PERFORMANCE

PERFORMANCE

The ARCAD Systemhaus offers with the CAD and AVA system a professional industry-specific solution for the operating system LINUX.
As on a 3D volume model based software ARCAD offers you a quick mass calculation and quantity calculation, an automatic generation of views as well as an integrated visualisation.

All required data of the planner can be obtained from the 3D model.
A user-friendly face and an comprehensible operator guidance allow to the experienced CAD user as well as the new beginner quick results while learning the program.
The user sees a tidy operator interface when starting the program first.
Many commands are directly executable with the mouse, because the commands are directly bound to already edited objects.
The integration of the AVA and the visualisation (Quickshader, Raytracing and Radiosity) allow a generally concurrent work without time-consuming program changes.
In addition, there is a huge number of interfaces for the handing over and takeover of data from programs of other providers.

Of course ARCAD allows you also the traditional work on the drawing board.
You can decide any time which approach corresponds to your momentary requirements best of all.

The automatic intersection of wall, roof and cover constructions, freely placeable and scalable wall openings for single- and additional-leaf brickwork or the dimensioning appropriate for DIN is only a small assortment of all possibilities.

A picture says more than many words.

A picture says more than many words.

Ideas will become rooms and plans are easy to understand.
ARCAD is a future-oriented CAD system with a wide user's basis under Linux and its circulation is becoming greater and greater.
ARCAD is suitable for any architecture office in every capacity phase.

ARCAD 3D CAAD 2020

ARCAD 3D CAAD 2020

ARCAD represents the quintessence from architecture, software know-how, modern computer capacity, consistent enhancements without compromises and more than 20 years of experience.

All conceivable components can be created by the 3D volume model of ARCAD and the completely free construction possibility in the 3D space.
Any construction is possible from the simple 2D-wall, the 3D-walls, single- or additional-leaf, concrete ceilings, foundations, simple gable roofs or complicated roof intersections over to rotational solids up to the most complicated solids by means of Boolean operations.

Of course a CAD like ARCAD makes a comprehensive assistance available.
Every command of ARCAD is exactly documented in the manual.
In addition, a help is also performed in a printable information window representable any time on the display.
Moreover, there are extensive tutorials to the different subjects which allow an intensive selfstudy of the CAD system.
The smart command explanation which belongs to every command simplifies in addition learning the CAD system without long training time.

ARCAD is a complete solution for the plan development in layout, view, sectional drawing and detail.
ARCAD offers you as an integrated system high plan quality, accuracy as well as all options of the planning presentation.
According to your individual preparation these drawings are pasted in the predefined drawing border of the character sheet.
The entries which are placed on the character sheet will be passed on with your entries of the scale (1 to 100, 1 to 50, 1 to 10 etc.) to the printing routine and accordingly plotted.
You can integrate texts and dimensionings into different TRUETYPE font parameter with free corner entry also as a long text.

HIGHLIGHTS

Drawing and constructing

Drawing and constructing

  • In the 2D enviroment
  • 3D edge model
  • 3D surfaces
  • 3D volume
  • 3D render model

    • Representation

  • Parallel projection
  • Central projection
  • Interior perspective
  • Cuts (automatically / manually)
  • Views (automatically / manually)
  • Hidden lines
  • Layout cut automatically / manually

    • Arts

  • Command detection from the drawing
  • Library detection from the drawing
  • Object detection from the drawing
  • Dynamic zooming
  • Dynamic panning
  • Dynamic rotation
  • Dynamic perspective
  • Freely / Orthogal mode
  • Entry revoke (Undo / Redo)
  • Free construction in any view
  • Elements visibly / placeholder
  • Detailed printout 1 to 100 / 1 to 50
  • colour/monochrome mode

    • Elements

  • Placing about origin, alignment, level.
  • Dynamically scale with mouse pointer.
  • Scale with parametre.
  • Remove/ fade in
  • Placeholder function
  • Highlighting, remachinings, resetting
  • Taking over, exchanging, removing
  • Wide range of element tools and functions
  • Element groups
  • Scaling dot with expansion of an element in a direction determinably.
  • Scaling on group applicable

    • 2D and 3D library

    2D and 3D library

    Extensive 2D and 3D library from the ranges

  • Car, excavation pit, roof, opening, flora, font
  • Garden, building service, person, sample, plan, shell of building, steel construction
  • Plumber, stair, bath, office, kitchen, bedroom, living room

    • Extensive window and French doors library

  • Single-leaf
  • Additional-leaf

    • Generates free openings.

    Generates free openings.

    With ARCAD you can construct in 2D as well as in the 3D range and look at.
    ARCAD owns a function with which you can create automatically different openings.
    Besides, you can set different parametres.
    These values serve as a basis to create them the opening to be generated.
    A new element which you can further use in all other drawings and models is generated.
    You place this opening at places in the brickwork which you can freely define.
    Afterwards you move the independent openings or exchange this for other types.
    All views are selected during the work by you with the mouse and are moved.
    Move the mouse, the perspective is also moved.
    Change the transparency of the brickwork around in order to set up your openings.

    raster image to vector file converter

    raster image to vector file converter

    You might use your existing drawings and convert them to CAD suitable files.
    Pictures are composed of small dots.
    ARCAD converts these dots to scalable vectors, arcs and circles.
    In addition ARCAD traces contours to polylines and arcs.

