Specifications

Plan and Design:
It is possible to create endless floors including basements and attic floors. Floors can be shown and hidden. Walls will be generated and blended as 3D-models. Windows and doors can be selected from given pallets in the FusionCAD House Desinger 2012 or can be designed by intelligent assistants.
Necessary wall openings will be automatically generated, in the right place, while placing. Ceilings will be moved-in automatically.

Wall holes:
It is possible to cut any rectangular holes into walls. There is a check box in the dialogue “advanced window design” to show or to hide the window frame (incl. glass).

Automatic stairs construction:
The FusionCAD HouseDesigner 2012 has an automatic stairs construction incl. handrails for L-and U shaped pedestals as well as for straight, coiled, half-coiled stairs and forarbor- and circular arc stairs. All stairs can be selected either as solid- or wood construction. The surfaces are freely designable and at push on a button the optimum safety, after DIN 18065, can be calculated.

A lower and a top level displacement can be calculated for every stair. Furthermore, for every straight single run stair can be the inclined accession and egression be selected via angle input. With the help of this special „stair types“, ramps can be included into the planning, for example to design apartments for handicapped people. To generate any polygonal stairs and to select different handrail types use the polygonal coiled stair. The many setting possibilities allow the adaptation to different styles. Any 3D-objects can be used as poles. The filling of the handrail can be done with vertical alternatively horizontal bars or with a glass area.

Automatic and free roof constructions:
You can use automatic and also free roof construction for saddle-,pent-,hipped-,half -hipped-,mansard- and barrel-shaped roofs, as well as a combination of all including roofing and drip details. There will be automatic generating of construction – suggestion for the truss, including rafter and jack rafter, arris- and valley rafter, as well as ridge beam, inferior purlin and middle purlin.
The roof editor supports in a simple way the definition of new, complex roof shapes. For every roof wall can be decided , if it is a simple roof wall , a gable wall, partial hip wall, a mansard roof wall or a pent roof wall. Depending on the selection, the needed parameter will be requested and with a drawing explained.

Dormer:
Three different dormer types (incl. the truss construction) are supported. The front dormer wall can be stand on the floor (not attached dormer) or just reach to the roof area (attached dormer). The following dormer types are supported: shed dormer ,saddle roof dormer and triangle dormer. You can put windows into the dormer walls, like in normal walls.

Skylights:
A huge selection of skylights can be used for planning – following skylight selection of VELUX are available:

- GDL – the double wing skylight with roof exit
- GPL – the retractable – oscillating – window
- GHL – the retractable – oscillating -
- GTL – The living – and exit window.

Complete furnishing in 2D and 3D mode:
Planning of the complete furnishing up to wallpapers and floor covering in different style catalogues, which include more than 3000 objects and textures (textures are used for surface structures) with the enclosed standard catalogue . Furthermore, you have the choice to generate any own texture.
Besides Windows BMP Files also following files will be supported: JPEG, TIF, PCX, GIF and PNG.

Terrain modelling:
The terrain will be marked by an extensive polygon. Afterwards you can put height points and also you are able to cut holes into the terrain (for example for swimming pools). The terrain can be separated into different areas (Patio, ways, lawn, garden, etc.) and afterwards be textured individual.

Consideration of sun and moon position:
With the help of a dialogue box you can determine longitude and latitude (the input can also be done by country and city).The daytime determines the exact position of sun or moon, which can be shown in the background when wished by the user. In reference to the time of the year and day a determination of the daylight colour will be shown. A north arrow can be positioned on the construction plan. This north arrow determines the direction of sun and moon.

Photo realistic presentation with Ray-Tracing:
A special function is the photo realistic simulation of the light conditions with the help of Ray-Tracing. Light, shadow, transparency and reflection will be calculated realistically. The FusionCAD House Desinger 2012 contains of course a generation of high quality pictures for your presentation.

