Upload a drawing
Get a PDF or an image into the tool and have the drawing on screen.
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Open the tool
Press Open the tool. You land on an empty canvas with the dashed box Drop your drawing here.
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Drag the file in
Drag the drawing off your computer and drop it in the box. If you would rather browse for it, the button Choose a file sits in the same box.
The starting point: drop the drawing here, or open the sample drawing. Worth knowing. PDF, PNG and JPG all work. The drawing stays in your browser while you work. It is only uploaded when you save the project.
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Wait for the page to be drawn up
If it is a PDF, the first page is rendered on the canvas. The file name goes at the top of the page and the tool jumps to Scale on its own.
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Set the scale before you draw anything
Pipe, Object, Area, Fill area, Measure and Arc are greyed out until the drawing has a scale. The panel on the right is headed 2. Set the scale.
Worth knowing. Without a scale the tool does not know how long a line is, so no length can be worked out.
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Open the sample drawing if you have no file
The button Open the sample drawing in the upload box puts up a ready-made drawing where the scale is already set, so you can start drawing straight away.
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Change the drawing if you picked the wrong file
Press Change drawing next to the file name at the top and pick a new file.
Worth knowing. Change drawing resets the project: everything you drew on the old drawing is gone. If you only want to add a floor, use Add drawing instead.
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Save the project
Press Save project and give the project a name. After that the button just says Save, and the project also saves itself every minute.
Next steps
- Set the scale on the drawingTeach the tool how long a metre is on the paper, so every length you draw comes out right.5 min
- Drainage drawing or foundation drawing?Say what the drawing shows, so you get the right tools and the right materials.2 min
- Several drawings in the same projectPut in one file per floor and jump between the plans without losing what you have taken off.4 min
Do the steps on a real drawing
Open the tool and follow the walkthrough on the sample drawing that is already there. No login needed.
Open the toolStuck on a step? Get in touch and we will gladly look at your drawing.