Produce Shop Drawings
Panels Plus software can be used for a very fast production of semi-final shop drawings. The designer can define the panel geometry either as (or a combination of both) closed polylines or single line elements in AutoCAD and save the drawing in DXF or DWG file format. The panels are grouped in wall elevations where several wall elevations will make the complete Project. Once all panels are defined for the entire job, PanelsPlus can be used to evaluate the centroids, areas, concrete volume for each panel. This information is used to assign the face or edge lifting points, and bracing. All the dimensions are generated automatically, and shop drawings for each panel can be exported to a DXF file and further refinement in AutoCAD if required.
All the dimensions shown in the figure below were generated automatically in PanelsPlus software.
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This innovative piece of software will save an estimated 30% to 70% of the time normally spent on drafting and lifting design of pre-fabricated and tilt-up concrete panels.

Section view of the Template Viewer in PanelsPlus which allows user to import their own template drawing for all the panel output.
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