AutoCAD® Architecture software, the version of AutoCAD® software for architects, combines architectural drafting tools with a familiar AutoCAD software-based working environment to increase design productivity and improve collaboration.

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 2011 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.