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Which Envisioneer package is right for you?

Check out our chart below to see a list of features offered in each Envisioneer package. Simply select the version that best suits your business needs and give us call to order or purchase online.

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Essentials
Envisioneer
Professional
Envisioneer
Construction Suite
Design & Modeling
 
Complete 3D Parametric Building Modeling
  • Place and edit objects directly in 2D or 3D Views
  • 3D Editing of all objects including Walls, Roofs, and Stairs, etc.
  • Editing walls updates connected roofs, floors, ceilings
 
Productivity Settings
  • Commander for keyboard entry of exact distances and angles
  • Mirror image plans
  • Customizable  Fast right-click edit menus
  • Pre-selection assistance
  • Up to 999 building locations
 
Parametric catalog of objects including manufacturers
  • List of actual product manufacturers content
  • Completely customizable groups, sub groups and elements
  • Search for library items by style and name
  • Select and edit multiple items with global change
 
Building Design Wizards
  • House Builder
  • Kitchen Builder
  • Deck Builder
  • Shed Builder
  • Bathroom Builder
  • Floor and Foundation Builder
 
Intelligent Building Elements

Wall Objects

  • Interior walls, exterior walls, foundation walls
  • Cavity walls including wall core, surface, and exterior veneer
  • Step or slope wall top or bottom
  • Custom trim including base, crown, casing, chair rail, wainscoting
  • Insert walls by typing distance and direction
  • Insert walls by building perimeter, interior dimension or baseline
  • Display wall solid fill in plan view
  • Automatic wall corner trim
  • Automatic wall quoining

Foundations

  • Slab foundations, monolithic slabs, full or crawlspace basements
  • Strip Footings: auto-attach to walls, will shape, curved or stepped walls
  • Auto-fillet at corners and T intersections
  • Mono Footings - auto-attach to columns
  • Columns - wood, concrete, steel, brick or gypsum or custom

Columns and Members

  • Custom beams, joists, purlins, etc..
  • Variable insertion points
  • Rotate member profiles
  • Portal frames for automating post and member insertion
  • Member Schedules

Floors

  • Automatic floor option Floors inserted by room, building, perimeter or picking points
  • Sloped floors
  • Custom flooring - carpet, vinyl, tiles, hardwood and laminates
  • Floor Framing - wood or steel
  • Room Division - split rooms into individual floor/ceiling areas

Ceilings

  • Ceilings inserted by room, building perimeter or picking points
  • Sloped ceilings, automatic tray, vaulted, barrel and cathedral
  • Ceiling Framing - wood or steel

Doors/Windows/Openings

  • Wide range of door types including bi-fold, French, sliding, garage, etc..
  • Wide range of window types including casement, hung, sliding, bay, etc..
  • Custom window shapes including round, arched, trapezoid, hexagon, etc.
  • Fully customizable parameters
  • Insertion offset option, center on Wall option, position from edge or center
  • Flip swing - edit hinge position
  • Flip opening - flip door from wall side to another
  • Window treatments such as curtains and blinds
  • Window swings can be turned off and on
  • Automatic shutters
  • Sidelite, highlite and lowlite options for doors and windows
  • Niches in walls
  • Door and window schedules
  • Exterior sill - specify sills for windows, set height and width

Roofing

  • Automatic roofs
  • Roofs by picking points
  • Custom roof surfaces
  • Roof types include hip, gable, mansard, dutch hip, double, arched and bullnose
  • Multiple pitches and plate heights
  • Forced gables mid-fascia
  • Convert roof to surfaces
  • Roof framing
  • Auto dormers - with or without walls
  • Custom gable roof returns
  • Skylights
  • Auto Roof Returns

Stairs/Ramps/Railings

  • 22 stair layouts including spiral, circular,
  • L-shaped, U-shaped, fold-back and more
  • Construction styles include notched, side stringer, stringer under, solid
  • Edit nosing, riser angle, stringer spacing, extension
  • Auto-attach railings to stairs or pick points for a horizontal railing
  • Open or full ramp types
 
