Layers control what displays for each of the drawing pages to help create professionally detailed construction drawings.
All views in your project - Floor Plans, Framing, Electrical, Section Details, and Elevations have a user-defined scale and link to a specific drawing that updates as your design changes. Draw custom CAD details, import as DWG/DXF/PDF, or choose from over 500 CAD details in the premium SSA catalog to overlay on your design.ģD renderings and virtual tours help you sell the project and construction drawings help you specify, permit, and build. A CAD-to-Walls tool imports AutoCAD® files and provides mapping for layers so you can quickly see the model in 3D. Quickly manipulate objects with multiple copies, align, reflect, and replicate at specific intervals. It has a powerful CAD software engine that includes tools for lines, polylines, splines, arcs, and solids to produce objects that range from custom entry columns to a deck ledger detail. An extensive 3D Library of architectural objects and tools make it easy to detail and accessorize your designs so that styles, finishes, and other product-specific design details can be accurately rendered. Advanced rendering provides both Photo Realistic and Artistic styles such as Line Drawing and Watercolor. With the Architect, you can design in any view for seamless and simultaneous editing between 2D & 3D. Chief Architect partners with specific manufacturers (cabinets, appliances, doors, windows, countertops, and flooring) so that styles, finishes, and other product-specific design details can be accurately drawn and rendered.Īs you draw walls, the program automatically creates a 3D model and supports full 3D editing.