Tracing a Room

Hi there,

When tracing a room that has diagonal sides the drawing pencil is always snapping to other corners of the dxf file I have imported keeping the line horizontal or vertical and you tell me how to switch off this setting.

Thank you 

Kieran

  • Hi Kieran - The function you are looking for is the Ortho On/Off toggle that can be found on the Defaults menu. Turning Ortho OFF will allow you draw your building surfaces at any angle, rather than at 90°

    You should be aware that this information - along with a lot of other methods that will help with your CAD Input can be found in the Design Database manual. The manual is available from practically anywhere in the program by pushing on a "question mark" button, or by pushing the F1 key if no button is available.  From here you can select the CAD Input option, and peruse the document. You will find a lot of information in here that should assist.

    Duncan Brown