Envisioneer Essentials enables professionals to:
- Building Information Modeling
- Dynamic Sales Presentations
- Site & Landscape Design
- Manufacturer’s catalogs of data
- < Integration with Structural Frame Analysis
- Link to Panelization and manufacturing
- Relationships to Interior Design and Project sales
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Design & Modeling
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Complete
3D Parametric Building Modeling
- Place and edit objects directly in 2D or 3D Views
- 3D Editing of all objects including Walls, Roofs, and
Stairs, etc.
- Editing walls updates connected roofs, floors,
ceilings
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Productivity
Settings
- Commander for keyboard entry of exact distances and
angles
- Mirror image plans
- Customizable Fast right-click edit menus
- Pre-selection assistance
- Up to 999 building locations
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Parametric
catalog of objects including manufacturers
- List of actual product manufacturers content
- Completely customizable groups, sub groups and
elements
- Search for library items by style and name
- Select and edit multiple items with global change
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Building
Design Wizards
- House Builder
- Kitchen Builder
- Deck Builder
- Shed Builder
- Bathroom Builder
- Floor and Foundation Builder
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Kitchens,
baths and interior design
- Fully customizable cabinets: backsplash, appliances,
countertop, drawers, rail, doors
- Details include shelves, toe-kick, custom mouldings,
and more
- Place, edit, and customize cabinets in plan view and
3D views
- Create and apply custom edge moulding
- Detail cabinets and doors with hinges, handles, and
pulls
- Use Cabinet Modules Library to create 1,000's of
custom combinations
- Specify Electrical, Fixture, and Furniture items to
attached to ceilings and roofs - objects can also
- Kitchen Builder Wizard
- Customizable kitchen cabinets
- Sinks attach to cabinets
- Sinks in corner cabinets
- Kitchen appliances and accessories
- Furniture - living room, bedroom, rec. room, dining
room, kitchen and office
- Appliances - wide variety of kitchen and laundry
appliances
- Electronics - audio-visual, computer, clocks,
communications
- Accessories - area rugs, window treatments,
decorative accents, dining, kitchen, bathroom, aquariums, much more
- Lighting - lamps, sconces, ceiling fans, recessed and
track lighting
- Materials Paintbrush — change your finishes with a
mouse click
- Complete fireplace tools: masonry, freestanding,
corner, and more
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MEP
Tools
- Complete electrical tools: lights, switches, outlets,
cable, telephone, and more
- Wiring schematic tool
- Define custom lighting with shadows, attenuation and
intensity
- Complete plumbing fixtures including toilets, sinks,
tubs, showers. faucets
- HVAC — furnaces, air conditioners, fireplaces,
stoves, registers, etc.
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Complete
Materials Editor
- Create and edit your own materials
- Material Paintbrush: allow drag-and-drop application
of materials in 3D
- Import your own textures and photos
- Match properties with a eyedropper tool
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Landscape
Design
- Fills — garden beds, ponds, etc.
- Edging - PVC, wood posts, or wood, stone, brick or
concrete rails
- Retaining Walls - wood, concrete and concrete block
- Landscape Lighting - ground lighting and light posts
- Irrigation - sprinkler systems
- Exterior Furniture - tables, chairs, swings, benches,
etc.
- Exterior Accessories - BBQs, planters, arbours,
trellises, decorative and more
- Exterior Structures - pools, hot tubs, courts,
playground equipment, etc.
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Site
plans
- Create plot plans with accurate length, bearing and
setback information
- Custom paths, fills, pads, sidewalks, roadways
- Contours
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Deck
and Fence Design
- Complete Deck design
- Automatic deck framing for post-and-beam construction
- Fence Tool - create picket, privacy, iron, glass
rail, etc.
- Control the orientation and size of deck planking
- Fences - wood, picket, privacy, ranch, stone, concrete
- Gates - wood, picket, privacy, ranch
- Customizable Deck Railings
- Customizable Deck Railings
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3D
Terrain Modeling
- Terrain Modifiers - hills, valleys, slopes, elevated
regions, and more
- Display contour lines and elevation difference
- Crop terrain around lot lines
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Plant
Encyclopedia
- Landscaping
- Plants - trees, shrubs, plants and flowers
- Information on 7500 species
- Zoning information
- Watering calendar
- Plant Growth Over Time
- Plant Seasonal Change
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Presentation Tools
High quality 3D Real View rendering
- 3D Real View™ high-quality rendering using radiosity
technology
- Advanced smooth shading
- Ray tracing with light, shadows and reflection
- Adjust render settings for optimal processing speed
and quality results
- Create backdrops using photos from digital camera or
any bmp, jpg, tga file
- Define sun angles by season, specific date, and
time-of-day
Advanced rendering effects
- Smoke, fog and more
- Antialiasing
- Atmosphere conditions
- Image brightness
Dynamic cutaway section tool
- Interactively cut the building in 3D
- Section vertically, horizontally or at any rotation
Movie Maker animation tools
- Create AVI movies of virtual 3D walk-throughs
- Add sound WAV files to your animations for narration,
sound effects, etc.
- Record walkthrough movies along a designated path
3D Stereo Vision view - View with 3D glasses
- Create stereo images with a single mouse click
- View on screen or print 3D images
3D Navigation & Display
- Control the display of objects in all views using
display visibility
- Multiple display view modes for showing model in
wireframe, shaded, rendered, patterned and rendered outline view
- Cameras can be named, edited, and saved
- Navigate using Fly Around, Look around, Walk around
and Pan to allow you to move around in real time
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Interoperability:
Green Building tools
- Link to Autodesk Green Building Studio
- Export to GBXML file format
- Link to Green3DHome.com for BIM catalogs and energy
calculators
Green Building tools
Full scale printing
- Print to scale at any size
- Print to file for printing off site
- Print preview feature
- Print display, all, and window selection
- Print all as black feature
- Batch Printing
- Print Tiling
- Print to file for outsourcing print job
- Print to PDF
2D Import and export formats (DWG, DXF, BMP, etc.)
- Imports vector formats include DWG, DXF
- 2D raster formats include BMP, JPG, TGA, and more!
- Project Trace Image for tracing scanned plans
3D Import
- Import 3D files to create symbols and content
- Support for 3D DXF, DWG, 3DS, SKP
- Import content for Google 3D Warehouse
2D Export
- Export BMP, JPG or TGA Raytraced Renderings
- Save to DWG DXF and PDF
3D Export
- Export formats include DWG, DXF, SKP, 3DS, VRML,
Artlantis and XML
- Export .AVI Virtual Walkthroughs
- Export 3D VRML for rendering or virtual walkthrough
- Export to 20-20 Design XML format
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Software Assistance
User’s Guide and Online Help
Context-sensitive help
Glossary
Interactive tooltips
Free online Users Forum
Interactive Tutor
Included for all clients on the current version of Envisioneer *
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