Our Computer Fencing System Software (CFS) is a staple in the industry. Stunning Visual Fencing Fabrication. Our Scratch Fencing Fabricator programs allow you to design standard and custom fence styles, increase your estimating productivity ten-fold, eliminate mistakes, and provides you with the tools to manage both the fabrication. Our Computer Fencing System Software (CFS) is a staple in the industry. The Computer Fencing System produces the most professional proposal in the fence industry. With its exact calculations and easy-to-use functions, it’ll help you sell jobs when you’re not the lowest bidder! Design accurate commercial projects in minutes. Aurora’s commercial suite includes design and financial analysis tools custom built for C&I projects, making it the industry’s only all-in-one commercial solar design software. Use fill zones to instantly create standardized PV systems. In the Software Design and Architecture Specialization, you will learn how to apply design principles, patterns, and architectures to create reusable and flexible software applications and systems. You will learn how to express and document the design and architecture of a software system using a.
Methods for Software Architecture
The SEI has a range of proven methods and practices that can help organizations use software architecture to build and evolve systems that satisfy their business and mission goals. These methods and practices, which are applied at different stages of the development lifecycle, have evolved with the advent of Agile development approaches.
- Capture architecturally significant requirements by analyzing the business drivers, system context, and factors that system stakeholders deem critical to success. We use two methods to identify important nonfunctional quality attributes of the system (e.g., performance, dependability, security, safety) and clarify system requirements: the Quality Attribute Workshop and the Mission Thread Workshop.
- Design an architecture by developing architectural structures and coordination strategies that satisfy requirements. Our Attribute-Driven Design method helps organizations iteratively design effective architectures.
- Evaluate the architecture by determining its ability to support the quality attributes that meet an organization's business and mission goals. Our Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) and incremental design-review practices help organizations gain early and ongoing insight into their software architectures.
- Document the architecture in sufficient detail and in an easily accessible form to facilitate communication with developers and other stakeholders and to support analysis. Our Views and Beyond approach captures multiple architecture views, each addressing the concerns of particular stakeholders. The SEI also helped develop the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL), a domain-specific architecture modeling language used for safety-critical systems, and the Open Source AADL Tool Environment (OSATE). AADL and OSATE are used to analyze the performance, security, and safety of real-time systems.
How do you know if a software architecture is deficient or at risk relative to its target system qualities?
The answer is to conduct an evaluation of it. A formal software architecture evaluation should be a standard part of the architecture-based software development lifecycle. Architecture evaluation is a cost-effective way of mitigating the substantial risks associated with this highly important artifact.
The achievement of a software system's quality attributes depends much more on the software architecture than on code-related issues such as language choice, fine-grained design, algorithms, data structures, testing, and so forth. Most complex software systems are required to be modifiable and have good performance. They may also need to be secure, interoperable, portable, and reliable.
But for any particular system, what precisely do these quality attributes—modifiability, security, performance, reliability—mean? Can a system be analyzed to determine these desired qualities? How soon can such an analysis occur? What happens when these quality attributes are in conflict with each other? How can the tradeoffs be examined, analyzed, and captured?
Our tools and methods can be used alone or in combination to obtain early and continuous benefits to any software development project.
The SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference
SATURN is the leading conference for software architecture practitioners who look beyond the details of today’s technologies to the underlying trends, techniques, and principles that underpin lasting success in our fast-moving field. SATURN attracts attendees from many domains and technical communities who share interests in both practice and research. This unique mix makes it the best place to learn, exchange ideas, and find collaborators at the leading edge of modern software architecture practice.
The 16th SATURN Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, on May 11–14, 2020.
Related Courses and Credentials
Based on decades of experience architecting software-reliant systems and supported by four widely acclaimed books, our software architecture training equips software professionals with state-of-the-art practices, so they can efficiently design software-reliant systems that meet their intended business and quality goals.
Learn more about SEI Certificates in software architecture:
We also offer many courses on topics related to software architecture, from big data architectures to microservices, from documenting architectures to analyzing them, and from designing systems to managing their technical debt. Learn more about SEI courses.
Free cctv design tool CCTV Design Lens Calculator 3.0is released! Now it is possible to calculate spatial resolution at specified distance and model images of panoramic cameras with fish-eye lens.
