Autodesk® Architectural Desktop makes AutoCAD® software better for architects. With its easy-to-use features and flexible implementation options, drafting and construction document production is easier, faster, and more accurate. Sharing information is simple using the industry-leading DWG format, allowing design data to be efficiently coordinated with engineers and other design professionals. You can start using tools for architectural drawing and design immediately, making a smooth transition to more advanced features at your own pace. And built-in rendering brings designs to life for impressive client presentations. Do all this and more while working in the familiar AutoCAD environment.

Making AutoCAD® Software Better for Architects

Smoother Collaboration
--Extended Design Team Efficiency

• Because Autodesk Architectural Desktop is interoperable with other Autodesk building design solutions and services, as well as with third-party applications for specific needs, you can collaborate effectively with your extended design team. And because of broad support for industry-leading formats and interoperability standards, collaboration with the extended team is easier and more effective.

Immediate Productivity
--Automate Tedious Drafting Tasks

• Tired of spending so much time generating accurate sections and elevations from your 2D stair plans? Now you can convert that 2D lifework to a fully-described stair in Architectural Desktop. Not only do you have the flexibility of improved graphic control over your stair’s plan and model views, you get to take advantage of additional stair enhancements such as improved stringer, landing, tread, and riser control.
• Stair from Linework
  Use this procedure to create a custom stair from linework. You can model irregularly shaped stairs and treads, and specify multiple flights at varying angles with a custom stair. You can select or create linework defining stair edges and tread edges.
• Custom Stair
  Create a custom stair to model complex existing stair conditions and to explore non-code compliant conditions, or generate stair types that are not possible to create using regular Architectural Desktop stair commands.
• Modifiers
  Stairs now provide the ability to add Body Modifiers similar to walls, slabs, and structural members. Add, subtract, or replace a stringer, tread, landing, or riser with any 3D body.
• Interference Conditions
  Similar to walls, slabs, roof slabs, and structural members, you can now also add Interference Conditions to stairs, including objects across xrefs.
• Railing Customization
  Railing styles now provide the ability to assign unique profiles for first, last, and other fixed posts.
  Railings now also allow you to have posts to be oriented perpendicular to the stair slope, with a trigger grip for first and last posts to allow these to vary from the interior posts.

Greater Flexibility
--Work in a Familiar Design Environment
Use AutoCAD’s enhancements to 3D modeling to create solids to describe complex portions of your design. Add graphic intelligence to them by converting them to mass elements.

• Customizable User Interface
  AutoCAD 2007 eases the transition of upgrading to the newest release by automatically migrating your menu and cui files from prior releases. Enhancements to the Customize User Interface dialog box enable you to drag and drop from the command list onto tool palettes and there have been several updates to the accelerator keys under keyboard shortcuts.
  
  You can customize the double-click behavior of objects using the Customize User Interface dialog box. For example, by default, if you double-click on a line object, AutoCAD opens the Properties window. Maybe you rarely edit line properties but you often copy lines. You can change the double-click behavior so that each time you double-click on a line, AutoCAD launches the COPY command. In addition to customizing double-click editing, a new control on the User Preferences tab of the Options dialog box enables you to toggle double-click editing on and off.
   
• DWF Underlay
  AutoCAD drawing files contain critical design information that you may need to share with design partners. However, sharing the drawing (DWG) files themselves can be cumbersome and risky. DWG files can be large with many references and you must “trust” that the recipient of your DWG files will not edit the design data you have provided. Drawing Web Format (DWF) files, on the other hand, enable you to share your design data in a secure, highly compressed vector-based format. However, your design partners have no way of viewing that data within their own drawings.

Now is the Time
Now is the time to take a look at Architectural Desktop 2007.  For more information, click on the links at the top right, fill in the form at right, or call your Hagerman & Company representative.