Architect and Contractor is a system of finishing work calculations in dwellings and public buildings.

Architect and Contractor will allow you to order the information on projects, filter entered data by room name or room number, duplicate similar rooms or change properties of any group of marked rooms.

When using Architect and Contractor you achieve some implicit results during interior projects development and you do it hands down:

· you maintain electronic illustrated catalog of finishing materials, which contains items you usually use in your projects adding new positions little by little as needed;
· you automatically record electronic archive of your interior finishing projects that contains project titles, customers, locations etc. (it provides an opportunity to analyze your activity during reporting period for example);
· you fill up interior finishing data repository according to unified data system, that allows you automatic analysis of project decisions for further optimization.

Architect and Contractor gets maximum results if create the project of "cell" structure building, where each function has its own closed room.

If there are a lot of rooms in the project combining certain functions, i.e. areas divided by furniture and facilities or partitions not of full room height, then the program is less productive.

Examples of "cell" structure buildings:

· dwelling buildings (individual and standard various storeys high, cottages);
· public buildings: hotels, hostels, living tourist center or camping blocks, hospitals, administration blocks, schools or colleges blocks etc.
Examples of "hall" structure buildings: - covered markets;
· industrial buildings, warehouses;
· free planning offices (single office area without partitions of full room height);
· garages and multistorey parking lots;
· covered sport constructions.

Single area buildings frequently have "cell" structure blocks. There are infrastructure objects in the "cell" structure blocks.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· drag-and-drop capabilities;
· object-oriented interface;
· "Properties inspector" to view/edit properties faster;
· new efficient data organization;
· "Report Manager" (to work with list of your report forms);
· "Project Notes" (to store event notes during project creation);
· "Users Manager" (to manage access to the database through local network);
· "Volume Formula" for more flexible and precise material estimation;
· minor updates: new PDF filter is added for reports export; support for reports export to TIFF raster format; Fast Report component is updated to version 3.X; list of project properties is extended (for example, an ability to store firm information now); list of room properties is extended to store more detailed information about room geometry; list of element properties is extended to store more information about elements (costs of elements are divided into "materials costs" and "work costs"); data filtration capabilities are enhanced (filtration of elements of the reference list added); data sorting capabilites are enhanced; raster data compression is added to decrease network traffic and database file size; animation of illustrations is added; help system is enhanced; startup tips are added.