AUTOCAD ARCHITECTURE 2010

-Streamlined Design Environment

AutoCAD Architecture features a streamlined user
interface. Find your favorite tools and commands
faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently, and discover relevant new features more easily. The result is less time searching through menus and toolbars, and more time getting your work done.

-Details

AutoCAD Architecture software includes a
comprehensive library of detail components
and keynoting tools. Rather than spend time
and effort on often tedious documentation and
design annotations, you can fully automate the
creation of details to ensure appropriate, consistent
annotations. When you are ready, you can generate
keynote legends quickly and easily.

-Walls, Doors, and Windows

Draw and document typical building elements such
as walls, doors, and windows. Draw wall layouts
that reflect actual construction. Modify walls and
their endcap conditions on a component level for
improved handling of common wall conditions, such as angled, cornered, or intersecting fire-rated walls.
Automatically insert and place doors or windows
with complete placement control. Move any wall,
and all connected walls and spaces automatically
update. Use familiar AutoCAD® commands such as
Fillet and Chamfer.

-Spaces

Automatically tag every room in a drawing, complete with room areas. As room boundaries change, you can easily update spaces, causing tags and areas to refresh, maintaining accurate documentation.

-Sections and Elevations

Generate 2D sections and elevations with material
hatching, directly from your floor plans. If your
design changes, fully updated section and elevation graphics are generated, maintaining layer, color, linetype, and other properties.

-Drawing Compare

The Drawing Compare feature enhances
collaboration by using color-coded displays to
show items on a drawing that have been changed,
added, or deleted by other members of the
design team. Changes to items such as styles, fire
ratings, or other nongraphical properties are also
tracked. Combined with redlining features, such
as revision clouds, Drawing Compare helps clarify
communication across the design team.

-Rendering

Bring designs to life for client presentations at
any stage of the design with integrated rendering.
The streamlined visualization capabilities are fully
integrated into the AutoCAD Architecture workflow.
Make your presentations stand out by visually
communicating richer design information.