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Screens & Eaves are created using the Screen or Eave Drawing-Mode buttons on the left toolbar Left Toolbar or using the keyboard shortcuts "⌨ S" & "⌨ E" respectively.
Screens & Eaves are drawn as Lines on the plan by left clicking 🖱 Left-Clicking each edge.
You can hold shift ⌨ Shift while drawing to keep the line Line straight, and enter manual dimensions Manual Dimensions in millimetres and hit the enter- ⌨ Enter key if desired.
🖱 Right click -Click to remove points and right🖱 Right-click Click again to exit the drawingDrawing-modeMode.
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You can also create Screens and Eaves with existing attachment connections Connections to the desired walls by pre-selecting the walls before entering Screen or Eave drawing mode. When the screen or eave is completed, the walls will have automatically connected themselves to the newly created object.
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ATTACH DRAWING MODE
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Screens and Eaves must be attached to walls Manually Attached/Connected to Walls by the User for those shading objects to accounted for in simulationsSimulations.
Attached screens Screens or eaves Eaves show a connection line Connection Line from the centre of the shading object to each connected wall.To attach a screen or eave to a wall after the screen or eave Wall.
A Parallel Line is also shown which represents the Chenath true modelled screen dimensions.
To Attach a Screen or Eave to a Wall after the Screen or Eave has been created, you use the attachAttach Drawing-modeMode, accessed on the left toolbar Left Toolbar or via keyboard shortcut ⌨ A. There are several scenarios that Attach Drawing-Mode works within:
If no
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Screens,
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Eaves or
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Walls are
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Pre-Selected, the
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Attach Drawing-Mode begins with the user
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needing to 🖱 click the Wall or Screen or Eave they would like to connect & then 🖱 clicking the 2nd object to complete the
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Connection.
If any
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Eaves,
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Screens or
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Walls are
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Pre-
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Selected prior to entering attach-mode, then these objects begin in attach-mode with their initial connection lines, just requiring the final 🖱 click to
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Connect to the desired object.
Alternatively, if
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Eaves,
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Screens and
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Walls are all
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Pre-
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Selected prior to entering
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Attach Drawing-
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Mode, when the
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Attach Mode button or keyboard shortcut is pressed, all selected
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Eaves &
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Screens will
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Connect to all selected
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Walls.
You can 🖱
Right-Clickon a Wall or Screen and select the Context Menu ActionConnect to Wall / Screenwhich will enter Attach Drawing-Mode for the Selected Object.