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Autodesk Architectural Desktop
  • Advanced Micro Systems, Inc.
  • 271 Route 46 West, Bldg. A-105 | Fairfield, NJ 07004
    Phone (973) 882-8008 | Fax (973) 882-0122
     
    http://www.amsystems.com
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What are Your Most Critical Business Issues?
  • Architectural Desktop 2005 can help you...


  • Be more productive
  • Increase your efficiency
  • Implement technology with flexibility
  • Collaborate more effectively


  • Design, visualize, and document with Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005—AutoCAD for architects.
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Making You More Productive
The Problem
  • Design and documentation takes too much time


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Making You More Productive
The Solution
  • Immediate productivity for architects using AutoCAD


  • Familiar workflow and interface
  • Faster documentation from the object-based model
  • Easier coordination of documentation
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Making You More Productive
New Feature: Details
  • Automate tedious documentation tasks
  • Increase productivity and ensure accuracy
  • Integrates with Tool System and Properties Palette
  • Powerful editing tools to modify details components
  • Detail Component data as ‘Extended Data’
  • Localized content for specific regions
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Making You More Productive
Fentress Bradburn Architects
  • “Direct Manipulation cut design time by up to 80%.”


  • “For one project, we had a full-time designer working 2 months just scheduling doors and windows. That process is now automated.”


  • Tracey Matteson, CAD Manager
  • Fentress Bradburn Architects





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Making You More Productive
HOK S+V+E
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Increasing Your Efficiency
The Problem
  • Errors in the documents and information exchanged with the rest of the design team
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Increasing Your Efficiency
The Solution
  • Specifically for architects
  • Object-based model automates production of drawings and schedules
  • Rapid visualization for design presentation and collaboration
  • Better documents mean fewer problems
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Increasing Your Efficiency
New Feature: Project Navigator
  • Create, manage, and publish  Sheet Sets with Project Navigator
  • Automate level and x-ref management
  • Coordinate sections, elevations, details, callouts and sheet numbers




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Increasing Your Efficiency
Fentress Bradburn Architects
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Increasing Your Efficiency
Broadway Maylan (UK)
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Implementing With Flexibility
The Problem
  • New software is disruptive to your business
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Implementing With Flexibility
The Solution
  • Fits your existing workflow; file-based
  • Evolutionary, smooth transition
  • Low risk object-based approach
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Implementing With Flexibility
New Feature: Installation Options
  • More flexible installation options
    • Network
    • Single license
  • Customizable content and support location
  • Imperial and metric profiles
  • Basic AutoCAD-only shortcut now available


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Implementing With Flexibility
PRP Architects (UK)
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Implementing With Flexibility
VOA Associates, Inc.
  • “ VOA work is not cookie-cutter, it is all very customized design. Our firm needed products to give us the flexibility to manage globally, in a standardized environment, on a platform that people are comfortable with.”


  • Eric Stenstrom, VP Information Technology
  •  VOA Associates, Inc.



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Collaborating More Effectively
The Problem
  • Communicating design intent to clients and consultants


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Collaborating More Effectively
The Solution
  • Industry-standard DWG and object-level compatibility with engineers using ABS
  • File-based collaboration
  • Third-party applications addressing specific needs


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Collaborating More Effectively
New Feature: Publishing Formats
  • IAI-certified IFC2x compatible partner plug-in.
  • Publish to MapGuide
  • Import LandXML
  • E-transmit as Architectural Desktop files or AutoCAD DWG files
  • Publish multi-sheet DWF w/ object data
  • Export property data to MS Access
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Collaborating More Effectively
Fentress Bradburn Architects
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Collaborating More Effectively
HOK S+V+E

  • “Using 3D visualization and interference detection the firm can also more easily discover potential conflicts between  building systems and the architectural design—before the project is under construction and requires expensive change orders.”


  • Ben Barnert, Senior Principal
  • HOK S+V+E



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Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005
What It Means to You
  • Be more productive in design and production
  • Improve efficiencies in managing drawing set
  • Flexibly implement powerful model-based features
  • Collaborate more effectively
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Autodesk Professional Services
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Benefits of Autodesk Subscription
  • Protects your technology investment through technology upgrade process
    • Enhance performance
    • Improve competitiveness
    • Maximize resource use
    • Minimize downtime
    • Simplify budgeting processes
  • Autodesk Subscription Web Support
  • Autodesk Subscription e-Learning


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Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005
In Conclusion...
  • Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005 will help you...


  • Be more productive in design and production
  • Improve efficiencies in managing drawing set
  • Flexibly implement powerful model-based features
  • Collaborate more effectively


  • Design, visualize, and document with Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005—AutoCAD for architects.


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Autodesk, Inc.
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