Cadsoft Corporation
Cadsoft is a global developer of 3D modeling software for the residential and light commercial construction market. The products offer 3D design to improve the conceptual design stages, paired with extensive modeling and rendering capabilities for client presentations. The collected information in the 3D model connects the users choices to the working drawings and framing documentation to provide a complete 2D/3D design solution from concept through to construction.
Since 1984, Cadsoft has provided software to improve efficiencies with not only 3D designs, but the practical application of project material lists, steel and timber framing with diagrams, drawings and renderings, based on the industry standard AutoCAD graphics engine.
Cadsoft's alliance with Autodesk resulted in The Release in 1996 of Cadsoft Build, the first licensed stand-alone product based on the Autodesk® OEM Engine. This milestone allowed residential designers to produce 100% AutoCAD compatible drawings at a reasonable cost. Alliances with other developers such as Timberline, Buildsoft, and CSG, provide builders and designers the ability to link the material list functions with virtually all popular estimating packages.
Cadsoft products include
Cadsoft Build is a design solution for the residential construction market, providing a complete system for 2D and 3D design, material take-off, steel and timber framing, animations, rendering, and links to other estimating packages. Cadsoft Build is a stand-alone package based on an industry standard AutoCAD OEM technology built inside and produces native DWG files.
APDesign is an AutoCAD add-on which provides the residential construction market, with a complete system providing 2D and 3D design, material take-off, steel and timber framing, animations, rendering, and links to estimating packages such as Timberline, Buildsoft, and CSG.
Envisioneer is a superior 3D modeling software tool to easily convey project information from initial conceptual design of buildings, interior designs and landscape design ideas through to fully animated 3D visualizations and the finished construction drawings – including floor plans, elevations, sections, foundations and roof layouts.
Envisioneer's pioneering advance means that, for the first time, drawing objects are aware of their surroundings and behave accordingly. Using a virtual, intelligent, three-dimensional building model, Envisioneer far surpasses the limitations of simple and traditional graphic objects to increased speed and design accuracy.
The 3D model and documentation information is compatible with the industry standard DWG file format.