CFI - ARCHIBUS Facilities Management Software - Overlay with Design Management for AutoCAD and Revit

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ARCHIBUS Overlay with Design Management for AutoCAD^® and Revit^®

The task of separately managing drawings and alphanumeric facilities and infrastructure data is often an inefficient duplication of effort. Ensuring a site or facility drawing also contains information on associated assets and people is crucial, especially when it comes to planning for growth, contraction or relocation. The ARCHIBUS Overlay for AutoCAD with Design Management solves this dilemma. For over 20 years, ARCHIBUS has been the leading AutoCAD-based solution. This seamless integration with AutoCAD lets you link drawings to facilities and infrastructure data bi-directionally, synchronizing updates to each environment for improved accuracy and productivity.

Benefits

Expands capabilities into Building Information Modeling (BIM) to improve lifecycle management
Increases accuracy of information through visualization and simultaneous updates to Autodesk applications and the ARCHIBUS database environment
Improves productivity by expediting the creation of working drawings with a suite of ARCHIBUS architectural drawing and design tools

Seamlessly integrate facilities data with industry-standard AutoCAD drawings.

Speed the Creation of Working Drawings
Use the Overlay application to reduce the time and effort it takes to populate architectural drawings with facilities and infrastructure information. For example, create diagrammatic space bubble trial layouts representing your organization's departments, groups, or rooms. Once a layout is accepted, use ARCHIBUS to transition the space bubbles into working drawings. You can instantly populate the drawings with walls, doors, and furniture. These documents can be easily maintained throughout a facility's life cycle.

Use built-in symbol libraries to speed drafting
Quickly add walls, doors, windows, structural columns, and ceilings to facility drawings
Draw area boundaries using architectural grids- an alternative to drawing complete architectural information

Maintain Accurate Information
Updates to drawings in the Overlay application are instantaneous, eliminating the need to transfer AutoCAD information to your facilities and infrastructure database. A series of ARCHIBUSspecific pull-down menus, integrated directly into AutoCAD's own menu bar, enables you to perform facilities and infrastructure management tasks all from within AutoCAD. Such seamless integration enables you to both create and maintain facilityrelated drawings with ease.

Make changes in AutoCAD that will be automatically updated in the ARCHIBUS database
Assign intelligence to drawings by adding room numbers, departments, and more
Work on entities drawn on any layer, even if plans were not originally created in AutoCAD

Help others within your organization visualize actual floor plan drawings and spot issues or inconsistencies. Enhance AutoCAD drawings with a wealth of specialized drafting tools within the Overlay for AutoCAD and Design Management application to create more informative as-built and construction documents.

Convert drawings from two dimensions to a 3-dimensional view in a single step
Raise walls, ceilings, columns, doors, windows to a height you specify to better indicate final outcomes
Ensure consistency among floor plans by creating underlying architectural grids with the Grid command

Complete the Picture
The ARCHIBUS Overlay with Design Management for AutoCAD & Revit seamlessly integrates drawings and alphanumeric data with Autodesk's AutoCAD Architecture, and Revit Architecture environments. The result is a single, unified information environment for managing facilities and infrastructure that improves productivity and data accuracy, while leveraging your existing investment in Autodesk tools.

Embed drawings in ARCHIBUS reports to better represent information
Highlight current and upcoming vacancies in your organization's facilities with the Real Property & Lease Management application
Create accurate space usage statistics for chargebacks with the Space Management application
Convert 2D drawings to 3D in a single step

Download the ARCHIBUS Overlay for AutoCAD product brief as a PDF