Kitchens, baths and interior design
  • Fully customizable cabinets: backsplash, appliances, countertop, drawers, rail, doors
  • Details include shelves, toe-kick, custom mouldings, and more
  • Place, edit, and customize cabinets in plan view and 3D views
  • Create and apply custom edge moulding
  • Detail cabinets and doors with hinges, handles, and pulls
  • Use Cabinet Modules Library to create 1,000's of custom combinations
  • Specify Electrical, Fixture, and Furniture items to attached to ceilings and roofs - objects can also
  • Kitchen Builder Wizard
  • Customizable kitchen cabinets
  • Sinks attach to cabinets
  • Sinks in corner cabinets
  • Kitchen appliances and accessories
  • Furniture - living room, bedroom, rec. room, dining room, kitchen and office
  • Appliances - wide variety of kitchen and laundry appliances
  • Electronics - audio-visual, computer, clocks, communications
  • Accessories - area rugs, window treatments, decorative accents, dining, kitchen, bathroom, aquariums, much more
  • Lighting - lamps, sconces, ceiling fans, recessed and track lighting
  • Materials Paintbrush — change your finishes with a mouse click
  • Complete fireplace tools: masonry, freestanding, corner, and more
 
MEP Tools
  • Complete electrical tools: lights, switches, outlets, cable, telephone, and more
  • Wiring schematic tool
  • Define custom lighting with shadows, attenuation and intensity
  • Complete plumbing fixtures including toilets, sinks, tubs, showers. faucets
  • HVAC — furnaces, air conditioners, fireplaces, stoves, registers, etc.
 
Complete Materials Editor
  • Create and edit your own materials
  • Material Paintbrush: allow drag-and-drop application of materials in 3D
  • Import your own textures and photos
  • Match properties with a eyedropper tool
 
Landscape Design
  • Fills — garden beds, ponds, etc.
  • Edging - PVC, wood posts, or wood, stone, brick or concrete rails
  • Retaining Walls - wood, concrete and concrete block
  • Landscape Lighting - ground lighting and light posts
  • Irrigation - sprinkler systems
  • Exterior Furniture - tables, chairs, swings, benches, etc.
  • Exterior Accessories - BBQs, planters, arbours, trellises, decorative and more
  • Exterior Structures - pools, hot tubs, courts, playground equipment, etc.
 
Site plans
  • Create plot plans with accurate length, bearing and setback information
  • Custom paths, fills, pads, sidewalks, roadways
  • Contours
 
Deck and Fence Design
  • Complete Deck design
  • Automatic deck framing for post-and-beam construction
  • Fence Tool - create picket, privacy, iron, glass rail, etc.
  • Control the orientation and size of deck planking
  • Fences - wood, picket, privacy, ranch, stone, concrete
  • Gates - wood, picket, privacy, ranch
  • Customizable Deck Railings
  • Customizable Deck Railings
 
3D Terrain Modeling
  • Terrain Modifiers - hills, valleys, slopes, elevated regions, and more
  • Display contour lines and elevation difference
  • Crop terrain around lot lines
 
Plant Encyclopedia
  • Landscaping
  • Plants - trees, shrubs, plants and flowers
  • Information on 7500 species
  • Zoning information
  • Watering calendar
  • Plant Growth Over Time
  • Plant Seasonal Change
 
Design Layout Tools
  • Basic drawing tools including line, circle, arc, rectangle, etc.
  • Parametric details including rigid insulation, batt insulation, wood section, masonry section and cut line
  • Polygon hatch command
  • Snap tracking for automatically aligning points
  • Text and notes for floor plan annotation
  • Dimension features for model layout assistance
Presentation Tools
 
High quality 3D Real View rendering
  • 3D Real View™ high-quality rendering using radiosity technology
  • Advanced smooth shading
  • Ray tracing with light, shadows and reflection
  • Adjust render settings for optimal processing speed and quality results
  • Create backdrops using photos from digital camera or any bmp, jpg, tga file
  • Define sun angles by season, specific date, and time-of-day
 
Advanced rendering effects
  • Smoke, fog and more
  • Antialiasing
  • Atmosphere conditions
  • Image brightness
 
