Clicking the “New Linear” button will open a wizard to guide you through the process of creating a Linear digitizer item on the plan. Start by entering a name for the Linear in the “Name” field. PlanSwift has already assigned it a random color. If you ... more

You can easily draw complex or irregular shapes with any of the on screen digitizer tools by using freehand mode. To switch to freehand mode, click and hold the left mouse button until the word “Freehand” appears next to the cursor. Continue to hold down ... more

This tutorial was created to enhance the Knowledge Base article of the same title. ( http://www.planswift.com/kb/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=285 ) It will cover how to add logical expressions into your parts to give you a lot of new options for dynamic ... more

Clicking on “CPC to TIF Converter” under the Tools tab will open a tool for batch converting a folder of CPC images to the TIF format for use in PlanSwift. This is useful for converting images in an existing job folder. If you are creating a new job, yo ... more

This tutorial will show you how to import your parts directly from an Excel spreadsheet using the Excel Import plugin available from the SwiftDepot. ... more

Clicking the “New Count” button will open a wizard to guide you through the process of creating a digitizer Count to mark and count items on the plan, allowing you to quickly total up items on the plan by simple point-and-click. Start by entering a name ... more

PlanSwift can automatically draw joist or rafter layouts within an area using the “Joist” tool under the “Scripts” tab. To start, click to select the area that you wish to add joists to, then click the “Joist Tool”. In the “Joist Tool” dialog, start by ... more

The Auto Scale feature in PlanSwift allows you to quickly scale a page by simply selecting the plan scale from a drop-down list. This technique can save time, but it should be used with caution because the size of the page on the computer may not match t ... more

Clicking the “New Segment” button will open a wizard to guide you through the process of creating a “Segment” digitizer item to add up unconnected linear distances on a plan. Start by entering a name for the Segment in the “Name” field. PlanSwift has al ... more

You must set the network and archive file paths before you can use these locations to store and access your jobs. Start by clicking the “Settings” button under the “Settings” tab. By default, the settings for “File Paths” are shown when you first open t ... more