ARCHLine XP 2013 64bit

ARCHLine.XP Interior - All-in-one interior and architecture design CAD software

Approach to Modeling Overview

In ARCHLine.XP, you design in a 2D or 3D environment. 3D model and Section views are created automatically based on the 2D drawing.

Accurate print layouts may be composed using the Print Layout view.

Sophisticated photo realistic images are created by the Rendering module.

Quantity take-off performs on the entire building information model (BIM) in Excel format.

Check out the main features of ARCHLine.XP Interior and see how it can make your work faster, simpler, and more profitable.

Styles

Using styles in ARCHLine.XP is the best way to create consistent, well-designed projects. Style is a collection of properties applied together when you create or edit a new wall, door or window or any kind of object in your design.Using styles makes easier your life.

Accurate measurements

Everything you create in ARCHLine.XP has a precise dimension. Your design will be as accurate as you wish because the software saves all dimensions in really accurate double precision format.You can choose between imperial and metric measurement.

Dimensioning

You can quickly add precise annotations to your documentation. The linear dimensioning tool enables to place dozens of dimensions in one step for example to annotate all walls with windows and doors in one step. You define the format, scale, precision of displayed measurements, line weight, arrow and font types and many more.

Dynamic section

You can use ARCHLine.XP interactive Dynamic Section feature to temporarily cut away parts of your design, enabling you to look inside your model. You can use Sections to create architectural section. Use the section marker commands to move, rotate section plane.

Layers

Layers are a method of managing and controlling the visual layout of a drawing. Using layers you can group or separate the objects of the current drawing according to various needs as displaying only the architectural part of your project or temporary hiding tilings or electrical accessories..

Groups

By creating a group, you can create a collection of objects that has different properties or is on different layers. Later you can place it as a unit with one click.

XREF

External references (XREF) let you embed another drawing into your actual drawing. The drawing contains only a link to the referenced drawing, so you always have the last up to date date version.

Building structure with stories

ARCHLine.XP comes with a Floor Manager that can be used to define the level structure of the building and the heights associated with floors.

It means that if you activate the floor named Ground Floor in the building structure and start placing walls, slabs, stairs, columns and furniture the elements will automatically get their base elevations and optionally their heights from the Floor Manager settings.

To move or copy to another floor, you need to activate that floor and insert the elements?they will be correctly placed at the right elevation of the new current floor. This way you design your building as if you were building it in reality. You can modify the height property of any elements if you wish to use a column or a window that needs to cross through multiple floors. The model will immediately be updated to follow the change.

Walls with doors and windows

?How do you create walls in 3D?" This is one of the most frequent question we receive.

We design walls without limits either in 3D or 2D floor plan. The flexibility of wall structure allows to create complex wall styles with layers, adding any shape of cross-section, automatically connecting doors and windows to the walls including rounded windows, curved arches..

Build 3D model from 2D drawing

Using the Walls on DWG drawing command allows you to convert lines from imported DXF/DWG drawing into 3D walls. For adding door and window openings into your walls you find numerous techniques.

Stairs and Balustrades

ARCHLine.XP has two stair definition methods. You can create and manipulate 3D parametric stairs with either regular or unregular shapes. Unregular or sketched stairs are created with step by step method providing a group of boundary curves. Balustrades are associated with stairs and freely editable with any form of handrails, and puppets.

Floors, Ceilings and Foundations

The software allows to create regular or irregular slabs, sloping slabs, and foundations. Slab can be a single layered or multiple layered slab with beams inside. The slab profiles helps to create custom made slabs, like annular vaults, cross vaults, etc.

Roofs

Automatic roof definition makes easy to define complex roofs. You have to select external walls with enclosing rectangle only to add a roof over.

Roof Tiling, Rafter and Batten, Gutter and Downspout

Roof Tiling with solid 3D tiles, displayed in 2D and 3D, quantity take-off, visuals, and complex rafter and batten structure definitions together with interactive gutter and downspout design.

Door/Window custom design

From the basic door types to special door types the door wizard guides to design with simple rules new door types as interior, entry, glass and steel doors. You can add producer and product information as well to produce real quantity take-off later.

Room Maker

Single platform that integrates your interior design work into one easy to use 3D panel. Starting from any room shape you can complete it with doors, windows, finishes, lights, curtains, sockets, switches, cornices, skirting boards, pictures on wall using this smart design method..

Find and collect models on 3D Warehouse

ARCHLine.XP provides direct access the world's biggest online repository of furniture the 3D Warehouse. It contains every group of furniture what is necessary for the design (e.g.: chairs, tables, kitchen-, living room-, bedroom, bathroom items, accessories). If the library doesn?t contain the suitable object, you can create it with the ARCHLine.XP tools.

Soft Furnishing

Interior design doesn't exist without soft furnishing. Soft furnishing tools of ARCHLine.XP add color, fabric, softness and style to the room. Without soft furnishings, the room would be hard. You can create perfectly realistic curtain just in a few steps! The roman blind wizard is a great tool to create roman blinds just by setting up some simple parameters.

Tiling

Easy way to lay tiling on your own. You can decorate the wall and floor surfaces in the Room Maker 3D panel quickly. Create dozens of design variations, in just a few clicks. You can design individual layouts too.

Moulding

Moulding adds a sophisticated finishing touch to any room. ARCHLine.XP has effective one click or path definition tools you need for any moulding you take on.

Lighting

Lighting is a key element of interior design. Lighting sets the mood for each room. Using natural or artificial lighting the rooms can look quite different. In ARCHLine.XP you can study the effects of artificial lights in real-time 3D.

