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• The program creates the appearance of the future house, the view points and axonometrical and perspective projections.

When working in K3-Cottage a large variety of specific house elements such as ceiling and flooring beams, columns, consoles, shaped apertures, ladders, terraces is at your disposal. At creation of all construction elements of the house the programm automatically makes all the calculations of each element (grooves, cuts, compensators, etc.) and puts into project all the necessary technological data. The model of the house is created in view of characteristics of the construction materials applied at your manufacture. The modelling is performed in 3D mode and is displayed simultaneously on all views. Such method significantly simplifies the designer’s job.

• Floor-by-floor house plans

On the floor plan wall axes and distances between them are displayed. Separate premises are allocated automatically. The program calculates on request the room floorspace, the area of flat and visible sectors of walls, volume and perimeter of each room. The area of walls is calculated with regard to door and window apertures. The dimensions and boundaries of door and window apertures can be put down on the plan.

• Roof plans

Roof plans display axes of walls and distances between them, contours of slopes and height marks. For each slope the direction and the inclination may be specified, the slope area and perimeter can be counted up.

• Presentation materials

The model can be presented on a background of a specific landscape. K3-Cottage can paint the model in natural colors, the program may show the model from any arbitrary point, more than that the program provides a unique opportunity to take a walk in and around the future house. The last version of the program creates a photorealistic image from 5 to10 times faster. The image can be printed.

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• Specification sheets for the wall elements (with the drawing and markings of each log, with all the technological elements: notches, holes for treenails and through bolts, sawcuts for windows, log end cuts, etc.)

The wall elements specification sheet (log table) is the main manufacture document. This table contains highly detailed drawings of each log with all the necessary dimensions indicated. Logs are grouped by walls, by raws or by length. Besides, same logs can be incorporated into one line of the table. The wall elements specification sheet is complemented by the table of log ends faces and notches.

• Log cutout tables

The Log Cutout Table presents charts of optimum cutout. The charts are designed to minimize the construction costs and reduce the amount of building residues. The cutouts contain detailed drawings of logs including the unique names, lengths, notches, treenails, through bolts, log end markings and scale of sawcuts as well as the list cutout residues. The system locates all logs with open half-saddle notches in such manner that the half-saddle notches form an entire notch on the log. Logs are grouped by material. For each material the system calculates the volume of workpieces and the amount of waste in cubic meters and in percent. After creating the cutout charts the Total material consumption table is generated. The system also creates a table of stickers for the reusable residues.

• Drawings of boards

The Board Table report contains drawings of boards and their sections, as well as board numbers, lengths and amount. Boards are grouped by material and by group names, besides, the identical boards can be incorporated into one line of the table. For each material the common length, the area and the volume are counted up.

• Material Register

The Material Register contains the detailed information on consumption of logs and beams, insulation material, structure elements and other materials necessary for manufacture and assemblage of the designed house. The Material Register report presents a table of materials used in the project along with the quantity of materials, their amount and cost.

• Table of apertures (for order and manufacture of windows and doors)

The Table of apertures report contains drawings of apertures with indicated dimensions and names. Apertures are divided into Window apertures and Doorways. Identical apertures can be incorporated in one cell of the table. For each type of aperture the system calculates area of each aperture, the amount, and the total area.

• Identification labels of each log (Nameplates)

The Nameplates report is a table of log numbers. Printed on the self-adhesive paper, it can be used for marking logs and beams during the manufacture and assembly.

• Instructions for the numerical-controlled machine units

K3-Cottage compatibility with the industrial equipment allows transmitting data to numerical-controlled machine units such as Schmidler, Makron, Stromab, Krusi. Such option saves the designer’s time and effort, that shortens the repayment period of the the expensive equipment.

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• Wall involutes with markings of each log (Wall assembly charts)

Wall involutes serve as the control document both at log manufacture and at assemblage of the house. The involutes of each wall display construction axes of adjoining walls; the scale of rows; names and lengths of logs; aperture, column and beam height marks; and also chains of the necessary dimensions. On the designer’s request the program may specify for each aperture its name and boundaries.

• Plan of rows (Row-by-row assembly instructions)

• Names of walls;
• Wall axes and distances between them;
• Wall projections;
• Unique numbers of logs;
• Distances between logs located in one row.

• Plans of beams

The plan of beams displays axes and contours of walls, axes and contours of beams; distances between walls axes and between axes of each group of beams and distance from an extreme beam to the nearest wall. The program also indicates names of walls and beams.