04/25/2016VideoCAD 8.2 Lite was released. More than 50 new features have been chosen from VideoCAD 8 Professional. In addition: VideoCAD 8 Lite does not need dongle or HID, Demo allows to change lens focal length and the demo is free for non-commercial usage, upgrade from VideoCAD Starter and VideoCAD Starter II Kit to VideoCAD Lite and VideoCAD Professional is now allowed, VideoCAD Lite is supplemented to all new VideoCAD Professional licenses for free. What is new in VideoCAD.
02/18/2016
A new teaching article 'The principles of CCTV design in VideoCAD. Part 6. Lens distortion in CCTV design'(*.pdf, 789kB) was published. The article considers influence of lens distortion on the shape of field of view, distribution of spatial resolution and on the image from camera. In this article there is an example of accurate simulation of a camera with wide angle lens.
01/01/2016Software Design Tools
Counters of all customers’ HID protection of VideoCAD are cleared.
07/16/2015
New video tutorial is published. The most important concepts of VideoCAD software: camera view area and horizontal projection of the view area are considered in details. CCTV design in VideoCAD. Camera view area.
06/30/2015
Freeware CCTV Design Lens Calculator 2.0 is published! Now it is possible to take into consideration image sensor sizes and aspect ratio of modern cameras by the same way as in VideoCAD 8.1.
05/18/2015
VideoCAD 8.1 Professional is published! The new features include: Modeling image sensor sizes and aspect ratio of modern cameras, Improving usability of working with 3D models and constructions in editing state, Upgrade of AutoCAD import/export. What is new in VideoCAD
01/01/2015
Counters of all customers’ HID registrations are cleared.
09/29/2014
VideoCAD 8.0 Professional is released! What is new in VideoCAD
01/01/2014
Counters of all customers’ HID registrations are cleared.
01/01/2013
Counters of all customers’ HID registrations are cleared.
04/10/2012
VideoCAD Starter II Kit was published. VideoCAD Starter II offers additional features formerly available in the Lite and Professional versions only. More..
03/29/2012
CCTV Design Lens Calculator 1.0 was published - an easy free tool for CCTV design. Along with traditional features of Lens Calculators, CCTV Design Lens Calculator offers several new, more effective tools. More..
01/01/2012
Counters of all customers’ HID registrations of VideoCAD are cleared.
09/29/2011
IP camera CCTV Calculator (CCTVCAD Calculator) 2.0 was released. The new features are supporting VideoCAD 7 project format and patterns in XML format. This upgrade is free for all customers.
09/20/2011
VideoCAD Plugin for Google SketchUp was released. It allows to export 3D models and scenes from free version of Google SketchUp to VideoCAD.
09/12/2011
A new teaching article 'The principles of CCTV design in VideoCAD. Part 5. Video surveillance of moving objects'( 650kB*.pdf) was published. In this article we consider the main reasons of distortion of moving objects in CCTV and tools for modeling these distortions in VideoCAD. Examples of work with animated images are given.
04/26/2011
VideoCAD Starter is released. VideoCAD Starter is the easiest, low cost version of VideoCAD with 3D modeling. VideoCAD Starter is registered only by personal registration code, without dongle or hardware locking. More...
03/21/2011
CCTVCAD Lab Toolkit 1.0 is released. CCTVCAD Lab Toolkit is a collection of software tools and well-tested practical techniques for measuring parameters of various CCTV equipment (cameras, lenses, filters, light sources and other).
03/15/2011
VideoCAD 7.0 is released! What is new in VideoCAD 7.0
01/01/2011
Counters of all customers’ HID records of VideoCAD are cleared.
06/15/2010
CCTVCAD Calculator (IP Camera CCTV Calculator) 1.0 is released. CCTVCAD Calculator is a tool for calculating required network bandwidth and disk space for IP cameras and video encoders.
01/01/2010
Counters of all customers’ HID records of VideoCAD are cleared. Irrespective of how many records have been used everyone who purchased VideoCAD before 01/01/2010 get the initial number of reserve registrations (2).
09/13/2009
Released VideoCAD 6.102 with Senselock dongles support. During the order process you can choose standard USB dongle or mini-dongle for notebook. More...
