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rchitectural  Production  Software
Add-on software for AutoCAD
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for Commercial and Residential
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Architectural Production Software 2005


APS DOORS AND WINDOWS:

 

 

Cmds Included in "APS Doors and Windows"

Offset Doors

O-DDOOR 
O-OHEAD 
O-PATDOOR 
O-SDOOR 
O-SLIDER 

Centered Doors

C-BIFOLD 
C-BIPASS 
C-DDOOR 
C-OHEAD 
C-PATDOOR 
C-SDOOR 
C-SLIDER 

Offset Windows

O-CWIND 
O-RWIND 

Centered Windows

C-CWIND 
C-RWIND 

For Existing Openings

JDOOR 
JWIND 

Elevations

DWELEV
wgrid.bmp (774 bytes) WGRID

Door / Window Editing

TXTEDT

Configure APS

APS-CONFIG 

                                                                                                          

 

Overview of Commands

Inserting Doors and Windows in plan

We have many different types of doors and windows. Walls can be cut or doors and windows can be inserted in existing openings. The door and window commands can break walls made up of any combination and/or number of lines, plines, and/or mlines. All doors and windows are fully customizable and if you don't like the way they look you can easily change them. The doors and windows can be configured to draw headers, sills and/or jambs and if they are inserted in an "existing" wall can even be configured to automatically draw the wall area removed on your layer for demolition.


Doors are inserted with several options for handing and swing type where applicable. In the image shown here, the options for a single swing door are shown. You simply select the handing and swing type you want. Pocket doors are also included in the choices.


 

  

We have limited the door and window insertion methods to two: centered and offset. However these two methods are capable of locating your doors and windows in nearly all the conditions you may encounter; greatly simplifying and speeding the process of inserting doors and windows.

               
                           Centered                                                                            Offset

Base points for locating your doors and windows are very flexible and do not need to be located on the wall that will receive the new door or window, they can be any point in the drawing and will be projected perpendicular to the wall where the door or window is being inserted. This flexibility allows you to stop drawing "temporary" lines to locate doors or windows; greatly speeding things up without sacrificing accuracy.

Once inserted, doors and windows can be edited and the type, size, & handing (where applicable) changed, see the TXTEDT command.

                                                                                                          

 

Inserting Doors and Windows in Elevation

Our system for creating door and window elevations can create them in either of two ways:

1. Manually

 

 

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Select your door or window type from the dialog shown at left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select or enter a size for the type of door or window selected (sample dialog shown at left is for a single door)

 

 

 

 

And then insert the block...

 

 

or...

2. Automatically

 

You may select one of the door or window blocks from your floor plan, select the finish floor line and...

 

The window shows up in the correct location in your elevation. Select the next door or window and its elevation appears.

 

Continue selecting doors and windows in your plan until you have finished your elevation.

Doors and windows that have several style possibilities will bring up a dialog to allow you to select the style you want.

This is the dialog that you would see when you select a single door like the one selected above right.

 

Need grids in your doors and/or windows?

The WGRID command adds or deletes window grids in both door and window elevation blocks.

If a window does not have a grid showing, the above dialog will appear and you may choose from one of three window grid styles. If the window already has a grid, it will be removed.

                                                                                                          

 

Editing Doors & Windows

The TXTEDT command edits doors and windows in plan as well as the following types of entities:

Attributes
Attribute Definitions
Dimensions
Door blocks (in plan)
Door symbols
Hatches
Mtext
Room Name/Number symbols
Text
Windows blocks (in plan)
Window symbols

Dialog for editing door blocks shown below. This dialog shows what you would see if you selected two or more doors of different types that have different widths. Selecting a door type other than "Multiple types" would change all the doors to a single type. Overriding the "*Varies*" values in the width would change all the doors to the same width. Since all the doors selected have a height of 6'8", that value is displayed. Change 6'8" to another value and all the heights will change to that value.

 

                                                                                                          

 

                                                                                                      

CAD solutions from the trenches

We have invested over 20 years in the development and testing of this software and we know that it can GREATLY improve the speed and accuracy of your production drafting. 

How can we be sure? The software developers and programmers here at KLH Software all have a minimum of 12 years working full time drafting in either an architectural or residential design firm and must also do some production drafting on a regular basis. This keeps us firmly rooted in what the needs are in the production drafting environment. There is no "this sounds like it might be helpful" spoken here. All our commands and systems are designed and tested by people who actually use them. This insures that while our commands are feature rich, they don't get bogged down with too many "options" that get in the way of getting the job done quickly and efficiently.

We feel that it is the way our commands work together that makes our software what it is, each command complementing the other in a complete drafting system designed to get the job done quickly and accurately.

--Spend your time worrying about what you are drawing, not how you are drawing it--

Taking CAD to the Next Level

We only want satisfied customers! If you don't like our software for ANY reason, we'll either fix it to your satisfaction or give you your money back!

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