When you add plans to a Plan Set, the program sets the "Discipline" for each plan based on the folder in which the image file was stored. For example, when we added the Plan Set shown below, we selected the folder "Residence Hall - Small Set" which included…

Changing the Discipline for a Plan or Page You can set Discipline in the Plan Set Editor (Plans) or in the Plan Organizer (Pages), whichever you choose. If you update a Page in the Plan Organizer, every Plan Set that includes the plan is updated automatically,…

You can change the position of a Page or Pages within their Discipline Group in the Plan Organizer (as we learned in previous articles, if you drag-n-drop a Page(s) out of its Discipline group, you change its Discipline). Why would you want to change the…

When you add a Plan Set, all the plans are converted to 200DPI, 8-bit color TIFs for use in Takeoff. While this works for most users, if your computer just meets minimum system requirements or you experience significant performance issues, you may want to…

Adding a Single Plan to an Existing Plan Set To select a single Plan to add to an existing Plan Set, click the plus sign button to the right of the Plan Set name. In the Open dialog, browse to the location where the Plan is stored. Select the file and click…

We do not do this often, but we start this article off with a Warning... Warning - Deleting Pages, Plans, and Plan Sets can cause permanent data loss in your project! Deleting a Page (or Pages) from the Plan Organizer removes that Page from every bid in the…

We do not do this often, but we start this article with a Warning. Warning - Deleting Pages can cause permanent data loss in your project! Deleting a Page from the Plan Organizer removes that Page from every Bid in the Project. This means everything on that…

We do not do this often, but we are starting this article with a Warning... Warning - Deleting plans can cause permanent data loss in your Project! If you delete a plan from the Plan Set Editor and that plan was the only plan for a particular Page, you delete…

We do not do this often, but we start this article with a Warning. Warning - Deleting Plan Sets can cause permanent data loss in your project! When you delete a Plan Set, any Pages that exist because of a plan or plans that only exist in the select Plan Set…

In the previous chapter, we talked about creating a Project, and explained that when you create a new Project, the program creates your first "Base Bid" automatically, and then you are prompted to add an initial Plan Set.You must activate at least one Plan…