Connect new space to the existing home deliberately. HomeCat helps coordinate room layout, openings, structure, roof form, exterior appearance, and property constraints.
A useful drawing package brings new floor area, room additions, second-storey additions, garage additions, existing connections, and permit drawing packages into one coordinated view. That makes the project easier to understand, review, price, and build.
Begin with existing house measurements, photos, desired rooms, openings, roof and foundation preferences, property boundaries, setbacks, and structural input. HomeCat checks the property's zoning automatically and uses the applicable requirements to guide the plan. From there, the drawings can be shaped around the actual property and the decisions that matter to the project, with permit or professional-review items clearly flagged when they need attention.
Sign in, choose the property, and enter the size and key requirements.
HomeCat checks zoning and develops the layout, site fit, and drawing package.
Save the project and export measured drawings, quantities, and cost inputs.
HomeCat keeps the project dimensions connected to material quantities and cost inputs as the plan changes.
HomeCat captures existing wall lengths, floor levels, openings, eaves, and structural interfaces where the addition joins the house.
HomeCat measures the new footprint, room areas, circulation widths, exterior wall lengths, and distances to property constraints.
HomeCat coordinates roof slopes, ridge and eave heights, bearing lines, foundation lengths, and changes in grade around the addition.
HomeCat calculates demolition lengths, new openings, roof intersections, foundation connections, and exterior finish transitions at the existing house.
HomeCat calculates new floor, wall, roof, foundation, opening, fixture, and finish quantities for trade pricing.
HomeCat coordinates existing and proposed plans, elevations, sections, site integration, and revision inputs as one priced drawing package.
Yes. HomeCat automatically checks the property's zoning requirements and uses them to guide the project. It also flags permit or professional-review items that still need attention.
A typical package includes Existing and proposed plans, Addition elevations, Site integration plan, Construction sections. HomeCat tailors the sheets and level of detail to the project, property, applicable permit requirements, and professional scope.
Prepare existing house measurements, photos, desired rooms, openings, roof and foundation preferences, property boundaries, setbacks, and structural input. Better source information reduces assumptions and makes review comments easier to resolve.
Yes. HomeCat builds one coordinated package for permit applications, contractor pricing, and construction coordination, including the project-specific documents and licensed professional input.
Yes. HomeCat provides architectural and engineering drawings with licensed professional review and stamping. The review and stamp are coordinated as part of the final drawing package.
