AutoCAD® Architecture 2011
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.
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- A Better AutoCAD for Architects: work with software that is purpose-built for architects; familiar working methods and user interface; all AutoCAD functionality, plus architectural drawing and design tools.
- Immediate Productivity: start working immediately; minimal training necessary; create documentation, drawings, and schedules faster; automate tedious coordination tasks and reduce errors.
- Smooth Collaboration: easily exchange information using the industry-leading DWG file format; coordinate rich design information with engineers using AutoCAD® MEP and Revit® Structure software; communicate your designs with lifelike visualizations and powerful integrated rendering.
Revit® Architecture 2011
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software helps architects and designers work naturally, design freely, and deliver projects efficiently. Purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), Revit Architecture helps you explore design concepts and forms, and better maintain your design data through documentation and construction. With parametric change technology, any change you make is automatically updated throughout your project, keeping your design and documentation coordinated and more reliable. Share essential BIM data with your partners for a more collaborative, integrated building design process. Support a more efficient design process that enables improved sustainable design analysis, clash detection, construction planning, and material fabrication.
Revit 2011 Videos
What's new in Autodesk Revit 2011
Demonstration of Autodesk Seek and Revit Architecture 2011 - how to search for building product information directly from Revit Architecture 2011 and insert the downloaded Revit family directly into Revit project.
Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit 2011. Fresh from the Revit Factory and available now on Autodesk Labs, the delivers an integrated and visual analysis experience.
Comprehensive review of the common questions you may encounter with the 2011 release of Revit products. Understand how the new features will impact you in graphics generation, rendering, and worksharing.
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Work the way architects and designers think about buildings:
- Enjoy a more intuitive, straightforward process with software that mirrors the real world of architecture.
- The building information model contains essential information about a project, so as you design, Revit Architecture software automatically creates accurate floor plans, elevations, sections, and 3D views, as well as area calculations, schedules, and quantity takeoffs.
- Gain better design insight through in-process visualization and analysis.
Capture early design thinking to better support design, documentation, and construction:
- Enhance conceptual building design efforts to gain better design insight earlier in the process.
- Support smarter, more sustainable design through the analysis of materials, quantities, sun position, and solar effects. Exchange building information with partner applications to perform energy analysis and better predict building performance.
- Provide essential BIM (building information modeling) data for use in clash detection, construction analysis, and fabrication.
Improve your business through better-coordinated, higher quality project work:
- Accelerate decision making and shorten production time.
- Minimize coordination mistakes and rework with fully parametric change management.
- Gain a competitive advantage with increased client satisfaction and greater profitability through more efficient project delivery.
IES Sustainability ToolkitThe IES Sustainability Toolkit enables designers to perform common sustainable design analysis with a single click of a button. Perform quick “what-if” scenarios to establish the most appropriate sustainable and energy efficient approach. The IES Toolkits are exclusive to Autodesk Revit projects uniquely leveraging sustainability into your BIM project.
Now Available as a plug-in for Google SketchUp >> Heating and Cooling Loads
- Enables architects to establish the effect of a building on peak energy usage and allow mechanical engineers to size HVAC equipment
- Calculations can be performed using either ASHRAE or CIBSE methods.
Dynamic Thermal Simulation
- Identify key sustainable parameters for the building project using dynamic simulation including the carbon footprint, annual energy usage, peak internal conditions and occupant thermal comfort.
Daylight Assessment
- Identify whether the internal daylight illuminance levels throughout the building meet common daylighting criteria.
- Establish whether daylight compensation control is feasible for your building.
Solar Assessment
- Assess the impact of the sun by automatically creating sun-views animations for Winter, Summer and Transitional periods.
IES LEED Toolkit
The IES LEED Toolkit enables AEC professionals to quickly check their buildings against key performance related LEED credits. Designs can be analyzed right from the early stages with just a click of a few buttons. “What-if” scenarios can be quickly assessed against each other to establish which approaches achieve a pass. Designers can combine these results with those from the Sustainability Toolkit to determine the most appropriate approach.
LEED Daylighting Credit 8.1- Produce LEED NC 2.2 daylighting credit 8.1 reports that analyze all regularly habited rooms withing the building.
- Determine what percentage of occupied space achieves the required 2% daylight factor.
Autodesk® NavisWorks® 2011
The Autodesk® Navisworks® family of products helps architecture, engineering, and construction teams improve control over the outcome of their projects. With Navisworks solutions, detailed design models can be aggregated and reviewed by all project stakeholders, helping users to benefit from the competitive advantages of building information modeling (BIM) workflows. BIM processes allow team members to explore a project’s key physical and functional characteristics digitally before it is built, helping to deliver projects faster, more economically, and with reduced environmental impact.
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Autodesk NavisWorks software solutions comprise four products to help you and your extended teams experience enhanced control, confident collaboration, and information aggregation on even your most complex projects: Autodesk® NavisWorks® Manage, Autodesk® NavisWorks® Simulate, and Autodesk® NavisWorks® Review.
