ArchT Specifications

ArchT was created to improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance quality through all phases of architectural design and documentation. Thoughtfully implemented and customizable features assist in Predesign, Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, and Project Management.

Take advantage of the built-in standards and defaults, or customize ArchT functions to best support your office's unique design process.

	Predesign
	Schematic Design
	Design Development
	Construction Documents
	Construction Administration
	Design Tools for 2D and 3D
	Layout Routines
	Styles
	Walls
	Roofs
	Symbols Library
	Layers
	Legends
	Project Management
	Link to Timberline
	General Specifications & System Requirements
	Purchase ArchT

Predesign:  

• Rapid creation of 2D/3D presentations
• Rendering materials for architectural assemblies & components
• Hatch fill walls
• Solid fill walls
• Roof assemblies — fascia, roof exterior, roof interior, and soffit
• Site furnishings
• Landscape symbols — 2D / elevation / 3D

Schematic Design:  

• Massing studies
• Layout design
• Programming — area bubbles
• Design visualization
• Presentation / walk throughs
• Column grids
• Sections — section bubble / location; generate section
• Elevations — generate the elevation
• Multi-line walls
• Plumbing symbols
• Electrical symbols

Design Development:  

• 7,000 2D and 3D blocks, including ADA symbols, commercial, residential and sitework blocks
• Building sections
• Column grids
• 2D or 3D steel shapes — S beams, W beams, angles, channels
• ObjectARX™ steel and wood detailing
• Automated wall cleanup
• Access reference material from Architectural Graphics Standards
• ADA symbols
• Lavatories, Stalls, Urinals
• Casings

Construction Documents:  

• Records and Reports across multiple drawings
• Quantity take-off reports
• Code Compliance
• Area calculation and annotation
• Automatic wall dimensioning
• Over 20 schedule templates — door, window, room finish, furniture summary and others
• Tag symbols
• Automated elevations and sections

Construction Administration:  

• Quantity take-off reports
• Modify data options
• Global editing of graphics and attributes
• Surface area calculations

Design Tools for 2D & 3D  

• Floor plans
• Reflected ceiling plans
• Elevations
• Demolition plans
• Sections
• Details (2D)
• Stairs (standard, curved, spiral)
• Toilet room layout
• Site plans
• Parking layout (2D)
• Column grid layout
• Roofs
• Space planning
• Precision Link™ option to Timberline Estimating Software
• Multistory support
• Pre-defined casings
• Automated sections
• Automated elevations
• Automated dimensioning
• 2D projections of any 3D view
• Surface area calculation from glass, sash, frame & wall
• X, L & T intersect clean-ups
• Parallel line routines
• ObjectARX™ steel and wood detailing

Layout Routines  

• Lavatories
• Stalls
• Urinals
• Handicap stalls
• Handrails

Styles  

• Doors, walls, windows, roofs, stairs
• Predefined styles
• User-defined styles
• Global style update
• Selective style update

Walls  

• Wall styles
• Swap styles for existing wall
• Curved walls
• Multiline walls
• Hatch fill walls
• Solid fill walls
• Edit walls
• Remove walls

Roofs  

• Hip, gable, shed, polygon
• Dormers
• Commercial and residential styles supported

Symbols Library  

• 7,000 blocks
• "Render-friendly" 3D blocks
• Door symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• Window symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• Plumbing symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• HVAC symbols (2D)
• Electrical symbols (2D)
• Furniture symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• Tags symbols (2D)
• Structural symbols (2D/3D)
• Sitework symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• Landscape symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• Vehicle symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• ADA symbols (2D/Elev/3D)
• Cabinets (2D/Elev/3D)
• Hatch patterns
• Links to AGS CD-ROM
• Visual symbol navigation
• Visual symbol insertion
• User library generator

Layers  

• Automated layering
• AIA Short & Long forms
• Six other pre-defined systems
• User-configurable
• Master layer controls

Legends  

• Electrical
• Mechanical
• Plumbing
• Furniture
• Tags & Keynotes

Project Management  

• Style & environment customization by
• application or by project
• Network project setup

Integrated with AccuRender3 from McNeel and IntelliCAD /AutoCAD Built-in Rendering engines  

• Define materials by object, assembly, or layer
• Complex material mapping
• Rendering settings saved in drawing

Link to Timberline  

• Optional ArchT Precision Link™
• Access Timberline commands within AutoCAD
• Add, identify, modify & create estimating records
• Import/export styles
• Navigator & Style support

General Specifications  

• Requires Autodsys IntelliCAD 4 5, or 6 or AutoCAD 14/2000/2002/2004/2005 or software based on these AutoCAD platforms including Architectural Desktop, Building Systems, and Map.
• RAM: 64MB
• Hard disk space: 30MB minimum, 85MB typical, 110MB maximum
• Documentation: On-line Reference, Installation & Performance, Tutorial
• On-line help
• 3D modeling tools
• 2D drafting utilities
• Mouse & Digitizer support
• Stand-alone & network support
• Metric or Imperial units