Electrical planning – drawing of electrical plans

This video shows how-to create a complete electrical planning with cadvilla. In our example, electrical planning means positioning and labelling of various switches, lights and sockets. Of course, other 2D electrical symbols can also be positioned in the same way when creating an electrical plan. The first part of the video we use a floor… … »»»

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Drawing a simple garage with a flat roof / lean-to roof / sloping roof

The following video shows how-to use cadvilla architectural software to design a simple garage with a flat roof, lean-to or sloping roof. The example garage also contains a window and ventilation. The following steps are shown when creating the garage Create a grid for your floor plan with 2D guidelines Draw the exterior walls of… … »»»

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Drawing a Fire Escape Plan on your own

cadvilla lets you quickly create a Fire Escape Plan with an additional module, which is already included in cadvilla professional plus and available as add-on for other versions in our product range. The following video shows how to create a Fire Escape plan based on your existing cadvilla project. The video demonstrates the usage of… … »»»

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How to use the 3D Object Converter

We use the 3D Converter to convert 3D-objects from other programs into our own 3D format and to save them in the catalogue for 3D-objects. From there we can use them without restrictions in our projects. During the conversion we have many editing options (calculating texture-coordinates, editing materials, creating light sources, etc …). In this… … »»»

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Plan layout, Overview

The plan layout plugin allows you to place differerent views on one plan / paper and to finalize your drawing with 2D elements, title blocks, images and all other functions of the basic software. Place new or existing top views or sectional views together on your special plan view. All existing views are automatically updated… … »»»

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Recommended settings for NVIDIA graphic cards used with cadvilla

If you have issues in 3D views using a NVIDIA graphic card in combination with cadvilla, it is very likely that either an outdated NVIDIA graphic card driver or the settings below are responsible. If you have a NVIDIA graphic card, the NVIDIA driver dpreferences for individual programs are adjusted in your NVIDIA Control Panel.… … »»»

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