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New Plan Viewer features in Takeoff

Updated over 2 weeks ago

With the new plan viewer release some of our tools and how they work have changed.

Takeoff Plan Viewer New Behavior:

  • PANNING ON SHEET: center click + drag only

  • DRAWING LINE SEGMENTS: Single left click at start, second left click at the end point

  • DRAWING RECTANGLES, ELIPSES, CLOUDS: Single Left Click at the first corner/point, second Left Click at opposite corner/point.

  • DRAWING POLYLINES, POLYGONS: Same as Old Plan Viewer, but also allows clicking on original point to close the shape and stop drawing.

  • DRAWING ARCS: Left Click at start point, Left Click at middle point, Left Click at end point. Arc will be drawn to fit the 3 points.

  • DRAWING DIMENSION ANNOTATIONS: Left Click at each point, then move mouse to place the line where dimension will be displayed with final Left Click.

  • LOCATION LABELS: Location labels will have no fill. Text color will match fill color of Location box.

  • MOVING OBJECTS: Select the object, then click on the Move icon on the left of the screen. Choose a base point with a Left Click, choose the new location of the object, then Left Click again to place.

  • ROTATING OBJECTS: Select the object, then click on the Rotate icon on the left of the screen. Choose a base point with a Left Click, move mouse to rotate. Left Click again to fix the object in the new desired position.

  • CURSOR: No changes to cursor between drawing/selecting.

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