new features in autodesk® architectural desktop 2006

Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin ResortOrlando, Florida

11/28/2005 - 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Room:S. Hemispheres (Salon II) (Dolphin)

New Features in Autodesk® Architectural Desktop 2006

This course explores the new features in Autodesk Architectural Desktop (ADT) 2006. Find out how to use the Block Wizard tool to create a new custom tag with Property Set data. Keep your project in check when style or other items change, with the new Project Standard Sync option. Publish to the new 3D DWF viewer to allow your clients to view their project as a whole, and give them the ability to isolate objects and look through property set data in DWF.

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About the Speaker:

Michael Zeeveld - CADre Systems Inc.

As a senior application engineer for CADRE Systems Inc. of North Carolina, Michael has 10 years of experience ranging from CAD management, commercial architectural drafting, 3D modeling, visualization, program customization, and information technology. Previously, he was a director of a CAD consulting firm in Raleigh, NC. He has experience in software applications that include AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop, Revit, VIZ, Photoshop, and Sketchup. He has taught at the community college level and is a current member of the Wake Technical Community College Advisory Board. He was the president of his local AutoCAD user group for 2003-2004, and remains active with his LUG and AUGI. Michael is also an Autodesk Certified AutoCAD Professional and is an Associate Member of the American Institute of [email protected]

Architectural Desktop 2006 – New Features

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Table of Contents Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................2 Introduction................................................................................................................................................3 New Features - making your life better .................................................................................................3

Get Formatted........................................................................................................................................3 Get the Big picture ................................................................................................................................3 Who has the CD’s? ................................................................................................................................4 Custom UI...............................................................................................................................................4 Get it Right…click ..................................................................................................................................4 Override Display ....................................................................................................................................4 Project Templates..................................................................................................................................5 Relative Xref ...........................................................................................................................................6 Tool Catalog Generator ........................................................................................................................6 Detail Component Manager .................................................................................................................7 Diagnostic Messages .............................................................................................................................8 Selection Preview ..................................................................................................................................8 Dude, where my Command Line?.......................................................................................................9 Dynamic Input .......................................................................................................................................9 Tool Tip .................................................................................................................................................10 Layer Remapping.................................................................................................................................11 Scale ......................................................................................................................................................11 Add it up with calculator ....................................................................................................................11 Block Wizard for Tags .........................................................................................................................12 Version ..................................................................................................................................................12 Project Standard Sync ........................................................................................................................13 Eas-Z does it ........................................................................................................................................13 Schedule Formula ................................................................................................................................13 Publish to 3D DWF ..............................................................................................................................14 Curtain Walls - Direct Edit..................................................................................................................15

Summary...................................................................................................................................................16


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Introduction This new release of Architectural Desktop (ADT) 2006 brings an array of new tools, features and a better way of producing documents. Besides the cool new colors, fonts and updated Autodesk logo, you will be very impressed by this release of ADT. If you are familiar with ADT you will appreciate the new features. If you are new to ADT or exploring it as an option you will be impressed by the powerful tasks ADT can perform.

New Features - making your life better Get Formatted The DWG drawing file format has been left unchanged to be compatible with 2004. So there is no need to save back to earlier versions if your consultants and clients are using 2004 or 2005 version products. If you do need to save to an earlier version you can save back to R12 DXF.

Get the Big picture A picture is worth a thousand words. A great new visual feature that has been added to pulldown menus are Icon images.


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Who has the CD’s? No more multiple CD’s - Installing the application takes a couple minutes, but you don’t have to switch CD’s, everything now fits on one DVD CD. If your computer cannot read a DVD CD, you can request a non DVD CD’s from your Autodesk reseller.

Custom UI Since ADT is built upon AutoCAD, any new features within AutoCAD can be taken advantage of in ADT. Which is exactly what we can do here… The new “Customize User Interface” allows you to control how the application looks, feels and behaves. Even though this is outside the scope of this class, I suggest you take a look into this feature, because of the great benefits of controlling the applications environment to suite your needs.

Get it Right…click Want to quickly access previous commands. Right click in the drawing area and select “Recent Input” to display a list of recently used commands.

Override Display Display Overrides quickly from the cursor. Access setting from the CAD Manager pulldown | AEC Project Standards | Show Display Overrides.


