Overview

Edit Mode in Viewer is designed to edit vector elements on Drawings. It offers similar editing capabilities in the following modes:

• Edit Mode

• Redline Mode

• Change Requests Mode

This section described toolbar sections specific to Editing modes. For base toolbar sections please refer to View / Object Select Mode.

Switching to edit mode also means that we move away from object context like Room, Space or Equipment and move towards technical drawing content, like vector entity, layer and links.

The edit toolbar overview is as follows:

Toolbars

Adjust Toolbar

Adjust toolbar is used to align any type of background drawing to fix vector overlay. 

In order to activate these functions, please select a background drawing from the Drawings and Layers menu:

For in depth explanation please refer to Move and Scale/Align background drawing guide.

Edit Toolbar

Editing toolbar can be used to manipulate existing spots (vector elements): Clone, cut, copy and paste. 

For full explanation, please review GUIDE: working with Viewer Edit toolbar

Draw Toolbar

A Draw toolbar allows you to select a new shape that should be drawn.

This toolbar is active only when Drawing contains an editable Vector drawing, and if a proper Layer is selected in:

• Redline mode - when editable (your own or shared) layer is selected

• Edit mode - when editable local or global layer is selected.

• Change Requests: when active change request is selected . See more in Change Management Workflow

Available drawing tools:

Shape Type	Shape Icon / Button	Shape Sample	How to Draw
Rectangle			Start draw function Click to Indicate first corner Move mouse to second corner position Click to indicate second corner Draw function is finished
Line			Start draw function Click to Indicate starting point Move mouse to second point position Click to indicate ending point Draw function is finished
Polyline			Start draw function Click to Indicate starting point Move mouse to second point position Add as many points as needed by moving mouse and click Right click and select End Draw to finish shape
Free line			Start draw function Click and hold to start draw Move mouse while holding down Lift mouse button to finish draw Function is ready to draw next shape To cancel, do one of the following: Select the function button again Select another shape type Hit ESC button
Polygon			Start draw function Click to Indicate starting point Move mouse to second point position Add as many points as needed by moving mouse and click Right click and select End Draw to finish shape When shape is ready, add additional vertex points by right click on any of the existing vertices and select Add or Delete point.
Circle			Start draw function Click to Indicate circle center point Move mouse to increase or decrease circle radius Click again to finish draw
Ellispe			Start draw function Click to Indicate ellipse center point Move mouse to increase or decrease ellipse size Click again to finish draw
Circle Arc			Start draw function Click to Indicate starting point of the base line Move mouse to second point position Click to indicate ending point of the base line Move mouse to change curvature Click again to finish draw
Text			Select draw function Click on drawing to insert text Fill in the text value Modify parameters like size and alignment Close to finish
Icon			Icon function is using a split button. An icon / symbol can be selected and set under Icon button by using arrow and dropdown selection form. When the symbol is preset, all consecutive activations of draw function will use the selected icon. Icons can also be dragged and dropped directly from the list onto the drawing.

Insert Toolbar

Functions in this toolbar allows inserting area and length values for selected spot.

Select a spot on a drawing and activate desired function:

• Insert length

• Insert area

Inserted length/area is a new shape in the drawing. It is not connected in any way with the original shape and will not reflect changes in area or length automatically. 

Drawings & Layers

Drawings

Drawing selection in case there are more then one Vector drawings present. In most cases, Layer management is enough and single Vector Drawing is perfectly enough. 

For managing Drawing components (add / remove) please refer to Guide: Manual import of raster drawing and Working with Map Data Source

Layers

Drawings and Layers toolbar also provides overview of available layers and their properties. A list of all visible layers is presented in the dropdown.

Columns

Column	Name	Description
	Scope	Describes scope and owner of the private layer. Possible values include: Global layer managed by system administrator Private layer owned by you Private layer owned by another user (tooltip shows user name)
	Fill/Stroke	Fill and stroke color visualization for layer. This is a default style for all elements on that layer. Shapes might have individual style set that will override the layer style.
	Name	Name of the layer
	Editable	Indicates if layer is editable for current user Possible values: layer is editable Layer is not editable
	Visible	Indicates if layer is visible Possible values: Layer is visible Layer is not visible
	Active	Indicates if layer is active for selection Layer is active Layer is inactive

Shape Properties Toolbar

Color and other properties can be changed as per vector entity if needed. In many situation this should be avoided as it can lead to some confusion, when multiple entities on the same layer look differently. 

When changed, color of such entities will not correspond to colors indicated on Layer drop down. 

To change a color of given shape, simply select that shape in edit mode by single click, on the Shape properties toolbar select Color drop down icon and choose desired color from the Color Picker. 

Notice the "Reset to Layer style" button  that will revert selected setting. This function is available for every other setting as well. 

In the same way a transparency settings of both fill color and stroke like can be changed:

Line width and radius can be controlled in several ways:

• Fixed width setting indicated that the with of a given entity will not change with magnification of the drawing (zoom). It will remain fixed and will always appear the same way on the screen. 

• Width indicates the with of the line or border of any entity. 

• Units set to Drawing will inherit Width units from the drawing. You can also select from other units:

  • Inch

  • Millimeter

  • Centimeter

  • Meter

• Corner radius makes corners of rectangle more rounded (please notice that this option works only for single rectangle).

Context menu in Edit mode

Context menu in Edit mode changes from Object related menu to vector entity menu as well. 

Available options for selected entity include:

• Reset to Layer Style - resets all properties of this entity back to Layer defaults.

• Change Layer - allows to move selected spot from it's original layer to another. Edit rights for destination layer are needed.
  You can also move reline spots to other redline layers from Redline mode.
  You cannot hover move layers from one drawing to another (ex. overlay layer to redline drawing).

• Delete - deletes this entity from the drawing. 
   Note: Auto Save function does not influence delete function. Delete is performed immediately regardless of the Auto Save setting. 

• Show links - displays a popup window with information about linked objects. for more information see Object Linking (Relations)

• Paste link - if system clipboard contains link to another object it can be linked to this entity by using Paste link function.

• Change Order function allows to bring selected entity to front or send it to back but only within spots on same layer. 
  That means that spots on layers on with higher index will not be affected by Send to Back and will still cover spots on layer with lower index.

Group / Ungroup entities by using Context Menu

If two or more entities are selected, a group menu will appear on the context menu popup. 

If entities that are already grouped are selected, an Ungroup option will become available.

Other groups might be grouped together as well, but that might create a complex situation that is hard to follow. 

If a Space with several columns (with negative area marker) are grouped together their area will be reported as one.