firm experienced a 35% time saving on drawings and improved quality control and collaboration with consultants.

Additional Information
AutoCAD Architecture is part of the AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite, offering a transition to BIM while maintaining legacy software investments. Autodesk provides learning solutions, services, and support to maximize software benefits.

Conclusion
AutoCAD Architecture offers architects a powerful toolset for efficient design and collaboration, with features tailored to architectural needs and support for ongoing learning and software optimization.

Catalog excerpts

AutoCAD® Architecture Purpose-built for productivity.

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Immediate Productivity If you are an architect who knows AutoCAD® software, you can start using AutoCAD® Architecture software with minimal training to create drawings, documentation, and schedules faster. Purpose-built with architects in mind, AutoCAD Architecture automates tedious drafting tasks to help reduce errors and increase efficiency. As you work, you can discover new and useful features at your own pace. Smooth Collaboration Easily share designs and project information with clients and members of your extended project team. Use integrated rendering tools to create contextualized design...

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Get all the functionality of AutoCAD software, plus tools designed specifically for architectural drawing, design, collaboration, and documentation. Renovation Documentation Tools Speed the design and production of renovation projects with tools to help create correct representations of existing, new, and demolition plans. AutoCAD Architecture renovation documentation tools enable you to assign objects to different renovation categories, and then change these assignments at any time. Using a single revision plan helps you switch between renovation, demolition, and revision plans more quickly...

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Right out of the box AutoCAD Architecture helped us save roughly 35 percent in time spent on drawings. — Stephen Bures President Whitney Architects Phoenix Convention Center, designed by Populous. Photo © Christy Radecic 2009 *Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of this software. This brochure is printed on 100 percent postconsumer waste recycled paper. Autodesk, ATC, AutoCAD, DWF, DWG, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other...

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AutoCAD® Architecture 2011

AutoCAD® Architecture 2011

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