SoftPlan

Great tool to design commercial and residential projects

Vorteile:

This is a great tool for architects to help them design commercial and residential projects . Recommended product :)

Softplan Gave us an Edge

Kommentare: Softplan has made creating construction documents a breeze and very professional looking. We do high end residential and light commercial, and it has never failed us. It encourages us to put more detail into the drawings to allow us to save time later when we generate sections and interior elevations with accurate detail. My workers are so proud of what they create thanks to Softplan.

Vorteile:

I love the simple shortcut commands and how simple it is to sketch floor plans on the fly and how easy they can be set to dimensional accuracy. The overlay and 3D tools keep multi story designs on in good shape at all times. In the plus subscription, support has been like having a dedicated CAD manager on staff. Excellent value!

Nachteile:

I have no dislikes, but what I like the least, I would say is needing a USB sentinel key, but I understand its use.

I've used this product for years designing homes and remodels. Once learned can do plans fast.

Kommentare: Able to completely create house building plans ready to submit to City.

Vorteile:

Can make floorplans quickly. Easy to copy one plan's notes to the next. Software runs fast on a basic desktop computer. Clients like to see basic layouts when I submit bids. Don't have to upgrade constantly if you're happy with the features in the version you purchased and no yearly fees. Easy to paint and add texture to elevations or 3d. SqFt calcs easy, and material lists available once plan is done.

Nachteile:

Older versions (13) don't have easy was to convert to PDF, way too many steps to get to a PDF. Upgrade prices are very high for a small contractor. Complex roofs can be hard to draw unless you do it full time or have lots of experience drawing roofs. Scaled Plot Plans can be hard to create correctly unless you do it often.

Softplan has come a long way baby!

Vorteile:

This software is so easy to use especially for Residential designing. Great product.

Nachteile:

A bit less intuitive than Autodesk's AutoCAD, but cost and use is much different also.

Not Revit..but still does the job.

Kommentare: I have used SoftPlan for house design purposes. It is very useful for preliminary design as UI is very easy. However it can not do engineering analysis to validate your design. So its basically used for making pretty pictures.

Vorteile:

User Interface - SoftPlan has very easy to understand user interface. There are no difficult commands that you need to remember while drawing production. Compared to AutoDesk Revit, SoftPlan is easy to learn.

Nachteile:

Interoperability - SoftPlan does not support IFC files. So there is difficulty when you are trying to achieve BM interoperability between multiple trades. This limits the use of SoftPlan and gives AutoDesk Revit a benefit.