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Construction

nanoCAD’s Construction Module extends the nanoCAD platform with AEC drafting utilities and a library of standard parametric elements. It is designed to automate the preparation of construction drawings and documentation.

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What you get

Comprehensive Tool Set of nanoCAD platform

nanoCAD platform provides you with a full set of basic and advanced design tools for creating and editing 2D/3D objects. It offers multiple drawing and editing methods for most geometric elements. nanoCAD platform is the base on which you build a more powerful CAD system to your specifications.

Construction tool set

nanoCAD’s Construction Module adds AEC drafting utilities to the nanoCAD platform, along with a library of standard parametric elements. It is designed to automate the preparation of construction drawings and documentation in the architecture, engineering, construction sector. With the Construction Module you get:

  • AEC design elements
  • Library of parametric objects
  • Powerful table editor
  • Architectural layouts
  • Objects scaling
  • Smart editing

Key features

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Smart drawing elements

The Construction module includes a massive number of smart drawing elements to automate routine operations like layout generation, sectioning, and detailing of buildings.

  • Database of parametric elements
  • Technical specifications editor
  • Breaks for hiding underlying geometry
  • Designation of permanent joints
  • Ground borders
  • Level marks
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Smart drawing and editing utilities

The Construction module turns entities that look like tables (lines and text) into table objects. It offers utilities for automatically numbering drawing objects, increasing and decreasing selected areas, and creating custom objects with parametric properties.

  • Define custom hatch patterns in *.pat files
  • Draw fully customized arrays of objects
  • Create and calculate plate arrays
  • Design hole charts
  • Perform advanced calculations using the built-in calculator
  • Carry out static beam calculations
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Powerful table editor

The Construction module features a very powerful built-in table editor that generates tables of any complexity. Users can convert tables imported from other CAD programs to nanoCAD’s own format. As well, it recognizes tables made from primitives. Tables offer the following functions:

  • In-place editing of tables
  • Pencil sketching in cells
  • Cell styles that specify text styles, alignments, line weights, value rounding
  • Table headers and footers
  • Calculations between cells
  • Direct interaction with Clipboard, Excel, and Open Office
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Architectural layouts

The Construction module lays out building plans using discipline-specific tools and objects:

  • Straight and arc-shaped walls that join automatically
  • Custom templates for walls that define geometry, attributes, and multi-layer (ply) construction properties
  • Walls edited with trim, break, and join commands, or by using grips
  • Insertion of windows and doors using the built-in database of components
  • Lay out rooms and spaces on plans, with customized space attributes and composition
  • Automatic calculation and creation of room analyses and lists of compositions
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Parametric parts library

The Construction Module comes with a built-in library that contains a vast number of parametric parts and templates. Each parametric object has its own set of size tables, display modes, and behaviors. As it is an open database, parametric objects can be edited with the MechWizard tool.

The parametric parts library contains the following components:

  • Wall, window, door templates
  • Concrete foundations, beams, columns
  • Steel profiles in ISO, IS, DIN, GOST standards
  • Fasteners in ISO, DIN, IS, CSN, PN/M, GOST standards
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Customized settings

The Construction module takes a flexible approach to object settings. All pre-configured elements provided the module can be redefined using the object settings window, as required by design firms, and then copied to all workstations.

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Objects scaling

The Construction module supports drawings with many views at different scales. With just two clicks, you can adjust the scale of drawings, both for specific objects and for entire drawings. The symbol scale adjusts the sizes of text, dimensions, and linetypes automatically in model space and in layouts using viewports.

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Parametric design elements

The Construction module employs objects that follow preset rules based on design requirements of building projects. All drawing elements that make up AEC objects (such as notches, lines, and text) contain parameters that control their display and geometric configurations.