Architectural Studio

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Overview

The Digital Design Studio
The architect’s studio: More than a workshop to produce drawings, it’s where designers come together to explore, develop, critique, and share design ideas. Autodesk® Architectural Studio replicates the traditional design studio with tools for design communication and creation. Whether you’re using Autodesk Architectural Studio for sketching, modeling, presenting, or collaborating, its tools are intuitive, familiar, and easy to use, no matter what your level of CAD proficiency.

Sketching and Modeling
Architects often turn to pen and paper for sketching preliminary design ideas, or to materials like chipboard and clay to model design studies in 3D. Now with Autodesk Architectural Studio’s direct-manipulation tools such as pens, markers, and erasers, you can explore conceptual design ideas just as easily as you would with physical media, but with the added benefits of digital technology. The advantage of working in a digital environment is that you get your conceptual design ideas into the digital workflow from project outset, plus you can more easily and quickly copy, cut, paste, and manipulate design information.

Collaborating
The architect’s meeting area is where team members come together to share, discuss, and present design. With Autodesk Architectural Studio’s built-in conferencing tools, you can extend this traditional meeting space to remote team members within your firm’s intranet, regardless of location. Let’s say you’re in New York City and need to review elevation studies with team members in Chicago. With only two clicks, you can share your desktop with an unlimited number of participants, who can also contribute by sketching, modeling, and annotating. With intranet conferencing, design issues get resolved faster, plus you bypass plotting, faxing, and courier costs.

Presenting
With Autodesk Architectural Studio, you can combine different media in a single workspace—sketches, 3D models, DWF™ (Design Web Format™), CAD drawings, animations, and more—and manipulate the media in ways that you can’t in the physical world; for example, sketching right on top of a 3D model or animation. Create compelling presentations by combining and interacting with various media. More than just displaying your data, you can instantly incorporate team feedback. Does your client or principal want to know what the design would look like with a tower or third floor? No problem. Presenting your projects in their best possible light is easy with Autodesk Architectural Studio.

 

Features

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1. Faster Resolution of Design Issues—With Autodesk Architectural Studio you can bypass the costly process of faxing or using a courier to send printed, plotted, and duplicated design documents to other office locations. This means you can evaluate and resolve design issues more quickly and confidently, knowing that your team is working on a common and original design document.

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2. Effective Presentations via Aggregated Media—In a single workspace you can combine sketches, hardline drawings, 3D models, and digital images. Use this integrated multimedia environment to effectively present your design ideas and gain a competitive advantage in the interview and development process.

3. Improved Communication—Autodesk Architectural Studio’s intranet conferencing right from your desktop enables you to invite design team members into real-time reviews and presentations, leading to quick resolution of design issues.

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4. Familiar Tools in the Digital Realm—With simple, direct-manipulation tools, such as colored pencils, markers, erasers, pins, and clips, you can use your drawing skills and techniques in a digital environment for sketching and communicating your design ideas.

5. More Flexibility in Design Exploration—With Autodesk Architectural Studio’s conceptual design tools you can study designs with digital sketching in ways that you can’t with physical media: you can use digital pencils and markers to sketch directly on 3D models, pictures, and even animations.

6. Ability to Create More Design Options—Autodesk Architectural Studio’s digital design environment offers capabilities to develop many more studies faster than fabricating physical models. It’s easier to study, transform, and develop your design ideas so you can explore, create, and communicate various design options in less time.

7. Preserved Design Intent—You can be more efficient by sketching directly in a digital medium, and then easily share that design data with a team member using Autodesk® Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD® software.  You can eliminate the time-consuming process of scanning original paper sketches by creating that information directly within Autodesk Architectural Studio.   

 

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8. Ease of Use and Learning—Autodesk Architectural Studio’s environment derives from the actual working practices of architects. It combines the ease and simplicity of traditional design practices with the benefits and automation of technology, minus the hassle of learning a complex program.

9. 2D to 3D Made Easy—You can easily extrude 2D information into a 3D model to explore and communicate your ideas.  It’s as simple as pulling the appropriate handle to extrude sketched lines into 3D.

10. Bridging the Divide—Autodesk Architectural Studio offers a unique environment that supports the project team, including designers and project managers working together digitally for a more efficient, integrated practice. Architectural Studio supports mentorship within a profession where internship is the primary means of passing on knowledge.

System Requirements

Recommended

  • Intel® Pentium®-based PC, with 1GHz or more processor, or compatible
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, or Windows NT® 4.0 (Service Pack 5 or later)
  • 512MB RAM
  • 1.2GB free hard disk space
  • 1GB free hard disk space for virtual memory swap
  • 1024x768 VGA video display, with 32MB video RAM
  • Windows video display driver
  • Pointing device (mouse or digitizer with Wintab® driver)
  • 4X CD-ROM drive

Minimum

  • Intel Pentium-based PC, with 800MHz processor, or compatible
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, or Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5 or later)
  • 256MB RAM
  • 1.0GB free hard disk space
  • 500MB free hard disk space for virtual memory swap
  • 800x600 VGA video display, with 8MB video RAM
  • Windows video display driver
  • Pointing device (mouse or digitizer with Wintab® driver)
  • CD-ROM drive