Victor Paris chooses BathCAD   Victor Paris is one of the UK’s leading bathroom and tile specialists.  The family-owned and run company typically has some 200 different bathrooms on display at its flagship showroom in Edinburgh and across the huge eight-floor showroom in Glasgow. Selling both to consumers and to the trade, Victor Paris has established a strong reputation for quality products competitively priced throughout its forty year history.   Having previously tried to use a competitor's system to produce computer-generated designs, the product was soon abandoned because of the length of time it took to render the images.  According to Ross Penman, who is based in the Edinburgh showroom:  “We are a very busy shop and our customers simply didn’t have the time to wait for a design.”   In April 2009, Victor Paris selected the BathCAD software product from ArtiCAD to replace the competitor's system and the hand-drawn designs which the sales people were increasingly having to rely on.  Ross Penman:  “BathCAD was the obvious choice for Victor Paris.  We were attracted by its ease of use and the speed with which it could be used to produce both plans and 3D designs.”   Ross is a member of a team of fifteen sales people across both showrooms.  He now typically produces some fifty designs each week using BathCAD.  A layout takes about ten minutes and is produced whilst the customer watches.  “The 3D designs and plans are not only much faster to produce, but are also a lot more professional.  Making changes to a hand-drawn design meant that it had to be started again from scratch, whereas with BathCAD, we can simply drag and drop the bathroom furniture and fittings to wherever the customers wants to see them.    “Customers can be completely confident that the design they choose will be an exact representation of their finished room.  Any queries can be resolved immediately with BathCAD, which in turn makes it even easier for us to sell.”   Notes for Editors BathCAD software, for the design of bathrooms, is a powerful, flexible, fast and easy to learn computer-aided design system.  It produces working plans which automatically generate elevations, multiple 3D perspectives, photorealistic impressions, detailed parts lists and costings.  A ‘standard’ kitchen design, including a plan and 3D visualisation can be produced in just ten minutes. Founded in 1992, ArtiCAD Limited has been, and continues to be, solely focused on the development and marketing of innovative, robust computer-aided sales tools for the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom industry. The company has more than 3,000 users of ArtiCAD in the UK alone. ArtiCAD Limited is headquartered in the UK, with subsidiary companies in Ireland and North America.For further information, please contact:   Theresa Turner ArtiCAD Ltd York House, Wolsey Business Park, Watford Hertfordshire, England, WD18 9BL Tel   +44 (0)1923 888101   Fax +44 (0)1923 888096 web http://www.articad.cc