AutoCAD Architecture

Improve architectural design workflows with new time-saving features that help reduce drafting errors and enable more efficient documentation.

Benefits of Autodesk Subscription and Autodesk 360

Purchase Autodesk® Subscription with your Autodesk® AutoCAD® Architecture software to get convenient access to the following benefits*:
• The Latest Software—Stay current with the latest releases and product enhancements.
• Autodesk® 360 Cloud Benefits—Increase mobility, improve collaboration, and optimize designs with 25GB of cloud-based storage spa
• Flexible Licensing—Work with previous versions of your software. Use it at home or in multiple locations.
• Basic Technical Support—Resolve issues and get back to work with online help from Autodesk support specialists.
• Rendering — Produce compelling, photorealistic visualizations and panoramas—without tying up the desktop or requiring specialized rendering hardware.
• Autodesk® Green Building Studio®- Take your designs beyond the desktop to perform faster, more accurate energy analysis, optimize energy efficiency, and improve the carbon footprint of multiple design options.

*All Subscription benefits may not be available for all products in all languages and/or geographies.

What’s New

Create architectural design, documentation, and schedules more quickly and efficiently with new productivity tools that automate repetitive drafting tasks and help ensure accuracy. Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture 2014 drafting software helps you to:
• Automatically attach property set definitions to architectural objects and complete quantity takeoff calculations more easily and quickly.
• Enjoy a more efficient workflow with new command line search features now extended to architecture styles, allowing you to add existing styles to your drawing more quickly.
• Resume work more quickly in the event of a corrupted file with new project information file backup features that restore files to their up-to-date copies.
• Improve documentation throughout the drafting process with improved annotation and unit scaling of objects.
• Save time by eliminating the need to create complex slope changes graphics manually with a new escarpment block tool that generates them for you.
• Reduce the likelihood of errors with new display capabilities for layers that allow you to order layers in a list, apply the display order for objects in each layer, and preview changes.
• Clean up drawings and move unused layers more efficiently by creating a layer zero with a single click.
• Increase the fluidity of your design process with new block swap features that help you to make changes to your components more easily as your design changes.
• Streamline door and window placement with new door enhancements that enable you to add doors or windows to a wall by restoring the previous option.
• Easily place doors and windows flush with the edge of a wall using the enhanced door justification command.

System Requirements

System requirements for Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture 2014

For 32-bit AutoCAD Architecture 2014
• Windows® 8 Professional or Enterprise edition, Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition, or Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later) operating system
• Windows 7 or 8: Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or AMD Athlon™ dual-core processor, 3 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
• Windows XP: Pentium 4 or Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)
• 10 GB free disk space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display with true color (1,600 x 1,050 or higher with true color recommended)
• 128 MB graphics card (256 MB or greater recommended)
• Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Microsoft® Direct3D®-capable-workstation-class 3D graphics card
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or later web browser
• DVD drive (for installation only)
• Optional printer or plotter, digitizer, Internet access, and network interface card

For 64-bit AutoCAD Architecture 2014
• Widows 8 Professional or Enterprise edition, or Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition
• AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron™ processor with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, or Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)
• 10 GB free disk space for installation
• 1,024 x 768 display with true color (1,600 x 1,050 or higher with true color recommended)
• 128 MB graphics card (256 MB or greater recommended)
• Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D-capable-workstation-class 3D graphics card (supported graphics hardware)
• Internet Explorer 7 or later
• DVD drive (for installation only)
• Optional printer or plotter, Internet access, and network interface card