House Plans and Remodeling Drawings

The technical drawing features make EazyDraw ideal for small architectural or landscaping projects. You can draw to scale, the common architectural scales are predefined. The dimensioning makes it easy to document - automatically - sizes and locations right on your drawing. The Item Details drawer allows precise numeric entry of scaled sizes (in drawing units - i.e. feet).

Walls Doors and Windows

Drawing tools for these common architectural drawing elements are provided by EazyDraw. These snap together to form proper joints and corners. The form of the ends and thickness of the walls may be specified numerically or interactively.

Great application for Layers

The layers drawer is very useful for this kind of drawing. The example below has a layer for each level of the house plan.

Dimension Palette

Just attach a dimension graphic to elements on your drawing. The dimension (i.e. length) is computed and shown automatically. If the target element is moved or resized, the dimension moves with it and the reported value is automatically recomputed.

Draw to Scale

Drawing to scale if fully supported. Several predefined scales (e.g. 3/4" or 1/2") are provided or with numeric definition, any scale may be used. It is possible to use different scales for different layers, for example the elevation view may be drawn with one scale and the plan view with another.

Snapping

Easier and quicker drawing techniques are possible with the use of different methods of snapping to other objects or the drawing grid. Automatic - live snapping will locate line ends, vertices, and even intersections of lines or curves. Soft snapping to the grid provides the convenience of grid snapping but the ability to place objects off the grid when necessary.

Layers Drawer (upper right)

Independent layers are often required for more complex technical drawings. EazyDraw provides professional level of support for layers. The Layers Drawer provide a convenient method for managing layers, with advanced capability such as Color Modification which allows a tint or transparency to be applied to all graphics on a layer. You will find tools to re-arrange layers and select different visibility/selecting states for all layers on the drawing.

Mini Palette

The Color and Style palette is miniaturized. The most commonly used palettes have a "mini" mode which helps conserve valuable screen real estate. Mini palettes are fully user configurable, just drag and drop the label element to re-arrange, add, or remove an element of the palette. Click the small blue disclosure triangle to return the palette to its normal state.

Independent Fine Scale

Each parameter palette has a independent, user configurable "Fine Scale" which defines the units and precision shown for parameters on the palette. For example, the Dimensions Palette shown is using a fine scale of Point (notice the small gray "p" upper right of the palette). This means that the line widths shown on this palette are defined as Points (1 / 72 inch) even though the drawing uses Feet for units and a drawing scale of 1/4. Fine scale units may be Inches, Millimeters, or Points.

Customizable Toolbar

EazyDraw drawing windows have a user customizable toolbar. Many of the toolbar buttons are "smart" menus. They are "smart" in the sense that they will adapt to the last used pop-down menu selection. To repeat the last used menu selection, simply click the tool - no need to fully open the pop-down menu and scroll down to the desired selection. You can notice two of these in the center of the toolbar shown in the screen shot. The Free Wall tool and Full Dimension tools are both on the Technical Tool palette, but you will see that these toolbar buttons have followed the user's workflow and are currently available for quick access from the toolbar.