Sentinel Nexus CAD

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Command: SELECT

Floor 1 of 1

CAD LEGEND

🟨 Exterior / Interior Walls

🟦 Windows

🟧 Doors

🟥 Horn/Strobe / Pull

🟡 Smoke Detector

🟣 Camera

🔷 Card Reader / REX

🟠 Door Contact

🔵 SLC Loop Wire

🔶 NAC Circuit Wire

🟢 Low-Voltage Wire

🟩 Dimensions

ESC = Deselect · DELETE = Remove

OBJECTS

Rooms1Walls4Doors0Windows0Stairs0Elevators0Escalators0Ramps0Devices0

NSWE

Start a building

Describe it to Sentinel AI, scan rooms, or draw them with Add Room. Or open the sample school to see a finished design.

Fire Alarm Design

Floor 1: 1 rooms - 0 covered, 1 with gaps, 1 need strobes

Show coverage circles and gaps in 3D

Heat listed spacing (ft)Strobe device

Detectors Strobes

Office

Smoke 0 - 0% - S=30 ft - no strobe

NFPA 72: smoke 30 ft spacing, heat reduced for ceilings over 10 ft, every point within 0.7 x S. Strobes per Table 18.5.5.4.1(a); corridors 15 cd, max 100 ft apart. Assumes smooth flat ceilings - verify beams, slopes and diffusers.

Sentinel AI 3D Builder

Describe a building - "two-story school, 8 classrooms, gym" - and Sentinel AI draws the rooms, doors and fire alarm devices for you. Included in the free trial.

Start free trial

3D Tools

Current Floor: 1

Paint Schedule

Add the job's colors, pick a default for each surface, then change any room. Saved with the building.

Linear Feet & Paint

From the rooms, doors and windows drawn. Baseboard stops at doors; casing counts each side of a door and all four sides of a window.

Working out the takeoff...

Measure by hand

No measurements yet. Add a run or a room.

Waste %Stick length

0.0

LF measured (0' 0")

LF with 10% waste

16' 0" sticks

Building Materials

Exterior applies to every wall facing outdoors on that side of the building; interior to every inside wall. Select a single wall to switch it between exterior and interior.

North Exterior

South Exterior

East Exterior

West Exterior

Interior Walls

Object Tree

PDF

Properties

Active Layer

Layer Manager

Building Templates

Device Palette

Measurement Result

No measurement selected

Material Count