Navigate to the Room Module…
To move between Menus use
either the UP arrow…
Or the ‘Goto Menu’ drop down …
Select the
‘Rooms/Areas’
Add Room Area data…
Plan Menu > Rooms/Area’s icon…then select the ‘
Assign New’
1. Fill in the dialogue box…
NOTE The comment drop
down has ‘Edit’ ..you can
add your names
2. then click OK. (dialogue
off)
NOTE The height is used to
calculate the volume of the
room.
3.Then Click inside the
Room where you want the
room area text to appear…
4. Move, rotate, scale
Show/Hide refers to the text
you are placing..(you can
type factors at the command
prompt …for a scale, press the ‘scale’ button and enter 0.7 for
instance and the text will appear 0.7 smaller).
Add detail to the room….
Lets add a chimney breast or pillar into a wall….In the
Plan Menu
> Walls
menu select the
Recess/Chim.
command…
Then select the wall where you want to place the object and also at
the end that you want to measure from. A red arrow with d1
appears…this is to indicate where you need to measure from.
Measure to the nearest point of the object…
(press any of the
arrow keys on the A6 to ‘send’ this dimension the ’Distance’
Dialogue).
Initially you will see a 0, when you send the dimension
it will change
Fill in the Recess/Chim. Dialogue box…width and depth…and click
OK…a pink arrow appears…
Simply pick on screen on the side of the wall line where you want
the object to appear. (in this case where the L is)
The object
appears..click END.
Add a door is just the same with a couple of
differences…..
In the
Plan Menu > Openings
select the
Door
command…
Then select the wall where you want to place the door (select at
the end of the wall that you want to measure from)….
A BIG red arrow with d1
appears…this is to
indicate where you
need to measure from.
Measure to the nearest
point of the door….
Fill in the Door dialogue
box and click OK…
This time when the pink
line appears you need
to pick where the
opposite skin of the wall
is. (i.e. outside the
room)
Then the ‘Room
connection’ dialogue
appears.
Measure the wall to the
left of the door (in the next room) and then the wall to the right, and
click OK.
WATCH OUT…the last thing SiteMaster wants you to do is select
the wall line where the door hinges.
This is where the
ZOOM icons will come
in handy, as you need
to be able to pick the
correct wall
Use the Zoom Extents (has the cross in the middle) and Zoom
window (has a box in the middle) icons.
Zoom Extents when picked will show the whole drawing
Zoom window when picked, needs 2 further points to be picked on
screen….these points will be the 2 diametrically opposite corners
of a box….the contents of which will fill the screen.
NOTE you can pick one point on screen and then ‘drag’ the
second point by pressing again and keeping pressure on…this way
you see the box that will fill the screen. (Press and let go,… Press
and hold, drag, then let go).
Once zoomed in, pick the wall that the hinge is on and the door will
be drawn…arrange the text how you want it and pick OK.
If the door isn’t drawn, one of the lines will be
pink…in the Options
toolbar click the NO until
the correct line is pink,
then click YES.…arrange the text how you want it and pick OK
The door command will then
give the option to put in the
‘Next’ door along the same wall
from the same
datum…(measure first then
click ‘Next’).
Or use the ‘End’ option to stop drawing doors.
Add a Window….
Exactly the same as above (without the swing) but click the
relevant ‘Window’ command to start in
Plan Menu >
Openings
…select the wall at the end you want to measure,
measure, fill in dialogue box, pick where opposite wall skin is, place
text.
Working in Triangulation mode with a Hilti
If you are not sure whether a wall segment is at 90° or 45° angle,
you can add it in any angle based on two known points
(»Stations«) and two distances.
- In the
Add Wall dialogue
select the
TriDraw icon
(select’ 90°
Draw’ to go back to wall segments in 90° and 45° angles)
- Click on Select Stations and select two base points in drawing,
NOTE that SiteMaster has automated SNAPS that are switched on
by default so you will only have to select the wall line somewhere
near the end required…the SNAP will do the rest.
When the pink arrow appears, just click on screen to mark the side
where the wall segment shall be drawn (where the point to be
triangulated is… ‘P’ in the diagram below)
- Measure length from both Stations to wall end point, ( P to S1,
AND P to S2)….click Draw to draw the wall
TIP Click on ? to display
explanation.
Click on explanation itself
to close it.
Triangulation appears in several
places but the method is always the
same…2 station points and measure
from them to the point.
Use the ‘Tracking’ mode
for the cross corner
measurements….
Simply press and hold the DIST button until the Disto starts
beeping….then let go…press again to stop the tracking. The
measurements will be on the SiteMaster screen…select the one
you want.
Or
Activate SiteMasters ‘Tracking’ mode (press ‘Settings’ button while
in the TriDraw dialogue box and put a tick in tracking) and
press the DIST icon next to the dimension box required on
screen in the software….press ‘Stop tracking’ and the
max/min will be on screen…just pick the one you need.
Use the Hilti’s fold out ‘peg’ to measure in corners accurately.