irfan_farooq Posted October 9, 2011 Posted October 9, 2011 Hi all, I did some work experiance in an Architect firm for a while a year or so ago. While there I noticed that they used the menu bar, then drop down and fly outs to choose doors and windows. You could then specify the type of window or door and amount of windows e.g. in a bay window, and select where you wanted to place it on the plan and the program would automatically plot it for you. Could I get some help as to how I could go about getting this menu in autocad 2011, or if anyone knows the name of it so I can search it on the net myself. Anty help will be appreciated very much. Thanks Quote
Organic Posted October 9, 2011 Posted October 9, 2011 Perhaps they had AutoCad Architecture (or even Revit?)? Quote
irfan_farooq Posted October 9, 2011 Author Posted October 9, 2011 Perhaps they had AutoCad Architecture (or even Revit?)? No it was definatley Autocad. It was a tool to help us to place building features into plans and elevations much more quickly. Quote
BIGAL Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 It may have been their own Architecture add on developed in house, I know about doing this. Alternative was that it was just a place blocks menu system you can do this via Tool palletes. The menus know doubt have a lot of detail hidden behind it and now the bad news depending on your relation ship with the other company they will either give you a copy, sell you a copy or politely send you on your way. Any company that spends money developing shortcuts is unlikely to just give it away they will not want the opposition to have an edge. Quote
irfan_farooq Posted October 10, 2011 Author Posted October 10, 2011 bigal, thanks for your message. i was very happy to hear you know of this. perhaps you can tell me how i would go about getting these types of blocks. i would appreciate all the help you can give as the firm i used to work for is no longer about. thanks Quote
ReMark Posted October 10, 2011 Posted October 10, 2011 It could have been an add-on product developed by a third-party company such as the manufacturer of a particular door/window like Marvin, Pella or Anderson (or the equivalent European or Asian counterpart). For example, Anderson Windows offers their add-on called Anderson Window Studio to professionals (architects and designers). View this link... http://www.andersenwindows.com/servlet/Satellite/Architects/Page/Architects_Detail/1091553191912 Quote
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