I have some lines on my drawing that I just can’t cancel. Even if I choose “select all”, it’s impossible to select them. How can I eliminate these lines? Follow the steps below: – Select, pressing the Command key, the part of the drawing that is correct. – Cut it with the Cut command from the…
DetailsWhy does the Metric Calculation command bring up a a blank page? You probably haven’t assigned a calculation mode to your elements. Select the elements and choose Calculation from the Parameters menu. For example, you can choose to calculate the volume of a Wall, or the surface area of one face, two faces, or all…
DetailsI would like to know how to draw a grid and something about scale and measures in general. Double click on the Grid icon on the right of the working window. Set the grid values for X and Y directions. This is the active grid. If the icon is enabled (pressed), the mouse is attached…
DetailsThe Getting Started Example begins a roof with two rectangles, which are assigned a material but appear semi-transparent in the documentation. I cannot find a way to change the transparency of rectangles; they are not included in the PARAMETERS menu with other elements. Do you have patterned or hatched rectangles in plan? If this is…
DetailsThe Line Thickness Button seems to not work. Are you pressing the Line Thickness Button long enough? Like several other buttons, it has to be pressed for a short while before the menu of icons appears. Or perhaps your monitor is not set for millions of colors – in this case, the sub-menu is not visible.…
DetailsI reckon I’ve got most of these completed except for the 1:10 details. How do I go about extracting details of the model so they can be printed at 1:10, this includes; stone strip footing detail; top plate detail; connection of rafters, to beam, to post detail etc Just draw them in new layers. If necessary,…
DetailsMaybe you could explain how to use sets and categories , including their differences, and if ther is any functional differnces? Set and Categories allows creating group of elements and handling them easier and faster. Practically there aren’t differences between them. Each element can be part of a set and of a category; this allows creating…
DetailsWhen viewed in 3D , the top of arch/vault looks like it is the correct thickness,, but it tapers down to a point at the bottom ends Any suggestion on how to correct this ,so that the arch’s maintain the same thickness from bottom to top? cheers The slab thickness is always considerated in the Z…
DetailsWhen you have drawn a circle, how do you determine where the centre of that circle is? Center determination – Select a circle, arc, rectangle or oval. – The Generate Attach point at center command from the Process menu (or the equivalent icon on the palette #2) generates an Attach point in the centre of the…
DetailsWhen I draw circles, ones that particular have a tight radius (150- 300mm) the number of points seem to default to about 5 or so creating a pentagon ,rather than a circle. Is there a way of altering the number of points in a circle and if so, how do I do it. It is particularly…
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