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| 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. |
SoftPlan EDU is the educational training version of SoftPlan. SoftPlan EDU gives you all the tools in SoftPlan, SoftView, and SoftList. |
| Plans |
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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 |
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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. |
| 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! |
| "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. |
| SoftPlan EDU News items of interest. |
| 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 |
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