Type the lot width and depth — in feet or metres — set the setbacks, and CADdillo draws the house inside the buildable envelope. Property lines, setback lines, dimensions to every boundary and the building coverage, as editable DWG/DXF.
Feet or metres. Per-side setbacks. Zero setbacks for party walls.
Width and depth, in feet or in metres — whichever you actually have. Add setbacks per side if you know them, or take the defaults and change them later. A setback of zero is a real answer: if a wall goes on the property line, say zero and it is drawn on the line.
The setbacks are cut off the parcel and what is left is where the house may stand. The plan is sized to fit that envelope rather than to a generic footprint, with the entry on the street side and the yard behind.
The lot line, the setback lines, dimensions from each boundary to the building face, and the building coverage as a percentage. If the programme you asked for does not fit the envelope, it still draws — and says so in plain words on the sheet instead of quietly shrinking the house or letting it cross a line.
Drawn from 135 reference layouts, sized to your envelope rather than to a generic footprint.
Yes. Type the lot width and depth and the setbacks for each side, and CADdillo cuts the setbacks off the parcel, finds the buildable envelope, and draws the house inside it — with the property lines, the setback lines, dimensions from each boundary to the nearest building face, and the building coverage as a percentage. The output is editable DWG/DXF, not a picture.
No, and most people do not have one. Width and depth are enough to start, which is how nearly everyone who asks for this describes their lot. If you have per-side setbacks from your zoning, enter them and they are used exactly as given; if you do not, sensible defaults are applied and shown on the sheet so you can see what was assumed and change it.
Yes, in metres or in feet, and the drawing comes back in the units you used — millimetres and square metres on a metric sheet, with the title block stating its units so the numbers can never be read as feet. Most people who ask for a plan on a specific lot are working in metric, and being asked to convert on the one field where precision is the whole point is how a 12 x 24 m lot becomes a square.
It still draws, and the sheet tells you. This is common rather than exceptional — a four-bedroom brief on a 34 x 64 ft envelope is a normal request. Rather than silently shrinking the house or letting it cross a setback line, the drawing states what was asked for, what the envelope actually holds, and which line is crossed, so you can decide whether to cut the programme or check the setbacks against your zoning.
Yes. Enter a setback of zero for that side and the wall is drawn on the line, which is ordinary for a party-wall or adosado condition in dense urban lots. Zero is treated as a real value everywhere in the engine rather than as a blank to be replaced with a default, and no setback line is drawn on a side where the setback is zero — the property line is the setback line.
It draws exactly the setbacks you give it and states the building coverage as a number, which is the honest half of that question and the useful one. It does not know your jurisdiction, so it never says a plan complies — coverage limits, height, lot-line construction and everything else are local. Take the drawing and the figures to your planning department; what you get is a real, dimensioned, editable CAD file to have that conversation with.
The entry goes on the street side, so the front door faces the street and the yard is behind the house. You can say which side the street is on when your lot is not the ordinary case, and the north arrow is drawn from that rather than dropped on as a fixed symbol.
