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Most objects such as Zones, Windows, Doors and many others are created using Hero's Drawing Modes.

 

These Drawing Modes are accessed on the Visual View's Left Toolbar. They include:

Free Drawing Mode or Default mode

Ceiling Fan & Penetrations Drawing Mode

Zone Drawing Mode

Floating Wall Drawing Mode

Opening Drawing Mode (Windows, Door & Permanent Openings)

Split & Merge Drawing Mode

Skylight & Hole Drawing Mode

Import & Scale Backgrounds

Screen & Eave Drawing Modes for Screens (Vertical Shading Objects) & Eaves (Horizontal Shading Objects)

Attach Screen or Eave (discussed in Screen & Eave Drawing Modes )

Measure Drawing Mode

Set Project Orientation (discussed in Visual View Top Toolbar )

DRAWING MODES

To enter the desired Drawing-Mode 🖱 Click the relevant button or use its ⌨ keyboard shortcut.

You can find an explanation of each Drawing-Mode by hovering over the button and waiting for the Tooltip to show which will also show the keyboard shortcut.

Entering into a Drawing-Mode will exit out of Free Drawing Mode such that normal selection & dragging of objects is disabled.

Most drawing-modes share similar controls  & functionality.

To exit any drawing mode and return to Free Drawing Mode, hit the ⌨ Escape key, or 🖱 Right-Click to reset each step until the drawing-mode is exited.

Drawing Modes that create shapes such as Line, Rectangles & Polygons will share several features including:

  • 🖱 Left-Click to place points of the object

  • 🖱 Double Left-Click typically completing polygon shape (or clicking back at the origin)

  • 🖱 Right-Click will reset backwards one-step in object creation, removing the previous point. If no object remains, the next 🖱 Right-Click will exit the drawing mode

You can enter Manual Dimensions when drawing most objects. Type the desired dimension in millimetres and hit ⌨ Enter to commit the value.

Holding ⌨ Shift while drawing line or polygon shapes will typically lock the direction of the current line to a straight ↔ or ↕ direction.

Most Drawing-Modes have several Sub-Modes that allow you to create the object in different ways, for example Skylights, can be created as Rectangles, or Line by Line  for polygon shaped skylights, or as a Circular shape.

These sub-modes are changed by clicking the Sub-Mode Button in the Drawing Mode guide-box, or by using the ⌨ Tilde ` keyboard shortcut which is above the ⌨ Tab key on most standard keyboards.

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