
- #Softplan 2016 place a drawing on a border page pdf
- #Softplan 2016 place a drawing on a border page mac
As far as CAD goes, I also maintain a Woodworking shop that fabricates doors windows and any interesting parts of my projects. Anyone know a source? Or maybe some office still has some in the back room they would be willing to sell. That and seeing an original linen drawing at my structural engineer's office, it got me thinking of trying linen out. In a recent chat with an old high school friend (Architect) he mentioned that when he first started (early seventies) the office still used linen and ink.

It is nice to hear there are people out there still doing real drawings.
#Softplan 2016 place a drawing on a border page pdf
If someone sends me a plan from AutoCADD or some other CADD software, I can either insert a PDF copy of their plan into my plans, or import a converted plan into my drawings, depending on the complexity, etc. If someone sends me a copy of a hand-drawn plan, I have it scanned and drop the scanned image into my plans, using it as a half-tone background and draw my structural plans atop it. I am both an architect and civil engineer (specializing in structural design) and do structural engineering for other clients. If anyone is interested in a small step into the CADD world, you might consider PowerCADD.

I frequently get complements on the readability of my plans. It is very similar to hand drafting (drawing at scale, line weights, etc), except I don't have to worry about erasing through the velum due to too many changes! Although I can import and export DWG and DXF files, I mainly stay within my clean neat PowerCADD world.

#Softplan 2016 place a drawing on a border page mac
About 20 years ago, I transitioned to 2d CADD, using a Mac based program called PowerCADD. I grew up hand drafting, and in many ways kind of miss it.
