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Powerful building and drafting tools help design professionals quickly create plans according to standard building practices. Every element placed in the plan has commonly used defaults to make the design process efficient and productive.

As you draw walls, the program automatically creates a 3D model and generates a Materials List. There are powerful Automatic and Manual Building tools to produce Construction Documents with Site Plans, Floor Plans, Framing Plans, Electrical/ HVAC Plans, Section Details, and Elevations.

Finally, Chief Architect includes design tools for photo-realistic Renderings, Artistic Renderings and Virtual Tours to help clients visualize your designs.

FEATURES
->Powerful Building & Design Tools
* Automatic Roofs: hip, gable, shed, saltbox, gambrel, gullwing, half-hip, mansard plus Dormers. With the manual roof tools, create any style including curved roofs.
* Materials Lists for Cut, Buy and Lineal materials for cost estimating and bidding
* Schedules: Windows, Doors, Cabinets, Rooms, Fixtures, Furniture and Plants
* Dimensions for One-Click Auto Dimensioning, End-to-End, Interior, Point-to-Point, Baseline, Angular and Centerline
* Advanced Stair & Ramp tools for curved, flared, split and straight
* Automatic Framing. Define hand Framed or Truss framed roofs and floors.
* Electrical and HVAC tools
* Design with Smart Objects (BIM) windows, cabinets, doors, framing that have properties and behave intelligently in the design
* Elevation and Cross-Section tools
* Power CAD tools for details and custom shapes, include a catalog of over 500 architectural correct details
->Kitchen & Bath Design Tools
* Create any style of custom cabinet including shaped, framed- and frame-less with the Cabinet Designer tools
* Use specific manufacturer catalogs for your cabinets
* Select from a library of thousands of custom door and drawer styles, cabinet feet, pilasters, hardware, wood species and colors
* Extensive Catalog of appliances, fixtures, millwork and furnishings import tools extended the Catalog to additional manufacturers
* Block cabinets, fixtures, appliances & accessories to create architectural blocks such as a kitchen island or an entire kitchen. Save to the Library for future use a great time saving feature!
* Access custom or name brand colors, materials and textures from the Catalog.
* Material Painter and Color Chooser tools allow you to import specific materials and customize for limitless design combinations
* CAD tools to design custom shapes such as tub platforms and add Section and Wall Elevation details
->3D Design and Modeling Tools
* Seamless and simultaneous editing in 3D perspective, 2D plan and elevation views
* Artistic Rendering watercolor, painting, line drawing, technical illustration, duotone and Glass House
* Photo-Realistic 3D Ray Trace Rendering
* Ray Trace Wizard with predefined settings for indoor and outdoor scenes
* 3D views for elevations, overviews, cross-sections, framing and Doll House
* Material Painter apply colors, materials and textures from any image or website
* Color Chooser Choose manufacturer colors, materials or textures for your design or from a digital photo
* Record 3D views for virtual tours
->Powerful CAD Tools
* CAD Solids produce slabs, moldings, and shapes. Draw molding profiles, custom countertops, driveways, and other architectural objects or CAD details.
* CAD Drawing tools for lines, polylines, splines, arcs, sun angles and shapes
* Align, Distribute, Copy, Replicate, Reflect, Extend, Filet, make Parallel and several other CAD tools for precision and productivity
* Convert CAD objects to architectural objects draw a molding profile and save as a stacked crown molding for a room or cabinet
* Draw custom CAD details, access over 500 built-in CAD details, import DXF or DWG CAD files
* CAD-to-Walls tool imports an AutoCAD file and provides a mapping for layers
* CAD tools to detail Cross Sections & Elevations
->Plan Sets and Construction Drawings
* Create construction documents with the Layout tool send any view to the Layout define scale and link to the drawing to update as your design changes
* Multiple Layers and Layer Sets mask layers to create the view you need
* Annotation Sets (like Layer Sets) to group control Dimensions, Text, Arrows, Markers, Callouts, and Layers to streamline the annotation process
* Create Detailed Plan Sets: Site Plans, Floor Plans, Framing Plans, Electrical/ HVAC Plans, Section Details, Structural and Foundation Plans, Room Finish Schedules, Elevations and 3D Perspectives
* Use a PDF print driver to print to any size paper
* ICC – International Residential Code Checklist
* Time Trackerâ„¢ to monitor time spent on specific projects
->Site Planning, Terrain, Deck & Landscaping Tools
* Terrain Modeling, Landscaping Tools and Site Planning Tools for single or multiple lots
* Terrain Elevation Lines and individual Terrain Elevation Points
* Terrain Feature tools for Hills, Valleys, Flat Areas and more to modify the terrain attributes
* Import Terrain or GPS data and quickly produce the 2D and 3D terrain detail
* Road, Sidewalk and Curbing tools
* Set the north pointer and define seasonal settings for detailed shadow overlay
* Automatic and Manual deck framing; customize deck planking and materials
* Over 4000 Landscaping Plants
* Plant Encyclopedia with detailed information about each plant including integrated Hardiness Zone Maps

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
PC configurations :
->Minimum system requirements
* Windows 7 / Vista / XP
* 2.4 GHz processor
* 2 GB of Memory
* 5 GB of available hard disk space
* 256 MB video card
* OpenGL: 2.0
* Internet: High speed for Registration, Video access, and Catalog / Library downloads

->Recommended system requirements
* Windows 7 64 bit
* Quad-Core CPU (e.g., Intel i7)
* 6 GB of Memory
* 50 GB of available hard disk space
* 1 GB high performance video card (e.g., NVIDIA or ATI)

MAC configurations :
->Minimum system requirements
* Requires Boot Camp
* Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro running Leopard OS or newer with Windows 7/Vista/XP Service Pack 2 running on Boot Camp
* Video Graphics: NVIDIA Graphics with 256 MB dedicated Video RAM
* 2.4 GHz processor
* 2 GB of Memory
* Mouse, 2 Button
* Internet: High speed for Registration, Video access, and Catalog / Library downloads

->Recommended system requirements
* An Intel Mac meeting or exceeding the PC requirements above running Leopard OS or newer with Windows 7 64 under Boot Camp

LIMITATIONS
>>Printing, Saving, Export, Virtual Tours

Chief Architect is a wonderful tool to help architects visualize their designs, allowing easy modeling that surpasses the capabilities of the other CAD programs you have worked with.

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