Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture v6.1.0

Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture will enable users to quickly and easily design detailed models, ground plans, 3D views, or lists for construction and furnishing projects.
Getting started with the new program wizards is easy. The start wizard enables the user to watch training videos and to edit or extend already existing sample projects. With the project wizard the basic settings of a project can be specified. Furthermore, on the basis of basic shapes a ground plan of a floor or room can be created in just a few steps.

A flat, a house or for example a building complex can be planned exactly with Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture. In addition to interior furnishing with 3D objects and different textures, the program offers individual, precise garden design. Free 3D construction extends individual possibilities. Own 3D objects can be created and saved to a catalog. Moreover, the use of subtraction solids enables the construction of complex building projects, such as a roof terrace.

The quantities plug-in provides a deep analysis of the whole planning process. Furthermore, Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture provides the options to save 2D and 3D views as image files, create stock lists and to export 3D objects in different formats.

Here are some key features of "Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture":
Design and construction:
- Construction in any view, i.e. 2D floor plans, cross sections or 3D
- Polygonal winding staircases (solid or wooden)
- Polygonal landing staircases (solid or wooden)
- Construction aids, 3D/2D guidelines
- 3D /2D dimensioning, snap-to functions for 3D objects
- Accurate positioning using reference points and numerical editing
- Detailed visibilities for each view, settings for level of detail shown
- Structural layers for walls, ceilings and floors

Creative planning with a lot of 3D objects:
- Accurate cross sections through the 3D model
- Assistants for copying properties, select, delete operations
- Comprehensive catalog of 3D objects, materials and symbols
- Create individual 2D symbols for text blocks, legends
- Settings for sun and moon for the illumination of 3D views
- Extendable 3D catalogs
- User definition of structural layers for inclusion in the catalog
- Scale objects

Real-world pictures:
- Define user light sources, punctual and spot lighting, ambient, etc.
- Edit models using materials and texture
- Project management using the project viewer; create layers
- Predefined dormer-types including eyebrow and arched dormers
- Work with patterns and pattern elements; combinations
- Common partial 3D converter
- Predefined banisters for staircases
- Ray tracing, antialiasing, create images during processing

Landscape planning with predefined landscape forms:
- Automatic recognition of openings in walls & facade elements
- Surface editor for surfacing areas and sub-areas, editing in 2D/3D
- Extensive range of functions for roofs and dormers incl. gutters,...
- 2D / 3D plants
- 2D graphic functions
- 3D landscaping with predefined landscape forms, paths, terraces
- Insert openings

Powerful export functions:
- Generate laying plans as a standard option
- Assignment of task items, quantities, export of lists
- Export in various formats e.g. CygniCon Object, 3DS, 3D-DXF, etc.
- Export timber lists in PDF, RTF, Excel or HTML format
- Analysis of surfaced areas with respect to material requirements
- Calculate texture coordinates and point normals
- Integrated calculation functions, assignment of task items
- Convert 3D models into various formats e.g. 3DS, 3D-DXF, VRML1