Picking up where the Getting Started Guides leave off, TurboFLOORPLAN Architectural Training will have you producing quality floorplans, designs and renderings in no time. These video lessons were produced and recorded by Jack Zimmer in conjunction with IMSI/Design. Jack has been both a designer and builder for over 20 years and an avid Floorplan3D, and now TurboFLOORPLAN, user for over 10 years. He holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin. Join him as he shares his methods and expertise in this learning series.

Core Concepts:
Overview Part I - Desktop And Program Navigation Overview Part II - Drawing Basics Overview Part III - View Manager And Printing Overview Part IV - Visualization And Export Options Building Locations - Floors & Levels View Filter Part I - Controlling Displayed Elements View Filter Part II - Locking Elements Project Trace - Importing Scanned Blueprints For Tracing The House Builder Wizard

The Building Tools

Walls Part I - Adjusting By Dims, Offsets, Duplicate To Location Wall Tool Part II - Curved Walls, Breaks, Mirror Tool Wall Tool Part III - Sloped And Step Walls Wall Tool Part IV - Wall Components, Adding Trim Wall Tool Part V - Adding Wainscot And Chair Rails Wall Tool Part VI - 6 Drop Face (Force Exterior (New) Roofs Part I - By Perimeter, By Picking Points, Rakes, Soffit, Gable Roofs Part II - Flush & Raised Dormers Roofs Part III - Dutch Hip Roofs Part IV - 11 Roof Match Planes (New) Roofs Part IV - Dormers, Skylights & Openings Ceilings - Flat, Tray And Cathedral Stair Tools - Inserting Stairs And Creating Floor Openings Columns - Inserting And Mirror Copying Footings - Mono (Wall Attached) And Strip (Column Attached) Room Division Tool - Dividing Floors Spaces Foundation Footings (By Pick Point And By Wall) (New) Wall Wizard (Discuss Creating 2nd Floor Wall With Wizard) (New) Foundation Wizard (Discussion Of Creating Foundtion With Wizard) (New) Room Regions (Discuss Various Aspects Of Room Region) ***** Place With Room Dimension Door / Window Shedules (Create / Discuss Door Window Sched) (New) Room Dimensions (New) Polygon Hatch (Uses Placing Styles Sizing) (New) Bathroom Wizard (Create A Bathroom Layout With Bath Wizard) (New) Corners (New) Shutters (New)

Rendering Techniques
Rendering Part I - Interactive And Sun Lighting & Raytrace Rendering Part Ii - Indoor Lighting And Radiosity Retain Render View (Modify Viewpoint In Render View , Then Modify Model View And Return To Same Render View Retained) (New) Rendering Part Iii - Advanced Lighting Techniques Model On Terrain Part I Model On Terrain Part Ii Animation Sound (Add Sound Node To Animation Path) (New)

Interface and Program Setup

Start Up Page And Links (New) House Wizard - Tool Tips - Tool Tutor (Discuss House Builder - Tool Tips Bottom Left - Tutor Pop Up) (New) Icons Select Wizards (Discuss New Icons)(New) Green Links (Discuss And Show The 3 Online Links 3d Home , Tfplan, Tcad Green) (New) Version Statement (Covers V12- V15 New Icons - Tfp To Tcad Vids In Future) (New) Interface Part I - Toolbars And Snaps Snap Track Walls (Use Of Snap Track With Walls) (New) Snap Track Objects (Use Of Snap Track With Chairs Etc Objects) (New) Interface Part Ii - Desktop Ui, Catalogs, Trace Layer Interface Part Iii – Pull-Down Menus Program Settings - Adjusting And Controlling Program Options File Management - Tips On Working Smart Templates - Working Efficiently Bim Pxf (Show How To Import / Export Bim Files From Website How To Open Punch Files) (New) 18 Sketch Up (Open Place Size A Chrysler Pacifica Skp File) (New) 20 Batch Print New Views (3+ Videos In One 12 Minutes Long, Lenghty Discussion On Print / Batch Printing / Page Layouts) (New)