Features
By combining the high-quality information created by building information modeling (BIM) applications such as Revit®-based software with geometry and data from other design tools, Autodesk® NavisWorks® products enable a real-time, whole-project view for effective 3D coordination, 4D planning, photorealistic visualization, dynamic simulation, and analysis.
The Autodesk NavisWorks software solutions comprise four products: Autodesk® NavisWorks® Manage, Autodesk® NavisWorks® Simulate, Autodesk® NavisWorks® Review, as well as the free* viewer application Autodesk® NavisWorks® Freedom.
Anticipate Problems:
- Interference Detection enables clash tests against specified geometry to find and resolve conflicts.
- Point/Line Based Clashing provides checking of as-built laser scan data against 3D designs.
- SwitchBack opens the current clash in the original design software. (Compatible with AutoCAD 2004® software and later or Microstation J and version 8)
- Audit Trail tracks the status of clashes as they are found and resolved.
- Export reports with results of clash tests including comments and screenshots.
- XML import/export enables sharing of clash scenarios with other Autodesk NavisWorks users.
Schedule in 4D
Both Autodesk NavisWorks Manage and Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate enable you to schedule in 4D: |
- 4D simulation links model geometry to times and dates for playback of construction or demolition sequences to verify building or demolition viability.
- Schedule Linking enables import of times, dates, and other task data from project management software.
- Set up planned and actual times to visualize deviations from the project schedule.
- Export 4D simulations into a prerecorded .AVI animation.
- Customize task color and transparency, as well as overlay text.
Present Projects
With Autodesk NavisWorks Manage and Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate, you can present projects:
- Export photorealistic renderings into .AVI animations or still images.
- Benefit from more than 1,000 built-in materials.
- Fully customize and configure every render aspect, including materials, lights, backgrounds, and rendering styles.
- Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC) enables easy addition of photographic imagery, such as people and trees, to scenes.
- HDRI Lighting provides powerful rendering technology for smooth shadows and natural lighting.
- Environment Backgrounds enable easy addition of real-world background scenery.
- Real-time Shaders support OpenGL 2.0 shader language for real-time lighting and shadows.
- Light Scattering effect creates believable night-time imagery.
- Sketch Effects offer a variety of sketch-like, painterly effects.
- Support for real-world lighting intensity units (candela, lumen, lux, foot-candle) and photometric lighting files (.CIB, .CIE, .IES, and .LDT).
Publish Results
Publish results with Autodesk NavisWorks Manage, Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate, and Autodesk NavisWorks Review:
- Supports Windows® XP running in 3GB memory mode, enabling loading of more of the model into memory at once.
- Publish to and store complete 3D models in a single distributable .NWD model file and to DWF™.
- Use the free* Autodesk NavisWorks Freedom viewer to open any and all .NWD models.
- ActiveX control provides viewing of .NWD models from Internet page or within Microsoft® Office documents, including PowerPoint® presentations.
- Powerful compression reduces file size by 70 percent or more compared to original design files.
- Files can be password-encrypted, time expired, made read-only, and contain all authorship and copyright details.
- Store all review data together with your model.
- Embed or exclude object properties, including external databases read through DataTools.
Review Projects
Review projects with Autodesk NavisWorks Manage, Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate, and Autodesk NavisWorks Review:
- Measurements tools enable detailed measurement of distance, area, and angles.
- Store, organize, and share camera views of the design, and export into images or reports.
- Comment on viewpoints with fully searchable notes, including date-stamped audit trail.
- Add markups to viewpoints with advanced redlining tools.
- Add cross sections and section planes, enabling close inspection of details.
- Record animated walk-throughs for real-time playback or export as prerecorded .AVI files.
- Use .NWF reference files on open models. The latest version of the CAD design is used, while all previous review data is maintained.
- Read intelligent data from the original design files and view it alongside the model.
- DataTools feature enables import of live data from external databases using SQL through ODBC, which can then be displayed together with the model.
- SwitchBack feature enables easy opening of the current model and viewpoint in the original design software.
- Automate tasks or extend functionality using the extensive COM API.
Streamline Workflow
Streamline your workflow with Autodesk NavisWorks Manage, Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate, and Autodesk NavisWorks Review:
- Supports all major 3D design and laser scan file formats. See the full list.
- Streams large models and content intelligently from disk or Internet, enabling navigation around the design as model loads.
- Combines models, regardless of file format, into a single unified model.
- Provides smooth, real-time navigation with a range of tools including: Walk, Look Around, Zoom, Zoom Box, Pan, Orbit, Examine, Fly, and Turntable.
- Provides gravity, collision detection, and customizable third person avatars. Enables navigation through models without moving through walls.
Now Available: NavisWorks Manage Trial DVD
Autodesk® NavisWorks® software solutions enable project design and building professionals to unify their contributions into a single, synchronized building information model. NavisWorks® Manage software fuses seamless visualization of all types of models, precise design replication, accurate simulation of 4D construction schedules, and powerful clash detection into one product, keeping all project stakeholders on the same digital page, whether creating, viewing, or reviewing 3D models.
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