Plot

Plot

The Tools > Plot command allows you to quickly create a plot as Vertical or Horizontal and send it to your Windows printer. You also have the option to place the drawing form or get the command to fit the drawing to the paper.

It includes a Plot Wizard option that provides for various commands to generate a plot of your roof automatically fitting to various page or sheet sizes. The operator can also insert a drawing border, plot in colour or a ‘hidden lines’ view where lines behind are blanked out.

Either of the other options requires the operator to select and set the plot extents. The paper size selected is A4 if your Set-Up > Preference Settings > System Preferences > Units are set metric, or Letter size if the units are set to English or Imperial.

Vertical

This command lets you place the drawing form (A4 or letter size) over an area of the drawing for plotting in a vertical orientation.

Click Vertical, and the Windows Print dialog box is displayed.

After you click [OK], an image of the drawing page is dragged on your cursor. You can then see the relative extent of your model and the page. Locate the bottom left hand corner of the page by clicking the left mouse button, then the plot is sent to your printer.

Note: You may need to adjust your screen display with the Zoom commands and/or the View > Plot-Scale command so you can see the dragged page on screen, as well as fitting your model to the page.

You will find automated printing from the Reporting > Supply-Only, Supply+Install dialog box as well as the Drawings command. You can perform advanced printing using the Drawing > Plot > Screen > Scaled, or the Drawing > Plot > Compose commands.

Horizontal

This command lets you place the drawing form (A4 or letter size) over an area of the drawing for plotting in a horizontal orientation.

Click Horizontal, and the Windows Print dialog box is displayed.

After you click [OK], an image of the drawing page is dragged on your cursor. You can then see the relative extent of your model and the page. Locate the bottom left hand corner of the page by clicking the left mouse button, then the plot is sent to your printer.

Note: You may need to adjust your screen display with the Zoom commands and/or the View > Plot-Scale command so you can see the dragged page on screen, as well as fitting your model to the page.

You will find automated printing from the Reporting > Supply-Only, Supply+Install dialog box as well as the Drawings command. You can perform advanced printing using the Drawing > Plot > Screen > Scaled, or the Drawing > Plot > Compose commands.

Fit-Vertical

This command automatically fits the drawing to your page (A4 or letter size) in a vertical orientation.

Click Fit-Vertical, the Windows Print dialog box is displayed. After you click [OK], the plot is sent to your printer.

Note: You may need to adjust your screen display with the Zoom commands and/or the View > Plot-Scale command so you can see the dragged page on screen, as well as fitting your model to the page.

You will find automated printing from the Reporting > Supply-Only, Supply+Install dialog box as well as the Drawings command. You can perform advanced printing using the Drawing > Plot > Screen > Scaled, or the Drawing > Plot > Compose commands.

Fit-Horizontal

This command automatically fits the drawing to your page (A4 or letter size) in a horizontal orientation.

Click Fit-Horizontal, the Windows Print dialog box is displayed. After you click [OK], the plot is sent to your printer.

Note: You may need to adjust your screen display with the Zoom commands and/or the View > Plot-Scale command so you can see the dragged page on screen, as well as fitting your model to the page.

You will find automated printing from the Reporting > Supply-Only, Supply+Install dialog box as well as the Drawings command. You can perform advanced printing using the Drawing > Plot > Screen > Scaled, or the Drawing > Plot > Compose commands.