Trimming, splitting, merging, offsetting and reshaping takeoff already on the sheet.
Takeoff rarely comes out right first time. Everything here works on a finished drawing: select it on the sheet, then use the key or the right-click menu.
Select one drawing and it becomes the cutter. Every visible materials drawing on that page it crosses is cut by it, in one undo step. The cutter itself is never changed.
What the cut does depends on what the cutter is:
The menu entry is labelled for what you have selected: Split Intersecting on a length drawing, Trim Intersecting on an area.
Use a line to cut a pad along a phase boundary, or an area to punch a whole region of takeoff out of a plan in one action.
Select two or more drawings and merge them into one. It is offered only when they can genuinely be one drawing:
The merged drawing becomes the selection.
O, or right-click and choose Offset. Makes a parallel copy of the drawing at a distance you give. A curb line offset by its width gives the back of curb without tracing it twice.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| I | Insert a point into the selected drawing. |
| B | Break a point. |
| C | Continue the drawing from its last point. |
Drag any vertex handle to move it. To take a piece out of an area, right-click it and choose Add Hole - offered on area drawings only, with one selected. A hole is part of the drawing it is cut from, and its area comes back out of the item's total.
Takeoff drawings use the clipboard like anything else, from the right-click action strip or the keyboard:
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+C | Copy. |
| Ctrl+X | Cut. |
| Ctrl+V | Paste. |
| Ctrl+D | Duplicate in place. |
| Del | Delete. |
A copied drawing keeps its item, so pasting it onto another sheet adds to the same item's quantity rather than starting a new line in the list. That is what makes duplicate-and-move the fastest way to take off a detail that repeats: draw a typical parking bay once, then duplicate it along the row.