When working on a Fire Alarm Zone Plan or any other design, it's common to encounter irregularly shaped rooms. While this can pose challenges, the Zonify platform simplifies the process.
A new tool is being introduced that allows you to outline the room, and it will quickly fill it in according to your specifications. It’s incredibly efficient—this example took just a few clicks of the mouse.
Watch for the pen icon to appear in your toolbox, then click to start to draw your design on the screen.
We have added an option on the toolbar that can be replaced with your logo, simply send us a copy of your logo and we will put it to replace the icon as shown.
It needs to be a reasonable size and the bigger it is the better the results when its dragged to your design.
You can drag the design how ever many times you wish to use it so in a mock view you could brand all your devices.
Using the custom drawing tool is easy, lets put into steps !
Step 1. Drag the tool to the design as show in the animation
Step 2. Mark out the shape you wish to fill, the green circle is the first point you marked and red is the last point you marked this is to help you know where you next point should be as it draws the yellow example fill.
Step 3. You have finished the marking out, press enter and the marked design will fill in your selected colour, dont worry if you have the wrong colour we can select any shape and then change the colour using the colour palette.
Notes.
If you want to remove a marked point you can press the backspace key to remove the last marked point, if you keep pressing backspace it will keep removing the marked points until it will take you our of using the tool.
Ever wished Zonify allowed measurements where you could import an map image set a scale and quickly add your marking out onto the image, you know when you want to measure out cable runs ?
Your in luck Zonify now has a feature to do this and it does it well.
Here are the instructions.
1. Import your image or PDF and drag the measure tool to your design (The Tape Measure Icon)
2 Draw the first line over your scale so the platform can measure it, when it asks enter the value in meters, ie 1.981 is the correct entry for 1m 98cm or 1981mm
3. Once the scale is set move your cursor over your start point and right click this moves your start position.
4. Now you have moved your starting point move your mouse and you will see it measuring as it moves,
5. Click where you want to measure to and your line will be drawn along with the measurement
6. Continue to move your start point if you wish or just go from line to line and watch as each line is drawn along with the measurement.
7. Finished measuring? press the enter key !
Remember, anytime you want to move your starting point you just use the right mouse button again, it really is that simple !
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Zonify the new measuring tool, not so good on isometric drawings but hell your not supposed to measure cars.
This is the idea tool for measuring distances of site drawings, etc but its fun just measuring random things like cars.
The key quick start buttons are located at the top of the toolbar.
From left to right, here’s what each button does:
1. **Refresh/Restart**: This button clears all content and restarts everything from scratch.
2. **Load PDF or Images**: This is one of the most essential buttons, allowing you to import PDF documents or images. You can mix and match and load multiple files, but remember to resize any imported file before adding another, or they may overlap.
3. **Background Toggle**: This button hides or shows the background images, depending on your design needs. For instance, if you're using an existing plan in your design, you may want to keep it visible.
4. **Duplicate or Clone**: This button duplicates the currently selected object, with a few exceptions like the camera view. Pressing the "C" key on your keyboard also performs the same cloning action.
5. **Pan Locking**: You can click this button or use a right-click to toggle locking. When activated, it locks the background imported document in place, allowing you to move the entire design with your mouse. If not locked, you can move images and objects independently.
The toolbar has a drop down showing disciplines this allows you to select from any number of available icons, in this instance we are showing CAD images but there are realistic objects like smoke detectors, fire panel, doors, windows, etc.
These available objects can be updated at any time to increase the available toolset further expanding the detail that can be included into your designs.
If there is some specific objects you would like to see added to the toolbar please reach out using the contact form, its also helpful if you have images available.
Text tools allow you to choose your desired font and apply different styles such as underlining and italics.
Once you have setup you font, you can drag the "Text" element into your design and position it as you wish.
It's quite intuitive to place your text anywhere with the ability to easily resize and rotate your text just where you need it.
The first icon on the top left corner is the draw tool as shown previously, the other shapes on the top bar are all drawable shapes you can drag onto your design.
All shapes can all be resized and orientated to how ever you need them to be on your design, you can select the border colour and size along with the colour you wish the shape to be so you have plenty of options to define your shape.
On the bottom row we have the invert button this only works on objects and not shapes so doors for example if you invert them the colours will reverse which is idea depending on the underlying colour.
The other arrows and triangle buttons are rotate and mirroring tools, for example if you place one door that's been sized you can clone the door and change its orientation by pressing one of the rotate or mirroring buttons to very quickly build up your doors so you really only have to just place them in situ rather than having to place, resize and orientate each door.
There are several key commands that are quite important to know when using the platform so we have a list, I would check here from
time to time as the last may grow as the platform continues to be developed.
Please take a look at the controls page to see more about the shortcuts and mouse commands, it will be useful when using the platform and the commands are quite likely to change or increase in their number.
This is why we like to call a client view where you can build a wall to demonstrate what the equipment may look like on the wall.
This just demonstrates another use for the platform.
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