Federal Style Patterns

Aside from saving time and making drawings that are accurate and professional-looking,  PowerCADD has made it possible to “try things” out without having to build wood samples.  Oftentimes, Larry will make a scaled elevation drawing of a room design complete with the entablature, pilaster, chair rail, and base and then print it full size.  He can then hang the drawing in a room and see if his new design looks good. This is a lot of fun and our clients always enjoy seeing, at full size, how Federal Style architectural treatments might look in their own home.  Included here is a PDF of a design for an 8’ room for you to print out and enjoy.

We are both self-taught computer users who are real math and geometry idiots and when viewing the work and the posted solutions to problems on the PowerCADD Forum, we are certainly aware that our abilities pale in comparison to the skilled and talented professional PowerCADD user. 

To us, PowerCADD and WildTools has become an invaluable set of tools that made it possible for two people with very limited computer experience and proficiency to turn our enthusiasm for an almost-forgotten American architectural style and into the first Federal Style Pattern book to be published in about 200 years.  Our book is now in the permanent collections of most major university and public libraries and is also for sale in many museum bookstores. 

Here’s to Engineered Software and Alfred Scott!  Here’s to PowerCADD and WildTools users all over!