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Draw your own
house plans
Drawing DryStacked block CAD house plans can be rewarding and cost effective.
Typical house plans will cost about $1500.00. The biggest problem with
third party house plans is the communications process.
Much time is wasted
trying to convey your intentions as well as the draft person's intentions.
Many times miscommunications occur and plans have to be reworked.
Drawing your own
plans may at first appear impossible. This training CD will show you
how to make the actual drawing. We have added a free bonus DryStacked
Block House Plan Drawing CD to this training course. These videos will
address specific drystacked block house plan drawing issues. This bonus
CD contains bonus lessons 31, 32, and 33. These lessons demonstrate
foundation plan considerations for building with DryStacked blocks.
House Plan Training
You may want to consider personal training on how to design your own
house plans. This at first sounds extreme and expensive, but neither
is the case. There is a website http://homedesign.8m.com/frames.htm
which offers on-line training for a mere $20, and their training may
help you to build a better house. This is a training program designed
by a professional architect with years of experience. This training
program also provides for a real person architect to respond to your
e-mail questions. This training is done on a semi-charity basis which
is why it is so inexpensive.
House
Plan Drawing CD
By ordering this free (DryStacked Block House Plan Drawing Training
CD) and the above mentioned Home Design Course, you now have the means
to create accurate and code compliant block house plans. You will also
avoid common house plan mistakes when you complete the Home Design Course
referenced above.
You can purchase
the low cost QCad Professional version or download current demo or community
updates at www.RibbonSoft.com
Below are listed
some of the menus that will be covered.
Drop-down
Edit menu
Drop-down
Modify menu
Drop-down Snap menu
Drop-down
Layers menu
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QCad is an application
for computer aided drafting in two dimensions. With QCad you can create
technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors or mechanical
parts. QCad works under Linux, Unix Systems, Mac OS X and Windows. The
source code of QCad is released under the GPL (Open Source).
This feature list
applies to the latest release of QCad Professional v2.1.3.2 (05Jun07)
Layer support
Block support (grouping)
Integrated part / symbol browser
256 Colors
24 different line widths
19 line styles
35 CAD optimized fonts
200 undo/ redo levels
Clipboard functions (copy, cut, paste)
Rotate, scale, flip while pasting
Multi-document interface
Supported units:
Metrical: Nanometer, Millimeter, Centimeter,
Decimeter, Meter, ...
Imperial: Inch, Foot, Mile, Microinch, Mil,
Yard
Other: Angstrom, Micron, Astro, Lightyear,
Parsec
Supported file formats:
DXF R12 and DXF 200x (reading/ writing)
BMP, JPEG, PNG, .. (import/ export as bitmaps)
PDF format export
Printing
Printing to scale (e.g. 1:2, 1:100, ..)
Print preview with paper selection
Construction types
Points
Lines
with two points
given absolute angle
horizontal / vertical
rectangles
parallels
bisectors
tangents
orthogonal
given relative angle
regular polygons
freehand lines
Arcs
center, radius, angles
three points
concentric
adjacent to existing entity
Circles
center, circle line point
center, radius
two opposed points
three points
concentric
Ellipses
center, two points (minor and major axis)
center, two points, start angle, end angle
Splines (NURBS)
degrees 2, 3
closed, open
Polylines
line and arc segments
add / delete nodes
trim segments
delete all nodes between two given segments
create polylines from existing segments
create equidistant polylines
Texts
fonts: ISO, ISO cursive, Courier, Romans,
... (35 CAD fonts included)
alignments: left, right, centered
vertical alignments: top, bottom, middle
unicode support (Japanese, Chinese, German umlauts,
...)
Dimensions
aligned
linear
horizontal / vertical
radius
diameter
angles
arrows (leaders)
Hatches
40 patterns (extensible by the user)
adjustable pattern scale and angle
solid fill (color fill)
Raster images (bitmaps)
insertion of bitmaps
adjustable scale, rotation angle
Modification
move
rotate
scale
mirror
move and rotate
rotate and counter-rotate
trim to entity
trim by amount
bevel
round
divide
divide 2 (remove segment)
stretch
Edit geometry (numeric)
Edit attributes (color, line width, line pattern, layer)
Exploding texts / dimensions / hatches / ellipses
into atomic elements
Edit texts
delete
move to background / foreground
modify properties of single or multiple entities
with property editor
Element selection functions
all / nothing
single elements
rectangular ranges
connected elements (contours)
elements intersected by a selecting line
invert selection
select layer
Snapping functions
(used to position the mouse cursor to an
exactly defined location)
free
snap to grid
snap to endpoints
snap to center points
snap to middle points
snap to intersections
llocation defined by entered co-ordinates
(relative/absolute/cartesian/angular)
auto snap
Measuring functions
distance between two points
distance between an element and a point
angle between two lines
total length of selected entities
polygonal area / circumference
Zoom functions
redraw
auto zoom
zoom in / out (mouse wheel or buttons or
hotkeys)
panning (middle mouse button)
window zoom
Part library
over 4800 CAD parts included (screws, nuts, symbols,
...)
insert parts into the drawing
adjust angle and scale
extensible with user defined drawings and
symbols
Misc features
adjustable dimension unit format and
accuracy
modification of existing CAD fonts
creation of new fonts
ECMA scripting interface with integrated IDE
Help = user reference manual
Language translations:
Bulgarian
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Punjabi
Portuguese (BR)
Russian
Slovak
Spanish
Turkish
Welsh
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