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News Release from: CADlogic | Subject: 2D Windows-based PC CAD system
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 June 2003
New All-British 2D CAD System
An all-British CAD system that keeps pace with evolving architecture, engineering and construction design needs.
The majority of users in the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry prefer 2D computer-aided design and draughting systems to 3D ones because, at the end of the day, plots of 2D detail drawings are the industry's binding documents Another practical issue is the 2D legacy, with many architectural projects comprising modifications or refurbishments of present buildings, so that you need to work with and edit existing 2D drawings
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 14 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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This allows the user to cut and paste between drawings, or simply open other drawings for dimensional reference, without closing the working drawing.
Any number of layers can be created within the same drawing, allowing wall, glazing and roofing types, building services, fixtures and fittings, and so on, all to be drawn on the same plan, eliminating clashes and dimensional inaccuracies.
A neat series of automated routines allows the speedy insertion of footings, structural and non-structural walls, floors, windows, doors, trusses, roofs, tiles, and so forth.
All cavity closures are automatically repaired and tidied.
The elements are completely user-definable and modifiable in terms of size and style via simple dialogue boxes.
Moreover dimensional units can be given as Metric and/or Imperial at the press of a key.
Areas of significant detail can be magnified and highlighted elsewhere on the plan as a scaled detail view.
SYMBOLS SAVE YOU TIME A large and increasing range of standard, time-saving, architectural symbols are available within the system, many of which are parametric.
To aid specification, manufacturers' branded products can be imported, such as Armitage Shanks bathroom fittings, John Carr staircases, Redland tiles, Boulton and Paul windows, Kawneer shopfronts, and IG and Catnic lintels.
Nevertheless the user is always free to create new symbols, which couldn't be any easier.
FILE EXCHANGE CADlogic's archCAD+ is very much an open system suitable for exchanging information, via industry-standard import and export file exchange formats, between architects or design-and-build companies and their external contacts.
The latter may be clients, surveyors, building control officers (BCO's), planners, building contractors and interior designers, not to mention consultants in structural, mechanical and electrical engineering, who may all run different CAD software.
Better communication on design and specification enhances the quality and accuracy of any project over its life and improves the control exerted over suppliers.
And again through a standard file exchange format, archCAD+ can read in Ordnance Survey (OS) mapping, a feature most helpful in, for example, city centre or housing estate redevelopment projects, for the impressively accurate presentation of proposals at the early scheme stage.
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