#Add photo on softplan 2016 free#

Generate and customize home designs, including floor, roof, and site plans, elevations, cross sections, framing diagrams, electrical plans, etc.

#Add photo on softplan 2016 free#

It helps a great deal with batch printing when you have several varying scale details in one page and use the text auto scale function, as I would often have the drawing/title block printing off the page due to the actual text space that the drawing screen recognizes for the scaled text in the plan view.Frequently Asked Questions Is there a free version of softplan for pc? So, even though the multi draw is still an option, I do believe I will be a plan set user faithfully within the next week or so.

In the beginning, I used many trick to get a plan set put together much faster.Д«ut, as SP updated and improved, and after several years in the beginning being a beta tester, I got so much better, but still, to this day, I am still learning more ways to do things better and faster. The learning curve was a day or so, but I will say, it is totally beating the multi draw and having to have from 7 to 12 Title Block pages open in all those tabs.Д®ach time I use it, I learn a few more tricks, but then, I was learning trick on my own back in 1992 when I was teaching myself the program from two VERY large manuals. I do single and twin homes for the same contractor so I have set up a twin home title sheet template and a single home title sheet template. IfВ need beВ I can crop out notes I don't need for that sheet. So all of my general notes, square footage etc. I then add drawing (construction notes)В to my plan sets on which ever sheet it needs to go on. I did have to take the notes and square footage off the title sheet and create a new construction notes drawing for each project. I have since created a template for that contractor so I can reuse that template for his customers. IВ basically use my same title block but put it in my contractors directory. With 2016 and the plan set template I have now taken it a step further. I could then add my construction notes/ square footage to the titleВ block drawingВ and it would show up on all sheets in that set. With 2014 I used to copy my title block to the project directory and when I went to set up my sheet set I would select that title block in thatВ current project directory. Working for myself I have multiple clients/contractors. I think I use mine a bit different that everyone. I have been using the plan sets since they came out with 2014 and love them. Plan Sets were designed to streamline assembly and management of printed document sets, but if the multi-drawing tools are more suited to your workflow, please use them. Of course you can also keep using multi-drawings if they suit your needs well.

Modify the notes on the pages as desired.

When you construct a new plan set, base it off the saved template.

Construct a plan set with your notes directly on the page.

In 2016 you can setup Plan Set Templates.

Move the notes around the inserted drawings as desired.

You can make a big speed note with multiple typical sub notes in it.

If you have a set of notes you commonly use.

You can add speed notes directly to plan set pages.

The trick may be not to add the notes into the plans, but rather add them onto the plan set pages around your inserted drawings. Here are a couple of additional ideas which may help with Plan Set Pages. Please let me know if this help or needs clarifying.

Move newly added drawing to desired location on page.

Hover over this drawing and adjust sides of window to crop only the details or notes you require.

Right click over newly added drawing and click Crop.

Move drawing away from other drawings on page.

Right click over newly added drawing and click Move.

Click label tab and uncheck Label if desired.

Right click over newly added drawing and click Edit.

In Navigation window, right click over the plan set drawing.

When this drawing is updated, all drawings referencing it get the updated version. This keeps all dimension and text uniform as long as you set up correctly in the Drawing Options for this drawing.

Store details or notes in separate drawings using one scale per drawing (ВѕвЂќ in one ВЅвЂќ in another, and so on).