With SoftPlan you can create floor plans, cross-sections, elevations, framing plans, detail drawings, and site plans.ĭeveloped specifically to automate the design and presentation of residential and light commercial construction projects, SoftPlan allows you to build a model of your project on your computer before you build it on the lot. Draw with fully assembled and fully customizable items such as walls, windows, beams, etc. Utilizing SoftPlan as your design tool will give you the flexibility to create complex, custom drawings with speed, accuracy, and ease.
SoftPlan Architectural Design Software is the building industry’s leading residential and light commercial CAD software package. Pictures in the listing are for illustration purposes only. It's a great program.Y ou will receive this program on plain CD-R(s) or DVD-R(s) in a protection sleeve, no artwork, no box. It's pretty good.Īs far as Revit geared towards commercial, I wouldn't say so. Sun, at 10:57:41 PM | RE: Framing plans & modelsĬheck out the framing plan video. Framerman, Coreed and Bolandereric, THANK YOU! (I guess this post is gonna get a lame rating :-) bolandereric, I'd be grateful for your direction on the families. We'll have to work on that family, it looks like. Thanks for confirming my impression that Revit seems to be more geared, at least as one acquires it, more towards larger commerical construction. We're all learning via "The Noble Struggle" to learn, as we go along, myself keeping one step ahead as best I can or at least coaching them in the struggle. So our goal was to introduce building construction hand-in-hand with BIM so they could learn how buildings go to gether. These are students who have an undergraduate degree in another field outside of Architecture they come back to grad school to earn an M,Arch in three years from University of Illinois at Chicago. I am teaching a baker's dozen of graduate students Revit as part of a building tech curriculum. I can't thank you all enough at least to give me direction. Sun, at 10:39:02 PM | RE: Framing plans & models I did the drawing posted in less than one day. I can easily draw in Revit faster than I can in SoftPlan. Revit at least has this place and one or two others. Oh and one more thing, SoftPlan didn't have any type of forums or online help except for paid ones. Much simpler to learn than ADT in my opinion. I found Revit hard to swallow at first also but Im getting the hang of it.
However, their tech department was very good. You couldn't import the whole drawing into AutoCAD. You'd have first floor as one file, second floor as one file, etc. And the way they setup their drawing system is separate files in one folder. If you need to send your files to someone in AutoCAD format, they only have dxf. Redraw, import your title sheet, reprint, repeat for 6 pages. Also, if you ever have to change say an exterior wall, like add a window, you have to reprint pretty much your entire page layout system one by one. Some basic stuff is great, but I deal with a little more detail. They do (simple) automatic generating of floor framing, wall framing, roof framing, etc.īut I found that what you want your design to look like and the capability of SoftPlan to do what you want it to do are two different things. There are some great positives to SoftPlan. Sun, at 7:14:50 PM | RE: Framing plans & modelsĪbsolutely! My experience is with ver. "Revit has to be implemented, Not installed." i was told the Softplan was actually better than Revit if you were only interested in doing residential. If you have sometime could explain why you switched from Softplan to Revit.
Sun, at 6:19:45 PM | RE: Framing plans & models I have some of the familys if you would like them please let me know. I have done a whole house and the roof framing you have to go in and create the bottom plate and studs as a family and then incert them your'e self. Sun, at 1:29:58 AM | RE: Framing plans & models I know my old software, SoftPlan, does the framing of walls and such, but not a very good program compared to Revit. you might be in for alot of frustration unless I'm missing something because I'd like to do that too. Now if you want to do top plate, bottom plate, studs, cripples, trimmers, headers, etc. You should already have them in your family files. Sun, at 12:08:34 AM | RE: Framing plans & models