Brian Huculak Landscape Architect

We don't just work in plan view. This is a reduction of a 36 x 48 drawing which contains various design sections and details. The product is printed in color and grey scale. Of note, all drawings must be submitted in color and grey scale at both full size and 8.5 x 11 and 11x17 for local reviews. PowerCADD's Print Window/Fit to Page command and Print Selection, plus its support for any Mac-savvy output device makes it quick and easy to generate all the required submission plans from a single file.

A full-size view of one of the sectional elevations. The background architecture is a DWG file imported from VectorWorks using the PowerDWG translator. Then we use a combination of fill and hatch patterns along with solid color to generate these simple elevations. Accurate background data is important as the approving agencies require coordinated drawings for review and approval. In this case PowerDWG was also instrumental in allowing us to translate the architectural data, drawn in imperial units of feet and inches, into metric units. Why? The approving agencies want site planning and civil work submitted in metric and architectural data submitted in Imperial. Such is life in a mixed unit industry here in Canada. PowerDWG's ability to translate the units makes a huge difference in our work flow for plan and elevation drawings which we receive from architects and civil engineers during our site design development process.

Composite Plan and Elevation drawings are prepared for design development of specific site features. In this case, Karla Foster of Durante Kreuk Ltd prepared these design development drawings and image boards entirely in PowerCADD 2000. These also became the basis for preliminary working drawing for the wooden structures.

By effectively using PowerCADD symbol libraries, a graphic consistency can be achieved across all the renderings. This makes the entire package read as if it was done by one person when in fact several team members were involved. PowerCADD has the tools to make it easy to keep everyone on the design team "on the same page".

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