Dynamic cutaway section tool
  • Interactively cut the building in 3D
  • Section vertically, horizontally or at any rotation
 
Movie Maker animation tools
  • Create AVI movies of virtual 3D walk-throughs
  • Add sound WAV files to your animations for narration, sound effects, etc.
  • Record walkthrough movies along a designated path
 
3D Stereo Vision view - View with 3D glasses
  • Create stereo images with a single mouse click
  • View on screen or print 3D images
 
3D Navigation & Display
  • Control the display of objects in all views using display visibility
  • Multiple display view modes for showing model in wireframe, shaded, rendered, patterned and rendered outline view
  • Cameras can be named, edited, and saved
  • Navigate using Fly Around, Look around, Walk around and Pan to allow you to move around in real time
Interoperability
 
Green Building tools
  • Link to Autodesk Green Building Studio
  • Export to GBXML file format
  • Link to Green3DHome.com for BIM catalogs and energy calculators
 
Full scale printing
  • Print to scale at any size
  • Print to file for printing off site
  • Print preview feature
  • Print display, all, and window selection
  • Print all as black feature
  • Batch Printing
  • Print Tiling
  • Print to file for outsourcing print job
  • Print to PDF
 
2D Import and export formats (DWG, DXF, BMP, etc.)
  • Imports vector formats include DWG, DXF
  • 2D raster formats include BMP, JPG, TGA, and more!
  • Project Trace Image for tracing scanned plans
 
3D Import
  • Import 3D files to create symbols and content
  • Support for 3D DXF, DWG, 3DS, SKP
  • Import content for Google 3D Warehouse
 
2D Export
  • Export BMP, JPG or TGA Raytraced Renderings
  • Save to DWG DXF and PDF
 
3D Export
  • Export formats include DWG, DXF, SKP, 3DS, VRML, Artlantis and XML
  • Export .AVI Virtual Walkthroughs
  • Export 3D VRML for rendering or virtual walkthrough
  • Export to 20-20 Design XML format
 
PDF import utility
The PDF Import module allows you to effectively import files and use them to create a Building Information Model (BIM) in minutes. Using this tool, you can accept 2D plans from a variety of sources including vector based files and scanned images.
Construction Document Creation
 
SmartView Technology
  • SmartView generation for elevations, sections, details, and 3D views
  • Instant updating of all SmartViews across drawing sheets
  • SmartView definition including display and entity extents
  • In place SmartView editing
 
 
Precision CAD drafting tools
  • Drawing tools to include line, circle, arc, polyline, polygon, rectangle, etc.
  • Parametric details including rigid insulation, batt insulation, wood section, masonry section and cut line
  • Customizable object snap settings
  • Snap tracking for automatically aligning points
 
 
Advanced CAD editing tools
  • Modify commands including erase, duplicate, array, offset, stretch, trim, extend, etc.
  • Specify distance and direction, X and Y using Commander entry
  • Import images into drawing sheets from bmp, jpg and tga files
  • Convert Spline to Polyline, Convert Polyline to Spline
 
 
Drawing organization and setup
  • Programmable keystroke commands for all commands
  • Custom Line Style Editor allows you to create your own line types
  • Customizable layering table
  • Reorder the Layout pages for construction documents
  • Multi-view drawing layouts
  • Drawing Aids
  • Ortho (for drawing at 90-degree increments)
  • Virtual grid spacing and color, custom grid snap, angle snap
  • Units of Measure: Feet-Inches, Inches, Millimetres, Centimetres, Meters
  • Specify unit precision
 
 
AutoCAD file support
  • Support for imported details, blocks and attributes
  • Support for blocks and attributes
  • Dimension styles are imported
  • Layer configuration table for saved views
  • Import .pat files from AutoCAD
  • Complete DWG details library support
 
 
Hatching
  • Powerful boundary hatching command
  • Auto-recognizing of boundaries in real time
  • Use existing AutoCAD .PAT files
  • Polyline hatching command
 
 
Blocks and attributes
  • Define blocks geometry with insertion points
  • Specify attributes, tags and prompts
  • Insert blocks from other selected files
 
