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Anyone have or know where some useful tools are to design residential buildings through a simplified ACAD interface

RE: Wood-Structure

Do you mean some sort of add-on to AutoCAD?

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right "
.. Henry Ford

RE: Wood-Structure

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Not commercial add-ons but some useful tools using
VB automation or ???

Arch Desktop is too expensive and seems too complex (another learning curve).

RE: Wood-Structure

There are some good sites for routines to add from. i.e.

http://www.cadalog.com
http://www.caddepot.com

But you would have to get get more detailed in what you want exactly.

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right "
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RE: Wood-Structure

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Detailed:
I would like to take the design results of my VB6 footing design (say 31"sq X 18"deep with 4-#4 bars each way supporting 4x6x8' post in a Simpson CBSQ46 ) and transfer that information to ACADr14 which would prompt for the centerpoint and then draw the pad, rebar, post, & base in 3D on 4 different layers: Conc, Hardware, Wood, Rebar

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