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Hide Floor
Align Floors
Specify Ceiling
Set Reference Point
Scale Drawing
Insert Drawing
Update Drawing
Drawing Limits
The Drawing Limits command allows you to specify the limits of the drawing. Drawing limits are used
by the software's AutoCAD graphics engine. Generally, they only need to be set when a drawing is
received from an architect or customer that has extremely large limits far beyond the building(s) in the
design. Grossly oversized limits can make it hard to perform some Summit WMScanner functions, such
as scaling. The Drawing Limits command allows you to set the drawing limits to be closer to the actual
building or buildings in your design.
Layer Properties Manager
The Layer..... (Layer Properties Manager) allows you to directly manipulate the drawing layers on which
walls and other entities are stored. It is almost never necessary to directly manipulate layers, but some
advanced users, especially those with CAD experience, may wish to do so. A layer is a grouping of one
or more drawing entities. Layers themselves have properties. For example, each layer has a unique
name by which it is referenced (e.g., 'FLOOR1'). Layers may be invisible (in which case the drawing
entities that are part of those layers are hidden from view) or visible. Layers have a default color
associated with them such that all new graphical entities (e.g., lines) placed on a given layer assumes
the default color of the layer.
Summit WMScanner uses layers to organize and manage physical obstructions such as walls. Each
partition type is stored on its own layer. Use the Format Building > Current Partition Categories command
to view the partition types, and the layers they are stored on. Note that the objects for each floor are
stored on a separate layer, so that the "windows" on the first three floors of a drawing might for
example be stored on MPART1, MPART2 and MPART3 respectively.
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Hides a selected floor.
Aligns floors vertically if a building has multiple floors.
Opens the Ceiling Editor dialog box, which allows you to select the floor, and
Add Section of Ceiling, or Erase Section of Ceiling.
If you are combining drawings of the same floor or are of two separate
buildings, use Set Reference Point on each drawing separately to position the
drawings properly relative to one another before combining them.
The Scale Drawing command allows you to resize entities within the
environment. You can scale the entire drawing (both formatted and
unformatted), or only the formatted entities of one drawing or each entity-by-
entity.
You will be prompted to select two points in the drawing (by clicking with the
mouse) and you can then enter the actual physical distance between the two
locations you picked. The appropriate scaling will be applied so that the
distance between the points within the drawing matches the value you enter. If
your drawing contains measurement data, you should erase it before using the
Scale Drawing command.
Combines two separate drawings into one. The drawing you select will be
inserted into the currently open drawing. This command is most often used to
combine multiple floors of a building where each floor's information is
contained in a separate drawing file into a single 3D model of the building, or
to combine drawings of separate buildings.
Purges the drawing files Summit WMScanner uses during RF predictions and
updates the drawing database after making modifications to the building
model. Using this button is not necessary unless the drawing file has become
corrupted.
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