SoftPlan Architectural Design Software. SoftPlan EDU - Generates elevations, cross sections, material lists, framing diagrams and 3D Images from the floor plan. For residential homes and light commercial building plans.

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"SoftPlan EDU allows me to teach Architecture...not CAD."

Learn,

Design,

Achieve.

SoftPlan, the CAD package of choice for thousands of professionals., is so user-friendly that it is being taught in classrooms in high schools, technical and community colleges and vocational schools, all the way up to colleges and universities.

Teachers are amazed at how easy SoftPlan is to teach and how even easier it is to learn!

SoftPlan EDU is the educational training version of SoftPlan.

SoftPlan EDU gives you all the tools in SoftPlan, SoftView, and SoftList.

Classroom

With SoftPlan EDU students learn how to create:

Plans

Quality and speed of plans are second to none.
Create detailed floor plans using familiar objects such as walls, windows, and doors.
Quickly design floor system framing plans.
Add automatic or completely custom roofs.
Generate instant Cross Sections, Elevations, Wall and Roof framing diagrams.
Design accompanying decking.
Complete site plans based on engineering data.

3D Renderings

View this rendering from different interior or exterior angles.
Apply countless textures to three dimensional surfaces including hardwood, carpet, tile, brick, cladding, stucco, and even your own custom textures.
Add various interior and exterior lighting with incredible real life shadows and reflections.
Import backgrounds and images from your digital camera, the web, your scanner, etc.

Material Lists

Keep a running total of all materials used in your drawings.
Assign a waste calculation for each material.
Customize timber pricing tables for different types of timber or timber suppliers.
Edit formulas for precision calculations based on the way you build.
Edit report styles: One may show total cost of the project for presentation to your client, while another shows your hard costs, mark-up and labor rates.

SoftPlan EDU is rapidly rising as the standard for CAD in the classroom.

Ease of use:

SoftPlan's object orientation makes it easier for students to grasp than conventional CAD packages. With SoftPlan, students will learn to design with everyday building objects such as walls, windows, and doors, to name a few of SoftPlan"s many pre-defined symbols. This means they do not need to learn an entirely new language or x,y,z coordinates to effectively use the program. Because SoftPlan's learning curve is the absolute shortest in the industry, teachers can focus on teaching building design and techniques instead of spending the entire semester teaching a software program!

Speed of Use:

SoftPlan greatly increases the speed at which designs can be created and edited. One of the keys to SoftPlan's timesaving characteristics is automation, which eliminates the unnecessary and repetitive tasks that conventional CAD packages require. Also, because SoftPlan is object oriented, students design the floor plans while SoftPlan automatically
creates elevations, cross sections, roof framing, wall framing, and much more! From the classroom to the competitive level, students gain a significant edge through the quick and easy creation of working drawings!

Teachers comments about SoftPlan EDU

"Students begin to draft floor plans on the "first" day of the school year. With other software packages, they would have to wait until the second semester"

Bob Clarkson, Waterloo Collegiate Institute

"SoftPlan EDU is the best architectural software "tool" on the market today"

Scott Thomas, Architectural Design Drafting Instructor, Phoenix College.

"SoftPlan has become an integral part of my curriculum...I find it easy to teach, and students find it easy to learn."

Jim Gronski, York County Schools.

The latest to realise the SoftPlan EDU benefits

The SoftPlan Educational Version was released for the first time in Australia at the end of December 2008. Like teachers in North America, teachers in Australia are choosing to use the SoftPlan Educational Version in the classroom, rather than attempting the daunting task of teaching AutoCAD®. So far schools such as Curtin University, Australian Technical College, and the Tasmanian Skills Institute have chosen to utilize SoftPlan in their classrooms.

Architectural Drafting, the free educational curriculum for teachers using SoftPlan EDU has been rewritten for the Australian Educational audience.

To purchase the SoftPlan Australian Educational Version please contact sales@cadbuild.com.au.

SoftPlan Curriculum.

As part of our continued commitment to education a FREE secondary level curriculum is available to all SoftPlan educational users/registered schools. Tell me more.....

For Educational instructors only, SoftPlan offers deep discounts on the SoftPlan Educational Program.

For more information on the SoftPlan Educational Program,
call (02) 4657 1874 or e-mail sales@cadbuild.com.au

You can Order Demo / Trial package now. Please tell us if you are a TAFE, High School or University etc when filling out the request form.