Features
The Surface View gives a complete breakdown of the surfaces used in the tower. This includes a tree view presenting a hierarchical list of surfaces.

The Drawing Editor allows you to store and display several parts of the tower simultaneously for better viewing.

The Material Optimizer gives a complete picture of the members used on the tower, their weight, prices and the percentage of material wastage.

Exporting Drawings With a single click of the mouse, the user can export the complete assembly drawing to popular drawing packages such as AutoCAD and MicroStation.

Surface View

The Surface view gives a complete breakdown of the surfaces used in the tower. This includes a tree view presenting a hierarchical list of surfaces, a two-dimensional view of the actual surface and also a graphic portraying the exact location of the surface on the tower.

The tower surfaces are grouped into separate headings(depending on the tower design) such as Elevation, Diaphragm, Hip, Compositions and soon, forming the complete tower.

Drawing Editor

The Drawing Editor allows you to store and display several parts of the tower simultaneously for better viewing.

Unlike viewing only individual faces of the tower on the main workspace, the drawing editor enables you to ‘paste’ drawings on to the workspace thus allowing you to simultaneously view different components of the tower.

This includes surfaces, panels and individual nodes complete with dimensioning, from the original tower drawing. A Bill of Materials is automatically generated and displayed which corresponds to all the members of the tower placed in the Drawing Editor.

Material Optimizer

The material optimizer gives a complete picture of the members used on the tower, their weight, prices and the percentage of material wastage. Using intuitive interfaces that have been provided, the user can effectively optimize the use of materials on the tower thus saving on costs.

The screen shown above automatically lists out all the sections in the tower along with the amount of wastage for each section and also a summarized view which shows the total length and weight of the members including the amount of wastage.

The Cutting plan presents a breakdown of the number of members belonging to a selected section and also the various lengths in which each piece member is being cut. The Material Order List is an automatically generated organized list containing the exact specifications for each section and the number of pieces that it contains.

Exporting Drawings

With a single click of the mouse, the user can export the complete assembly drawing to popular drawing packages such as AutoCAD and MicroStation. The drawing can be exported in the widely used DXF format that can be used with a number of CAD software.