http://docs.teamtad.com/ 2026-04-18T01:25:37+00:00 http://docs.teamtad.com/ http://docs.teamtad.com/_media/logo.png text/html 2025-09-16T11:50:13+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/start?rev=1758023413&do=diff Welcome to the Documentation of TAD® TAD stands for “The Architect's Desktop” The key component inside TAD is the software for designing, a unique space based BIM (Building Information Modeler) named TAD Designer Lite. Note: Often the term TAD and text/html 2025-08-20T07:28:18+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/more_details?rev=1755674898&do=diff More Details about TAD TAD was kept alive all these years because there was a dream that architects ought to leave behind cogent knowledge, and not just information, whenever architecture was created. Currently, the freeware (non-open source) version of TAD is the 6.x series. Simultaneously, the 7.x versions of TAD is also being started using new code that works inside browsers, using the open-source development route. And of course, that too would be free. text/html 2025-08-20T07:22:27+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/architect?rev=1755674547&do=diff The Architect What? The architect is represented by small square, with a transparent blue arrow pointing to its top-left corner. The size of the square is based on the current stepsize We had an older page about the architect and you an read that too. The architect is always found on text/html 2025-07-20T17:46:26+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/actgpeditor?rev=1753033586&do=diff Ground Plane Editor TAD creates 3D by extruding shapes linearly. Quite often, when you begin using TAD and when you want to get into TAD you may find that it extrudes only from the ground up. But the truth is: TAD can actually extrude in any direction text/html 2025-07-20T16:48:13+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/starthere?rev=1753030093&do=diff How to start working in TAD If you came here after clicking the tabs of the ribbon menu, learn more about the UI we have You can start a new model by using the appropriate item from the File menu or from the File ribbon bar... Or you can open an existing TAD file. If you have no clue about TAD; examine the various TAD samples we have given in this installation. Those sample files can be examined to build up your confidence. Some of those files are in early stages of designing, some are in l… text/html 2025-07-20T16:46:53+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/tadtips?rev=1753030013&do=diff Tad Tips The tips system is a powerful tutorial system. You can click on the Fetch button and then get more tips from the Internet. You can easily translate the tips, by using the Translate button. Note that from version 6.8.5.0 TAD can even translate the last seen status message. Just press Alt-F2 for that text/html 2025-07-20T12:42:45+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/nohints?rev=1753015365&do=diff Switching off hints When you move the mouse cursor on various parts of the screen, usually two hints are shown. One is shown on the status bar at the top right side The same hint is also usually shown in a colored box below the UI element the mouse is on. If you do not want this particular pop-down box, then you can switch it off in the text/html 2025-07-20T12:41:37+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/dock?rev=1753015297&do=diff How to start working in TAD If you came here after clicking the tabs of the ribbon menu, learn more about the UI we have You can start a new model by using the appropriate item from the File menu or from the File ribbon bar... Or you can open an existing TAD file. If you have no clue about TAD; examine the various TAD samples we have given in this installation. Those sample files can be examined to build up your confidence. Some of those files are in early stages of designing, some are in l… text/html 2025-07-20T12:40:43+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/actselectall?rev=1753015243&do=diff Select All When you use this action, you will find that ALL the currently visible elements would get selected. The number of items in the selection set is displayed in a small box below the information tab on the left side The number of items that are currently selected can be seen in a small box below the information tab which is usually located at the left side text/html 2025-07-20T12:39:25+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/toolbars?rev=1753015165&do=diff How to start working in TAD If you came here after clicking the tabs of the ribbon menu, learn more about the UI we have You can start a new model by using the appropriate item from the File menu or from the File ribbon bar... Or you can open an existing TAD file. If you have no clue about TAD; examine the various TAD samples we have given in this installation. Those sample files can be examined to build up your confidence. Some of those files are in early stages of designing, some are in l… text/html 2025-07-20T11:55:14+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/about_tad_designer?rev=1753012514&do=diff About TAD Designer TAD stands for The Architect's Desktop. If you are in a hurry, you can register and follow instructions here 10 minutes later you would be using TAD TAD is a unique kind of BIM, much different from conventional (IFC based) BIM that you may have seen elsewhere. It is small, extremely fast, and quite easy to use text/html 2025-07-20T11:52:52+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/video_tutorials?rev=1753012372&do=diff Video Tutorials and Audio Podcasts This page has links to various videos and podcasts; and blog articles of Sabu Francis Some videos are made using a system called “Loom” Those loom links here will directly take you to getloom.com In their player, you can take the mouse to the bottom right corner and increase the speed of the video; if you think it is going too slow text/html 2025-07-20T11:36:53+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/dxfimport?rev=1753011413&do=diff Import DXF This is an oft requested feature! Unfortunately, TAD has a lot of internal concepts that do not fit well with a drafting software. However, if you are prepared to create a DXF file containing CLOSED polylines, then you can get those polylines imported into TAD text/html 2025-07-20T11:34:34+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/actexpdxf?rev=1753011274&do=diff Export to DXF With this function you can easily export your model as a DXF file. NOTE: Only objects that are visible will go into the DXF file. Read further for important instructions. IMPORTANT Please make sure you save your file before you execute this function text/html 2025-07-20T11:34:13+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/tad_dyn_actexpdxf?rev=1753011253&do=diff text/html 2025-07-20T11:30:46+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/actpushtopdf?rev=1753011046&do=diff Printing to multipage output Now you can create PDF and SVG files to scale! A neat TAD Multipage Output system helps you output your current TAD model to various types of file outputs, such as PDF and SVG. You can set the resolution (DPI or dots per inch) and create any number of pages text/html 2025-07-20T11:29:38+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/actmultiprint?rev=1753010978&do=diff Multi-Page Settings You can setup a virtual PDF book with multiple-pages in it. This can be setup for each page, where you can send scaled data into the PDF. text/html 2025-07-20T11:28:50+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/tad_dyn_actmultiprint?rev=1753010930&do=diff text/html 2025-07-20T11:28:20+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/actprintpreview?rev=1753010900&do=diff Print This can yield a rough print based on what is viewed. It may not be as per the scale you want. If you want to print to scale, use our print to PDF feature that sends scaled prints to a multi-page PDF. text/html 2020-07-20T23:00:12+00:00 admin (admin@undisclosed.example.com) http://docs.teamtad.com/?image=72958d6ad2505e339e6ceb70e18343dbd0a4e5d1_1_.png&ns=0&rev=1595286012&tab_details=history&media_do=diff&do=media <img src="http://docs.teamtad.com/_media/72958d6ad2505e339e6ceb70e18343dbd0a4e5d1_1_.png?w=500&amp;h=500&amp;tok=dbae66" alt="72958d6ad2505e339e6ceb70e18343dbd0a4e5d1_1_.png" loading="lazy" width="500" height="500" />