ADT Toolbox - Full Details

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ADT Toolbox delivers a new interface to many areas of ADT, thereby simplifying the process of Door, Window, Wall and End cap style creation. Styles generated by ADT Toolbox are fully editable with standard ADT commands. Many ADT Toolbox commands are controlled by a single, uncluttered, intuitive dialog box, with clear images that reflect the selections and inputs you make. For example, the creation of Wall Styles, including cavity wall styles, couldn't be easier as the dialog box guides you through this previously complex process. Similarly the creation of Wall End Cap styles is now a much simplified and streamlined operation.

The level of realism achievable in 3D models produced by ADT can impress your clients. ADT Toolbox will help give you the edge on your competition by giving you the ability to easily create realistic window and door styles, add quoining to wall openings or wall ends, or display detailed profiles on cladded walls. In all cases the interface displays clearly the options available, and you control the various settings and dimensional parameters to create the required features or styles.

ADT Toolbox also simplifies the detailing process with its Automatic Building Sections and Timber Framing, which are simple to use and significantly reduce this time consuming process. In addition ADT Toolbox can drastically reduce this burden with a suite of parametric functions covering a wide range of 2D plan and elevation details.

Wall Styles - now you're in control

Three easy-to-use functions in ADT Toolbox allow you to control External, Internal and Cladded wall styles. ADT Toolbox automatically generates a logical name for your wall style based on the options and parameters set, although equally you are free to insert your preferred title. All of the wall component colours are user-definable and the hatching is configured automatically. You can also specify the wall base line as being either the left or right structural face, and include below DPC detail.

Each of the wall styles allows you to define each wall component as Brick, Block, Stone, Stud, etc. and its size, and has options to add finishes to either side of the wall. Foundation detail can now be added to the wall style with control over the overall depth of trench, depth to top of footing, DPC height, width of footing, and its position.

Cladded wall styles have additional parameters for specifying the Cladding Thickness, Base Height, Offset and a value to identify the Masonry Height.

External Walls

Internal Walls

Cladded Walls

Foundations

Wall End Caps you define with ease

Wall end caps at both openings and wall ends can be easily defined using a simple and intuitive dialogue box. For both Cavity and Single external walls, you can create the End cap style, which can contain sizes for the Projection and Reveal, as well as any Splay dimensions. A Cavity wall also has an option for Block Return or Thermal Break.

Wall End Caps

Window Styles - the choice is yours

The flexibility of window style creation in ADT Toolbox means that almost any design can be produced quickly and easily. Window design types include: - Bow, Bay, Arched and a selection of casement window types with multiple opening combinations.

Windows

Window style configuration is controlled with a simple dialog box, allowing you to enter the Jamb, Sill, Mullion and Structural Opening dimensions. As with the wall styles, a unique and logical style name is created based upon the options and parameters set, although this can be manually overwritten. The window style automatically generated by ADT Toolbox includes the plan, elevation and 3D details so that it is represented correctly in all views.

Door Styles - take your pick

Now you can create the door style you want in ADT. ADT Toolbox gives you control over the door type, design and dimensions, allowing you to produce virtually any variation of a common style.

The simple door style dialog box offers a combination of types and designs. Types include:- Single, Double, Garage, Sliding, Roll-up, Shopfront, etc. Designs include:- Panel with various Lights, French, Louvre, Georgian, Two Panel, etc. This dialog box also controls the sizes of the Jamb, Threshold, Stop, Leaf and Structural Opening of the chosen door style.

Doors

Again, a unique and logical style name is devised based upon the options and parameters set: this can be overwritten if required. ADT Toolbox automatically produces the door style with the necessary plan, elevation and 3D details so that all views will be displayed correctly.

Add true Cladded Profiles to your walls

Visually enhance your design by applying detailed 3D cladding profile, either horizontally or vertically, to the specified wall component. 3D cladding can be applied to any ADT wall; you simply select the wall, and from the dialogue choose the style of cladding and the wall component that the cladding profile is to be applied to. A number of predefined cladding profiles are included, and the dialogue box has the flexibility to let you create your own.