Kitchen design

ARCHLine.XP is designed as professional multipurpose interior design software, not a specific kitchen design application. However it is capable of creating wardrobes, drawers, cabinets and other standard and bespoken furniture. The kitchen design wizard helps you configuring the desired furniture in minutes and saving it into the object library.

Sanitary Ware

Sanitary Ware is an expandable database of real sanitary models. Currently the latest products of worldwide known German producers of sanitary accessories, heaters and air conditioners are available for free.

Loft

Loft tool allows you to create complex models by simply defining a 3D path and several cross-sections along that path. The software will morph these cross sections into each other creating 3D object.

Smart Object Parts

Smart Object Parts is an easy to use tool that gives you an efficient interface for creating complex furniture parts such as legs, chair backs, seats, and so on. You can create complex furniture even without traditional 3D modelling experience!

Furniture Assembler

Using the components created by the Loft tool and the Smart Object Parts, Furniture Assembler can merge them together and produce various types of upholstered furniture. The result is modular, so you can freely exchange parts of the final furniture and replace fabrics with one click.

Real Textures, Colors and Fabrics

Regardless of your design style, you can create beautiful textured walls, floors, curtains and other elements. As a result the room will take on a whole new dimension.

Product catalogs

ARCHLine.XP Showroom contains high-quality fabrics, 3D models from leading product manufacturers and retailers. You can download and visualize realistic fabrics, colors, 3D models - instead of generic ones - within your project.

Categories

The textures in ARCHLine.XP can be managed using categories instead of using real existing folders. Categories allows users to handle materials much more flexible.

Print Layout

You can create professional documents using the Print Layout mode to collect floor plans, sections, perspectives, detail drawings, photorealistic images and photos into one paper sheet. You can add to the layout a part of a drawing as well with other scale (details) or your personal stamp, north sign, notices, etc. You can make high-resolution prints or save as PDF file and you can send it to the customer by e-mail.

Print to scale

To print a floor plan, a wall view with exact scale or a 3D view is simple and easy process. Choose Print and set up the physical paper size and the scale factor. That?s it.

Print to PDF

Printing in PDF provides industry-standard solution to publish the document in the popular PDF file format.

Print Queue

Print queue lets you collect all the print jobs into one list and print it in one PDF file with multiple pages.

Shadow Studies

ARCHLine.XP real-time Shadow Engine lets you perform accurate shade studies on your models. Switch on the sun to see how it will affect your space at any time and date. Drag the time slider to watch the daylight move across your space.

Rendering

Lightworks rendering engine is integrated within ARCHLine.XP. You'll love the lights and reflections of your 3D visuals.

Perspective/Orthographic views

Perspective and Orthographic (top, side, front) views are both available.Perspective view give more information about depth and similar as views in real life. Viewing an orthographic view, all objects appear at the same scale.

Walk-through

ARCHLine.XP lets you get inside your model and take a walk-through. Using the keyboard or mouse you can easily navigate in the interior space as you do in a video game. You can look around in a room, go through other rooms, climb and descend stairs and ramps.

Wall views

Wall elevation view shows items that cannot be clearly seen in a floor plan i.e. mouldings, signs, window sizes, or a decorative pattern that is applied on the wall. You can create it with a simple rubber band line crossing on the selected wall and placed automatically as a colourful textured but quotable image on your floor plan.

Match Photo

Virtual Staging is a great tool to demonstrate your vacant property as an attractive virtually staged home. You can add quickly furniture and other decorative elements to your photo.

No need to rent furniture, organize the staging, take good quality photos, etc.

ARCHLine.XP INTERIOR?s new Virtual Staging module allows you to create realistic images using photographs of the vacant property by simply adding furniture and other decorative elements to the photos in 5 easy steps.

Import & Export CAD Files

Frequently you have to send your project to someone who needs a CAD file. You can save your work as DWG and DXF files even if your project is a multi-storey building in one step. The geometry remains intact through the import and export operation and layers are preserved.

Import & Export PDF

ARCHLine.XP imports multi-page PDF file as image, so you can use it as a source file for your work when processing existing drawings for example. The imported PDF is converted into an image file and you can scale it precisely to work with real lengths. PDF export helps to share your design and rendering images with your clients via email attachment or directly.

Import & Export 3D models

ARCHLine.XP supports 3D file formats as 3DS, SKP, OBJ, ATL, C4D, VRML, Indigo, and Autodesk FBX. Using this export feature you can establish a good direct connection to most popular professional rendering software.

Import & Export raster images

Start quickly your project with importing the image of your floorplan, scale it and work on it with real world distances. Trace over it the walls, openings, and other important items. ARCHLine.XP supports various raster image formats as BMP, TIFF, JPEG and PNG.

Modern user interface

ARCHLine.XP comes with improved modern user interface that highly increased the speed at which you can work around your drawing.

The interface contains the most stunning menus, buttons and other UI elements and enables to switch quickly between individual drawings regardless of the drawing complexity.

OpenGL and DirectX graphic engines are equally supported.

Why 64-bits?

ARCHLine.XP 2013 64 bit version is recommended for users who deals with large projects or renderings and 32-bit system means memory limitation.

Benefits of 64 bit version

Modern software development and data processing is running up against a built-in memory limitation. 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows can only allocate a maximum of 2 GB of memory to each running process, regardless how much real or virtual memory is available on a particular machine. It means that large projects over this limit cannot be opened at all. 64-bit system is not subject to the same memory limitation.