Before undertaking the tedious & uncreative task of encoding your project vicinity maps, check out this section to see if a generous fellow architect might have contributed a vicinity map of the neighborhood your project is located in. It's not an impossibility to be doing a project that's just a stone's throw away from someone else's previous project. If you find any of the available vicinity maps useful, feel free to download & use it. All we ask is that you return the favor by contributing your own location maps of other areas not yet covered by this collection.

Aside from the CAD files supplied by the various manufacturers in the Building Product Center, ArkiSpecs.com offers more CAD files for FREE DOWNLOAD. These are composed of useful CAD drawings pooled together from the contributions of fellow professionals like you. This ever-expanding collection is organized by categories such as Standard Title Blocks, Drafting Symbols, Entourage Drawings, Doors & Windows, 3D Blocks & models, Hatch Patterns, and more. Check it out and you'll surely find something useful for your own projects. In turn, if you have anything to contribute, please do so.

Need to draft so much paperwork from scratch for your project? The virtual secretary section contains hundreds of pre-written text documents created & contributed by your fellow professionals for you to adopt for your purposes. Use these samples as a guide or template for your own paperwork to get your documents done faster & easier. It's like having your own secretary draft your letters, and all that's left to do is to check and add your own details to the documents.