Problem Instead of the desired values for height and width, oversized numbers appear in the input fields when drawing walls. The walls are drawn with these incorrect values. Background This is due to the use of the same separator for decimal places and digit groups. Usually, these separators are different. In Germany, the comma is…
Background The 3D Warehouse button on the Insert tab now opens the external SketchUp Gallery in your standard browser. Trimble is responsible for its content and design. Trimble has completely discontinued support for Internet Explorer, which means that SKP models can no longer be inserted directly from the 3D Warehouse into pCon.planner. Solution SKP models…
With Office 2019 or Office 365 it is possible to insert and use 3D models directly in Microsoft Office: Select the desired objects in the planning. In the Clipboard section of the Start tab, click Copy and select the entry 3D Model Microsoft. Now the element is in the clipboard as a gltf file. In…
A detailed list of all formats that pCon.planner can use can be found here. How to proceed: In the menu File go to Import. In the window that opens, you can see which formats pCon.planner can import. Select the desired file and click on Open.
When navigating in pCon.planner, it happens that you get “stuck” in walls and other objects. Zooming is only possible very slowly until you are out of the object again at some point. In this case, the key combination Shift + Zoom will help. This allows you to move through objects with normal zoom speed.
Additional furnishings and decorative elements add the finishing touches to your plans. Suitable 3D models can be found, for example, from these services: Sketchfab Free registration, partly free models in very good quality and various common file formats https://sketchfab.com/3d-models Trimble Inc® 3D Warehouse free models in SKP format, own pCon.collection especially for users of the…
After you have opened a planning or selected another projection during the planning process, parts of your drawing are no longer visible. There are two possible reasons for this issue.
When planning, you use many dialogs – both free-floating and docked (a non-movable part of the program interface). In the case of free-floating windows, they may disappear for 2 reasons:
Backup files ensure that your plans are not lost should pCon.planner crash.
pCon.planner automatically creates a backup file for your current plan – as long as you haven’t disabled this option in the Program Settings. We recommend leaving the automatic creation of backup files enabled.
The DWG format is a compressed file format. As with a packed file, the file size displayed in your system (e.g. in Windows Explorer) does not occupy the same size as the plan that you edit in pCon.planner. How much memory an opened DWG file uses can vary, and many factors can determined the amount of memory used.