WALLS & COMPOUND WALLS

DoubleCAD™ XT PRO provides the tools to quickly design floor plans by using the wall tool. Self-healing straight or curved walls speed design over conventional 2D drafting with double line tools. Cleaning up intersections, moving walls, adding columns, windows, doors, and more is tedious with standard double lines, but not with the wall tool.

Not only do walls heal properly and automatically at intersections, but they may be easily moved, cut, have openings inserted, and through the styles manager, may be made into compound walls with different wall styles selected. This adds appropriate hatches and fills, line weights, colours, and more for each layer of the wall, and different styles may be made for interior, exterior, load-bearing, non-load-bearing, or any other type of wall you design.

Polylines may be converted to walls, and then styles applied, to quickly modify or start a project. Blocks, whether standard, imported, or created on-the-fly, may be inserted into walls, and the walls will heal and automatically align the blocks.

As an integrated set of architectural tools, the walls also treat parametric AEC Door and AEC Window objects accurately and heal correctly, and the walls share information with the roof and slab tools for auto-generation of correct dimensions and roof lines.

Because the walls are AEC objects recognised by AutoCAD® object enablers for AutoCAD Architecture, a project with self-healing walls started in DoubleCAD XT PRO will continue to be self-healing in AutoCAD, making the AutoCAD experience better as well.

With Version 2, the walls, and all AEC objects, are given height so that you may model in 3D for creation of proper elevations and ISO views. The wall styles have also been improved to now include separate top and bottom profiles to match any required shape.