Adding Groups and Objects Workflows Reworked

• The ‘+ Add’ button’s style and workflow have been changed to make the process of adding groups and objects more clear to Users

• The button’s style depends on whether any group or item is selected:

  • If nothing is selected, the button is grey;
  • If a group is selected in the Left Panel or its object is selected in the viewer, color of the button gets switched to the bright blue, the text gets in accordance with the group name;
  • If the button is hovered or active (after pressing or hitting the spacebar while the group is selected), the color gets darker:

  

• Each group shows ‘+’ icon on hover, click on it allows to enter Adding Mode for this group:

  

• ‘+’ icon appearing on hover was introduced to the type nodes (Walls, Windows, Rooms, etc.) also — it allows to create new groups:

  

  • Old method with context menu in type → Add %type% group remains as alternative

Navigation Panel Redesign

• All navigation tabs were moved out from the Left Panel, namely:

  • Thumbnails
  • Outlines
  • Sheets

  

• New location of all navigation functions lies in the upper dropdown:

  

• Default tab in this dropdown is a former Sheets tab:

  • It has search/filter field allowing fast access to any page by its number or by drawing code or by key word from drawing title

    

  • Right dropdown here allows to filter the pages by types:

    

• Completely new tab is Bookmarks one allowing to keep selected sheets on the top of the list:

  

• By default, only tabs with Sections or Tables are showing in this dropdown but this can be changed:

  

Excel Export Update Part 1

• The following tabs were updated in Excel Export:

  • Walls & Wall Groups
  • Rooms & Room Groups
  • Doors & Door Groups
  • Windows & Window Groups
  • Symbols & Symbol Groups

• Rework includes the following changes:

  • Order of the columns is unified throughout all the tabs
  • Column widths are the same on all the tabs
  • Only informative columns are left
  • Some columns are optional if they are not filled, e.g. Additional Type for Walls/Wall Groups; Comment is an optional tab also
  • Additional columns have prefixes: A - custom attributes, S - tags, T - table attributes

• Here is an example for default view of the Room Groups tab:

  

  • Page, Section, Drawing Code, Drawing Title- page and section properties
  • EA (count), LF (in feet), SF (in square feet), Walls SF - measurements
  • Repeat - section property
  • Type (Room type: bedroom, bathroom, office, corridor, etc)
  • Ceiling height - group property, default value is set in a section properties and is 10 ft

• Another example: Symbol Groups tab:

  

Tags Columns in Excel Export

• For every existing tag, there is a separate column named accordingly which contains the ‘YES’ value for the objects associated with the tag, and the ‘NO’ value otherwise:

  

Enter Adding Mode from Right-Click Menu for Groups