SCADDS/RC- Draft Manager™ Release 1.1
Custom Features Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Screen Shot-1 Screen Shot-2 Screen Shot-3 Screen Shot-4 SCADDS/RC-Draft Manager™ is for Standardization & Customization of AutoCAD for fully Automatic Detailing of Reinforced Concrete Structural Elements. This product works in sync. with the other four products (for Beams, Slabs, Columns & Footings) to generate the RCC drawings automatically.
Presently, this is on MS-DOS® platform and controlled through a Windows® 95/98 User Interface.
You can download the Trial Version of RC-Drafting Suite! from the Downloads section.
- Generation of Intelligent Drawing Templates.
- Generation of AutoCAD Prototype Scripts.
- Seemless Integration into other modules of SCADDS/RC-Drafting Suite!.
- Support for Millimetres as Drawing Units.
- Support for Inches as Drawing Units in Decimal Format.
- Support for Inches as Drawing Units in Architectural Format.
- Support for Inches as Drawing Units in Engineering Format.
- Random Selection or Change of Drawing Units at any stage during data input.
- Facility to implement any Drawing Scale.
- Facility to implement any Plotting Scale.
- Availability of 22 types of International and commonly used Sheet Sizes with Portrait and Landscape orientations.
- Facility for User-defined Sheet Sizes.
- Provision of Standard Title Block with Automatic Entry of Contents.
- Provision for up to Nine Title Blocks, for User's Customized Requirements.
- Facility for standardising the Gridline Attributes such as Color, Layer and Linetype.
- Facility for standardising the Concrete Outline Attributes such as Color, Layer and Linetype.
- Facility for standardising the Attributes for Main Rods in Elevation, such as Color, Layer and Linetype.
- Facility for standardising the Attributes for Main Rods in Section, such as Color, Layer and Linetype.
- Facility for standardising the Attributes for Secondary Rods in Elevation, such as Color, Layer and Linetype.
- Facility for standardising the Attributes for Secondary Rods in Section, such as Color, Layer and Linetype.
- Automatic Pre-Processing and Post-Processing facilitating Minimum User Input.
- Upto Six Standard Arrow Styles for Dimensioning.
- Provision for Three User-defined Arrow Styles for Dimensioning.
- Facility to Implement any Dimension Scale.
- Commands for Arrow Sizes and other parameters such as Color, Layer, etc.
- Commands for Extension Line Offset & other parameters such as Color.
- Facility for Dimension Strings, Horizontal and Vertical Text Gaps, etc.
- Facility for Dimension Text Color and Style.
- Various Dimension Line Placement Options and their combinations.
- Facility to switch on/off Associative Dimensioning and Display of Dimension Lines.
- Facility for manipulating Text Size, Color, Layer and Style for all text entries.
- Categorization of various types of Text Entries.
- Separate Attribute choices, such as Color, Layer and Style, for Rod Description Text, Project Title, Drawing Title, Sub-titles, Drawing Number, Notes and Miscellaneous Text.
- Facility to generate Reports on Templates or Prototypes.
- Built-in Databases for Standard Input Parameters.
- Facility for User Defined Input.
- Individual Data Editing Facility.
- An Excellent Tool for AutoCAD-based RCC Drafting Standardization. (Top)
Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers!)
Q. What is a Drawing Template?
A. A Drawing Template contains information about the AutoCAD version you use; scale factors, sheet size and title block contents; colors, layers and line types for the structural outline, main rods and secondary rods; dimensioning options and styles; and text styles for various types of text appearing in the drawing. The creation of a Drawing Template is achieved by using SCADDS/RC-Draft Manager and this process normally takes 4 to 5 minutes.
Q. Which AutoCAD versions are supported by SCADDS/RC-Drafting Suite! for generating drawings?
A. SCADDS/RC-Drafting Suite! supports AutoCAD Release 11, 12, 13, 14 and AutoCAD 2000 as well as AutoCAD LT 97, 98 & 2000.
Q. Does it support customization of RCC drawing styles?
A. Yes, of course! This is one of the main features of SCADDS/RC-Drafting Suite!. You can customize colors, layers, line types, text styles & text notations, dimensioning parameters and so on. Once customized, these parameters form an integral part of the Drawing Template.
You also have our innovative Notation Manager in each module which will help you customize the way you want to describe the reinforcement on the drawings. For instance if you want to describe 4 nos. of 16 mm rods, this can be done in so many ways such as '4-16#', '16 MM. 4 NOS.', '16 TOR 4 NOS.', '4 NOS. 16 T', '#16-4', and so on. You can also choose your symbol for the rod. The same system is also applicable for describing rods in slabs, stirrups in beams and ties in columns.
Q. Can SCADDS/RC-Drafting Suite! make drawings in both units - Millimeters and Inches?
A. Yes! Selecting your Unit or changing the current Unit is just a mouse click away. You can also regenerate drawings with a different Unit, even after the input data are entered, thanks to built-in automatic Unit conversion features.
Q. Can I obtain drawings to any scale factor?
A. Yes. SCADDS/RC-Drafting Suite! supports three types of Scale Factors. They are: Drawing Scale Factor, Plotting Scale Factor and Dimensioning Scale Factor. In most situations, the first and the third are kept as 1:1 where as the second is altered based on the sheet size. (Top)
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