Building-/Object shadow:
The user has the possibility to determine, if the house shows a shadow or not (for example a building shadow for outside videos with patio shadow). For objects can be chosen as well, if they should show a shadow or not. This is sometimes important when generating pictures to use shadows. This function is an addition to the already existing function “lamp generates shadow”.

Labelling, dimensioning and output:
The dimensioning of floor plans with single- or chain measures is another feature. An effective and scale output for every floor, including frame and writing field can be done with every to windows connected printer or plotter. Floor plans, views and pictures can be included into Microsoft Word for Windows for presentations of all kind.

Foreground / Background – Bitmap:
A Bitmap as a foreground or background can be shown at any place in the design mode (for example the FusionCAD Architecture logo, company logo, etc.). This bitmap is also shown on the generated pictures and videos.

There is the possibility to insert a bitmap for the background presentation (horizon, view angle).

Cost calculation:
A cost estimation can be done with the 7 cost groups of DIN 276.

Numerical input:
At the coverage of the floor plan there is the choice besides the input via cursor and raster also to do it numerical (addition to „dimensioning input). With that, the polygon will be captured rough and will be determined exactly afterwards. This function helps extensively for the coverage of the floor plan.

Import of Files:
DWG, HPGL- and 2D-DXF files can be used and shown as foils for the floor plan input. Also our Software versions include as a standard the export of HPGL-and 2D-DXF-files and ProCAD-foils as 3D mode for further use in other CAD-programs.

Different levels:
It is possible to plan and construct several buildings with different levels (e.g. for nested town houses). Beams and coatings, also wall holes are supported.

Creating of videos:
Create professional videos (with the common Windows video format AVI) for the builder and set a new standard in the presentation of your building project.

Detailed room information:
At the push of a button detailed room information can be created as a text document including room identification, information text and automatically calculated data, like floor area, volume, ad measurement and wall area. A listing of all rooms as RTF-file can be created with Microsoft Word for Windows, which additionally if you like includes a listing of the furnishing per room. The complexity of the data can be chosen by the user.

Cuts and views:
You can define any horizontal, vertical and diagonal cuts in the construction mode. Every cut can be placed into the actual plan as a picture or can be defined as a separate sheet. The cut areas will be shown as hatched. The same applies for the views.

Cuts in the design mode:
The created cuts in the construction mode can also be displayed in the design mode. This gives you the opportunity to look into the house like into a dollhouse.

Calculation of floor areas and volumes:
The rooms can be assigned for the occupancy according to DIN. The calculation of the areas and volumes can be done with the help of the function “room info” as a word document. All articles of DIN 277 will be taken in consideration for the calculation of the ground areas and volumes ( for example room heights lower or higher than 1,50 meters).

Virtual walls:
With the help of virtual walls you can create rooms, which sides are not completely surrounded by walls, that means, you can create logical rooms which will be taken into consideration for the area calculation, or continues walls can be separated for separate texturing. Also you are able to create floors with different levels with the help of virtual walls.

True to scale input:
Create complex floor plans, supported by raster and support lines.

2D-Editor:
With this editor you can create simple 2D plans for further detailed planning, for example for the installation of sanitary facilities or sewage system. The needed symbols are in two DXF-files, which you can insert into the construction planning.

Surface planner / tile mirror:
The surface planner provides the opportunity for detailed editing of wall surfaces and floors. The areas can be separated into any segments and can be overlaid with different materials, like tiles, wood, etc.. This function is also useful for the cladding.

Export of pictures:
The export of pictures in the design mode is not possible as a bitmap, also vector orientated formats can be exported (HPGL, DXF, Windows-Metafile, etc. ).The request can be activated in the design mode under the menu “file-vector graphics export”. All of the offered Software versions use as a standard „covered edges” for export. Whenever the presentation mode “wire model” is chosen, it will be used for export.

Two Standard-Macros for exporting:
Two standard-macros for exporting the files of projects according to ProCad and speedikon (HLI-format) provide a simple and almost complete export of projects in the mentioned programs.