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Project Templates All that work setting up a project with the correct sheet names, layouts, data, views and content can now be used again in a template. Copy previous project structures to create new projects.


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Relative Xref Relative support paths option for working in Project Navigator. This is helpful when working from multiple servers or project locations.

Tool Catalog Generator Generate tools from a group of drawings automatically and organize them to your requirements. This feature is accessed from the CAD Manager pulldown | Tool Catalog Generator. In this dialog box we have the option to add or create new Catalogs from a Content Source. The source could be either a drawing folder or a specific drawing. Also specific how you want the Tools to be organized: by source drawing, object type and if you want to create Tools in Categories or in Palettes. Select or unselect what styles the tools should be created from a complete list of styles available in the source file.


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After creating the catalog, you can use the Content Browser to pull the catalogs into you Tool Palettes.

Detail Component Manager Settings controlled under Options | AEC Editor


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Diagnostic Messages How do you want to see diagnostic message? The settings controlled under Options | AEC Editor. Select from three choices.

Selection Preview Settings controlled under Options | Selection – click on “Visual Effect Settings” button.


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Dude, where my Command Line? Turn off the Command Line use the Dynamic input to show relative information that usually would show up in the command line, will now display like a tool tip next to your cursor. CTRL+9 to turn it on and off.

Dynamic Input Control how ADT display information at the cursor.


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Tool Tip Settings controlled under Options | Drafting – Tool Tip Appearance section, “Settings” button


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Layer Remapping Change objects layers quickly by remapping them.

Scale Do you need to have more scales than what is provided in the application? Add more scales to suite your needs. The scale list settings are controlled under Options | User Preferences - “Edit Scale List” button. Add to the list and type in a name for the new scale. Set the Paper and Drawing units. You have now created a custom scale.

Add it up with calculator No more 3rd party add on calculators or having to buy those expensive scientific, solar powered high tech hand held calculators. A great multi-function calculator is now built in and it is a separate Palette. The calculator can be displayed in a basic mode, see below left example. Or it can be used in an expanded mode by clicking on the circle arrow button to display number pad, scientific equations and units converter. See below, middle and right example.


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Block Wizard for Tags Create custom tag quickly with Property Set data assigned to them. From the Format pulldown select Design Schedule Tag. Then we can select the object for our soon to be created tag. The below dialog box will appear.

Change the second column labeled Type from Text to Property. This will change the basic text in our object selection to property type where we can select in the columns to the right what actual property set to be associated with our tag. Be aware that the property set already has to be loaded into the drawing you are creating the tag in. Select an insertion point and the tag is complete.

Version Need to track different version of items. Look at the History. Accessed through Style Manager and Format Manager


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Project Standard Sync Want consistency in your project. It is achievable using the Project Standard Sync tool. Select specific files or entire folders to have you project standards enforced throughout.

Eas-Z does it Change the UCS “Z” elevation quickly. Draw new objects at a set “Z” height by clicking on the [+0”] of the elevation toolbar, then type in the new “Z” height or pick a point on the drawing. Additionally you can replace the current “Z” value with the current elevation by pressing in blue button. See circled button below.

Schedule Formula No more guess work. Get live data feedback when creating formulas for Property Set Definitions.


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Publish to 3D DWF Use this to create a 3D DWF of your drawing. Your client or consultants will be able to view your file without the need to have ADT installed on their computer. They just need to down load the FREE 3D DWF Viewer from Autodesk’s website. And now with ability to view the files in 3D there is a greater level of understanding of your project. Also Property Set Data can be included with the DWF, so information pertinent to object can be shared as well.


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Curtain Walls - Direct Edit

In earlier releases, creating curtain walls were a bit of a chore. But, we now have the ability to modify and edit a curtain wall, door and window assemblies directly on the screen using grips. We can also add doors and windows to a curtain wall directly and assign overrides to certain cells.

Additional apply curtain walls to the face of mass models. Right click on the curtain wall command and select “Apply Too Properties to” option. A flyout will appear, select “Faces”.


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Summary How can something be the same but different and better? Here is how… Some of the tools we have become accustom to using in previous releases of ADT, have been advanced, providing us with more options to complete our projects in a shorter timeframe and with less headaches. This overall allows us to produce a more, fully coordinated set of documents to our clients.

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