SoftPlan
SoftPlan reView is a unique way to interact with customers. It allows designers to communicate with clients and creates a sense of collaboration. Access to your drawings and panoramic 3D model with clients, contractors, field staff, and builders from anywhere using your Apple iOS device. SoftPlan reView lets you, your clients, as well as your staff, view rendered floor plans and panoramic 3D views with SoftPlan reView. You can redline a drawing with standard mark-up tools. You can create punch lists directly from the drawing files. Notes can be added to the drawing. Service symbols, such as TV jacks and electrical outlets, should be placed. To calculate distance, query between any two points. Import mark-ups back into SoftPlan. You can create schedules for punch items, notes, and service symbols. SoftPlan is a great tool for creating schedules of notes, punch items, and service symbols. SoftPlan is a better way to draw houses. A SoftPlan overview.
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Chief Architect
Chief Architect software makes it easy to design your home. Chief Architect software makes it easy to create construction drawings and elevations, CAD details, 3D models, and home design plans. Chief Architect residential home design software is the best for architects, home builders, remodelers, and professionals. Chief Architect is the preferred professional tool for architects, home builders and remodelers as well as interior designers. Smart building technology makes it simple to create construction drawings, floor plans and elevations. Chief Architect's software can automatically generate dimensions, roofs, foundations, framing and roofs. The program creates a 3D model of your walls, windows, doors and other elements as you draw them.
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Vertex BD
Vertex BD is a BIM program for residential builders of medium and large sizes. All of the necessary building models can be used to generate architectural and structural drawings sets, fabrication drawings, material data, manufacturing data, marketing renderings, and material reports. Vertex BD automates the creation of lot-specific drawing sets, which saves production home builders countless hours in having to create drawings for each customer's house option. Component manufacturers and panelizers use Vertex BD to automate the process for creating floor and wall panel fabrication drawings, structural layouts and cut lists, as well as other material reports. These processes can be automated by manufacturers to save considerable time on design, drafting, and estimation, as well as minimize errors at the construction site. Available for both cold-formed steel and wood construction.
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AutoCAD
You can design anything with CAD software. It includes time-saving tools, web and mobile apps. AutoCAD®, computer-aided design software (CAD), is used by architects, engineers, construction professionals to create precise 2D or 3D drawings. Annotate, draft, and design 2D and 3D geometry with solids, surfaces and mesh objects. Automate tasks like comparing drawings, adding blocks, creating scheduling, and many more. Add-on apps, APIs and tools allow you to customize. AutoCAD offers industry-specific features and intelligent objects that can be used for engineering, architecture, and electrical design. Automate floor plans, sections and elevations. Part libraries make it easy to draw piping, ducting and circuiting quickly. Auto-generate annotations and layers, schedules, lists, tables, and schedules. To ensure industry standards are adhered to, use a rules-driven workflow.
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