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Auto Trace Added
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SoftPlan Version 12 has added the
ability to now automatically trace a polygon area for use within the
Interior drawing mode. Using this feature eliminates the need to
“manually” trace the perimeter of an area to apply your interior finishes,
and can be used in conjunction with all of the interior finishes available
to you.
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To best demonstrate this feature open
a plan drawing which does not have interior finishes placed, but does
however have separate rooms / areas defined. If you do not have a drawing,
you can use one of the provided Softplan Sample Drawings.
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While in Interior mode select
Draw > Flooring > Carpet.
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Once you have selected the
type of material, the Draw Polygon menu will appear allowing you
to select either a Manual Trace, or an Auto Trace. Select Auto
Trace
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Position the cursor within the
area the carpet is to be placed and click.
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SoftPlan will use the
outlining walls of that particular area to place your interior
finish. Once it has done this, it will also calculate the square
footage of this finish and add it to the Flooring area window in
the top left corner.
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Baseboard is Correctly Positioned When the Slab is
Non-Structural
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When Baseboard is placed along walls
it will automatically locate the bottom of the wall for it’s placement.
But when a non-structural slab is drawn as the floor system, such as in a
finished basement plan, the baseboard material needs to be raised up from
the bottom of the wall to the top of the non-structural slab. Version 12
will now compensate for a non-structural slab by automatically raising the
baseboard to the top of the slab. Previous versions would have placed the
baseboard at the bottom of the wall, and thus would not have been seen in
SoftView 3D.
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Open an existing plan that
contains a non-structural slab.
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Change to Interior Mode from
the Mode Selector in the top right of the Status Bar.
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Select Draw > Baseboard
> Baseboard 1 > Auto Trace and click inside a room of the
plan to add a perimeter baseboard.
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When this plan is viewed in
SoftView 3D, the baseboard material will be position on top of the
non-structural slab.
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