Wizards

The Wizards are a series of automated tools that help speed up certain processes, or keeps you to a specific process using the AppliCad functions.
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The Plot Wizard option that provides for various commands to generate a plot of your roof automatically fitting to various page or sheet sizes.
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The function may also be selected from the Check > Plot Wizard icon. The operator can also insert a drawing border, plot in colour or a ‘hidden lines’ view where lines behind are blanked out.
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All standard printer sheet sizes are provided for in ‘Paper Size’.
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Using Tools > Plot you can also select a random area of the job to be printed in vertical or horizontal aspect.
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Either of the other options (displayed above) requires the operator to select and set the plot extents.
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The paper size selected is A4 if your Set-Up > Preference Settings > System Preferences > Units are set metric, or Letter size if the units are set to English or Imperial.
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To fit more of the desired area onto the sheet, change the plot scale up and down as required – View > Plot Scale.
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A plot scale of say 1:100 will capture this much of the job,
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and 1:50 will capture this much.
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This Wizard takes you into the Supply and Install dialog via the customer and job details dialogs to complete a client proposal based on a previously supplied Bill of Quantities, and create the usual reports and details ion your standard form templates.
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This takes the user through the list of the steps typically employed to complete a client proposal in the order that you would use from start to finish.
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Use it as a guide to ensure that you complete all steps correctly.

The visualisation option allows you to go into a perspective view of your model, and navigate up, down and around the model, as if you were actually at street level, to view and check it.
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In combination with the dynamic rotate (using the middle mouse button with the CTRL key depressed), you can check out your model from every side, up and down – and scroll wheel zoom in and out.
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Note: Depending on how much you move the view about, you may have to use View > Reset View to get it back to the standard ISOmetric view.
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This wizard uses a four step approach to guide you through digitising an image or PDF document starting with selecting the image file or pasting from the clipboard.
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It includes the step to scale the image to true size thus ensuring that the final model is correct.
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It works the same as the Construct Roof > Track Outline function using an Underlay image described elsewhere in this manual.