AutoCAD Architecture software features the streamlined AutoCAD software user interface that offers optimized desktop organization, a larger drawing window, and quick access to tools and commands. Find your favorite tools and commands faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently, and discover relevant new features more easily. The result is less time searching through menus and toolbars, and more time getting work done.

AutoCAD Architecture DWG and DWF file formats help users to easily share design data with project team members. These file exchange formats also offer seamless integration with other design tools such as Autodesk Design Review software, Autodesk Buzzsaw software, Autodesk Constructware software, and a wide variety of third-party applications.

The Drawing Management environment in the AutoCAD Architecture Project Navigator helps you create, access, and organize all your project drawings in one consolidated interface. With the streamlined coordination built into Project Navigator, creating sheets for plotting is easier.

Automatically tag every room in a drawing, complete with room areas. Spaces update automatically if the bounding elements are changed, saving you time and making documentation more accurate. Space definitions can include offsets from bounding elements based on preset or user-defined rules, enabling area calculations that reflect a variety of industry standards, including BOMA, DIN, and SIS.

Creating a color-fill plan, complete with Legends has been made easier. Once your floor plan has been populated with space information, predefined Display Themes can be used to create color-fills that report space type or area ranges. Since Display Themes reflect the current state of design, making a modification, such as widening a room, will automatically update what is being displayed. This helps provide improved productivity during the design process by automating a common, yet often cumbersome, architectural task.

Customize the appearance of out-of-the-box schedule styles more easily to meet your company's standards, or create new schedules from scratch, complete with your required calculations. Schedules are linked directly to your designs, so you can update them with the click of a button to reflect any design changes.

The intuitive grips function is one of several AutoCAD Architecture tools which help boost productivity. The grips function is available for use as your designs go through the iteration process. This tool can be utilized to make graphic changes, such as changing a door's swing, moving walls, or adjusting dimension strings, on the fly, and without the use of dialog boxes.

Generate 2D sections and elevations with material hatching, directly from your floor plans. If your design changes, fully updated section and elevation graphics are generated, maintaining layer, color, linetype, and other properties.

Draw and document typical architectural objects such as walls, doors, and windows that mimic real-world counterparts. Modify walls and their endcap conditions on a component level for improved handling of common wall conditions, such as angled, cornered, or intersecting fire-rated walls. Automatically insert and place doors or windows with complete placement control. Move any wall, and all connected walls and spaces automatically update. Use familiar AutoCAD commands such as Fillet and Chamfer on flexible wall components.

AutoCAD Architecture software includes a comprehensive library of detail components and keynoting tools. Rather than spend time and effort on tedious documentation and design annotations, you can automate the creation of details to help ensure appropriate, consistent annotations. When your details are complete, you can generate keynote legends quickly and easily.