Walls - 4 New walls added

Internal Dwarf wall with timber capping.
Glass Block wall.
Glass with horizontal dividers - mainly for commercial use.
16mm Particle board wardrobe dividing wall .

2 New Beams - Concrete (Square) and Concrete (Edge Beam)

Profiles - Cladding - Corrugate for 3D wall cladding.
Profiles - Beams – wall 64mm top hat.
Profiles - Concrete beam rectangular, Concrete edge beam.

Details – Approximately 250, text free, detail drawing are now provided.
Imperial library is also provided for you to modify as desired.

Whirlybird – added to Mechanical Library

2 Cloths line symbols – open and folded added to Landscape library.

3 Fence Colorbond, cream, green and red.

Compass with directions, shows North, South etc total of 8 directions. All compass symbols reset to always point North.

New Library Numbers in 3D – Zero to Nine for house numbers etc.

New Library of Signs - Billboard – 38 in all – Access, Area, Exit, Fire and Toilet.

Additional Watermarks – Copyright, draft print large, Preliminary Not for Submission.

New Library – Louver windows. Uses the new Grill type Jalousie – makes glass louvers appear open in SoftView.

Openings New Library – Corner windows

New Library – Round Top Doors

New Library – Glass Shower Doors.

New library – Screen doors. Complete doors and frame less for 3D and addition to solid doors.

Electrical Symbols - Low lights and low path lights

Site Mode:
Added line text to Utilities:
Optic, Optic Cable, Power, Sewer, << Sewer, Sewer >>, 100mm Sewer, Stormwater, << Storm, Storm >>, 90mm Stormwater, Telephone, Telstra, Phone, Recycled Water, Grey Water, Rain, Rain Water.

Assigned Q – (Query) For Edit, R for Repeat Edit to the Keyboard Shortcuts

New Library - Solar Panels – 3 new textures for photo electric and hot water panels.

Textures - New Library - Trimdeck – Colorbond texture library for shed walls etc.

New Library - 47 Textures of Boral range of Concrete and Terracotta tiles.

New Library - 73 Textures of Monier range of Concrete and Terracotta tiles.

Textures - Flat Colorbond range has been updated to new names.
Textures - Corrugate Colorbond range has been updated to new names.

Textures - Extensive range of Paint Swatches for Resene Paints

Keyboard - Assigned S – Surface and Q – (Query) For Edit to the Keyboard Shortcuts

Updated – BS – Export to have prices as per Summary Report.

Changed many formula to make use of the new decimal place option.

Can have 0,1 or 2 decimal places, eg, concrete – 3 m3. or 2.6m3 or 2.58 m3

Updated Site Coverage report – now reports in fractions of a m2 eg, driveway 41.12 m2

Added material formula for –
Shelf ends.
Concrete Beam square and edge – now calculated.

Learning SoftPlan - In the Learning SoftPlan AU folder there are lessons on:

Drawing Site Plans - Describes how to input a site plan in 360° format.
Dutch Gable Overhang - How to adjust the overhang of a Dutch Gable different to the hip.
Piers and Joists - How to draw a pier / bearer and joist flooring system
Shadows - Explains 2 methods to produce shadow diagrams for council submission.
SoftPlan to Buildsoft - How to export material reports to Buildsoft® estimating program.

These items are in addition to any items added by SoftPlan Systems as part of the 2012 program.

The above items have been added specifically for SoftPlan 2012 as supplied to Australia and New Zealand by Cadbuild.
For a more detailed list of additions and features please refer to SoftPlan Systems Web Site.

SoftPlan Systems Web Site

You may also like to view :

New 2012 Interface.

2012 Upgrade Brochure.

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