05/07/2008
CCTV design forum started. You can discuss any CCTV design questions, ask any questions about VideoCAD to its developers and share your knowledge.
04/14/2008
A new teaching article 'The principles of CCTV design in VideoCAD. Part 4. Illumination and camera sensitivity in CCTV'(*.pdf, 1950kB) was published. This article could be useful not only for VideoCAD users, but also for a wide circle of specialists. The article covers features of video surveillance system work in low light conditions, which are applicable for analog and digital (IP) CCTV systems.
02/10/2008
Low cost CCTV design software VideoCAD 6.1 and VideoCAD_Lite 6.1 are released!
VideoCAD_Lite is an inexpensive version of VideoCAD with limited features. VideoCAD_Lite offers only the most useful and easy-to-master tools for CCTV design.
Counters of all customers’ HID registrations are cleared. Irrespective of how many registrations have been used everyone who purchased VideoCAD before 02/10/2008 get the initial number of reserve registrations (2).
11/15/2007
VideoCAD 6.0 is released! Whats' new in VideoCAD 6.0
01/01/2007
Counters of all customers' HID registrations are cleared.
11/06/2006
A new teaching article 'The principles of CCTV design in VideoCAD. Part 3. 3D modeling in VideoCAD'(*.pdf, 916kB) was published. In the third part , step by step on a practical example the basic tools for three-dimensional modeling in VideoCAD 5.0 from creation of 3D model of environment up to creation of image models on monitors are described.
05/26/2006
VideoCAD 5.0 is released. Whats' new in VideoCAD 5.0
03/07/2006
Magnitogorsk shoe factory know for its “FOMA” trade mark has deployed new security system. Due to the factory huge area and distributed structure VideoCAD_MAP module (developed by CCTVCAD Software) was integrated to the security system. Module schematically shows all facilities accommodated at the 4-storey building and gives opportunity to zoom-in displayed objects.
03/06/2006
A new article 'The principles of CCTV design in VideoCAD. Part 2. Person detection area, person identification area, license plate reading area'(*.pdf, 806kB) was published. In this article the automatic tools for calculation of person detection, identification and license plate reading areas are described in detail. Also there is the guide for using these tools in VideoCAD.
02/19/2006
A new article 'The principles of CCTV design in VideoCAD. Part I. Camera view area'(*.pdf, 655kB) has been published, which describe some basic working methods with this program. This article helps beginners and skilled experts, unfamiliar with the VideoCAD software to manage it faster.
01/01/2006
Counters of all customers' registrations of VideoCAD are cleared. Irrespective of how many registrations have been used, everyone who purchased VideoCAD before 01/01/2006 get the initial number of reserve registrations (2).
10/10/2005
A free package for VideoCAD users was released. It is designed to import 3D models and scenes from 3DSMAX to VideoCAD ( 453kB).
05/26/2005
The User manual of VideoCAD 4.0 in PDF format ( 884kB) is released .
Software Design Specification
05/01/2005
VideoCAD 4.0 is released. Whats' new in VideoCAD 4.0
Software Design Template
01/01/2005
Counters of all customers'; registrations of our software are cleared.
12/10/2004
VideoCAD 3.02 is released. In Russian edition of CCTV Focus magazine, #5/ 2004 there was published an article 'Professional design of CCTV system'. There is english translation of the article.
10/07/2004
The User manual of VideoCAD 3.01 in PDF format ( 727kB) is released.
07/09/2004
VideoCAD 3.01 is released. In CCTV Focus magazine, issue 28 - 2004 there was published an article 'VideoCAD for professional CCTV system design'(*.pdf, 671kB).
An opportunity to buy VideoCAD through CCTV Focus magazine is appeared.
06/25/2004
VideoCAD 3.0 is released. Whats' new in VideoCAD 3.0 Update for all previous versions is free of charge. Furthermore, counters of all customers' registrations of the previous versions are cleared. Irrespective of how many registrations have been used, everyone who purchased VideoCAD 1.0 or VideoCAD 2.0 get the initial number of reserve registrations (2). In future we are planning to clear registration counters regularly.
VideoCAD will always be at hand and you will not need to pay twice.
02/04/2004
VideoCAD 2.0 is released.
12/03/2003
VideoCAD 1.0 is released.