TERMINOLOGY

some terms that may confuse you (and us)

AUTO SCROLLING: scroll the drawing using the left mouse button instead of using the scrollbars

AUTO or SELF ALIGNING ( merging ) distance: the maximum distance within which a design room will self position with another room or wall

DESIGN ROOMS: rooms ( in colour) that can be moved around, rotated, expanded, etc., by dragging to give you maximum flexibility in designing - design rooms are auto or self aligning ( merging ) and the merging distance is customisable as are the colours used - when satisfied with their position, design rooms are redrawn by ....
1/ if you selected the ' layout design rooms option' in the file/new first dialogue box by marking the inner line of the external walls OR
2/ if you have placed design rooms within an external wall base (plan view), select design rooms/FINISH to redraw them as normal rooms (fixed or finished ) with double line walls drawn, text and dimensions showing.

DRAWING TITLE: The name of the drawing on screen, shown at the top of the screen complete with one of the following file extensions
...layout view '.LYT'
...ground floor view '.PLN'
...first floor view '.PL1'
...second floor view'.PL2'
...site plan view '.STE'

FIXED ROOM (or FINISHED ROOM): complete room function - non moveable room formed by clicking a corner of the area it will occupy and is drawn fixed in position with text & dimensions and double line walls drawn

FLOOR PLAN BASE - the area enclosed by the external walls on each floor

FLOOR TITLES
...GROUND FLOOR means the bottom floor - titles are customisable
...FIRST FLOOR means the first floor above the ground floor
...SECOND FLOOR means the second floor above the ground floor

INTERNAL WALL : we used to call this a partition wall

LAYOUT DESIGN ROOMS method : place design rooms on screen first, move, align, rotate, shrink etc., when satisfied, mark the external walls inner line.
To use this method select layout design rooms from the file/new first dialogue box.

MERGING DISTANCE ( auto or self aligning distance ) the maximum distance within which a design room will self position with another room or wall

OVERLAY: really an underlay! - used to help design a floor by showing the floor below in a different (customisable ) colour

PLAN TITLE: the text shown under each drawing, the programme comes with these called ground floor, first floor & second floor - but you can change the wording in customise/titles