DON’T YOU LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER?
Extract taken from Master Builder magazine, September 2007
Start drawing your own professional building plans easily and accurately with PlansXpress, the UK’s first CAD software for builders and developers.
Building software specialist and FMB partner, HBXL has launched a brand new product designed to make drawing building plans seriously simple.
Many members will be familiar and comfortable with HBXL’s EstimatorXpress designed to enable you to produce accurate quotes for your clients. Well, this new PlansXpress software will keep you streets ahead of your competition, allowing you to produce professional building plans and elevations without having to employ an architect.
Clients have high expectations
Specifically developed for builders, PlansXpress is perfect for designing houses and extensions, and will revolutionise the way you approach a job, allowing you to offer a complete design and build service to your clients.
You’d think that to produce such a professional set of plans, hours and hours of work at a desk would be necessary. But all you actually need to do is lay out the plans on-screen using intuitive drag and drop tools, choosing as you go from the software’s library of construction and architectural symbols. At the click of a mouse you can place walls, roofs, stairs, doors, windows, electrics, plumbing, drainage, kitchens, bathrooms and even landscaping. To finish off, insert sections and notes again from the software library.
Perfect for planning applications
Using this new software you will be able to print architect quality planning application drawings in plan format as well as producing automatically generated elevations.
If you already have plans…
PlansXpress will allow you to import drawings and trace over them on-screen to fully cost the project using EstimatorXpress, giving 3D visuals, professional quotes and schedules. The link between PlansXpress and EstimatorXpress merges the design and costing into one.
Health and Safety
The third piece of software from HBXL is Health & Safety Xpert. Developed in partnership with leading health and safety professionals, it produces exactly what you need to help comply with construction industry regulations producing printouts on the new Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations 2007, and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
All three pieces of HBXL software link together to provide you with everything you need to give you the edge – they will make winning work easier, manage the job more effectively, and help you stay within health and safety law.
All you need now is someone to start digging the foundations………
Need Help?
All HBXL software comes with a printed user guide, and tutorials to help you get cracking.
The remotely activated ‘GoToAssist’ technology allows HBXL head office experts see what is on your screen, so they can help you.
Your Customer Care subscription entitles you to free software updates, upgrades and discounts on other HBXL products.
Anyone interested in purchasing HBXL’s software can take advantage of some outstanding offers only available to FMB members. To find out more please quote your FMB member number when calling HBXL.
WHAT NEXT?
Watch the PlansXpress Virtual Tour