    Tools

  • Point
  • Lines
  • Polygons
  • Circular arc
  • Circles
  • Solids
  • Complex solids
  • Texts
  • Measures
  • Bit maps
  • Walls

    • Hatching

    Hatching

  • Hatchings, own parametre group, 9999 lines per block.
  • Line hatchings
  • Symbol hatchings

    • Walls

  • Air layer / insulation
  • Dressing
  • Opening in wall
  • Connect
  • Cut
  • Fitting
  • Alignment inside / outside
  • Numerous tools

    • Roof

    Roof

  • Roof surface determine.
  • Raise
  • Thicken
  • Cut / boolean functions.
  • Calculate

    • Stairs

  • Stairs
  • Stairs library
  • Stair elements library

    • Texts

  • TTF-Font compatibly, automatic detection and takeover
  • Description processing
  • Drag and drop, cut and paste
  • Automatic alignment
  • Outline / full filling
  • Variable / fixed scale
  • Scaling with model, element
  • Scalable size
  • Text alignment in text groups vertically, horizontally.
  • Drawings with a lot of text can be aimed fast and precisely.
  • Takeover of a text in a surface group

    • 2D and 3D representation

    2D and 3D representation

  • Labelling
  • GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR STANDARDIZATION
  • Associatively
  • Automatic wall dimensioning
  • Automatic edges dimensioning
  • Automatic complete object dimensioning
  • Automatic subsidiary lines grid
  • Manually
  • Horizontally
  • Vertically
  • Freely
  • 3D
  • Dimension line marker eligible, slash or circle

    • Layers

  • A layer can either be hidden or displayed in the background.
  • Layers can thereby serve as a template without taking part, nevertheless, in the active drawing.
  • 255 layers per drawing
  • Hide / Unhide
  • Move to the background.
  • Exchange
  • Loading, editin, saving of own layer's groups.

    • Help lines / construction help

  • Great choice in 2D and 3D subsidiary lines
  • Great choice in 2D and 3D help functions
  • Help lines for point, lines and levels in the 3D space
  • Lengths, distance, angles, online queries

    • BOOL (FROM FULL VERSION ARCAD)

    BOOL (FROM FULL VERSION ARCAD)

  • Union
  • Difference
  • XOR

    • Visualisation / Rendering

  • Procedural textures
  • Bit map textures
  • Real time animation (30fps) also through very big models
  • Integrated OpenGL
  • Integrated face assignment
  • Integrated camera
  • Integrated lights
  • Export RENDERPARK (FROM FULL VERSION ARCAD)
  • Export POVRAY, 3D DXF (3D studio, other)
  • Faces: Stone, wood, metal, nature, more...

    • Mass calculation

    Mass calculation

    The LV position can directly be assigned in the CAD.
    The AVA program ARCHITEC is necessary for it.
    The accuracy of the calculation amounts to a tenth millimetre.

  • Calculation from: Parts lists, lengths, surfaces, volumes, circumference, faces, poor ground surfaces, wall length (inside outside dimension), wall surface (inside outside dimension), wall volume, max. lengths, max. surfaces
  • Deductions according to VOB
  • Export to ASCII
  • Program ARCHITEC AVA link-up
  • Mass calculation and mass takeover of the CAD data and providing for the AVA

    • Residential calculation and floor space calculation

  • Residential calculation and floor space calculation to DIN
  • Automatic surfaces and enviroment detection
  • Understandable partitioning in subareas
  • Floor, flat, room
  • Plaster deduction in terms of percentage (3 percent) and freely
  • More freely additional text

    • Plot

    Exact setting of the printout surface: The plot can immediately be sent to e-mail address or to a fax to consignee.
    In collaboration with the AVA program ARCHITEC all character font movements are documented and associated to the object monitoring.

  • Screenshot copy in printer, plotter and dispatch
  • HPGL2, PostScript

    • Operation

    Operation

  • Drawing management about thumbnail images.
  • Thumbnail images can be generated in classical vector representation or in bit map representation.
  • All repeating inputs are summarised into separate dialog boxes.
  • The commands used last become repeatable in a choice list to be viewed on the operator interface.
  • The ORTHO mode encloses a lenght raster.
  • You thereby have the possibility to measure lengths in eligible size step by step.
  • Dynamic perspective; the strength of the perspective can be adjusted on a real-time basis.
  • A model can be thereby fitted fast into a background photo.
  • Complete integration in the development system TUXBASE.
  • Quick dialog boxes without additional queries.
  • Homogeneous operation and homogeneous appearance.
  • Sections or centres of lines can also trap cursor catch attributes.
  • Automatic level in plan views; it can be selected by the user whether the input should automatically become leave to the system.
  • Quick input
  • Left hand operation capable.
  • Great well arranged colour selection;
  • Choice of colors has name and numbers for a better overview.
  • An undo is also possible for lines and polylines.

    • DXF Interface

    DXF Interface

    The shown car in the left picture was imported by DXF interface in ARCAD.

  • DXF Import / Export

    • VRML

    VRML

    ARCAD has got a VRML export interface.
    You can show your models in the Internet with this format.
    If your web browser disposes of a VRML plug-in, here you can see and move 4 different models which have been generated with ARCAD.
    Examples:

    Help

  • Online help (by the fly)
  • Context help
  • 3 reference manuals

    • Information

  • Object-oriented information query
  • Object-oriented mass calculation
  • Concurrent mass calculation

    • HIGHLIGHTS