Design a Custom Floor House Plan with Home Plan Pro

Home Plan Pro develops architectural home design software for all of your building needs. You can use the mouse, the keyboard, or a combination of both to build the plan. A full array of graphic drawing tools is provided, all you will ever need in order to design a custom floor house plan. A host of pre-drawn figures is included to represent furniture, fixtures, windows, doors and so forth.

Want to build your dream house? Add a room to your home? Create a custom floor house plan? Whatever your drawing needs, Home Plan Pro is your best choice.

It is so easy to learn how to use, you can begin drawing plans within minutes. Since it is easy to use, you save tons of time.

On-line help answers your questions in seconds.

Try it for thirty days FREE.

If you decide to keep it, pay only $39.00¹⁰.

Who Needs Home Plan Pro?¹¹

Tedious tasks have been simplified so your time is devoted to creating great ideas such as a custom floor house plan. Working with walls, which can be tricky, is a snap. Adjust thickness with a couple of clicks. Set the frame spacing with a click. Automatically fill walls with studs or a floor with joists. Cover walls with any of dozens of patterns or solid colors.

Client Testimonials:

Home Plan Pro is exactly what I needed. I produce feature sheets for real estate agents, and am now able to offer floor plans in addition to the photography, which is something I had been asked for by my customers. Home Plan Pro is stable, easy-to-use, and inexpensive. My compliments to the "chefs". Steve

Steve Leach

Demo Lite

Easy To Learn And Easy To Use!

Within minutes of installing Home Plan Pro, you can begin making drawings. While this little demo is not interactive, we hope it gives you a feeling of just how easy it is to learn and to use this program.

	To draw a wall . . .

To add a window . . .

Click on the Window tool button.

Click on point A below.

When you click on point B, the window is inserted.

To add a door . . .

Click on the Door tool button.

Click on point A, the hinged edge of the door.

Click on point B, the edge that latches.

Move off the door in the direction it is to open.

When you click a point C, the door is inserted with dimensions.

To insert a dimension . . .

Click on the Dim tool button.

Click on point A.

When you click on point B, the dimension is inserted.

Interior walls can be added. And all manner of detail, including cabinetry. Select from hundreds of pre-drawn figures to represent furniture, bathroom and kitchen fixtures, and so forth. Further, save parts of what you draw for use later or in other drawings.

Elevations can be drawn with equal ease.

One way to begin is to click on the Framing tool.

Select a framing or siding pattern.

Click on point A.

When you click on point B, the elevation is drawn, with siding in this case.

To add a foundation, click on the Fill tool.

Select from fill patterns available.

Click in turn on A, B, C, and D to outline an area.

When you click again on point D, the area is filled with the pattern selected.

To insert a window, click on the Figures tool.

When a selection is made, the image is placed in the work area as shown below at point A.

Drag the window to point B and click to insert it into the drawing.

Again using the Figures tool, another window and a door have been added below.

There are a host of options not shown above, but we hope this gives you something of the feel of the program. Elevations for all sides of the plan can be drawn. And the roof. Framing details are a snap. You can even add figures of plantings, the beginnings of your landscaping plan.

Home Plan Pro is remarkably easy to learn and to use. Download your copy right now and see for yourself.

http://www.homeplanpro.com/hppoffers/custom_floor_house_plan/index.html

TASKS

1. Define the following concepts, and, if possible, give the Spanish equivalent:
   1. Array
   2. Custom floor (house) plan
   3. Fixtures
   4. Foundation
   5. Hinge
   6. Joists
   7. Landscaping plan
   8. Latch
   9. Studs
2. Do you consider is there any difference between Home Plan Pro, and any other CAD software? What is a Demo Lite? Can you trust such demos? Discuss and justify your answer.

THIS UNIT’S QUOTE: “You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.” – Anonymous

THEORY: Reading & selective search techniques: skimming and scanning. Grammar review. Patterns of cohesion. Vocabulary: Units of measure. Calculating. Basic technical vocabulary. Reading mathematical formulae, diagrams, graphs and symbols. Developing skills.Parts of the house. The rooms. Equipment. Writing a project brief. Presenting a house project to a customer.

RECOMMENDED SITES:

(http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2008/jul/100708hp1.htm)

• Construction Glossary from Home Building Manual (http://www.homebuildingmanual.com/Glossary.htm)
• Electronic symbol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_symbol)
• How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (http://www.unc.edu/%7Erowlett/units/large.html)
• Interpreting property ads
• Jim Loy's Mathematics Page (http://www.jimloy.com/math/math.htm)
• Long and short scales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales)
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online (http://www.ldoceonline.com/)
• Math Resources - Tutorials, Formulas, Directories (http://www.khake.com/page47.html)
• Metric Conversion Tables (http://www.simetric.co.uk/)
• Real Estate Marketing Articles (http://www.armingyourfarming.com/knowledge/index.php)
• Simbología electrónica - Símbolos electrónicos (http://www.simbologia-electronica.com/)
• Welcome to the Electronics Club (http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/index.htm)

TASKS

1. What is the gist of the above texts? Do you think the authors tried to be sarcastic or humoristic? Give arguments to support your answer. [Maximum 50 words]
2. For future reference, and also to help you get acquainted with technical words both in English and in Spanish, you should start a glossary on Construction Engineering / Quantity Surveyor. The following fields should be included: English term, Spanish equivalent, definition, related hyperlinks, synonyms and antonyms. If you want, you may expand these fields. You are advised to work in groups, and advance at a rate of some 50 new words per week. By the end of the year, your glossary should include some 400-500 words.
3. (Crear tabla con unidades más communes, y sus equivalents Br o Am)
4. Watch the following You Tube video-clips and then answer the questions below:
   1. «Du yu spik Inglich?» (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=bHlPk5O_OsA)
      1. What is the gist of video? Make a brief summary in 30-50 words.
      2. What seems to be the problem?
      3. If you had been the hotel receptionist, what would you have done? Would you have tried to explain yourself, or right on the contrary, would you have just hung the phone? Justify your answer [Maximum 50 words]
   2. «The Italian Man who went to Malta» (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YZ9hsT6Ck) and then answer the questions below:
      1. What seems to be the problem?
      2. How many minimal pairs (i.e., nearly homophone words), such as ship [ʃɪp] ≠ sheep [ʃi:p] can you spot?
      3. What piece of advice would you give to our friend?

¹⁰. US$39.00: approx. 26.00 € ↩

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