The 2006 edition of PartyCAD has improvements and new features that will be welcomed by both old hands and newcomers alike:

   • greatly improved Tent Wizard                                      
   • speedy creation of tent assemblies
   • new Furniture Gallery
   • handier dimensioning
   • new project splitter
   • rendering on top of photographs
   • and more…

Improved Tent Wizard
A series of commands along the top of the new Tent Wizard screen let you quickly create tents that closely match those your customers will see on the day of their big event. Now you can add poles, tent lines, sidewalls, tent floors, pole drapes and socks, a liner, ruffled drip edges and pennants to the tents you create. The new wizard also has the flexibility to remove selected poles, drapes and tent lines if that is what the situation calls for. Some of the new wizard menus will look familiar to old hands, but even these have been greatly improved. For instance, the Assembly Menu above still lets you create any size tent that is a combination of ends and mids, but now you can control the curvature of the canvas between poles and so can create tents such as the Anchor Century 100’ tent shown at the top of the next column, entirely with the wizard.

                        
                        
Nearly any commercial tent can be added to the new wizard if the necessary data is available—the program comes with some Anchor tents and much of the Tentnology line. Hex tents like the one at the left, triangular tents, band shells, structures — nearly anything can be produced with the new Tent Wizard.

                        

Attract Button
If your design calls for more than one tent, a new Attract button in the Furnish module makes it easy to align the tents created with the Tent Wizard. Tents of any size, shape and orientation can be assembled to create complex designs such as the one shown below.

                   

New Party Gallery
The Party Gallery is a new way of loading furniture from PartyCAD's extensive furniture libraries. Getting to the Gallery is as simple as clicking a button in PartyCAD's Furnish module. Once there, searching for a needed piece of furniture is as easy as typing a name and clicking Find. Or, browse through lists of your favorite pieces, recently used items, your custom furniture or the gallery's own lists of event-related furniture. Left-click on a picture and a piece is instantly loaded, or right-click on multiple selections and load them all at once to save time. The Party Gallery will also manage lists of your favorite pieces and custom-built furniture.
If your needs are more wide ranging, say if you want to use PartyCAD to design a home or office, the older Furniture Album is still available and gives you easy access to PartyCAD's less frequently used furniture.

                       

Handier Dimensioning
PartyCAD has been able to add dimension lines in the Layout Page module for many years, but this capability has always been tucked away on a submenu. Now a dimension button appears on the main Layout Page screen whenever a plan is selected, making this handy feature much more accessible.

Advanced Project Management
An Edit/Split Project button has been added to the PartyCAD’s Project Manager. Clicking this displays a menu similar to the one below. This allows you to split files relating to a given design off into a different project. This will prove especially useful for people who for years have done all their work in a single PartyCAD project and who now want to split that project apart into smaller, more easily managed units. This same menu can also be used to remove all the files relating to a given design from a project.

                  

VR Background Photos
In PartyCAD 9 you can load a digital picture as a background in the Virtual Reality module. It does take some practice, but now you can place a rendering of a design on top of any picture to give clients a better idea of just what you have in mind for their big event.

                  

And More…
—Watermarks now not only print, but are included in any PDF files that you save or email.

—The last lot size used now becomes the default the next time you make a new party in the Furnish module.

—When you save an alternate design in Layout Page, PartyCAD now makes copies of the plans, arrangements and art related to the design so that the two versions are completely independent.

—Advanced users will appreciate a new Piece Editor that allows for easier editing of custom furniture. This same module makes it easy to create fancier icons for pieces, and can even import simple 3D models from other CAD programs.

                                             
Time to Upgrade?
Now you are caught up on the new features and improvements in PartyCAD for 2006. Using PartyCAD 9, it is easier than ever to create great looking event designs and presentations that will mean more business for you, so...

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