The VisualCADD Group Gallery

Last Updated Wednesday, July 22, 2004

This Page is devoted to giving the new user and the user who wants to improve productivity, a place to visit and see how experienced users have set up their PC's to create drawings in VisualCADD.  It also gives our members the opportunity to display some of their work and for you to see the types of drawings that can be created with VisualCADD.  It is not a place to advertise, but a great place to get ideas and see how " the other guy is doing it".

Hal Roenick needs no intro around here.  Points.gif is a Screen Shot of Sequential Text and Write Points to File.  Click here for a user-friendly glimpse.

This file is a Visual CADD drawing of a device to draw ellipses.

This file sends coordinates to Visual CADD as points.

Fougere Architectural has submitted "Building Elevation" generated from SketchUp 3D export 143 KB.  View the PDF,  View a full size JPEG and  View half size JPEG

Fred Kres uploaded two "Problem Electric Symbols" to the Yahoo!  Group on 10/19/2002.  Switch-3W.vcs and Switch-DIM.vcs

Grinder.vcd "Guide Wire Grinder" 333KB sent by Agarlicdude 09/29/2001

Jerome Nicholas, a landscape architect, uses Adrian Scott's "Image" program to blend VisualCADD drawings and intricate CorelDraw graphics into large color presentations that are easily reproduced by simply replotting.  See his example and instructions in this cadcolor.zip

 J. R. Reich uses VisualCADD to prepare finely detailed cave maps.  He has been making cave maps for almost 40 years, progressing from traditional pen and ink drafting techniques then to Generic CADD, and then to VisualCADD.  Virtually all of a cave map is a freehand drawing based on surveyed control points.  The survey data is generated from another program and is imported into VisualCADD as a DXF file.  The freehand field sketches are then aligned, scaled, and input with a digitizer tablet.  This example represents a cave from Pennsylvania.  For further information contact hrafn@att.net

Mike Mundt uses VisualCADD to design Audio Visual System diagrams.  Mike runs a television production company called New Century Productions.  They operate a small fleet of production trucks that roam the country televising sports events, political conventions, game shows, talk shows, and anything else that ends up on TV but doesn't happen conveniently inside a TV station.  The trucks are extremely complex systems crammed into the confines of an 8' x 53' trailer.  Most of the systems are so large or complex that the drawings are fragmented for printing on B sheets.  However, the drawing of an intercom system he has provided is easier to comprehend as a complete system so it has been laid out for a D sized sheet.  mundt@worldpath.net

Doug Reeves designs and details ground water storage tanks (check out this Design) for one fabricator.  He also does design and analysis calculations, forensic work and detailing for a structural engineer.  His degree is a BS in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and has achieved his EIT and has another year under this engineer's supervision before he can take the PNP exam to obtain his PE license.  Doug uses an interesting method of adding commands and applications to his VisualCADD configuration.  He keeps things organized by using intuitive 3 Letter commands to call many of these programs.  He has supplied us with a "Zip" file of his configuration for all to view or use.  Updated 11/08/01 DReeves37@aol.com

Terry Hynes has submitted a stage plan for the Toyota New Model Introduction from 1997.  The Centre In The Square (http://www.centre-square.com) is a 2047 seat multi-purpose venue in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.  It is an extremely efficient performing arts space that accommodates everything from Opera to the sort of thing detailed in this drawing.  The brown (orange) boxes that you see in the lower left, right, and upper right of the drawing are 7 ton, 3 level towers that move on air casters.  Needless to say, pre-planning is helpful when it comes to placing these units.  The two sections of stage closest to the audience (bottom of the drawing) are actually lifts that raise and lower on screw jacks.  In theatre type setups, these areas have seats on them giving us an additional 8 rows of audience seating.  In most setups, this part of the stage is bordered by 4 stage towers (the 7 ton units) on each side.  They act as box seats in that sort of configuration.  Terry has done some very simple configuring of VisualCADD.  Read about his configuration here.

Marc Anglaret is an Architect in Normandy, France.  His company uses VisualCADD to produce drawings, then exports them in a DXF format to Corel Draw to create realistic looking renderings.  This project is a guesthouse, shop, and restaurant at the entrance of a ZOO in Normandy.  You can view the VCD file to see what is exported from VisualCADD, and see his finished product in JPG format.  A very interesting and creative method to create a very effective presentation. 

Marc creates his drawings on a PC with this hardware configuration:
300 MHZ - 192 RAM - Iomega back up - Ethernet Network - 21" Monitor  - Programmable keyboard 124 keys - AGP nb 9.  marc@anglaret.com

Greg Downing works for North American Theatrix.  They design, build and install sound, lighting and rigging systems for theaters and other venues.  They have done 4 baseball stadiums, 2 arenas, several churches and some schools as well.  View a few of the drawings that Greg normally does using VisualCADD as his primary platform.  These include riser (signal flow) diagrams, steel support structures for the speakers, elevations so that the client will understand what the finished product will look like and Equipment Rack drawings so that everyone on the project agrees that the right equipment is in the right place before they build the rack. gdowning@natheatrix.com

Anthony Ferrer is a theatrical production manager and technical director, currently working in the field of special events.  He also does some drafting for stage set designers.  This is a part of a drawing for a children's theater tour of The Box Car Children, designed by Vaughn Patterson.  The first link is to a jpg of the drawing, and the second one to download the vcd file.

If you would like to submit your configuration or a sample of your creations, please write a description of your work, attach them to an E-mail and send them in.   It would be prudent to put GALLERY in the subject line.