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pCon.planner offers you two ways of creating rooms. You can put a room together from individual walls, or you can use the Rectangular Room tool to create a complete room instantly. Both of these methods are explained here.
First come some tips for presetting certain items such as Height and Depth or the Hatch Type to be used and then you are shown the options available to you while creating a Wall or a room.
Sections on this page
•Set Height and Depth •Set Hatch type •Change wall starting point and endpoint •Extras in pCon.planner PRO •Auxiliary axes •Drawing individual walls •Drawing a Rectangular Room Set Height and Depth
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It is possible to set Height and Depth before starting to draw the walls or rooms. Enter the parameters directly into the boxes next to the drawing tool icon in the Room group,Insert tab (as shown in the screenshot on the left). You can modify the wall dimensions once the walls are drawn by using the Properties dialog.
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Set Hatch type
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The options arrow circled in red on the screenshot above will take you to the Hatch settings for walls. Clicking on the arrow opens the relevant dialog.
It is possible to enter not only the pattern. The scale is the distance between the lines shown in the Hatch, measured in meters.
The hatching settings are pre-defined in this dialog for any walls to be created, but can also be altered retrospectively for each Wall separately. There are more details on this here.
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Change wall starting point and endpoint
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Having started to draw (see below) you can switch between three different sorts of starting and endpoints using the Ctrl and Alt keys. The following image shows a wall with its optional starting points in red and its optional endpoints in blue. The choice you make and the various combinations possible allow considerable flexibility in the creation of layouts.
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Extras in pCon.planner PRO
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In pCon.planner PRO, you can press S or select Change Wall Settings in the context menu to open a separate dialog, as shown in the image on the left. This permits not only Height and Thickness of a wall but also its orientation to be changed.
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Auxiliary axes
Besides the coordinate axes which become visible with Axis Snap, there are more auxiliary axes accessible while walls are being created. They will always become visible during drawing when the cursor cuts across one of four corner points of a wall which has already been created, either horizontally or vertically. The two images below show two auxiliary axes in red as well as the horizontal coordinate axis (left image) which has become visible.
By using the coordinate axes and auxiliary axes the orientation of walls can be optimized during the drawing procedure.
Drawing individual walls
The best projection for drawing walls is Top. Individual walls are drawn in order to create individual rooms.
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1.Click on the Wall icon in the Room group, Insert tab. 2.Now click in the viewport to set the start point for the first wall. 3.Now set the angle and length either by moving the mouse or entering the figures on the keyboard. 4.Another click or pressing the Enter key when the values for length and angle have been typed will fix the Wall. |
This drawing operation can be repeated as often as you like. The end of the Wall just completed will always be the start point of the next Wall.
If you are drawing walls and click when the endpoint of the current one touches another Wall, the drawing operation will be concluded. Each drawing operation can be aborted by pressing Esc or selecting the Cancel item from the context menu.
Drawing a Rectangular Room
As well as creating rooms by drawing individual walls, you can create whole rectangular rooms instantly.
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1.The best projection for this is Top. 2.Click on the arrow circled in red (Room group, Insert tab) as shown on the left and select the Rectangle Room item from the dropdown menu which opens.
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3.Click somewhere in the viewport to fix the starting point of the room (see screenshot on left). 4.By pressing Ctrl you can affect whether the origin of the room is in the inside corner, the outside corner or centered in the Wall. 5.By moving the cursor or entering figures you can change the length and breadth of the room. 6.This is again fixed by a mouse click or by pressing Enter. |
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