Italian Stallions
Italian Developer Paolo Rossi has created two sets of externals for PowerCADD 7: Topography Tools and Architectural Extensions. These externals will be available from Engineered Software. Watch www.engsw.com for the availability of these tools.

Topography Tools
These tools are for topographic survey, the acquisition and analysis of topographic data. The tools allow you to place a reference point object in the drawing that has a Z height and name as well as the normal X and Y location.

 

TOPOGRAPHY TOOLS

Twelve tools for topographic work.

  

These objects can be imported from or exported to a text file. In PowerCADD you can do a 3D interpolation of the points, and it is also possible to automically draw a section of the terrain surface.

The locations are in global coordinates, so it is possible to import X,Y,Z points from a text file and put these points over a parametric map.

These points can be exported to a text file containing the name and X, Y, Z coordinates of the point. So you can import these points to another program that can handle the coordinate data.

With IPaRos Topography, you can add new points, and you can also:

• create new points interpolating in 3D space existing points;
• insert two topographic symbols
• create sloped terrain symbols;
• create a middle line between two lines, polygons, or curves;
• create a section profile of the terrain.

 

An example of what you can do with Topography Tools

  

Architectural Extensions
Architectural Extensions includes Photo Survey, Sections & Views and Power Dimensions.

Photo Survey allows you to rectify a photograph of a building facade with only four measured points. So you can rapidly obtain an in scale photo of the facade or in scale representation of the facade after you have traced over the original photo with standard PowerCADD drawing tools.

     

 

PHOTO SURVEY will convert a perspective photo to an orthogonal image.

The rectified images are in scale so you can measure or trace over it to produce a line drawing of the facade.

  

Sections & Views helps to produce elevation drawings from plan views.

 

SECTIONS & VIEWS tool palette has 32 drawing tools.

  

Section & View tools allow to trace over a drawing and automatically create the section or view of the building in the desired location of the drawing that you want.

Section & View is based on definition of two base lines, (the green line where objects are projected) and the other where you want to draw your section or view (the red line where object are drawn).

 

HOW IT WORKS

This illusration shows how this works. Click and drag over the ends of the window in plan view and you automatically get the rectangle for the window in elevation. However in the flat PowerCADD drawing, the elevation will be located relative to the red base line you have defined. So you click and drag in the plan view to produce the elevation drawing.

  

Power Dimensions add a powerful implementation of dimension lines. The new capabilities are:

• The dimension line can be modified on the fly by moving dimension points and the dimension will be automatically recalculated
• You can add or delete points to dimension lines and the dimension will be automatically recalculated
• You can switch from the three dimension type of an existing dimension line without the need to recreate it
• Dimension extension lines can be to the object, to the near object, of fixed length or none and users can change type of extensions for existing dimension lines without the need to recreate the entire dimension line

    

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