• 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

• 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

• 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

• House Builder
• Kitchen Builder
• Deck Builder
• Shed Builder
• Bathroom Builder
• Floor and Foundation Builder

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Create plot plans with accurate length, bearing and setback information
• Custom paths, fills, pads, sidewalks, roadways
• Contours

• 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

• Terrain Modifiers - hills, valleys, slopes, elevated regions, and more
• Display contour lines and elevation difference
• Crop terrain around lot lines

• Detailed Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) mesh modeling
• Insert, edit and elevate accurate spot points using XYZ coordinates
• Import site data from a variety of file formats including txt, csv, gpx, pnt, etc...to automatically build your TIN mesh
• Generate true contours with contour labels

• Landscaping
• Plants - trees, shrubs, plants and flowers
• Information on 7500 species
• Zoning information
• Watering calendar
• Plant Growth Over Time
• Plant Seasonal Change

• 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

• 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

• Smoke, fog and more
• Antialiasing
• Atmosphere conditions
• Image brightness

• Interactively cut the building in 3D
• Section vertically, horizontally or at any rotation

• 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

• Create stereo images with a single mouse click
• View on screen or print 3D images

• 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

• Link to Autodesk Green Building Studio
• Export to GBXML file format
• Link to Green3DHome.com for BIM catalogs and energy calculators

• 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

• Imports vector formats include DWG, DXF
• 2D raster formats include BMP, JPG, TGA, and more!
• Project Trace Image for tracing scanned plans

• Import 3D files to create symbols and content
• Support for 3D DXF, DWG, 3DS, SKP
• Import content for Google 3D Warehouse

• Export BMP, JPG or TGA Raytraced Renderings
• Save to DWG DXF and PDF

• Export formats include DWG, DXF, SKP, 3DS, VRML, Artlantis and XML
• Export to Sketchup SKP format
• Export .AVI Virtual Walkthroughs
• Export 3D VRML for rendering or virtual walkthrough
• Export to 20-20 Design XML format

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Powerful boundary hatching command
• Auto-recognizing of boundaries in real time
• Use existing AutoCAD .PAT files
• Polyline hatching command

• Define blocks geometry with insertion points
• Specify attributes, tags and prompts
• Insert blocks from other selected files

• 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

• Room command for naming, areas, volumes
• Automatic room finish schedule
• Custom door and window schedules
• Custom door and window marks

• Complete automatic framing - settings for floors, walls, ceilings and roofs
• Wall, floor, ceiling and roof framing in steel, wood or composites

• Pre-defined library of opening configurations
• Add and define your own opening framing
• Control tables by floor level, wall type or specific selected wall

• Pre-defined corners and T intersections
• Defined your own custom intersection details
• Control orientation, position and specific member selection

• 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

• Set intersections, infill and head / sill table per wall type

• Specify direction of framing (left to right, clockwise, etc.)

• Templates included for most major estimating packages
• Create your own custom template
• Filter template display by element type

• 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

• Specify cut lengths per member type and SKU
• Display actual or purchased lengths in quantity report
• Allow for saw cut and scrap allowance

• Automatic numbering and tagging of wall panels
• Panel organization including cull control over sorting and view side
• Automated panel annotation and layout

• 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