This module is designed to facilitate communication between the designer, client, builder, trade contractors, and their staff via email and the pocket PC.

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SoftPlan reView greatly improves communication throughout the building process. reView gives instant access, anywhere, to SoftPlan drawings even by non-SoftPlan users! Through email or a Pocket PC, reView allows all those involved in a building project, from the designer, builder, trade contractor, to the client to view, comment, and markup the drawings. reView files can be viewed on a Pocket PC providing the convenience of taking drawings to the site, lumberyard, and client meetings to record changes or punch items. Any markups or comments added to the reView drawings can be loaded directly back into the SoftPlan drawings.

• Author a reView file (.spv) from any SoftPlan file (.spd)
• Use items such as shape, sketch, line, circle, and ellipse to redline a drawing
• Create punch lists directly on the drawing files
• Add comments to the drawing either by typing or by selecting from predefined lists
• Place service symbols to indicate the location of items such as electrical outlets, phone, and TV jacks directly on the drawing
• Query between any two points to calculate distance
• Import mark-ups created in reView PC or reView Pocket PC back into SoftPlan
• Create schedules of all the notes, punch items, and service symbols added to the drawings by reView PC and reView Pocket PC
• Configure mark-up items and comments that are available to reView for punch list, note, and service symbol items
• Print reView drawings either to scale or fit to a page provided permission has been given by the author of the reView file (reView PC only)
• reView allows access to SoftPlan drawings by non-SoftPlan users, anywhere, via email or pocket PC
• Anyone has the ability to mark-up the drawing with comments, revisions, or sketches
• A great way for field personnel to access plans while on the site to record data such as punch items directly on the drawings
• Once the comments and revisions have been made, the reView file can then be conveniently imported back into the original SoftPlan drawing
• Export SoftPlan (.spd) files as .pdf files

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Facilitate Communication With:

Clients
SoftPlan reView is intended to assist in the communication with the client through the entire building process. Initially, it can be used to communicate design ideas to the client, as well as allowing the client to redline a design.

Trade Contractors
All the architectural information is available in a reView file, making it valuable when dealing with trade contractors. Email a reView drawing to a trade contractor to create estimates or communicate design revisions.

Field Staff
Once construction is underway, reView is a helpful tool because all the information the field staff will ever need is stored on their pocket PC. If they need to know the size of something, they simply select it. If a dimension is required, just use the distance command. Punch list items can be created directly on the drawings.

Control Over the Drawing:

While SoftPlan reView was designed foremost as an effective communication tool, it is understood that as the designer or owner of a home plan, some control over your information may be required. When a reView file is being created from a SoftPlan drawing, the author will be asked several questions designed to control what information is available and how it may be used.

The SoftPlan user controls:

• If the reView file can be printed
• If printing is allowed, whether or not the print can be to scale
• Whether to include any images (typically logos or renderings) that may be included on the SoftPlan drawing in the reView file
• To embed the actual SoftPlan (.spd) file directly in the reView file

While the client may wish the reView file to contain less information, your field personnel, trade contractors, and print shops may want as much information as is available.

reView Information
reView FAQ