I have been a softplan user since version 9. Each update was significant, not making work faster, rather making a higher quality documents and providing more accurate and detailed schematic drawings. Since version 2018, it was great having advanced options, bringing superior presentation tools with renders, animation, cloud, etc. Truly wonderful and making life better in the design and construction documents, including the export feature to sketchup. Now, from what I am seeing in 2020, I am very excited with key features I have been waiting to come forward such as pdf to lines (major need), model improvements (removing excess lines, making preliminaries much better), improvements to openings (still waiting on more options on customizing bays ? ), and numerous other enhancements.
I asked prior to 2 versions ago if we could see a couple small, but valuable changes, but did not get a response.Could we have the option to extend the Barge boards past the gutter, usually done onsite in our province by 6 inches, usually plumb cut but not always.could we have a setting for the soffit to be recessed into the overhang as opposed to the soffit clinging to the underside of the finished fascia and barge? Generally here the 2×4 rough framing caps the truss tail, and the soffit ladder framing, becoming the soffit backing, then a Fascia and bargeboard caps those, often with a smaller shadow board in the gable, also not automatic in Softplan yet.
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– showing a corbel where the joist are recessed is most common place here also, often stepping the foundation to the floor on top in the areas where grade changes.This is still not a built in option, it would be a real asset. – Now with having to include drawings for wall bracing plans, there could be a drawing mode allowing to show location of the braced wall panels (darker), anchor bolt location from ends and to show dimensionsto them and the braced wall band, & centerline, I find it very cumbersome using a regular copy of the drawing in drawing mode, a separate mode would be of help. I love the Plan sets, nice work! Parksville, BC, Canada. For people running duel screens it would be helpful to have a few pallets available like the navigator pallet that we could see and have easy access to all the time such as walls, windows, doors, layers, building options and suchthat way these could be accessible with ease and with out going up to the menu each time to select drawselect wallfind wallthen drawif a pallet was there you could select the wall you want to draw and just godoes 2018 have any of these kind of tools? It would just make drawing tools quicker to get to.
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I have a question about openings, In softplan 2016 some openings you can show the opening angle ( some doors like man doors, some windows) open in 3D. I would like to know in version 2018 is it possible to show all doors (like garage doors, all windows like casement, awning, ETC.) open in 3D? The reason why I ask this is I think it adds realism and when you do renderings you can show them in the open position. It’s also nice to walk around in 3D and have all the doors open (like garage doors, ETC.) without having to walk right through a closed door. It also helps when working with animation walk-thru’s. I did suggest this about when 2016 came out in case you were wondering why I am asking about this feature.
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Thank you for answering my long comment. ? Dominic. Thank you for your reply admin.
I noticed that when you look at the link to rendering of exterior of home part of it says path-trace. Does that mean we lost those pesky little rendering boxes when rendering with 2016 and have a new way of rendering with 2018? If you can, please explain the how the enhanced rendering engine works. I see that it is CPU based, is the new engine render any faster than the previous engine that runs softplan 2016? Any improvements to rendering (in textured mode) with a GPU Video card? Thank you for answering my questions.