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Drawing rooms
Drawing rooms
To draw rooms, you must first choose Plan > Create rooms or select the Create rooms tool.
Create
rooms tool
You may create a new room or a new surface in home plan using either way:
- click at each corner of the room, then double-click at its last point
or press the Escape key after you added the last point,
- double-click anywhere inside an existing closed surface (i.e. surrounded by walls).
When you draw a room point by point under magnetism activated, a colored point guide will show up to help you click
at each corner of the room. A room created with a double click will cover the floor area from wall to wall surrounding
the
point where you clicked, and will include also the half doorstep of each door placed on these walls. This feature
ensures rooms join each other correctly in the 3D view when the doors between
rooms are
opened.
So, unless you want to create a special surface that is not attached to walls (like outdoor paths), you should draw
walls and add doors first to your home to benefit of the ability of the software
to display alignment guides and to compute rooms including the half doorstep of each door.
New rooms are simultaneously
drawn in the plan and in the 3D view.
Drawing a room point by point
Creating with a double-click
a room that includes an half doorstep
To end
the drawing of rooms, choose Plan > Select or select the Select tool (or an other tool).
Select tool
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New rooms must contain at least 3 points to exist (a room created with a click and then double-click will be
refused).
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Creating rooms with a double-click includes the area of half doorsteps only of the doors with an elevation
equal to 0. You may give a small elevation (1 mm is enough) to doors that should be ignored during the computation
of a room.
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To help you draw rooms precisely, use tooltips, alignment lines and wall intersection point guides. If you
press the enter key
when the plan has the focus, the values displayed in the tooltip will become editable to let you enter with the
keyboard the length and the angle of the current segment (if you didn't indicate
the first
point of the room yet, the tooltip will display the coordinates of that point). Use the
up arrow, down arrow or tab keys
to edit an other value and press again the enter key to confirm the values you entered. If you want to
use again the mouse to draw the room, simply move it over the plan.
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If you want to disable the activated magnetism on wall intersection points and on the angles of the lines you
draw, disable the magnetism in
the preferences pane or while drawing, hold down the Alt key under Windows, the cmd key under Mac OS X or the Shift + Alt keys under Linux.
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Once a room is created, you may change its location, its name, its colors and
textures in the 3D view and whether its area should be displayed or not.
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The unit displayed by default in the room, plan rulers and plan grid depends on your country. You may switch
to Centimeter, Meter, Millimeter or Inch in the preferences pane. If Inch
is the chosen unit, the room areas will be displayed in square feet, otherwise they will be displayed in square
meter.
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Choose Plan > Zoom in or Plan > Zoom out
to change the plan scale, or roll the mouse wheel forward or
backward while keeping the ctrl key pressed (or under
Mac OS X, the cmd key pressed).
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Use default Aerial view while drawing new rooms, you'll get a more useful
point of view on your home in the 3D view.
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While Create rooms tool is selected, some tools and menus are disabled. If you need these tools, select the Select tool
again.