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Edit Mode

Edit Mode

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 means transitioning away from object context, such as Room, Space, or Equipment, and shifting towards technical drawing content like vector entities, layers, and links.

The overview of the edit toolbar is as follows:

Multi-selection of more than one spot is possible. All operations done when having more than one spot selected will be applied to all selected spots.  

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 enables you to choose a new shape for drawing. This toolbar is functional only when Drawing contains an editable Vector drawing and if the appropriate Layer is selected in:

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

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

  • Change Requests: when an active change request is selected. For more information, refer to Change Management Workflow.

Available drawing tools:

Shape Type

Shape Icon / Button

Shape Sample

How to Draw

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

Ellipse

 

  • 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.