User manual PUNCH! SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURAL SERIES 18 V8 V2

[. . . ] User's Guide Home Design Architectural Series 18 © 2005 Punch!Home Design Architectural Series 18 User's Guide All rights reserved. This document, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and can only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of the license. Portions of the software described in this document © 1995-2005 Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] Home Design Architectural Series 18 User's Guide Part 5 Customizing Your Drawing Chapter 20: Chapter 21: Chapter 22: Chapter 23: Editing Your Drawing . 155 161 169 181 Chapter 20 Editing Your Drawing In addition to standard Windows commands like cut, copy, paste and delete, Punch!You can copy or move objects, walls and so on, to different floors as well as between plan layers. You can flip your entire design either vertically or horizontally to make it easy to view it from any angle or from any direction. In addition, you can move or rotate your entire floor plan at one time. More advanced concepts are also covered in this chapter, such as rotating individual objects to custom fit them into your design and elevating objects using the Elevation Slider to achieve perfect placement. Home Design Architectural Series 18 User's Guide 155 Chapter 20 Editing Your Drawing Editing Using Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear Cut moves the selection to the Clipboard and deletes the original. To edit using the cut command 1 2 3 On the Standard toolbar, click the Selection Tool. 2 Click the Deactivate Undo (Faster) box, then click OK. To set undo parameters 1 2 On the Edit menu, click Undo Preferences, the Undo Preferences dialog box is displayed. Type the number of undo levels you want to use; click OK. To edit using the copy command 1 2 3 On the Standard toolbar, click the Selection Tool. The previous action is reversed. Copying Objects to Different Floors There may be times when you want multiple floors to contain duplicates. Copy to Floor leaves the object in its original position and places a duplicate where you define. To copy from one floor to another 1 On the Standard toolbar, click the Selection Tool. Select Lower Floor if you want to copy the original down one level. To edit using the paste command 1 2 On the Standard toolbar, click the Selection Tool. The selection is copied from the Clipboard to the design window. To edit using the clear command 1 2 3 On the Standard toolbar, click the Selection Tool. AS18, you can specify up to 50 levels of Undo, making it easy to recover your work. Bear in mind, the more levels of undo you specify, the more system resources will be used. To conserve system resources, set the undo level at the lowest level possible. AS18 you can move selections between plan layers; Move to Floor deletes these objects from their original position. To move objects or features from one floor to another 1 On the Standard toolbar, click the Selection Tool. On the Edit menu, click Undo or press CTRL+Z. The previous action is reversed. To turn off undo 1 On the Edit menu, click Undo Preferences, the Undo Preferences dialog box is displayed. 156 PUNCH!Home Design Architectural Series 18 User's Guide Moving Features to Different Plans 2 Click the object or objects you want moved. [. . . ] For more information on creating custom materials, see "Material Modifier", which begins on page 181. To apply a custom material 1 2 On the Design toolbar, click the Custom Material button. (optional) At the top of the Preview Bar, click the down arrow next to "Custom" to display the available material libraries. Click to select the library you want. The materials contained in that library are displayed on the Preview Bar. [. . . ]