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simple method of increasing your screen area is to set the 'Autohide'
option on the Windows™ Taskbar properties - just right-click
on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and choose 'Properties'
from the bottom of the list. Tick the option for Autohide
in the dialogue that pops up and then OK out of it. This will make
the taskbar disappear while in Allplan (and reappear temporarily if
you move your cursor too close to the bottom of the screen!) Update September 2002 - there is a 'cleanscreen' tool in v17 |
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times I have heard complaints of clicking the wrong point when defining
a polyline outline for a slab or a roof plan or an area fill ... and
so on... in fact to delete the unwanted point you just need to click
the previous point - the undo is unlimited so that you can go right
back to the start if you want. Update Aug 2005 Allplan 2005 has a polyline Undo command in the Dynamic Toolbar |
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[pre-v 2003 only] Although I had heard about this some time ago I did not realise until
recently the potential of the command 'Modify->Bonus Tools->3D
Modeling->Assign Custom Surfaces to 3D/Archit.
Elements'. This command brings up a 'Surface' dialogue - clicking
in the empty box will bring up more detailed dialogues allowing the
import of any bitmap (you will be prompted to save it as a surface
file) and when all set up you can start selecting elements in the
isometric view window. The power of this command lies in the fact
that the bitmaps are no longer applied by pen colour but purely by
selected 3D element allowing an approach more like Cinema 4D to rendering.
Brilliant...See also page on elementary rendering Update May 2003 Allplan 2003 now enables animation window views within symbol and architectural element dialogs. :-) |
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When using a selection rectangle with the scan module tools you will
notice that the 'fence selection' tool assistant is greyed out - why?...
well, because the selection tools within this module automatically
incorporate the 'fence' selection mode - wonderful.... so why not
do the same with the selection tools in the rest of Allplan? The selection
defaults to a rectangle but if another point is chosen it goes into
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Some curious features of text in Allplan...
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the animation window (F4) - you can now select 'Animation'
from 'Tools->Options'. A small dialogue
appears where you can set wireframe mode, anti-aliasing On/Off and
quality of texture rendering - the helpfiles are useful here too.
Click on the button 'About' and information is given on the OpenGL
driver and whether it is actually working plus some other useful bits
of information like the number of lights supported by the OpenGL driver
(8 usually). Allplan 2004 - some of the commands have been moved into slightly different locations. Right-click in an animation window and look in 'Animation Window Properties' and lower down the list 'More tools..' and then 'Animation Window Settings'. |
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