VisiSitePlan Set

visiSitePlan™ is an application for Microsoft Visio® that enables you to precisely draw surveys and site plans for residential or other small properties

• This is a professional level product suitable for use by surveyors and architects working on residential projects.
• For Residential Projects it has all the features of Computer Aided Design systems costing thousands of dollars.  (with the exception of surveying features needed for Civil Engineering projects like highway design or for layout of entire housing tracts.)
• Because it uses Visio and custom “SmartShapes” it is much easier to use and can produce far more attractive, colorful and persuasive drawings.
• Any homeowner, property developer or builder can now draw their own accurate site plans to study zoning restrictions, development potential, and any number of schemes for renovation of, and additions to, a property.
• The Survey you draw, plus any number of Site Plan Schemes are each stored in separate overlay pages within a single Visio vsd file.

visiSitePlan  comes with a drawing template, a tutorial, sample drawings and 4 stencils containing tools for drawing Surveys and Site Plan Designs.

About the Author

Barry Milliken, the author of visiSitePlan™, is a practicing Professional Architect. But he also has an extensive background developing 3D CAD systems for architecture and engineering. He developed his first smart shape during the initial Visio beta test program in 1992 and has been using Visio for his own work ever since. You can see more examples of his drawings at www.millikenarchitecture.com. Barry's goals in developing visiSitePlan were:

• Apply the power of Visio smart shapes and templates to Home Planning  and Design at a level not seen before.
• Provide professional level design and drawing software for architects, surveyors and engineers, but which is far more efficient and cost effective than AutoCad.
• Provide anyone with Visio skills to easily participate in Home Site Planning and Design.

visiSitePlan is the first module in a series of applications that will address all phases of the architectural design process that require the production of 2 dimensional drawings: from Site Planning through to final Construction Drawings.

visiSitePlan Prerequisites

This software will not work the Standard version of Visio. You must have Visio 2003 or later WITH the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) components. In the 2003 release this version was called “Visio Technical”. For Visio 2007 and 2010 you need the Professional version that contains the AEC stencils.