Cladded Profiles

Create and Schedule Timber Framing in Walls in seconds

Automatically add detailed stud partitioning to any wall. This powerful feature will create vertical and horizontal studding along a selected wall including framing around openings, with options for king studs and multiple vertical bracing. The dialogue box interface includes many options for the studding layout giving complete control over the design.

Timber Framing

You can also add single stud members where additional studs or noggins are required.

Single Stud Members

A Bill of Materials can also generated automatically for the studwork, listing the sizes and the quantities, which can be exported to an external file for further processing, or placed on the drawing as a table.


3D Trusses that are fully parametric

Create full 3D trusses from a standard library of truss styles. This is an extension to the standard 2D parametric trusses already included in ADT Toolbox, allowing you to define all the relative sizes and angles of the members which make up a particular style of truss, such as rafter size, pitch, span, etc. Once that is done, simply enter the number of trusses to be inserted and give the two points on the drawing, the trusses are then added to the model, equi-spaced between these points.

3D Trusses

As with 2D trusses, the 3D trusses are editable with the modify command returning to the original dialogue box allowing the style or any of the parameters to be altered.

Automatic Building Sections

Quickly generate detailed 2D building sections through ADT Toolbox Walls, including sections for doors, windows and the footing details. Using the enhanced modular building sections in Version 2, this tool constructs a complete wall section automatically by simply selecting the wall, door or window where the section is required. Once created, the components of the section remain editable using the Toolbox Modify command, thus updating the section drawing, giving total flexibility in the creation of 2D sections.

Decorative Detailing to Walls and Openings

To increase the detail and realism of your design, 3D architectural detailing of stonework can be applied to wall ends. You can define the sizes of the quoining members (width, depth and height) and the overall height, the detail is then applied to the end or corner of the selected wall.

Quoining to Wall Ends

To further enhance your design, architectural stonework detailing can also be placed around wall openings. Included within this feature are options to show vertical quoining on the sides of the opening and decorative sloping sill/threshold and lintel details.

Quoining, Lintels and Sills for Doors and Windows

A separate tool also allows just a Lintel to be added to a Door or Window.

Add 3D Lintel

A further tool allows you to add a sill to a window or a threshold to a door.

2D Detailing - ADT Toolbox saves you time

ADT Toolbox has an extensive library of 2D construction details so you can finish detailing your designs with a minimum of fuss. The library contains parametric symbols for the Foundations, DPC, Floor Structure, Walls, Sills, Headers, Doors, Windows, Roof Trusses and Tiles, and Fascias. You can use these to build a single or multi-storey building section in stages or select from a choice of standard pre-assembled modules.

2D parametric Structural Steel details for construction and fabrication are standard in ADT Toolbox, including: - Portal Frame assemblies, Base Plate and Foundation Pads, Universal Beams, Universal Columns, Joists, Equal and Unequal Angles, Channels, Sections and Tees.

In addition, ADT Toolbox includes hundreds of symbols covering Landscape, Signage, Plumbing, Heating, Furniture, Electrical and Kitchen fittings, to help you add further detail to your designs. The majority are not just blocks that have to be stretched and scaled to the correct size, but are intelligent parametric symbols. This means that you can define the key dimensions and the symbol is automatically and instantly drawn to the size you require.

2D to 3D and back again

Now you can take 2D drawings into ADT and automatically create an ADT Model. Any 2D drawings produced using CADlogic's powerful AutoCAD/LT modules; LT Architect and Architect 2000, can be converted directly by ADT Toolbox into a 3D ADT Model. Similarly, an ADT Model generated using ADT Toolbox can be converted to an intelligent LT Architect/Architect 2000 drawing, allowing detailing of the building design to be carried out within AutoCAD or LT.