DRAFT IT ARCHITECTURAL is a professional Architectural CAD system from UK CAD developer CADlogic Limited. At just £199+VAT it has a comprehensive list of features comparable with systems costing many times the price. You can see for yourself, try it out for a full 15 days, no cost or registration required.

Architectural features

Walls – Easy wall drawing functions to create walls in various styles

Wall Dimensions – Automatically add dimensions to walls

Wall Joining Tool – Extends and trims two walls together

Wall Teeing – Choose whether to tee in at wall intersections

Wall Breaks – Specify either ‘Return’ or ‘Thermal break’

Walls – Automatic fill/hatching option including user settings

Doors – Place a door in a wall, the opening is created and the wall ends are capped. Specify Jamb Offset Value, Inner Sill settings, Outer Sill settings, Door angle, Double doors. 1^st door width & 2^nd door angle, Types (single double swing, double-double swing, single-bifold, double-bifold), Wall Break Tab (3 cavity wall & 2 solid wall break types)

Windows – Place a window in a wall, the opening is created and the wall ends are capped. Specify Jamb Offset Value, Inner Sill settings, Outer Sill settings, Options for Bay side width and angle, Wall Break Tab (3 cavity wall & 2 solid wall break types)

Openings – Create openings in walls at a specified width & height

Stairs – Create Straight, Quarter-turn and Half-turn staircases at pre-defined or at your own sizes.

Roofs – Create Gable, Hipped, Barn Hip, Lean to Corner Hip and Lean to Gable roofs, you can specify the roof pitch and tee one Roof into another.

Elevations – Automatically create elevation views directly from the drawing plan.

Elevation Hatching

3D Viewer – View and rotate a 3D model calculated from the plan. – zoom and pan with mouse, Orthographic View toggle, Rendering option (solid, textured, wireframe, transparent)

3D DXF Export – Create a 3D DXF model from the drawing for export to other systems

Levels – Define the levels of the floor plans for the 3D view & Export functions

Architectural Symbols – Hundreds of design components, including Electrical, Furniture, Heating, Kitchen fittings, Landscape and Plumbing.

 Other Features and Functions

DRAFT IT has a number of settings the user can define for new drawings including support of Metric and Imperial units for co-ordinate input and dimensioning. The following unit settings are available:- Millimetres, Centimetres, Metres, Decimal Inches, Fractional Inches, Decimal Feet / Inches, Fractional Feet / Inches. Sheet Size can be set from a range of standard Metric and Imperial sizes as well a custom option allowing the user to specify the preferred width and height. Similarly any Scale can be set or the user can select from the list of standard drawing scales.

Some of the other DRAFT IT features and functions are listed below:-

Drawing & Annotation: – Line, Arc, Circle, Rectangle, Offset, Rectangular Array, Polar Array, Linear Array, Text, Find/Replace Text, , Curve Fit, Build Polyline, Polygon, Ellipse, Hatch (with solid fill option)

Dimensions:- Linear, Angular, Radial, Diameter, Leader Arrow, Double Arrow, Datum, Chain. Dimension Styles – Save all dimension settings within a style for consistent formatting.

Modify: – Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Mirror, Trim/Extend, Fillet, Chamfer, Delete, Break, Blend, Explode, Stretch.

Drawing Aids: – Direct Input, X & Y snap filters, Arrow key input

Entity Info, Measure, Angle Lock, Select all (and via Layer, colour, style)

Multiple Drawing Interface: – Cut, Copy and Paste between drawings

Templates: – Create your own template drawings

Create and save your own symbols for insertion into other drawings.

Layer management – create, save purge unused, groups, aliases, search.

Specify Line thickness for Printing & Export, Store Pen sets for display & printing, mono print option

Import AutoCAD DWG & DXF file formats with definable import settings.

Export AutoCAD DWG, DXF & Adobe PDF file formats.

Insert Image – Place raster (Bitmap) images and PDF files onto drawings.

Selection Filters – Select Entities by colour, layer, type etc.

Named Views – Store Zoom windows for quick drawing navigation and partial drawing printing.

More Trimming commands – Trim or Extend Lines/Arcs to other entities, Quick Trim.

Points – add ‘snap’ points to any position on a drawing.

Divide – Sub-divide a line or arc into a number of segments.

Hatch Pattern – fill closed areas (Polylines) with pre-defined hatch patterns.

Additional Pens – increase the number of system pens (125 maximum).

Isometric Grid – Define to assist Isometric drawing.

Build symbol – Create a new symbol from entities within a drawing.

Multiple symbol insertion points – define additional insertion points with symbols for greater flexibility.

Construction Lines – easily create Horizontal, Vertical, Angled, Tangent and Offset construction lines.

Layouts – greater flexibility to printing and drawing output requirements.

Properties Explorer – displays the settings of the item(s) being drawn or modified. Can be used to change settings as well.

Hyperlinks – add hyperlinks to entities including symbols.

Select Hyperlink – Highlights all entities on the drawing containing a hyperlink

Drawing Properties – Store drawing related information.

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