QUICK START GUIDE
HouseRocket is a suite of intelligent productivity tools that will make any drafters life easier and more profitable. Forget setting up elevations and sections, let HouseRockert do it for you, along with instant elevations and floor locations. Windows are now a breeze with instant window and door creation. Dimensions have also been catered for with a command to take the guess workguesswork out of picking points.
So if you have been looking for extra time to play golf, this might be the product for you. The following pages list the main ingredients of this down to earth system that puts easy to use yet powerful commands at your finger tips.
LAYER
DEFAULTS
Allows the user to define the layer names that the other tools will use. This also allows users to incorporate their existing layer setups into House Rocket.
MACRO
DEFAULTS
This tool has all of the settings require to make House Rocket run as the user requires. For example, text heights and fonts, dimension styles, elevation styles and layer behavior.
PROJECT
INFORMATION
This tool contains all of the settings required for the project that the user is working on. Some of these settings include roof pitch, brick type, number of levels and window styles.
HOUSE
GARAGE & FIRST FLOOR TOOLS
These tools set polygons to their required type, allowing House Rocket to work well.
FRAME
DRAWING
This includes windows, sliding doors, timber frames, structural columns, doors, sliders and frame only’s. These tools also move frames to the nearest brick spacing if required.
AUTO
CAVITY
Draws cavities around House, Garage and First Floor polygons, trimming to windows.
INTERNAL
WALLS
Draws internal walls and face brick walls.
LABELING
TOOL
Labels doors and windows automatically, also labels openings, special windows and room names.
AREA
REPORT
Produces an area report that now also includes roof areas and gutter lengths.
EXTERNAL
DIMENSIONS
This creates the frames, concrete and overall dimensions automatically.
INTERNAL
DIMENSIONS
Use this to add room sizes to the dimensions. Also adds the room name automatically to the dimension as required.
ROOF
BUILDING
These tools let the user create a roof automatically, then add gables or lift eave heights as required. There are also tools to let the user create more complex roofs.
ELEVATION
TOOL
When the windows, areas and roof has been drawn, the elevations can be created using the elevation tool. They are then inserted using the ‘Insert Elevations’ tool.
MODIFY
WINDOW
This lets the user change a window in elevation after it has been drawn.
SECTION
TOOL
Automatically creates a section based on a cut given by the user.
LOCATION
BUTTONS
These switch to location including Floor Plan, First Floor Plan, Elevations and Roof. These button also alert the other macros as to which layer to draw entities onto.