ArCADia Architecture 9.0

Walls

• Insert arch, single- and multi-layer walls
• Transform a 2D drawing created from polylines or lines into the plan of single- or multi-layer walls, virtual walls or a foundation plan

Script Windows And Doors

• Insert windows of various shapes (circular, triangular, with an arch, etc.); set horizontal and vertical division and define the visibility of windowsills or cut an opening itself (without a windowsill) in a wall in the shape of special windows (doors)
• Insert single and double arched doors, including additional side or top lighting
• New windows have been added to the script library
• New elements have been added to the doors library: revolving, sliding, swinging, and evacuation doors

Wall Openings

• Insert an opening of a set width and height in a wall from the left and right side
• Insert a recess of a predetermined depth

Floors/Ceilings

• Insert any floor by indicating its shape
• Insert a floor on ground in rooms of the lowest level
• Enter the openings in the ceiling automatically or by hand
• Modify a ceiling/floor, add/remove contour corners and split a ceiling/floor

Suspended Ceilings

• The insertion of suspended ceilings of any shape or an automatically adapting one to a given room.The ceiling can be finished with a board or consist of set modules determined by the beam and panel spacing placed between them
• The insertion of any suspened ceiling with individual elements: main and cross beams, external rack and opening finishing, panels and hangers

Bar Elements

• Insert vertical and inclined steel columns
• Insert a horizontal steel object
• Insert a bar frame from a .f3d file, which is seen as one element but can be exploded and viewed as a single bar element (to be moved and edited separately)
• Insert bar elements with defined quantity, spacing and direction of insertion

Stairs

• Create a spiral staircase inserted with or without a pillar
• Insert single ramps or ramps with a landing

Balustrades

• Insert balustrades on terraces and stairs
• Automatic insertion of the balustrade on the stairs

Roofs

• Insert pitched roofs
• Insert windows and openings in the roof
• Insert dormer roofs (dormer windows)
• Insert a timber structure from the R3D3-Frame 3D
• Insert roof hatches
• Insert of roof gutters
• Insert drain pipes which automatically detect the gutter and the level of the terrain
• Insert ridge tiles
• Insert chimney cowls, ventilation cowls and fume cowls
• Insert snow guards: snow fences, snow crushers and stoppers
• Define the type of a roof before inserting
• Insert a solar collector on the roof

Foundations

• Insert a strip footing or any defined spot footing in the plan
• Default strip footing is inserted along with the walls, and pad footing together with reinforced columns

Solid

• Draw any shape of a solid with a set height.
• Insert a solid of a specified width and height
• Insert Solids through a rectangular outline
• Edit solids by dividing them and creating any holes

Objects

• Import objects in the 3DS, aco and o2c formats
• Save User-defined symbols (2D elements)
• Create a project package
• Save an object from any of the system components of ArCADia in the library

Cross-Section

• Create a cross-section by indicating the cut line of a building
• Insert a stepped cross-section with any number of folds
• Insert ring beams
• Automatically or manually refresh he cross-section
• Explode views
• Show a cross-section of 3D objects

Rendering

• Materials for each element with its properties are defined
• Simple or advanced rendering
• New rendering method for outdoors and indoors (Photon mapping)
• Rendering in different views: daylight and nighttime views
• Multi-rendering, which is recording the views from predefined cameras
• Saving of the building view with rendering as a single scene or from selected cameras as defined in the program
• Daylight analysis with a date and time setting 
  
  

Specs

Installation Requirements

In order to work properly, your copy of ArCADia Architecture 9.0 requires: