On Land

Obsolete. Use this instead.

Your first list. I'm so proud.

Calculate Menu, List Zones | FA [Something] (JAM8.lis). You can also find lists in the project map under 'Lists'.

There are several different calculations available: Rooms on each story, total rooms, garage, exterior spaces. Each is set up to include zones in the appropriate category and stories.

The list will give the area of each zone and a total. There is no way to do a subtotal by story; that's why the lists are separate. I feel your pain.

[Note: This object has been superseded.]

This is the stamp you will use most of the time. Right now it's the only one we have.

It's pretty hard to tell it apart from the Room Name object. There are some differences.

The name list is hooked up to the Room Name parameter of the zone tool, which lets you select from the list in the info box.

The text size of the name is also available in the info box. The size for the material label is only in the settings, though.

There are parameters for the crown type, base type, and ceiling finish, for use in generating a finish schedule. Note: You must enter these. They don't learn from the room automatically, yet.

This is the old way. I decided to keep it for historical interest.

Building on the ability in OS X to save PDFs from the print dialog, we can easily create PDFs of drawing sheets. In PlotMaker 3, you can print multiple sheets at once to a single document, making one PDF of an entire set.

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For two reasons:

� Printing large documents that aren't PLT files, such as big PDFs sent by consultants.

� Creating PDFs of drawing sheets.

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If you ever read anything more boring than this, I'd be very curious to hear about it.

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Send PLT files to the plotter using PlotFlow. Some day, we will be able to run it on the server. Currently, everyone has to run it locally.

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Obsolete. We're not using cach libraries at this time.

It's good to have the libraries on the server so we are all up to date all the time. But loading libraries from the network is slow. This is a big problem when updating views in PlotMaker. The satellite library is an attempt to have it both ways. It has been bumpy in the past, but I've tried it again and can cautiously recommend it.

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