• Immediate Productivity - Designers familiar with AutoCAD® software can begin using AutoCAD Architecture immediately to create documentation, drawings and schedules faster, while automating tedious co-ordination tasks and reducing errors.
• Details - Do documenting and annotating designs consume too much time? Complete these tasks faster with AutoCAD Architecture's robust library of detail components and powerful keynoting tools. Automate the creation of details and maintain consistent annotation. And when your details are complete, generate keynote legends with just a few clicks.
• Walls, Doors, and Windows - Looking for a faster way to create and modify floor plans? Take advantage of architectural objects, such as walls, doors and windows, that behave like their real-world counterparts. Automatically insert a door or window into a wall with complete placement control. Move a wall, and connected walls and spaces automatically update. To describe more complex design conditions, walls have improved interaction with other objects, even enabling you to show interference conditions with columns across external references (xrefs).
• Scheduling - New graphic display and calculation tools help ensure that your schedules are accurate and adhere to company standards. Whether you are customising the appearance of out-of-the-box schedule styles or creating completely new schedules from scratch, complete with your required calculations, you can do so with ease. Since schedules are linked directly to your designs, you can update them to reflect any design changes at the click of a button.
• Spaces - Looking for a more efficient and productive way to tag floor plans with room areas? With AutoCAD Architecture, you can now automatically tag every room in a drawing, complete with room areas. In addition, spaces update automatically if the bounding elements are changed, saving you time and making documentation more accurate. Space definitions can now also include offsets from bounding elements based on preset or user-defined rules, enabling area calculations based on various industry standards, including BOMA, DIN, and SIS.
• Dimensioning - Does a change in your design require manual updates to your dimensioning? Let AutoCAD Architecture’s AEC Dimensions help. With even greater flexibility, you can dimension any wall—and all its components—according to your own dimensioning standards, including wall stud centerlines and faces. And since the dimensions are associative, they automatically update as your designs change, eliminating the tedium of many manual updates.
• Integrated Rendering - Do you find it challenging to accurately and effectively convey design ideas and intent to clients? Bring designs to life for impressive client presentations at any stage of the design with integrated rendering. The streamlined visualisation capabilities are fully integrated into the AutoCAD Architecture workflow. Make your presentations stand out by visually communicating richer design information.
• Drawing Compare (Autodesk Subscription only) - The new Drawing Compare feature enhances collaboration by using colour-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 non-graphical properties are also tracked. Combined with redlining features, such as revision clouds, the Spaces and Drawing Compare features help make communication across the design team clearer than ever.
• Flexibility - Because AutoCAD Architecture is built on AutoCAD software, you can work the way you do today, integrating more powerful architectural-specific features at your own pace. This phased approach helps to reduce the downtime often associated with implementing new software. In addition, AutoCAD Architecture software’s file-based approach is consistent with the standards and practices of current AutoCAD users.

Recommended System Requirements:

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ processor, 3 GHz or greater Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later) or Vista™ operating system
  
• 3 GB RAM
  
• 3.1 GB free disk space
  
• 1280x1024 monitor and display adapter capable of 32-bit colour
  
• 128 MB or greater, OpenGL®-capable workstation-class graphics card
  
• MS Mouse—compliant pointing device
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1 or later)

Note: Autodesk Architecture 2008 doesn’t work on the 64 bit operating system

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