CAD

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• Correcting Crooked Walls or Lines

  Turn on angle snaps if your walls or lines start looking crooked or jagged.

• Creating a Cross Section Detail

  Create a CAD detail by using the backclipped cross section tool then enhancing the view using text, CAD lines and polylines with fill styles.

• Creating HVAC Plans

  Home Designer comes with many tools to help you design an HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) system for your home.

• Drawing a Plot Plan

  Surveyor data for a plot plan can be used to create an accurate terrain or plot plan detail for your project.

• Finding the Area or Square Footage of a Plan

  Home Designer's CAD tools make finding the area or square footage of your plan easy.

• Showing Demolition Walls in a Plan

  Show demolition, or demoed, walls by drawing them with CAD lines and polylines.

• Tracing Over an Imported File to Create a 3D Floorplan

  There isn't a way to convert a digital image into a 3D model in Chief Architect; however, you can use an image of a floor plan as a template to trace over.