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Reporting > Print Drawings
🧾 What it does
The Drawings feature allows you to print up to 8 different standard CAD drawings from your roofing project, or any number of drawings that have been saved as Microsoft Word or Excel templates.
🔧 How to use it
Click Drawings (location to be confirmed in software interface)
The Select Drawings to print dialog box opens
Select the drawings you want to print from the available options
Click OK in the Select Drawings dialog
Your selected drawings are prepared for printing and sent to your printer
🛠 Available drawing types
You can choose from:
Up to 8 different standard CAD drawings
Custom drawings saved as Microsoft Word templates
Custom drawings saved as Excel templates
Drawing Name | Template Name | Intended Use |
Roof drawing | Drawing-Roof | Shows the roof |
Batten drawing | Drawing-Batten | Shows the battens on the roof |
Block layout | Drawing-block | Shows the blocks on the roof as created by Auto-Block |
Off-cut layout | Drawing-off-cut | Shows the cuts and off-cuts created by Gen-Off-cuts |
Off-cut layout(Colour) | Drawing-Off-cut-Colour | Shows a colour coded printout of the Off-cut Layout |
Panel layout | Drawing-sheet | Shows the sheets on the roof as created by Gen-Sheets |
Panel sequence | Drawing-Sheet-Sequence | Shows the sequencing of panel cutting derived from Linear Nesting |
Panel cutting details | Drawing-Sheet-Cutting | Shows the detailed dimensioned panels |
Flashing drawing | Drawing-flashing | Shows the roof and dimensions for each roof line as detailed by Dimension-Roof Lengths |
Flashing profiles | Drawing-Flashing-profiles | Details the workshop drawings for the fabrication of custom flashings. The standard template has four profiles displayed with the following fabrication details for each new profile, and the cutting list of required lengths for the job. A new page is automatically created for each new group of up to four profiles. |
Flashing Profile Drawing
Single-Ply Layout | A4-Form | Shows the membrane layout generated by Cover > Select-Membrane > Layout-SinglePly |
Wall Plan | Drawing-Wall-Plan | Shows a plan view of your wall outline |
Wall Elevations | Drawing-Wall-Elevation | Shows you the elevations of each wall outline |
Arc Roof Production Drgs | Found under Cranking.DAB | Details the workshop drawings for the fabrication of curved roofing |
3D Design Drawing | Drawing-3D | Shows the roof in a 3D view |
Scaled Ruler | No template | Creates a scaled ruler with any odd-ball scale which allows random measurements to be taken from a copy of a plan. |
💡 Custom templates
For information on creating custom Word and Excel drawing templates, refer to the template creation process described in the manual.
⚠️ Note
The drawings are automatically prepared for printing once you confirm your selection - ensure your printer is ready before clicking OK.