Architectural Desktop 2007 offers ease-of-use, great new features

Autodesk’s 2007 release of Architectural Desktop 2007, available in April through Hagerman & Company, Inc. offers new, useful features with today’s user in mind. Here’s a sneak peek.

Massing and Space Objects
Spaces are no longer limited to 2D or 3D extruded shapes. Spaces may now represent irregular 3D volumes and be edited like freeform mass elements.


The auto-generate space behavior has been extended to allow the rapid creation of all spaces in a drawing in a single step.


Zones
Area groups and Autodesk® Building Systems eZones have been consolidated into a single zone object, which retains all the functionality but presents a single solution and a simpler workflow, as well as some new capabilities.



Structural Member Customization
Body modifiers allow you to add, subtract, and replace any 3D object to expand the design possibilities and provide more accurate representations of columns, beams, and braces. You can now add interference conditions on structural members. The interference object can be in the same drawing or in an Xref drawing.

Scheduling Enhancements
Classification definitions are no longer limited to a flat list of classifications. Hierarchical classification definitions allow for easier navigation and more accurate representation of common industry standard classification systems.


The anchor property definition allows a schedule property to retrieve information from an object to which the scheduled object is anchored. This allows an object like a door to retrieve the fire rating of the wall to which it is related (“anchored”).