Placing perspectives symbols

After you have chosen your symbol catalog, you can place your Perspectives symbols. Freestanding Perspectives symbols can be placed at any one of four angles.

Choosing a Perspectives symbol

Click a button on the symbol toolbar, or click Symbol Settings $image\SYMICOND.gif$ .

Some symbols have a $image\plus.gif$ by them. These are free-standing symbols. They are oriented as if they were facing away from a wall, with the insertion point in the center of the base where the symbol would align with a wall.

To add a free-standing symbol

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1 To choose a particular symbol alignment, click a symbol then:

· Press á to make symbols face North.

· Press â for make symbols face South.

· Press ß for make symbols face West.

· Press à for make symbols face East.

· Press the TAB key to cycle between each facing.

2 Alternatively, click on the $image\plus.gif$ to see all four versions of the symbol and click it directly.

3 Click to place the symbol. The insertion point is the midpoint at the back – ideal for placement at the base of a wall.

To add a wall features symbol

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Wall symbols are those such as door and windows that fix on to the base of walls. They change shape to match the angle of the wall that they are aligned to. Symbols such as windows that don’t sit on wall bases, will offset up from a wall base after you have placed them.

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1 Click Wall Features $image\Wall_Features.gif$ .

2 Click a symbol fromt catalog window.

3 Move the symbol over a wall base.

4 It stretches and aligns to the current wall base.

5 Click to place it.

If it is an offset symbol (window), the prompt reads "offset from place point [40]:"

6 The offset symbol now moves perpendicular (vertically up) the wall base on a cursor. Select a point, type in a distance, or press the right button to accept the default distance.

Tips: If your wall features symbols are slow and difficult to place, you can hide layers, or right click and deselect Smart Tracking when you are placing a symbol. They’ll still align, but you won’t see the cursor locking to the wall base.