 
Dimensions & text
  • Single-click Automatic exterior dimensioning
  • Customizable text and dimension styles
  • Dimension to center or rough opening
  • Customizable text arrows and leaders
  • Dimensions override
  • Customizable pre-defined labels library
  • Annotation commands include text, leader, find and replace text
  • Room dimension command for width and length
  • Linear and aligned dimensions
 
 
Automatic Scheduling
  • Room command for naming, areas, volumes
  • Automatic room finish schedule
  • Custom door and window schedules
  • Custom door and window marks
 
Advanced Framing
 
Precision customizable framing tools
  • Complete automatic framing - settings for floors, walls, ceilings and roofs
  • Wall, floor, ceiling and roof framing in steel, wood or composites
 
Customizable head/sill/jamb tables
  • Pre-defined library of opening configurations
  • Add and define your own opening framing
  • Control tables by floor level, wall type or specific selected wall
 
Custom wall intersection configurations
  • Pre-defined corners and T intersections
  • Defined your own custom intersection details
  • Control orientation, position and specific member selection
 
Custom framing infill options
  • Custom shape, size and spacing of studs, joists, beams and rafters
  • Add blocking, control the spacing and stagger option
  • Control number of plates and position
 
Framing per bearing and non-load bearing entities
  • Set intersections, infill and head / sill table per wall type
 
Custom framing rules
  • Specify direction of framing (left to right, clockwise, etc.)
Detailed Quantity Take-offs
 
Custom quantity templates
  • Templates included for most major estimating packages
  • Create your own custom template
  • Filter template display by element type
 
 
Configurable report writer
  • Define your own custom reports
  • Control all field orders, delimiters, file extensions, etc.
  • Create custom headers and footers
  • Specify material lists by category, phase and usage
  • Sort by Location , Division and Alt Code
  • Sort reports ascending or in descending order
 
 
Cut list optimization
  • Specify cut lengths per member type and SKU
  • Display actual or purchased lengths in quantity report
  • Allow for saw cut and scrap allowance
 
 
Quote Generator
  • Adjust cost, markup, margin
  • Add one time items
  • Update pricing from external sources and point of sale systems
  • Create custom quotes complete with custom logo and company information
  • Link to most common point of sale systems
   
Add on Modules
  20-20 Design integration Module
  iLevel® Javelin® integration module
  MiTek® SAPPHIRE™ Structure integration module
  Keymark® KeyBuild® integration module
  Quote Generator Pro
Software Assistance
  User’s Guide and Online Help
  Context-sensitive help
  Glossary
  Interactive tooltips
  Free online Users Forum
  Interactive Tutor
Full Service Support
  Included for all clients on the current version of Envisioneer *

* North America Only
Optional integration module purchased separately.

System Requirements

For Microsoft Windows
  • Windows 7 / Vista / XP(SP3)
  • 500 MHz processor or higher
  • 2 GB RAM (4GB recommended)
  • 1 GB minimum free hard disk space
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • 1024x768 display
  • Video card with OpenGL driver and at least 64 MB RAM (128 MB or greater dedicated graphics card recommended)
  • Windows-compatible mouse
  • Internet connection for online features
  • Internet browser to view online help

For Apple Macintosh

Boot Camp Option

  • Requires Boot Camp
  • Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro running Leopard OS or newer with Microsoft Windows® 7 / Vista(SP2) / XP(SP3) running on Boot Camp
  • 2GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
  • 1GB minimum free hard disk space
  • Dedicated graphics card with a minimum of 128 MB RAM (256 MB or greater recommended)
  • An Internet browser to view the online help
  • An Internet connection for online features

Virtual Machine Option

  • Requires VMware Fusion or Parallels (separate purchase of either required)
  • Fusion or Parallels minimum system requirements
  • Minimum requirements for the virtual machine (i.e. Windows) will be exactly the same as the Boot Camp Option requirements above.
  • Note:  of the Virtual Machine options, Fusion is recommended by Cadsoft’s as it provides better rendering performance, however both options though will experience a performance decrease compared to Boot Camp
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