Product Description

Digging deep into the advanced techniques and deployment strategies of Autodesk Architectural Desktop (ADT), this comprehensive guide, applicable to both the 2007 and 2008 release, and co-authored by best-selling ADT author Paul F. Aubin-- emphasizes the process of creating projects with ADT while equipping readers with the tools both to assess current CAD standards and to build checklists for use throughout the deployment process. Focusing squarely on architectural production, the presentation progresses through installation, setup, configuration, training, customization, and standardization, arms readers with all the tools necessary to build a successful implementation plan uniquely suited to their needs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1087744 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 868 pages

About the Author
Paul F. Aubin is an independent architectural consultant who travels the country lecturing and providing Revit® Architecture and AutoCAD® Architecture implementation, training and support services. Mr. Aubin currently serves as Moderator for Cadalyst magazine's online CAD Questions Forum, is an active member of the Autodesk user community and has been a top rated speaker at Autodesk University (Autodesk's annual user convention) for many years. He is also an associate member of the AIA. Paul Aubin has been involved in the architectural profession for nearly twenty years, with experience that includes design, production, CAD management, mentoring, coaching and training. He is the author of many CAD and BIM titles, including the widely acclaimed MASTERING AUTOCAD ARCHITECTURE and PAUL F. AUBIN'S MASTERING REVIT ARCHITECTURE. Mr. Aubin's diverse experience in architectural firms, as a CAD manager and as an educator gives his writing and his classroom instruction a fresh and credible focus.

Matt Dillon is a registered architect with more than 20 years of experience using, teaching, and consulting on Autodesk¿s architectural products. He is currently Vice President of Technical Services for an Autodesk reseller and Authorized Training Center, spending much of his time helping customers throughout the U.S. implement Architectural Desktop. Matt is also a regular, top-rated instructor at Autodesk University, who, like Paul, has trained hundreds of architectural professionals in Architectural Desktop.

Customer Reviews

Good in-depth information
This is an excellent companion to Mastering Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007 and in many cases picks up where MADD leaves off. If you are using MADD to get up & going with ADT and find yourelf thumbing the index thinking "There's got to be more detail", it is here. Detailed information and sound advice for figuring out and making sense of the whole Projects, Display, Styles and Objects systems is here.
We are a 2 seat high end residential firm. I have been using ACAD since R9 and ArchT as an architectural front end for 10 years. ADT2007 is my first go at ADT. It is definitely complex & multi-layered, but I believe that it will improve the quality & timeliness of our production. This book is an integral part of the process. It's worth it.

A Fuller Picture
This book should be used in conjunction with the Mastering Autodesk ADT 2007 or Mastering Architecture 2008 books. This is more for the person that sets the standards. If you are like me, a pretty much one man team, then this makes your understanding of ADT a lot more comprehensive. It explains a lot more of the "why" than the "Mastering books" did. My picture of the project got a lot bigger frame as I was going thru this book. It is written in such a way that you can go from the beginning to the end, as usual. But, it is also written so that you can go & look up certain areas that you have questions about, go to that part of the book & get your answer without a loss of understanding because you took it out of sequence.

I would recommend this book to any user of ADT or Architecture from intermediate & up. I also would recommend it to any CAD managers or those that want to be CAD managers. If you want to get the most complete education of ADT or Architecture you can have, get both books, the one for this review and either Mastering AutoCAD Architecture 2008 or Mastering Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007, depending on which program you have. I would also recommend getting The Illustrated AutoCAD 2008 Quick Reference (Illustrated AutoCAD Quick Reference) or the year that matches the year of your program. It doesn't contain the ADT or Architecture commands but does a great job on the AutoCAD commnads & system variables.