DataCAD 9 Review Easy Professional CADD By Geoffrey Moore Langdon, AIA Work on several drawings at once. DataCAD is a powerful and professional CADD software, strong enough for architectural firms to use as their primary design tool, yet easy enough for students and occasional designers to quickly draw or model buildings. Though there is a 2D drafting ability, where you can easily draw just about anything, the software is clearly oriented towards architects, builders, and others who need to do buildings.
Builders love the automatic wood frame generator and cost analysis modules.
Interior Designers love the libraries of photographed materials and the lights and shadows, which bring accurate life to the colorful renderings and animations in the visualization modules. New users tend to be amazed by the huge extent of the support, user groups, and supplemental add-ons available for this solidly established design office software. DataCAD 9 is the latest update to a software which has been actively used by professional architects for over 15 years. It has evolved over the years, of course adding features and ease of use, not in radical jumps but rather incrementally so that existing users could easily make the transitions to new versions and feel comfortable. This version again is a very easy transition for existing users, but it adds a huge number of features that have been on their wishlist for years - the top one being an unlimited undo feature.