First and foremost, ARC+ is a software package which combines ease of use with high performance.

Second, ARC+ is a complete software system, that can handle projects from the basic idea through final implementation. The fusion of 2D and 3D modes enables you access to all the information you need throughout the project.

And finally, ARC+ is a tool that does not require adopting any particular work method; it adapts to any type of project, any type of enterprise, and-most important: any type of user.

ARC+ is the reference tool for many large-scale projects throughout Europe and around the world. With more than 30 000 users in Europe and throughout the world, ARC+ undoubtedly represents a large group of satisfied of architects and designers.

Conceive
Designed as a graphic toolbox, ARC+ enables you to transform your ideas immediately in 3D space by providing an array of simple high-performance tools. Creating a solid model is almost as easy as imagining it.

ARC+ is a CAD software that enables you to model materials and volumes in perspective, axonometric or orthogonal views. Within a short time - even with no prior knowledge of computers - you will be proficient enough to express your ideas in 3D. Any structure created in ARC+ can be sculpted as easily as a polystyrene or clay model.

This flexibility offers you the possibility of visually testing your ideas on-screen and developing alternative solutions. ARC+ provides tools for drawing, cutting and shaping your model in either 2D or 3D view enabling you to work interactively.

ARC+ represents a completely original concept-to create an entity from the realm of imagination, possessing both 2D and solid properties that can be changed at will.

Design
The design phase is the stage between the idea and its realization. At this stage ideas confront reality, environmental, legislative and other constraints. Your computerized tools should help you realize the project and its intended function.

ARC+, specifically developed for use in architecture, building and spatial planning, is intuitively geared to construction.

ARC+ enables you to display any level of detail to determine if a certain feature "works," utilizing walk-through viewing capabilities in the 3D model. Specific building elements such as walls, doors & windows, flooring, staircases, roofing can be created and refined either manually or automatically.

For example, you can create the elements of a staircase individually, or allow the system to calculate the staircase automatically. All you have to set are the parameters and any limitations to be taken into account, such as local building regulations.

ARC+ also provides the precision that is required in architectural design. An entire toolbox of help lines (like pencil construction lines in a drawing) helps you pinpoint intersections and arc centers, and create parallel lines, tangents, divisions, etc. in either 2D or 3D view. Precision in turn, requires control of numbers and measurements to facilitate communication with other parties involved in a project.

With ARC+, a simple "click" can give you lengths, volumes, surfaces and quantity calculations. The versatility of ARC + enables you to design using the method most appropriate to that project and your personal style. You can utilize ARC+ for any project or study, plan an external envelope or an interior structure, or draw up plans at the scale of a neighborhood as easily as the scale of a kitchen.

Present
Even the best idea or project design is not enough, you must be capable of presenting it convincingly.

Preparing presentation drawings is fast and easy-utilizing the powerful ARC+ tools and functions. You can capture any number of views, rescale them, insert the necessary text and titles in a variety of fonts, and arrange them all on attractive presentation sheets.

The need for high-quality presentations as well as new demands for on-site project integration provide an impetus for sophisticated rendering.

Thanks to its formidable 3D capacity, ARC+ was the first CAD Architecture software offering an integral rendering module: ARC+ Render

With its mastery of - multiple light sources and transparency, reflection and absorption effects, real and simulated 3D textures - ARC+ Render enables you to produce high-quality photo-realistic images within the ARC+ softwvare.

ARC+ also interfaces with other professional imaging software as well. This enables you to produce a digitized "montage" integration of the rendered building, for example, with a photograph of the actual site.

Produce
To finish a project you have to be able to communicate with other bodies involved in the project: engineers and other consultants, building contractors, local planning authorities, etc. With ARC+, the 2D working details are ready for everyone.

Whereas the 2D and 3D provide different views of the same entities, production with ARC+ is easy, because you can easily generate any view that you need - plans, elevations, perspectives, etc - for production drawings. For example, when you place a wall in your model, ARC+ generates the appropriate 2D documentation: the wall layers, integration of the wall and the frame, and integration of the wall and its layers at the junction with other multi-layered walls.

To help you produce professional working drawings, ARC+ gives you an impressive parametric tool for your 2D and 3D libraries. Instead of separate library entries for each view and size of a window or table for example, one parametric object, can be displayed in any dimension, any 2D or 3D views, and at a variety of scales.

But that's not all-production involves the capability to transfer documents and information between the different systems used by construction professionals.

To meet these needs, ARC+ is equipped with a unique easy-to-use interface between ARC+ and DWG- the CAD industry standard format.

Producing also means proper evaluation of implementation costs and schedules. To this end, ARC+ has an integral calculation module allowing precise and rapid evaluation of surfaces (with or without adjusting factors), wall surfaces including or excluding doors and windows, wall and space volumes, running lengths, and other elements of the project.

The calculated quantities may be exported to other software-from its beginning, ARC+ has enjoyed interface capability with numerous measurement and evaluation software packages.

The list of additional tools in ARC+ that you can use to produce working drawings goes on-automatic dimensioning, presentation views, graphic textures and patterns, multiple fonts...

Pictures
"Conceive" : Impac Espace Architecture, V.Vagnier Infographie
"Design": 2A Architecture, Cambournac-A.Huber-G.Lefebure J.L. Quertinmont Architectes
"Present" : PARENT Arhitectes - Image Charette Système
"Produce" : Architecte CREAUR, Infographie: Logic'Arch