The big news for 2007 is that PartyCAD 10 now has new painting and drawing commands that allow you to do more than ever with the package. And, there is much more:

   • runs on Windows Vista, XP and ME. See here for more info.                            
   • painted floor plans and views                                    
   • drawing in the Furnish module                                  Download Newsletter PDF
   • a new way to make landscapes
   • easier furniture creation with                                 Download Sample Output PDF
            extensive video instruction
   • an improved piece editor
   • a dozen new pieces of furniture
   • and more…

Painted Floor Plans and Views


A Paint button has been added to the Layout Page module. When a design in nearing completion, you select a floor plan or drawn view and click this button to add color. PartyCAD then paints the part using furniture colors you selected while designing the event. If you want something a little different, it’s very easy to customize the default color scheme.
   Painting has been available in the View module for some time, but Paint in Layout Page is much more flexible than this older technique. And too, colored views can now be incorporated into any PDF files you may create—something that was not possible in earlier versions of PartyCAD.

Line Drawing in the Furnish Module



A new Drawing Menu has been added to PartyCAD’s Furnish module. With this you can easily add lines, arcs, boxes, smooth curves, arrows and dimensions to your work during the design phase. Never again will the need to make an oddly shaped area or show a dimension have you scratching your head.

A New Way to Make Landscapes



The Drawing menu discussed above also makes it very easy to create any landscapes you may need. All you to do is create a building lot of the correct size and then draw in the needed terrain features. When it comes time to save your work, a new Also Color and Save a Landscape option allows you to add colors and textures, and automatically saves the finished landscape as a background image, all ready to use as you begin your design work.

Easier Furniture Creation



In addition to drawing simple lines, the new Draw Menu in the Furnish module also allows you to create 3D pieces of furniture. Such 3D objects show up in PartyCAD's View and Virtual Reality modules. Extruded lines, simple shapes, extruded shapes and bodies of rotation can all be created in this way.

Handier Piece Editor



Often the next step after creating a piece of furniture is to edit it using the Piece Editor. It is here you can change the colors and other characteristics of your new piece. Entry into the Piece Editor has been greatly improved for 2007. From the Furnish module, you simply select any piece or group of furniture, click the Edit Piece button and what you have selected will be loaded into the editor. Clicking Save in the Piece Editor returns the modified piece for immediate use within the Furnish module.

Improved Piece Saving



Pieces you create with the Draw menu or load from PartyCAD's furniture libraries can be combined using the Furnish module to create quite complex 3D objects. Once you have assembled your piece of furniture, clicking the Save As 1 button saves it to a furniture library on disk. This procedure has been improved in Version 10 to allow you to easily create fancy thumbnails to represent your pieces in PartyCAD's furniture catalogs. The illustration above shows the difference between the old and new thumbnails for the classic DINO piece, created in 1987, 20 years ago.

New Furniture Creation Video



When taken as a whole, the features just described radically change how new pieces of furniture are created in PartyCAD. A new Making 3D Furniture video explains all aspects of the new methods. It may be a while before you can produce something as complicated as the motorcycle below, but the tools are now in place for you to do so, and certainly, most everyday items you may need to produce should be well within your grasp.

New Furniture for 2007
A nice selection of new pre-built pieces of furniture has also been added to PartyCAD's furniture libraries:


A WayCool cooler, box and salamander heaters, and a heat pipe…


A mobile generator, motorcycle, Adirondack chair and portable display…


A bowl and salad tray for table tops. A 54" serpentine table (four of these make a circle with a inner diameter of 48" and an outer diameter of 108"). A stretchy triangle…


Nifty new curved Bil-Jax staging components in two heights - 15" and 30". These load as an group of pieces, which can then be broken and used to construct many distinctive stages.
Finally, clamshell tent tops with open ends, one gable or two have been added to the available tent pieces in the Furniture library.
                                             
Time to Upgrade?
Now you are caught up on the new features and improvements in PartyCAD for 2007. Using PartyCAD 10, 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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