Hey All,
Just a few more things that I believe would be very helpful for the next version of Softplan:
1) The cloud project organization...right now projects on the cloud (at your home screen) aren't really organized in any way, and it makes it very time consuming to scroll down through and find a project to open up/work on. I think that if this could be organized in Alphabetical order, or even by date maybe, this would save a ton of time. Or maybe have an option of organizing by either Name or Date (pull-down??) - but Alphabetical would be very helpful.
I, for example, can easily see where it would save so much time to see the list pop up on the home screen as follows:
--ABC Builders - Project 1 - John Doe Residence
--ABC Builders - Project 2 - Jack Frost Residence
--ABC Builders - Project 3 - Hilary Clinton Residence
--XYZ Builders - Project 1 - Rambo Residence
--XYZ Builders - Project 2 - Braddock Residence
--XYZ Builders - Project 3 - Donald Trump Residence
...etc etc...If it was alphabetical, it would be so easy to immediately find the proper builder and then from there easily find the project.
2) Opening schedules could be a lot more fluid/organic. The other day I happened to do an opening schedule and didn't double-check the plans I was given (shame on me - lesson learned) but I had a few exterior doors on the plan that were 7'-4" tall and the opening schedule spit them out at 6'-8" tall...not even sure what the point of the schedule is if it doesn't generate what's on the plans? If we could get it to read out a bit more accurately that would be great. Same thing with jambs. If we include jambs in our schedules, the schedule ought to know what size wall the window is setting in...my auto-generated schedules always have 4-1/2" for the jambs (sometimes 0" actually), even if it's in a 2x6 wall...or a block wall...if we could correct this it would be very nice. Maybe add another checkbox in the "Miscellaneous" tab that has a few different jamb options, or add a dropdown in the misc. tab (4-9/16", 6-9/16", Field-Jamb, etc) and then that could generate into the opening schedule?
3) Could we make a checkbox for doing "solid-core" interior doors? For that matter, if we could do a drop-down in the door-edit misc. tab that would let us pick materials that would show up on the opening schedule and/or Softlist that would be great. (Masonite, Hollow-Core, Solid Core, Wood - break up into Pine/Oak/etc - Interior French, etc).
Just some thoughts. Still loving Softplan - it's hands-down the best CAD program out there for residential and I've been trying to get people to use it for several years. I'm sad to see AutoCAD still holding the market in schools/colleges.
~Jeremy