RainCAD / Land Illustrator 2008 Design Features

The RainCAD™ / Land Illustrator™ 2008 packages offer major advancements over the DesignCAD Edition programs, and provide a turn-key solution for designers who do not want the expense of an AutoCAD® based system. The RainCAD™ / Land Illustrator™ 2008 packages come complete with a full working version of AcceliCAD™ 2008 from Autodsys, Inc. These editions are thousands of times faster than the stand-alone DesignCAD Edition versions and save drawings directly in an AutoCAD® DWG format. In addition, there is no limit to the size of a design that may be created. Now you can have the same powerful features available in the AutoCAD® Editions at a considerably smaller investment.

RainCAD™ includes a database of irrigation equipment from the following manufacturers:

RainCAD™ allows you to design in either English or Metric units of measurement. Distance may be measured in inches, feet, millimeters, centimeters, or meters. Pressure may be displayed in either Pounds per Square Inch (PSI) or Bars. In addition, you may select the desired flow format in either gallons per minute, liters per second, liters per minute, or cubic meters per hour.

There are features to assist in sprinkler placement, zoning, distribution analysis, piping, pipe sizing, hydraulic calculations, creating a bill of materials and more.

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The landscape design features include a database of more than 2,500 individual plant listings. The features include both manual and automatic plant placement capabilities, plant delete and replace capabilities, a plant search feature, a plant symbol combine feature, shadowing, area and volume calculations, automatic legend generation and more.

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The Combo Pack includes a small module to assist in accent lighting and drainage design. The program includes commands to assist in fixture placement, wiring, and wire sizing. Additional commands include calculations for total wattage and drainage runoff calculations.

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General design features include tools to assist in drafting and symbol placement, as well as tools for creating a symbol legend and complete bill of materials or estimate/proposal.

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Irricalc is a complete water management tool to assist in calculating irrigation watering schedules, estimated annual water use, maximum applied water allowance and the average demand for the peak season.

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