DRAFT IT ARCHITECTURAL is a professional Architectural CAD system from UK CAD developer CADlogic Limited. At just \u00a3199+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.<\/p>\n
Architectural features<\/strong><\/p>\n Walls – Easy wall drawing functions to create walls in various styles<\/p>\n Wall Dimensions – Automatically add dimensions to walls<\/p>\n Wall Joining Tool – Extends and trims two walls together<\/p>\n Wall Teeing – Choose whether to tee in at wall intersections<\/p>\n Wall Breaks – Specify either ‘Return’ or ‘Thermal break’<\/p>\n Walls \u2013 Automatic fill\/hatching option including user settings<\/p>\n 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. 1st<\/sup> door width & 2nd<\/sup> door angle, Types (single double swing, double-double swing, single-bifold, double-bifold), Wall Break Tab (3 cavity wall & 2 solid wall break types)<\/p>\n 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)<\/p>\n Openings – Create openings in walls at a specified width & height<\/p>\n Stairs – Create Straight, Quarter-turn and Half-turn staircases at pre-defined or at your own sizes.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Elevations – Automatically create elevation views directly from the drawing plan.<\/p>\n Elevation Hatching<\/p>\n 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)<\/p>\n 3D DXF Export – Create a 3D DXF model from the drawing for export to other systems<\/p>\n Levels – Define the levels of the floor plans for the 3D view & Export functions<\/p>\n Architectural Symbols – Hundreds of design components, including Electrical, Furniture, Heating, Kitchen fittings, Landscape and Plumbing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Other Features and Functions<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Some of the other DRAFT IT features and functions are listed below:-<\/p>\n 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)<\/p>\n Dimensions:- Linear, Angular, Radial, Diameter, Leader Arrow, Double Arrow, Datum, Chain. Dimension Styles \u2013 Save all dimension settings within a style for consistent formatting.<\/p>\n Modify: – Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Mirror, Trim\/Extend, Fillet, Chamfer, Delete, Break, Blend, Explode, Stretch.<\/p>\n Drawing Aids: – Direct Input, X & Y snap filters, Arrow key input<\/p>\n Entity Info, Measure, Angle Lock, Select all (and via Layer, colour, style)<\/p>\n Multiple Drawing Interface: – Cut, Copy and Paste between drawings<\/p>\n Templates: – Create your own template drawings<\/p>\n Create and save your own symbols for insertion into other drawings.<\/p>\n Layer management \u2013 create, save purge unused, groups, aliases, search.<\/p>\n Specify Line thickness for Printing & Export, Store Pen sets for display & printing, mono print option<\/p>\n Import AutoCAD DWG & DXF file formats with definable import settings.<\/p>\n Export AutoCAD DWG, DXF & Adobe PDF file formats.<\/p>\n Insert Image – Place raster (Bitmap) images and PDF files onto drawings.<\/p>\n Selection Filters – Select Entities by colour, layer, type etc.<\/p>\n Named Views – Store Zoom windows for quick drawing navigation and partial drawing printing.<\/p>\n More Trimming commands – Trim or Extend Lines\/Arcs to other entities, Quick Trim.<\/p>\n Points – add ‘snap’ points to any position on a drawing.<\/p>\n Divide – Sub-divide a line or arc into a number of segments.<\/p>\n Hatch Pattern – fill closed areas (Polylines) with pre-defined hatch patterns.<\/p>\n Additional Pens – increase the number of system pens (125 maximum).<\/p>\n Isometric Grid – Define to assist Isometric drawing.<\/p>\n Build symbol – Create a new symbol from entities within a drawing.<\/p>\n Multiple symbol insertion points \u2013 define additional insertion points with symbols for greater flexibility.<\/p>\n Construction Lines – easily create Horizontal, Vertical, Angled, Tangent and Offset construction lines.<\/p>\n Layouts – greater flexibility to printing and drawing output requirements.<\/p>\n Properties Explorer – displays the settings of the item(s) being drawn or modified. Can be used to change settings as well.<\/p>\n Hyperlinks \u2013 add hyperlinks to entities including symbols.<\/p>\n Select Hyperlink \u2013 Highlights all entities on the drawing containing a hyperlink<\/p>\n Drawing Properties – Store drawing related information.<\/p>\n Visit Website:<\/strong> www.cadlogic.com<\/a><\/p>\n