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Drawing
Express - The ultimate electronic drawing board.
The move to computer
aided design, or CAD, has never been easier than
it is with new generation Drawing Express from
Trial Systems.
Even if you have little or no experience of computers,
you'll find that Drawing Express will make the
transition from drawing board to CAD quicker and
simpler than you ever thought possible. This is
because we've designed Drawing Express to take
the basic draughting skills you already have and
apply them to a computer based system. So you
still work in the same way you always have.
Indeed, you don't need any computer experience
at all to be up and running with Drawing Express
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Simple to Use.
Drawing Express uses
the traditional methods employed for hundreds
of years by architects on the drawing board.
Basically, you set out your design with various
construction commands on a menu pad that you
access using a pen.
These commands create lines equivalent to the
feint pencil lines you'd draw by hand. You then
ink in the design on top.
Using this method, you can create even the most
complex designs quickly and easily.
Unlike mouse-driven CAD systems, there are no
complicated menu structures to learn with Drawing
Express.
Instead, with one press of a pen, you simply
select the command you want from a colour coded
area of the menu pad.
Saves
time, saves money.
What's more, you can enter a wide range
of projects into Drawing Express.
From barn conversions, where every line is out
of square, to multi million pound football stadiums,
Drawing Express with handle them all faster
and more accurately than using a drawing board.
All of which means you can get more done in
the working day. And that means you save money,
too.
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The personal touch.
One of the main criticisms of CAD systems
is that they produce sterile drawings that lack
personal character. Not so with Drawing Express.
We've built in commands that let allow you to
create the character and feel of a hand drawn
plan. There
are user-definable lines, hatch and text styles.
You can even add your own handwriting. And you
can add sketching to your drawing to give the
appearance of freehand embellishment.
Drawing Express has an extensive symbol library
that contains the most commonly used details.
Windows, doors, electrical equipment, stairs,
sanitary fittings, kitchen units, cars, people
and trees. And the system is fully compatible
with all leading library disks.
Bills of quantities made easy.
Drawing Express is much more than just a drawing
system. It's a complete solution. You can identify
every symbol within your drawing as a building
component. This means you can generate a bill
of quantities quickly and easily. But more than
that, if you change the drawing, the quantities
will be updated automatically.
Drawing Express is the most exciting two and three
dimensional design and draughting tool ever developed
specifically for architects and building surveyors.
It will increase your efficiency at every stage
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Key
Architectural Features
Drawing Express removes the drudgery from
repeatedly drawing everyday items. It has a
range of automatic commands that conform to
British construction methods. They include:
- Cavity
and solid walls with automatic joining.
- Window
and door insertion with cavity closing.
- Automatic
schedules for windows, doors and fittings.
- Automatic
section with trusses, floors, windows and
stairs.
- Building
Grid with labels.
- Brick
dimension calculator.
- Soldier
bricks, arches and bullseye features.
- Multiple
scales within the same drawing.
- Metric
and imperial units, which can be switched
or mixed.
- Triangulation
for survey data.
- Architectural
symbol library.
- Steel
sections.
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General
draughting commands include:
- Flat
menu structure for instant easy access to
every command.
- Construction
lines for drawing creation.
- Grouping
of elements into patterns for easy editing
and manipulation.
- Unlimited
layers for organising data, which can conform
to BS1192.
- Deleted
items can be recovered indefinately.
- Integral
database for bills of quantities, parts lists
and facilities management.
- Multiple
text styles, including user definable styles.
- Automatic
tracking of areas for hatch or fill.
- Multiple
user definable view ports, and birds eye window
for instant zooms.
- Context
store captures snap-outs of the drawing, allowing
you to go back easily to earlier stages in
the design.
- Existing
drawings can be imported by scanning.
- Drawing
interchange with other systems.
- Dimensions
in metric, imperial or both.
- Hatching
and dimensions automatically update after
sketching.
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