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Functionality allows:
- to automate generation of electronic and carbon
copies of documents related to interior finishing (generation of rooms
explications, finishing materials lists, openings lists etc.);
- to control interior finishing project quality;
- to analyze interior finishing project decisions
(focused on cost control and geometry summary);
- to use both metric and english measurement units;
- to maintain electronic catalogs of interior
finishing materials and interior finishing projects.
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Scheme (fig. 1) displays
the database structure.
The main database object is a projects catalog.
For each project you may specify project title, code, location, date, stage,
chief architect, chief engineer, customer (Fig. 3).
Every project contains a set of rooms.
For each room it is required to specify unique room number and room name.
Each room has geometry properties (area, perimeter, height etc.) and
finishing properties (floor type, ceiling finishing, walls finishing) (Fig. 2).
Each room enables containing a set of openings and additional finishing
elements (Fig. 5).
The second database object is a
reference lists system. That system contains the following
basic elements:
- floor types reference list;
- ceiling finishing types reference list;
- walls finishing types reference list;
- openings reference list;
- additional elements reference list.
For each item of basic reference lists you may specify
the following data: manufacturer of the item (chosen from "Manufacturers"
reference list), manufacturer catalog title (where the item is listed),
item code (specified in the catalog), item name, price and memo. For each
opening it is necessary to specify its geometry (width, height). For each
additional element it is necessary to specify its measurement unit type.
The important feature is an ability to illustrate
any element of the database (project, room and finishing item) by its
graphical view (Fig. 4).
Such data organization makes you sure that the right item
is used in the right place. Control of interior finishing project quality
is another aspect that such data organization provides.
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Reports are the visual results of the
program processing. You have got an opportunity to edit any report form to
achieve informative and easily perceptual representation that describes
finishing decisions or project geometry summary.
You are also able to create new report forms by yourself.
You may need to create new report forms in order to perform analysis or
to get some additional information contained in the database. Use "Report
Designer" to edit or create new report forms. You may apply embedded visual
query builder to simplify query construction. Please refer to the program
documentation in order to clarify detailed database structure.
One of the key features is an opportunity to generate
illustrated reports. It gives you more power to achieve convincing expression
by your reports and makes them more informative. It is also important that
you may save any generated report to popular file formats (AutoCAD DXF,
MS Office XLS, web page HTML). All export filters of the above formats support graphics.
It provides electronic documents processing automation, worldwide availability
of finishing decisions information, interior project details and summary
online.
Click here to preview samples of documents generated
by the program.
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When using the program you achieve
some implicit results during interior projects development and you do it
hands down:
- you maintain electronic illustrated catalog of
finishing materials, which contains items you usually use in your projects
adding new positions little by little as needed;
- you automatically record electronic archive of
your interior finishing projects that contains project titles, customers,
locations etc. (it provides an opportunity to analyze your activity during
reporting period for example);
- you fill up interior finishing data repository
according to unified data system, that allows you automatic analysis of
project decisions for further optimization.
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The program gets maximum results
if create the project of "cell" structure building, where each function has
its own closed room. If there are a lot of rooms in the project combining
certain functions, i.e. areas divided by furniture and facilities or
partitions not of full room height, then the program is less productive.
Examples of "cell" structure buildings:
- dwelling buildings (individual and standard various
storeys high, cottages);
- public buildings: hotels, hostels, living tourist
center or camping blocks, hospitals, administration blocks, schools or
colleges blocks etc.
Examples of "hall" structure buildings:
- covered markets;
- industrial buildings, warehouses;
- free planning offices (single office area without
partitions of full room height);
- garages and multistorey parking lots;
- covered sport constructions.
Single area buildings frequently have "cell" structure blocks. There are
infrastructure objects in the "cell" structure blocks.
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