AutoCAD® Architecture is the version of AutoCAD® software for architects. Create building designs and documentation more efficiently using purpose-built tools for architects. Automate tedious drafting tasks and help reduce errors. With familiar AutoCAD working methods and an intuitive user environment, the software offers immediate productivity gains with the flexibility to learn additional features at your own pace. The industry-leading DWG™ file format helps make it easy to share and communicate designs with engineers and the extended project team. Help accelerate project review and approval using integrated rendering tools to create contextualized design visualizations for clear client communication.
Architectural Renovation
The building renovation tools in AutoCAD Architecture software help you to speed the design and production of renovation projects. New tools allow you to graphically represent design changes to existing buildings as existing, new, or demolished and coordinate renovation drawing views.
Productivity Enhancements
Work more efficiently with functionality that enables you to create column grids, more rapidly generate columns, and improve the placement of doors and windows to wall points or gridlines.
User Interface Enhancements
AutoCAD Architecture now includes new dynamic grid and navigation tools, such as a view cube and steering wheel implemented in the 2D wireframe visual style.
Improved Wall Layout & Design
AutoCAD Architecture 2013 increases wall drafting productivity with intuitive tools that enable architects and designers to draw wall layouts that better reflect actual construction. Wall component boundaries now work with Fillet and Chamfer, and the new Intelligent Cleanup command allows you to perform roughly laid out wall cleanup with a single action. Component selection during wall cleanup editing has also been simplified.
Constraints
Apply precise, persistent geometric and dimensional positioning between walls, column grids, columns, beams, curtain walls, multiview blocks, and mass elements with new AutoCAD Architecture constraints.
