User manual PUNCH! SOFTWARE HOME DESIGN ARCHITECTURAL 18

[. . . ] USER'S GUIDE A HOME DESIGN rchitectural Series TM 1 8 © 2002 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 © 1995-2002 Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] To set undo parameters 1 2 On the Edit menu, click Undo Preferences, the Undo Preferences dialog box is displayed. Click the Deactivate Undo (Faster) box, then 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 everything 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. 148 PUNCH!Home Design Architectural Series 18 User's Guide Moving Features to Different Plans 2 Click the object or objects you want moved. To select more than one object, press the SHIFT key while clicking objects. 2 3 Click either Cartesian or Polar, then type amount you want the plan moved in the appropriate text boxes. The plan is moved based on the coordinates you specified. 3 Note: Coordinates are measured in inches or they can be measured in feet and inches separated by a hyphen. Moving Features to Different Plans With Punch!AS18 you can move selections to different plan layers, Move to Floor deletes these objects from their original position. This will be useful if you want to place a story between two stories that you have drawn. To move features from one plan to another 1 On the Standard toolbar, click the Selection Tool. To select more than one object, press the SHIFT key while clicking objects. On the Edit menu, click Move to Plan, then specify the plan where you want the feature to appear. [. . . ] To define a custom color 1 2 On the Design toolbar, click the Color button. (optional) At the top of the Preview Bar, click the down arrow next to "Colors" to display the Colors style menu, then click to check Summer. The Color dialog box is displayed. 3 4 5 Click an area on the color spectrum window to select a color, then adjust the values, if necessary. (optional) Adjust the current Red, Green and Blue values to create a custom color. [. . . ]